Show HN: devsigh.com - post all your stories of developer sigh
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Of course, here I am shaking my fist on Hacker News so who am I to criticize?
Because you have no spine? Pathetic.
In the real world you are THE responsive professional, and you tell people that the important thing is going to be wrong, politely but repeatedly, and they actually listen to you. And when you repeat it in simple words long enough, they eventually would understand. That's how it works. Or at least you land on better terms so you don't have to make a deal with your conscience.
How they know if it won't work if they didn't try? They just sigh and go on spending their time doing busywork, spending corporate money or failing projects.
I have a friend who runs into these kinds of problems all the time. Complains incessently about them, how he hates IT/networking and wants to get out of it. Every story he tells reminds me how grateful I am to work at an amazing company. His excuse for not finding an amazing company? He doesn't want to move away from where he lives.
What can you say to someone in that position?
I guess the same people who work at nice jobs where they make a difference would continue to make so elsewhere and this in fact is what let them where they're now.
I noticed my friends and I tended to share lots of stories about our work-related development woe on IRC and thought it would be good to create a place to share the stories!
Let me know if you've got any feedback.
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Just kidding. I suppose there's a niche for shortform "sighs" too.
Surely in these days of accessibility awareness this ought to be a design goal by default unless otherwise stated?
What I mean by the stair/ramps remark is that stairs weren't suddenly removed from the architect's toolkit when the wheelchair was invented. Since ramps are clearly not used in all instances they are not always appropriate or desirable.
The same goes with web design, which is as much art as is architecture. Not all sites are going to select between a limited range of colors to cater to a relative few if those colors happen to clash horribly with their intended design.
I feel I might be getting astray here. I simply think it's odd to impose on--what is as much an art form as it is a medium for communication--the restriction of only being able to use a certain color scheme. I'd be bummed out.
Luckily you don't have to sacrifice any aesthectics. SparkFun does a good job of making their stock status icons accessible by employing a combination of color and shape to help color-blind people recognize the status easier.
Here's a good example: http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10388
While I take your point that ramps in particular aren't always appropriate, that doesn't mean that accessible design in general isn't.
/pedant (sorry)
Fingers crossed.
The author might want to change it to POST/PUT and limit votes based on IP address instead.
There's about a half dozen people down_vote DOSing the server right now.
sudo iptables -I INPUT -s <offending ip> -j DROP