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Users are stupid
Backend devs are stupid?
Front-end devs are stupid?
Nov 1, 2024 2:33 PM
UseTheSource
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Users are stupid
Backend devs are stupid?
Front-end devs are stupid?
WellIfIHaveTo
#1 That is a dumb person but also a stupidly written instruction. [Better: “Press finger here.”]
rebordacao
#1
amp99
JaXm
#2 that idiot using an angle grinder without gloves, eye pro, respirator, guards, while wearing long loose fitting clothing, while the trigger is locked and he's one handing it is just asking to have his stupid fucking face ripped open, or his guts carved out.
StephenDaniels
#3 Counter Strike Source is still a thing?
methix
As a network engineer, we hate everyone equally.
yoyo42
#6 I've worked at places with two very similar looking buttons by each door, one opened it and one set the fire alarm off if you pressed it too hard. The fire alarm went off once or twice a week.
smileunicornsloveyou
#6 I probably will still walk up to the glass door, stop look up and around confused before noticing all the arrows. Especially if I'm stressed from whatever appointment or chore I needed to do. I'll be so focused on just getting to the car and letting the experience be over with. Had a worker at a store say "Ma'am those carts are broken' about 3 or 4 times before my brain registered I was being addressed. The good carts were to the right. I just wanted to get groceries and go home.
ChareAndFlaff
https://www.reddit.com/r/userexperience/comments/7qjlph/hawaii_missile_alert_caused_by_poor_use_of_a/
GentryFriedRichFillets
#4 This reminds me of one of the first times I went out to eat at a new place after lockdown.
There was a pump by the cashier, so I went for a squirt of hand sanitizer and walked away with a palm full of ketchup.
AyatollahBahloni
#1 A Dell technician received a call from a customer who was enraged because his computer had told him he was "bad and an invalid". The tech explained that the computer's "bad command" and "invalid" responses shouldn't be taken personally. (Old joke)
WholesomeAsFuck
The last one is a modern horror story
calls2767
#4 sounds like something ketchup would say
brobinson2001
#6 I used to deliver pizzas. Those signs are 100% necessary because normal people can't comprehend that automatic doors have the internal motion sensors turned off so residents don't just wander out OR are coded so the button doesn't work if a flight-risk patient's RFID band is too close to the sensor. People walk in, doors open. People walk out, doors don't open. GRANTED, there's also usually a keypad with a PIN of the current 6-digit month/year.
ArcaneM37
#4 It would actually be better to just have the sanitizer sign and not the "not ketchup" sign. Studies show that we process the noun first and only then process the negative modifier. So it is common for people to get distracted and just not process the negative at all. I would bet at least one person saw that at a glace, saw ketchup. And put their food under it because of the sign.
TLDR, signs with a "not" or "no" in them can backfire.
whatspaulplayingtoday
#2 was so fucking infuriating.
TheMurderousCricket
#8 - I fully understand the terror and can almost feel sweat building up on my skin if the same happened to me.
ThomasThundersword
Right!? like opening the phone to call is bad enough, but specifically facetime and thus video is just, WHAT THE FUCK man.
thegarts
*#7. Then they call
You back right after you hang up. 😒
VodkaReindeer
Or they call if you exit without clicking it https://linustechtips.com/topic/1587440-anker-robocalls-you-when-you-have-items-left-in-basket/
LittleBuddyBeni
why would you ever give a browser/app the option to ever do that without asking first?
sagejosh0
#2 sometimes it’s more of a “what ever gets the code through so the front side “pretty interface” actually works 80% of the time”. But also yes back end can be very stupid.
mondeca
#2 The ticket said to make it fit.
CitizenPrime
Now do frontend devs to backend work
1n10didPun
I did fullstack development. Back-end is easier (or maybe simpler), but if a BAD thing is going to happen, it's there or in the DB. Pixel-perfect only exists on the front-end. So do I want simpler but riskier? Or annoyingly complicated but not as risky?
Targe0
Oh, that's simple, it's just a facade with nothing behind it but a small stick propping it up. Front end doesn't have to work, it just needs to look like it does.
thepandasbum
#7 sounds extremely sus. Like they're maybe screening for the clientele they prefer?
Hekatombe
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
is Danish script Latin + CSS?
ExTechOp
Unfortunately, the Danish and Norwegian keyboards have the letters Æ and Ø in exactly the opposite keys, which makes for messy "Scandinavian" keyboards.
https://kbdlayout.info">BDDA/">https://kbdlayout.info/KBDDA/ vs https://kbdlayout.info/KBDNO/
energeticEchos
It might be time to learn that being intelligent is actually a curse, not a gift
HPCmonkey
Also that being smart, being intelligent, and being educated are all 3 different things.
NicolasKevinMac
#2 As a backend dev, this is 100% how it works.
SquidBaitBadgerDroid
You can lead a client to documentation but you can’t make them read
madrush
Documentation? Hahahaha
lbargomancer
It's worse when it's a coworker on the team that owns the documentation asking you for help that requires access only their team has.
Raikupath
I was in college and learned media design and technical documentation. Basically designing manuals and packages etc. and we had to learn how to write in formal technical German and English and even had a whole class in which an actual lawyer thaught us about laws which we actually had to use in the final exam. Like quuoting laws etc. as if you're in front of court to protect yourself after an accident happened with a product you wrote the manual for. Shits wild
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
some documentations are a bit like blog recipes
Nikolai5
#6 To be fair, I've missed those buttons myself, in busy public places it feels like I get tunnel vision and can't think straight.
DeepSpaceNetwork
And what about people who don't understand English or can't read? Anything that needs written instructions is badly designed.
UseTheSource
My mantra with UI is: If you need signs and arrows, the UI is shit. You have to account for tunnel vision/efficient cognitive processes in users that want to decide quickly
sfrinlan
Generally, doors work by interacting with the door itself, not some separate thing from the door. Sliding glass doors at businesses tend to work by simply walking at the door using motion sensors. You also don't usually need to engage your language-parsing skills beyond seeing the word "Exit" on the door, so of course people miss it. IMO a large floor graphic with an arrow and the word EXIT pointing to the button would likely do better than all these paper signs on the wall.
mikeatike
#4
NerdNerdburger
#5 was the installer colorblind?
Carl99
Most likely there was a green button there originally, and they had to replace it for some reason so now it's red but they didn't have the sign being replaced in the work order so they had to kludge somthing.
moonshadowkati
I maaaay have misinterpeted the thumbnail for #1 slightly.
Soggybathroomsock
Thirsty ladies or duped bros tho?
UseTheSource
oh. Ohhhh I get it, I swear I didn't think of the thumbnail
goflyblind
flipj
You are not alone.
clutch26
Ngl, its why I clicked the post.
ClownishAntics
Sometimes you just want to see someone holding their finger
imhereforthecommunity
Fun fact , the male member is unique enough for finger print ID to work.
moonshadowkati
What about female members?
k5user
CardeasIV
Oh thats very short
Icanhearwhatyouresayingandtheanswerisno
It was cold
MadamPuddifoot
Too*
Higure
Set phasers to stun, cut nails to short. Works if you ask me.
reverendbonobo
Three
stouffer
Fore
reverendbonobo
Fife.
newyearworseme
Fünf
igglebotato
#2 it's not stupid if it works
DigitalHare
Reducing the efficacy of the entire thing for one application? Ripped out shelves, cut the door open, making it work far less efficient? I'd say in this case yeah. It's pretty stupid.
igglebotato
you sure you've ever met a backend dev?
(also, sometimes things are just jokes)
DigitalHare
I might have met one. I might be talking to one literally at this moment. As they said "Learn how it works. How to make it work instead of brute forcing it." so.. Yeah? My comment still stands.