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Re:Can't Be Fucked: Underrated Cause of Tech Debt by shadowgovt on Thursday October 12, 2023 @02:29PM (#37861017)
The point is when one sweats the details, one concludes that making the backboard full-thickness varnished board is an exercise in ego, not focusing on the user. It makes the user's experience worse for no other reason than some arbitrary artist's definition of simplified aesthetic.

... definitely a lesson I think many software engineers should internalize.

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Re:Can't Be Fucked: Underrated Cause of Tech Debt by johnnyanmac on Friday October 13, 2023 @03:25AM (#37867782)
>It makes the user's experience worse for no other reason than some arbitrary artist's definition of simplified aesthetic.

sure, no other reason than "less stability". You may or may not need the stability, but sacrificing it so that is 2% easier to carry into a house (which happens maybe, once per 2 years for an especially nomadic person) seems to be the exact kinds of corners management likes to take.

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Re:Can't Be Fucked: Underrated Cause of Tech Debt by shadowgovt on Friday October 13, 2023 @12:03PM (#37872090)
My classic Macs still have handles on their tops, and they were designed to be desktop machines.

A toast to the hardware manufacturer that considers the fact that tangible objects get moved.

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