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Why?

michaelt 5y ago
The risk hbeckpdx fears is: 1. Someone hasn't read the book and only glanced at the title. 2. That someone assumes the book says "test things on your mom, because there's nobody less tech-savvy than an older woman, yo momma so dumb she thinks a hamburger menu is something you get at McDonalds" 3. That someone, hoping to be an ally in the fight against gender and age discrimination in tech, takes offence at what they imagine the book says. 4. A mob of people who also haven't read the book destroy your career. Of course, we've got like 4 levels of hypothetical here - you're reading me, putting words into hbeckpdx's mouth, who is imagining an easily offended third party, who is imagining the contents of the book, which they imagine is offensive to a hypothetical mom. Whether you agree with hbeckpdx that this is a reasonable thing to fear is another question....
- iamstupidsimple 5y ago
  Call it the 'dad test' then. Or even the 'sibling test' - because they're probably not technology experts. It literally means 'regular person test'...
  - newsbinator 5y ago
    Who are you calling a regular person? As if other people aren’t regular? How dare you. /s If somebody wants to be offended by combinations of words, no combination of words will deter them.
  - louisswiss 5y ago
    > It literally means 'regular person test'... The whole point is that it doesn't mean "regular person test'... It means "person who isn't the target customer and who probably cares about you too much to give unbiased feedback" test.
  - jhgb 5y ago
    Honestly, neither "mom test", "dad test", or "regular person test" gives me any idea whatsoever what this might be about.
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- thaumasiotes 5y ago
  > yo momma so dumb she thinks a hamburger menu is something you get at McDonalds I think this says more about the intelligence of the person who decided that Ξ is obviously a picture of a hamburger.
  - jjoonathan 5y ago
    I'm pretty sure that was the point, yes.
- selcuka 5y ago
  > she thinks a hamburger menu is something you get at McDonalds That's not incorrect though.

Why?

The risk hbeckpdx fears is: 1. Someone hasn't read the book and only glanced at the title. 2. That someone assumes the book says "test things on your mom, because there's nobody less tech-savvy than an older woman, yo momma so dumb she thinks a hamburger menu is something you get at McDonalds" 3. That someone, hoping to be an ally in the fight against gender and age discrimination in tech, takes offence at what they imagine the book says. 4. A mob of people who also haven't read the book destroy your career. Of course, we've got like 4 levels of hypothetical here - you're reading me, putting words into hbeckpdx's mouth, who is imagining an easily offended third party, who is imagining the contents of the book, which they imagine is offensive to a hypothetical mom. Whether you agree with hbeckpdx that this is a reasonable thing to fear is another question....

iamstupidsimple 5y ago
Call it the 'dad test' then. Or even the 'sibling test' - because they're probably not technology experts. It literally means 'regular person test'...
- newsbinator 5y ago
  Who are you calling a regular person? As if other people aren’t regular? How dare you. /s If somebody wants to be offended by combinations of words, no combination of words will deter them.
- louisswiss 5y ago
  > It literally means 'regular person test'... The whole point is that it doesn't mean "regular person test'... It means "person who isn't the target customer and who probably cares about you too much to give unbiased feedback" test.
- jhgb 5y ago
  Honestly, neither "mom test", "dad test", or "regular person test" gives me any idea whatsoever what this might be about.
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thaumasiotes 5y ago
> yo momma so dumb she thinks a hamburger menu is something you get at McDonalds I think this says more about the intelligence of the person who decided that Ξ is obviously a picture of a hamburger.
- jjoonathan 5y ago
  I'm pretty sure that was the point, yes.
selcuka 5y ago
> she thinks a hamburger menu is something you get at McDonalds That's not incorrect though.