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> I surprised her back when I did user-testing haha. She discovered the fun world of bugs and user's doing things they shouldn't! Oh... that path takes you to
by shagie 4y ago
> I surprised her back when I did user-testing haha. She discovered the fun world of bugs and user's doing things they shouldn't!
Oh... that path takes you to strange places.
Mr. Fart’s Favorite Colors
- https://medium.com/@blakeross/mr-fart-s-favorite-colors-3177a406c775 https://medium.com/@blakeross/mr-fart-s-favorite-colors-3177... (7 years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11231631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11231631 )
It starts when we’re 8 and coding our very first program. “What’s your favorite color?” it asks, sweetly, twirling a lock of Visual Basic around its finger. You type in your answer, the screen changes color accordingly, and boom — time to show off to family.
Then Aunt Jody calls.
“Honey, it froze on me. ‘Color.exe has crashed.’ I don’t know what that means.”
You take a look at her entry. She entered: 2.
“I thought it asked how many favorite colors I had?”
But how could you…but what does it even mean to have more than one favori…ok, fine. No big deal. You add a sliver of code to stop people from typing numbers into the box.
- skeaker 4y agoGreat read, thanks for sharing. This took me down an hour long rabbit hole of airplane safety procedures which is not what you would have expected going in.