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sidewndr46today at 1:00 AM1 replyview on HN

This is rather interesting to read. But it reinforces something I've seen in my career. The majority of users of software I've helped build, they use it in ways that are mind bending to me. Workflows I would never think of, that somehow do what they need.

The second one is most software contains bugs. Users that expect to get things done simply choose workflows to avoid the worst consequence of those bugs very quickly.


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asimilatortoday at 1:33 AM

> The second one is most software contains bugs. Users that expect to get things done simply choose workflows to avoid the worst consequence of those bugs very quickly.

I feel like a substantial source of everyday irritation are bugs like this in bad software. It’s frustrating that devs just don’t care.

You could make software that doesn’t require your users to work around its shortcomings.

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