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yomismoaquiyesterday at 6:13 PM1 replyview on HN

Maybe the folks that try to use printers are more frustrated that the ones that designed their software.


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bob1029yesterday at 6:16 PM

My worst technology experience of all time was maintaining support for a Zebra label printer in VB6. I can assure you that the users of these printers had maybe 1% the cortisol response I did when something went wrong.

Designing software for a printer means being a very aggressive user of a printer. There's no way to unit test this stuff. You just have to print the damn thing and then inspect the physical artifact.

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