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I never was dumb enough to try.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Or goto any Waffle House where all you have to do is point to a picture and grunt.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Yep - Windows 8 licensing keys.
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...on a faded out sticker, with the second half missing/ripped off altogether
The few times I've had PCs that had this sticker at the back of it - I've taken pictures of them when the system was still new. Then it doesn't matter so much what happens to it over time...
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Quote: There are times I've taken a picture of a document on my phone, slopped it over to my PC, and zoomed in 1000%
Yep, been there often.
Nothing succeeds like a budgie without teeth.
To err is human, to arr is pirate.
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I'm a developer with a vision problem. I was where you are now when I was 25. I've been waiting for somebody else to finally say fonts and displays had gotten too small, even for people with normal eyesight. Getting a bigger magnifier isn't the solution. Printing things in a readable font in a readable point size is.
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I find I have to do the document zooming trick on 99% of all things I enter these days, it's a royal pain in the a55
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My wife was a dental hygienist and has these glasses with built-in magnifiers. I have to borrow them sometimes to see this stuff!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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And while you're at it programmers, insert breaks in credit card numbers. 16 digits is hard to accurately read in. For a perfect example of a best practice, go change something on a bitlocker protected device and boot it. As you enter the recovery key the entry field automatically adds hyphens to match the recovery key blocking.
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It's not us! You should blame the designers who insist that all that text must fit in that tiny space! My favorite at the moment is an annual report by month where each month is a column and should be displayed whether or not there is data. Of course, it needs a total column and enough room for a 50-char description. That's a long description column (variable at least) and 13 data columns that must fit on a landscape print. From experience, 8pt is the minimum depending on the expected size of data and formatting.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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And then there's the paper forms you need to fill in. Then try and write "veryLong.emailAddress@whoTookAllTheShortDomainNames.com" into a space an inch wide.
Nothing succeeds like a budgie without teeth.
To err is human, to arr is pirate.
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Ha! Take your annual report and trump it with a monthly report which has to show the data (three different points per item) with the months of the year (pre-set for all twelve) PLUS the same again - but this time for accumulated monthly figures totals...and don't forget the little (colour-coded) up/down arrows to show if performance has improved or not...
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It's not just programmers. There are also idiots who think people sign the back of credit cards in 8-point font.
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Greg Utas wrote: There are also idiots who think people sign the back of credit cards in 8-point font.
You bother with that?
It's not much of a security feature given that you can "sign" credit card transactions with little more than an X.
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The most recent card I received can't even be signed, so maybe they're ending it now that cards have PINs. But I've had the signature checked in the past.
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I've stopped signing mine a few years back, after I read some story about a guy at a restaurant who was refused to complete a transaction (after signing the receipt for the meal) because there was no signature on the back of his card. So he then signed the back of the card, and the waiter then proceeded to compare the signature on the receipt with the one on the card...
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I used to write “Check ID” on the back of mine but very few people would do that so now I don’t even bother doing that.
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We're running tests with 3pt font.
The tortured screams currently coming from our dungeon test panel indicate positive test results
Your "I" and "O" remark gave me ideas and I just added a victim user story on our backlog
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LOL. Literally. Not figuratively.
And the Oscar for "Best Strike-Thru in a Posting" goes to....
Sander!!!
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Welcome to my world. This explains the lighted magnifier on my desk.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Don't get me going with legibility issues introduced by programming ignorance. Low contrast. Artsy but Grrr.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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We developed a sales forecasting tool for use by our salesmen.
The sleaze — sorry, sales — manager took the software home on his laptop to test over the weekend.
He came back and reported that he couldn’t enter any data in any of the fields. He swore that he had done nothing to the software.
It took us a couple of days of wasted time to figure out that the sleaze ball — who didn’t want to forecast sales at all — had changed the input characters, which were white on a blue background, to blue on a blue background.
Maybe I should have tried to convince a jury of my peers, that is programmers, that this is a case of justifiable homicide,
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Justifiable exile from software.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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One of my hobbies is writing and recording music, mostly using MIDI software instruments. It seems that the programmers who create DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) like Cubase and Logic Pro, and software instruments from Native Instruments, Steinburg, Apple, etc., are very young folks with excellent eyesight who are able to read 4pt fonts, use scrollbars that are 1 pixel wide, 1 pixel away from their borderless windows. Apparently they think everyone can see that well, too, and don't need a way to change the font sizes. Bastmmmpff.
And that goes for you too, Microsoft.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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