"Don't tell the user to click the OK button. Tell the user to click the OK button until it turns black." -- David Courtney Johnson. All too commonly, the work

"Don't tell the user to click the OK button. Tell the user to click the OK button until it turns black." -- David Courtney Johnson. All too commonly, the work I'm actually paid to do is to make a button turn black when someone clicks on it. That might actually be interesting, were it not for the fact that the only way to make that button turn black, is to allocate ten megabytes of objects, then run a few hundred thousand lines of code, at which point a hardware GPU writes zeros all over a memory buffer.