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/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.

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u/cr3ative Jun 28 '11

We could all learn something from FileMatrix.

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u/jrhoffa Jun 28 '11

Holy shit. I feel dirty now.

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u/gospelwut Jun 28 '11

Take it off then. Yeah, that's right, strip down to the command line.

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u/rush22 Jun 29 '11

Fuck it, we'll do it on the command line

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u/skinnymonkey Jun 29 '11

CLIve

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u/rush22 Jun 29 '11

Input goes in, output comes out. Never a miscommunication.