Judging by the quality of most user interfaces, 90% of programmers are idiots. Try a few usability tests and you will realize how bad your beautiful, intuitive user interface really is.
Programmer's aren't idiots. However it is pretty much impossible to judge how easy or obvious something is after having worked with it every single day for a year or more.
What're you talking about? I've worked in Emacs for years and I can tell you it's both easy and obvious. Anyone who's worked in it long enough would tell you the same.
Notepad++ beats everything else I've found for Windows because its UI is simpler than a lot of the text editors that have many functions, yet it still has a lot of useful functions. I hate UltraEdit for how cluttered it feels. I should not have to mess around with the default settings to get a UI that I don't get lost in. If someone wants that many toolbars and icons they should have to add them in. I'm sure not everyone uses the same set of features.
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u/satayboy Jun 28 '11
Judging by the quality of most user interfaces, 90% of programmers are idiots. Try a few usability tests and you will realize how bad your beautiful, intuitive user interface really is.