> We do not USE the thing we're building by and large.
Yes, thankyou, that's quite obvious judging by the quality of most software.
It really is amazing how bad most software made for non-developers is. Like, as software engineers, we understand how essential version control is. We made git and github for ourselves. But nobody has bothered building that functionality for people who edit word documents all day. Or people who edit video, or animators, or 3d modellers, or 100 different jobs. Word and google docs have track changes. But they don't let you bounce between branches or make pull requests. You usually can't time travel, or bisect, or git blame, or any of the other things we take for granted. My partner works in a CMS all day at work. Every change she makes is pushed directly to production. There's no review process. No staging. No testing. No change control or rollback. If anyone messes something up, they get blamed for "taking down the app". As a software engineer, I look on in horror.
I believe the more cognitive distance there is between 20-something silicon valley tech bros and your particular use case, the worse your software is going to be. If you're a manchild living in san francisco who can't be bothered driving, doing your laundry or shopping for groceries, you're in good hands. There is a startup that will solve your problem! But the further from that "ideal" you get, the worse. Here in Melbourne, I can't use my iphone to pay for public transit. Google maps couldn't really handle roundabouts (traffic circles) for a decade and change. (I guess they don't have those in California). Unicode support was only added recently because of Emoji. Until then, a huge amount of software butchered non-english text. I shudder to think how badly most software probably handles right to left languages. And the list goes on and on.
> My partner works in a CMS all day at work. Every change she makes is pushed directly to production. There's no review process. No staging. No testing. No change control or rollback. If anyone messes something up, they get blamed for "taking down the app". As a software engineer, I look on in horror.
Fwiw that just sounds like an immature CMS - I've seen review/approval workflows, branches, preview environments etc in more than one CMS. I take your overall point but maybe your partner doesn't have to live this way.
> I take your overall point but maybe your partner doesn't have to live this way.
I agree - but if a review system exists in the product, she's never seen it. They don't even have a staging system for testing changes. Its wild.
And for context, she works at a large organisation that's a household name here in Australia. This is a large organisation thats been around for well over 50 years. They have an engineering team and thousands of employees.
I don't know if the software is bad or if its misconfigured. But the status quo outside of our industry is jaw-droppingly terrible.
Yeah absolutely. I worked at a startup awhile ago with a really incredible designer. She insisted that everyone in the company sit in on one or two user interview sessions she had organised with our potential users. It was an incredibly eye-opening experience, and I can't recommend it highly enough.
I highly recommended doing the same if you can swing it. Its equal parts insightful and motivating. And the clients generally love it - since it shows your team really cares about their problems and use case.
Well my comment wasn’t really on usability or UX per se, just noting that the narrative of needing race car drivers is inaccurate. You don’t need to reverse B-trees to program normal software.
Also usability concerns have nothing to do with reversing B-trees.
And it's being addressed, but doing that takes a long time. In the meantime, real people are suffering actual hurt that is alleviated by this medicine.
Building codes are extremely local, and not really federally regulated much. They’re consistent most places because jurisdictions will just copy paste them.
A bed frame both increases the lifetime of a mattress, and the general cleanliness. This massive amount of round about thinking is pointless when your initial assessment of what’s going on is wrong.
I wouldn’t want to date someone who doesn’t have a bed frame not because not having some arbitrary furniture is weird, but because not having a bed frame is gross. And all these mental gymnastics you’re going on about saving $100 as someone who probably makes six figures screams to me that you have several massive misunderstandings about day to day living that will cause you serious health problems in the long run.
The last person I met that didn’t use a bed frame also used the dishes that he eats off to wash his outdoor boots.
I live in Japan. I sleep on on a big futon on the floor with my wife. Additionally our apartment is incredibly clean.
Most devs in the world do not make six figures. Many people who make six figures still unwisely live paycheck to paycheck. That is only in the US. Here in fukuoka the average dev pay is just over 2k a month. I make more than that, but I grew up poor so I save money.
I am not sure why you are so aggressive about bed frames. It is unreasonable to be this judgemental about something as minor as a bedframe.
I would like to reiterate. Any human, male or female, who rejects a mate based solely on their lack of bedframe is shallow. That person should reconsider their values.
You’re saying this as an either or. Why does everyone need to live a rural area with access to a gun range? Vice versa just because we build more walkable infrastructure doesn’t mean literally everyone everywhere is suddenly walking 15 minutes to work.
In my experience, you wanna talk to a psychiatrist or in general some who specializes in prescribing drugs for mental health. Your GP just isn't gonna be familiar with all of the ins and outs
Most GPs I have talked to know next to nothing about psychiatric medications. The incompetence runs deep, not limited to psychiatric medications. Just for an example: they know absolutely nothing about seizures caused by withdrawal symptoms of benzodiazpines. In fact, I had a psychiatrist who I had an appointment to after one month, and he knew I was on 2 x 2 mg of alprazolam, well, imagine what would have happened if I could not have gotten my hands on benzodiazpines: seizures. I had them before. No one really cared, my psychiatrist didn't, my GP didn't.
Something like talktoyoutuber would also be very useful for certain discord servers. They'll have a lot of knowledge on something but will gatekeep it with "just use the search." and they'll refuse to build a wiki or really engage in any kind of organization.
I can cook it up if it would actually get some users.
Ultimately, I want to make a tool where you can plug in any arbitrary document store/scraper to an LLM with RAG. But I think we are still not there yet in terms of all purpose scrapers.
