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Maybe the folks that try to use printers are more frustrated that the ones that designed their software.
by yomismoaqui 8mo ago
Maybe the folks that try to use printers are more frustrated that the ones that designed their software.
- bob1029 8mo agoMy worst technology experience of all time was maintaining support for a Zebra label printer in VB6. I can assure you that the users of these printers had maybe 1% the cortisol response I did when something went wrong. Designing software for a printer means being a very aggressive user of a printer. There's no way to unit test this stuff. You just have to print the damn thing and then inspect the physical artifact.
- QuercusMax 8mo agoA million years ago I worked on some code which needed to interface with a DICOM radiology printer (the kind that prints on transparency film). Each time I had to test it I felt like I was burning money.
- krupan 8mo agoWorked on printer firmware, can confirm. "If it looks good, it is good." was a mantra
- repstosb 8mo agoDefinitely... http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/202/summer.reconstructed.pdf http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/202/summer.reconstructed.pd...