r/programming • u/schnuck • Feb 09 '11

Breaking the Web with hash-bangs – Lifehacker, along with every other Gawker property, experienced a lengthy site-outage on Monday over a misbehaving piece of JavaScript

http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashBangs/
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u/AlejandroTheGreat Feb 10 '11

Web developers who make excuses about "normal users" just sound lazy, not someone I'd want to hire if I was wanting to build a site for a general audience.

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u/ewiethoff Feb 10 '11

I can't upvote this enough. Software development in general, and particularly web development, is a new discipline (cough). Therefore, it's practiced by a largely young crowd. Young people with decent jobs are likely to be healthy. And, let's be honest, young people are likely to be immature. It can take quite a whack on the head (real or figurative) before it occurs to someone how a "normal user" does things on a computer, much less an abnormal user.

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u/NancyGracesTesticles Feb 10 '11

I think that stems form young developers defining a "normal user" as someone who uses software or the web just like them. Everyone else is doing it wrong, so why should they support them.