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From: Sebastian <sebastian@here.com>
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Subject: Re: Windows victims: go ahead and pretend you don't want or need the greatest PC software available
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 04:50:05 -0000 (UTC)
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Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
> rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>> A long time ago I did an inventory control system. I learned that the 
>> people doing data entry hardly looked at the screen. I think I could have 
>> put up a dialog saying 'Your pantyhose are on fire!' and the wouldn't 
>> notice. What they did notice was anything that broke the pattern as they 
>> tabbed between boxes and entered the data.
> 
> Heh. On the classified-ad typesetting project I worked on, one of the
> developers shortened a particular key-sequence by one character.
> 
> Hoo boy! The complaints were vociferous; the change was undone.

Imagine all the AutoHotKey scripts that would've had to have been
debugged and fixed if the change wasn't undone.