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Maybe the galaxy-brain design principle is: if you're designing an API, make sure that where possible bugs occur in an area where programmers care about fixing
by jan_Inkepa 5y ago
Maybe the galaxy-brain design principle is: if you're designing an API, make sure that where possible bugs occur in an area where programmers care about fixing them (data I/O) rather than somewhere that they neglect (user interface localisation). Voila: better software!
- account42 5y agoExcept programmers test with their own locale and everything works there. Then the user gets an obscure error that the programmer is not able to reproduce because on their system a number from some internal config file was parsed incorrectly.