this post was submitted on 23 May 2024
212 points (97.7% liked)

Programmer Humor

32472 readers
467 users here now

Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

And then QA sends it back with a bunch of regressions, then you go, "Why would somebody do it like that‽" and finally remember that the end user is dumb.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just because it's an edge case doesn't mean 30% of your userbase won't encounter it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It's the 80-20 pattern, again; 80% of the user base is going to do the 20% you thought they wouldn't