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Someone asked sometime back in QA to create a calculator UI for them. I distinctly remember it was you with that standard "we can't read your HDD" comment and also telling him to figure on his own. Now suffer. 
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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OriginalGriff wrote: one that almost fills a 22 inch monitor with a 20 button calculator (with memory) and 2cm high result display?
It's for "Big Data".
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Imagine a calculator program that includes Hadoop support for arbitrarily large numbers with an arbitrary amount of precision.
Software Zen: delete this;
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To make things worse , their QA approved it because it is a new standard ... 
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Which in turn is used as an example and proof that the new standard is "out there" and we should all use it.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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Blame whoever thought touchscreens was a good idea.
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How big are their fingers? 
Each button is two inches (5cm) wide, by 1 1/4 inches (3.2cm) high! Are MS employing Manatees as designers now? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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On a 4.7" Lumia it would be a bit small but still usable. 99% it is a scaling of the same interface due to "Universal Apps" development, without any upper constraint due to the foucs of developement placed on dumbphones and cyanide tablets.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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It's all about resolution. Default resolution on a monitor is 96 dpi.
Normal resolution nowadays on a phone is ~350dpi.
But why on earth couldn't they check if you have touchscreen enabled or not?
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They designed it that way in order to cater to all their thumb-fingered engineers. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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MS called, the problem is that your screen is too big, if you revert to a 12" CRT it will be fine!
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Hey, I am still using my Monochrome 12" CRT to Debug windows
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OriginalGriff wrote: one that almost fills a 22 inch monitor with a 20 button calculator (with memory) and 2cm high result display?
it is a Single-Page Application.
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That's odd. On my 23 inch monitor it takes up only about 1/6th the screen width and a little over half the screen height.
If I maximize it, though, it's grotesque in its appearance. Perhaps yours is opening maximized?
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Why should it even be possible to maximize a calculator window? In the ideal case, it would detect the physical size of the screen (based on the system device parameters), and resize itself so that the buttons were always the same physical size!
(There should probably be some configuration options for vision-impaired people, but that should be it!)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Because running full screen on a 5" phone makes sense, on an 8" tablet it may/may not be reasonable; and putting an arbitrary cannot be maximized on screens larger than size X constraint on would result in an equally huge number of "What The Elephant!!!!!11!11one11!elventyone1!!1"s from the peanut gallery.
Personally, for the number of times I've sworn at an MS dialog for *NOT* being resizable; I'd very strongly prefer they err on the side of making everything resizable even if it'll leave some people scratching their heads.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Fair enough. Reasonable people may disagree on this point.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Dan Neely wrote: Personally, for the number of times I've sworn at an MS dialog for *NOT* being resizable
Also titled: 16:9 monitors and tall option windows. Often hiding only the Apply-Ok-Cancel buttons... :grrrr:
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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I think the only time I actually ran into that was on a 1024x600 netbook. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Or a 1368x768 with big buttons and characters (my Dad's sight isn't what it used to be).
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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Duke Carey wrote: Perhaps yours is opening maximized? |
Way to ruin the rant with logic. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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OriginalGriff wrote: and frankly not a lot more use...
Yep : Calculator[^]
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OriginalGriff wrote: And not making it resizable?
It's resizable on my machine. Are you sure you haven't got it maximized?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Certain - it covered most but not all of my screen.
And it wasn't resizable - I got no size bars when trying the first time - but it is now, which is weird...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I got no size bars when trying the first time
Well you wouldn't if it was maximised!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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