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Some of the problems in the list are deep seated and well deserved mistrust of the computer. For example the cut and paste metaphor is broken with the combinat
by VLM 12y ago
Some of the problems in the list are deep seated and well deserved mistrust of the computer. For example the cut and paste metaphor is broken with the combination of that page and firefox, I can cut and paste the text below but I'm not permitted to cut and paste the number. Why? Someone concerned about usability or maybe screen readers would implement his ordered list as pure text, with an explicit "5. whatever" even though that means a little manual rework for inserts and deletes. Then again, its necessary because ordered HTML lists don't work with cut and paste. Don't believe me? Try it under the latest firefox it won't work. What a POS. You can see why this makes people do work the manual way, the way that at least currently is consistent. (edited to add I'm going to call this the principle of least surprise)
"Not searching for help."
And now for something completely different, I've often wondered if this is a stereotypical introvert vs extrovert thing. Google as "the coworker" for introverts. Meanwhile people who are recharged rather than tired out by interpersonal drama love to walk over and bug people "whats the regex backslash for non-whiteSpace, again?" because it recharges them. All the "google is really fast" is never going to have a negative influence compared to "hurray, I get to go socialize now".
- ivanche 12y agoI must remember how one of the colleagues handled that interpersonal drama thing. For the first time someone asks him something (say that regex question), he happily answers and shows why the answer is what it is. But if someone asks him that same question for the second time couple of days later, he says "that'll be $5". In just a couple of weeks number of people who comes to him for the second time drastically reduced :)