> 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?
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