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Got it. Quixote, Cervantes .. downloaded. Will do.
Gotta run now. Bye.
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I have a coworker who is brilliant (seriously), but he has this annoying habit of using negative logic:
if (!TestNotPassed)
// it worked!
I have to be very careful when reading his code.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I've seen this with previous colleagues as well.
Found it véry annoying. I had the impression they want to look clever and construct code that was hard to read so they would appear more techy like, or something.
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Actually, you have to be very not not careful.
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It still beats Abort/Retry/Fail...
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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| Cancel | OK | 
That was the first mistake!
Proper way is
| OK | Cancel |
!!!
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I'm a little surprised it wasn't
| Cancel | | Cancel |
With the first one cancelling the cancellation, and the second cancelling the operation. Except in Arabic countries where the buttons should be reversed.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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shouldn't the Ok button (or the yes) be on the left and the Cancel button (or the no) on the right ? 
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Perhaps "Abort" on the left, and "Like" on the bottom? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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no follow button then? 
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They're borrowing techniques from game developers, it's really just the illusion of choice and both will cancel it anyway.
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Clearly there needs to be 3 buttons: Abort, Retry, and Fail
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Why not use: [Import] [Cancel] ???
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What? Change the caption on a standard dialog button? Are you mad?
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Easy to use software is for wussies! What's next, automating slow, boring, repetitive tasks for these whiners?
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I presume that the "Cancel" resumes the import of Sue, so at least if you do the non-obvious thing you'll immediately get a chance to do the obscure thing.
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Reminds my of my favorite error message (PDP 11s):
Maybe you no run on right system?
To this day, I do not not how to respond to that prompt, other than ^C
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"We" are not doing it. There are people wired differently and for them that dialog box makes perfect sense as they see only one way of interpreting it.
An example of such people, I looked up yesterday "the opposite of inside out" on Google.
English is not my first language and I got small kids that drive me insane by leaving behind, on the floor, almost every piece of clothing when they take'em off.
You guessed right, they are inside out. How to properly tell them to fix that. Turn them ....? How?
Lots of answers were: Outside in, Right-side out?
Outside in?!!! Yes, "outside in". You see, there are people that negate "Inside out" as "Outside In" when in fact they express the same situation.
Link1
Link2
Link3
"Outside in" is even voted the best answer in one of them.
So, there are people like that and some of them are software developers.
Oh in the end I will use "Inside in" or the longer "take'em off and put them back properly", do you have an alternative? I'm all ears.
giuchici
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Hah! Good luck with that!
It took me over twenty years to persuade my wife to use a laundry basket. Before that all her clothes went in, on, or "somewhere near" the bath while she brushed her teeth... 
How did I fix it? Pulled out the bath and changed it to a wet room shower instead. Perhaps you should remove the floor?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The wives and the nonchalant ways they are eroding our soul, our sanity ...
giuchici
modified 13-Jul-15 22:08pm.
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Should wives have an "OK OK OK!" button?
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Frog parking only all others will be toad.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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Riveting...
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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