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Re:I feel like Gmail went from being Photoshop to Draw Somet... by mherdeg on Saturday May 04, 2013 @09:01AM (#5654906)
Heh. Imagining this UX patch 25 years ago:

"I highly recommend turning on the 'Undo Irradiate' feature on the Therac-25. It lets you undo irradiation settings for a patient for ~5 seconds after you press irradiate. It has saved my patients countless times, not because the UI tricks me into irradiating patients with the wrong settings, but because I realize I want to add one more dose."

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Re:I feel like Gmail went from being Photoshop to Draw Somet... by tomkarlo on Saturday May 04, 2013 @08:08PM (#5656849)
Yes, because sending an email by accident is just like irradiating a cancer patient to death.

Obviously, they've made it easy to send emails (pressing tab then enter) but that means that some folks send them by accident. But that's an acceptable trade, because it doesn't kill people.

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