> From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> The Fool wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 
> > > On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 05:10:19PM -0500, The Fool wrote:
> > >
> > > > Most programmers aren't good enough to do that, and attempting it
> > > > actually makes the code worse.  My favorite example was when a
few
> > > > months ago some open source programmers released a patch for IE
that
> > > > contained multiple worse (rootable) vulnerabilities.  And I could
go
> > > > on and on.
> > >
> > > In other words, no, you never get tired of spouting crap. Okay, I
> > > learned my lesson again (at least for the next few months).
> > 
> > I'm sorry but none of the open source projects I've looked at
impressed
> > me with confidence in the programmers supposedly superior coding
> > abilities.  Most programmers aren't very good.  My time is too
valuable
> > to spend fixing mostly amateurish open source code I came across. 
It's
> > generally: horribly written, extremely buggy, and inefficient.  Don't
get
> > me started on bad UI design.
> 
> I'm hoping not to.  But, could you give some examples of good UI
design?

Minesweeper.
Winamp 2.x
Visual Studio.
Notepad.
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