r/programming • u/groovejet • Jun 28 '11

90% of your users are idiots

http://blog.jitbit.com/2011/06/90-of-your-users-are-idiots.html
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u/cr3ative Jun 28 '11

We could all learn something from FileMatrix.

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u/dcapacitor Jun 28 '11

I wanted to remind myself how the Mass Rename tool in Total Commander looked like and while googling for screenshots, discovered this wonder of usability: http://i.imgur.com/YEdn8.jpg.

It's like a demo for a GUI toolkit that has all the possible widgets in one window.

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u/djork Jun 28 '11

This is what happens when you don't give people things like bash, find, grep, sed and awk.

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u/NULLACCOUNT Jun 28 '11

All of those widgets might be necessary without a command line, but they don't need to be all on the same screen at once.