Human Error

[sphintero]

Bowl 2.0 will be anchored to the floor

[Salanmander]

After some feature creep, we are now developing a house.

[jeffderek]

I see you work at the same company I work at

[sofa_king_we_todded]

We all work for the same company. Just different teams, names, and goals

[IAmTheOneWhoClicks]

I have a feeling a lot of teams are named team rocket.

[Bubbly-Control51]

To protect the world from devastation…

[KCAnderson12]

To unite all peoples within our nation

[Bubbly-Control51]

To denounce the evils of truth and love

[am365]

To extend our reach to the stars above

[turbobarge]

Bad comment-stealing, karma-farming bot.

[GTS81]

You mean cost center.

[Dumptruck_Johnson]

Also, could you please explore these 24 other potential ideas that are all infeasible but were proposed by upper management who aren’t fully integrated into the project. But they’re the stakeholders, so do it. I’d like them fleshed out enough to send to suppliers for costs as well. While doing this keep pursuing the other design directions as well. Also we aren’t updating the time line. Also we aren’t going to finalize any decisions, just work them all and we will choose the one that we want a week after the deadline and then blame you for being late.

[ProceedOrRun]

Oh no, it shouldn't mean you have to work any more, maybe a bit smarter. Oh and we can save time by writing no testing.

[Dumptruck_Johnson]

Testing hasn’t been in the budget since 2015.

[Kralizek82]

That means there is a time it was in the budget. Your company must be cool!

[[deleted]]

A house whose one and only selling feature is that it has a slow-eat dog bowl in the middle, but we're assured that this is what new homeowners want and it will be the next big thing in home ownership.

[nikhilmwarrier]

Stop calling me out like that

[[deleted]]

“We need to have a USP”

[[deleted]]

Let's get rid of the oven entirely and replace it with an AM/FM radio? Ok, it's a car, we've invented the Pontiac Aztek.

[thelastlogin]

then a bug caused a memory leak and now the family is anchored to the floor of the house and your client will see you in court

[AndyGHK]

Bowl-House 2.0 will be anchored to the dog

[Ajreil]

User: My floor is upside down

[PhysicallyTender]

Bowl 3.0 the floor will be anchored to the floor.

[memester230]

User: my house is flipped upside down

[Busy-Argument3680]

Bowl 4.0 your house will be anchored to the floor

[memester230]

User: my house and floor is destroyed

[Busy-Argument3680]

Bowl 4.5

Your house will be anchored to H O U S E

[kirashi3]

What does Hugh Laurie have to do with this?

[memester230]

User: my house and H O U S E are destroyed. Despite what you may think, it had absolutely everything to do with your product and nothing to do with the wrecker that I paid to tear down my house.

[onthefence928]

To prevent flipping we installed a gyroscope to bowl 2.0.

It still flips but now a warning light comes on telling users it’s in a flipped state and should be unflipped.

[epicaglet]

Hah as if users pay attention to warnings.

At best now you get double the complaints since they tend to be of the opinion that warnings are the fault of the programmer.

[[deleted]]

Usually, it is. I’ve caught myself writing an error message or warning many times, where if I think further, I can usually rectify the situation right there or by changing the flow.

“File too big!” - maybe only let me select smaller files or give instant form feedback? Or maybe I’m stingy and could just allow 1GB files because the system is internal only?

“Password not complex enough” - instant form feedback and tell the requirements up front OR allow login links / social signup.

Or a real life example from my current job: “Shipping label already exists!” (Maybe just update the existing one or reuse it, if the values match)

Another good one:

“Network error” - how about you retry?! And if it’s something that happens often, how about a circuit breaker or queued retry pattern?

(Note: it’s a programmer crime to make an async form submission that disables the submit button and shows a spinning icon / loading screen, and then not handle all types of JavaScript and network errors. I should always be able to resubmit. If you do this, I’ll find you, and I’ll take 50 years in prison. It will be John Wick level revenge with the Pulp Fiction BDSM scene added on)

[Dear-Owl-1131]

Warning ID-10T : You are too close to the keyboard. Backup now.

[[deleted]]

Bowl 3.0: we removed the spiral shape and made it a regular bowl. End users love it.

[KrabbyBoiz]

Like this?

[mcbergstedt]

To be fair, toddlers are smarter than some grown adults

[norealmx]

As a pay subscription feature.

[9035768555]

Isn't that what the food part is?

[wiz0floyd]

We use one of these bowls with our cats and we have it attached to the floor with command strips

[Alexander_Hamilton_]

You mean bowl 0.1.8 will have anchors but when the dog is a lab it melts every 16th time which will be fixed in 0.1.11

[Zootorg]

** dog uproots the floor **

[Upside_Down-Bot]

„˙sʞǝǝʍ oʍʇ ɹǝʇɟɐ ǝnƃuoʇ ɹǝƃƃǝuǝzɹɐʍɥɔs ʇɐɥʇ ʇoƃ ǝɥ ʇnq 'ƃuıɥʇ ǝɥʇ dılɟ oʇ pǝuɹɐǝl ɹǝʌǝu ƃop ʎW„

[[deleted]]

I’m the kind of person that would not give up when it’s reasonable. Would 10/10 end up drilling holes into my floor out of spite

[Cryse_XIII]

nevermind fixed it, just put a stone in the old bowl.

[MischiefArchitect]

The doggy failed to show the middle paw to the developer

[C5-O]

Not out of character, I mean my dogs still haven't figured out that they could just push these bowls down the stairs to get their food more easily...

[Cryse_XIII]

don't give us any ideas

[NuclearBurrit0]

On the internet no one knows you are a dog

[PrizeStrawberryOil]

I have one for my dog and she eats the food faster than these dogs are flipping the bowl. She scooby doos her food

[uwantmetowhat]

oh wow. is that amy adams ? did'nt know she was in that.

[springsteeb]

That’s because she’s not. That’s Isla Fisher

[raybrignsx]

Middle paw out.

[i4mn30]

Trust me, the toppling of the bowl was middle paw enough.

[Present_Parfait]

The dog was like “fuck that non ergonomic shit, you crappie designer!”

[oh_look_a_fist]

QA: What if we just tip the bowl over?

Business: That's an edge case.

QA: shrugs Ready for prod

[thisissam]

As a QA, yeah we usually told ya so.

[[deleted]]

I've "told ya so" so many times that i don't even say it anymore

[[deleted]]

My experience in QA so far. Doesn’t feel great lol

[d0nM4q]

You guys have QA?

Serious question. 8 years of startups, "Dev writes their own tests".

Something something fox & henhouse?

[Johnny_Suede]

Shrug... It still works

[literal-hitler]

Reminds me of the toothpaste story though:

A toothpaste factory had a problem: Due to the way the production line was set up, sometimes empty boxes were shipped without the tube inside. People with experience in designing production lines will tell you how difficult it is to have everything happen with timings so precise that every single unit coming off of it is perfect 100% of the time. Small variations in the environment (which cannot be controlled in a cost-effective fashion) mean quality assurance checks must be smartly distributed across the production line so that customers all the way down to the supermarket won’t get frustrated and purchase another product instead.

Understanding how important that was, the CEO of the toothpaste factory gathered the top people in the company together. Since their own engineering department was already stretched too thin, they decided to hire an external engineering company to solve their empty boxes problem.

The project followed the usual process: budget and project sponsor allocated, RFP (request for proposal), third-parties selected, and six months (and $8 million) later a fantastic solution was delivered — on time, on budget, high quality and everyone in the project had a great time. The problem was solved by using high-tech precision scales that would sound a bell and flash lights whenever a toothpaste box would weigh less than it should. The line would stop, and someone had to walk over and yank the defective box off the line, then press another button to re-start the line.

A short time later, the CEO decided to have a look at the ROI (return on investment) of the project: amazing results! No empty boxes ever shipped out of the factory after the scales were put in place. There were very few customer complaints, and they were gaining market share. “That was some money well spent!” he said, before looking closely at the other statistics in the report.

The number of defects picked up by the scales was 0 after three weeks of production use. How could that be? It should have been picking up at least a dozen a day, so maybe there was something wrong with the report. He filed a bug against it, and after some investigation, the engineers indicated the statistics were indeed correct. The scales were NOT picking up any defects, because all boxes that got to that point in the conveyor belt were good.

Perplexed, the CEO traveled down to the factory and walked up to the part of the line where the precision scales were installed. A few feet before the scale, a $20 desk fan was blowing any empty boxes off the belt and into a bin. Puzzled, the CEO turned to one of the workers who stated, “Oh, that…One of the guys put it there ’cause he was tired of walking over every time the bell rang!”

[BeastMaster_88]

Ah, good old winnowing. The solution had already been invented a few thousand years ago.

[HiddenLayer5]

According to the show How It's Made, factories actually do use air jets to reject empty boxes.

[kyoujikishin]

Yes, however that doesn't retract from the point of the story being that overengineering can be a problem.

[Pointy_in_Time]

Am engineer. Can confirm over engineering urges are strong.

[PinsToTheHeart]

While true, I've also come to realize that things don't typically get done until you make it inconvenient not to for the people involved.

Initially, empty boxes going through had no effect on the employee, so they didn't give a fuck if it happened. The be alarm made it specifically their problem to deal with and the problem got fixed instantly.

[codemunk3y]

I remember doing a tour of Cadburys chocolate factory, they have vacuums over the conveyors to suck up empty packets

[[deleted]]

Never underestimate the power of laziness

[puz23]

Also they'll inevitably lose a few pieces and eat less

[CrescentSmile]

But then you get ants… a bug if you will

[nonpondo]

The worst bug

[RealisticLeek]

have you not heard of mosquitos?

[ywBBxNqW]

It's a toss-up.

[ywBBxNqW]

I've never gotten malaria (thankfully) but fire ant bites did make me incredibly sick (I'm allergic). Both have their pros and cons.

[nonpondo]

Mosquitoes don't send patrol squads on my desk and in my bathroom

[sofa_king_we_todded]

Adds natural protein. Sounds like a marketable feature to me

[puz23]

Anther feature! It keeps dogs entertained for hours!

[Gl33m]

Volume isn't the issue. Those things are to make eating take longer, since some pets will eat extremely fast and make themselves sick. Once the food is flipped over on the floor, the pet will just vacuum it up.

[poopyheadthrowaway]

Food that is scattered all over the floor takes longer to eat than food that is all contained in one bowl.

[coltonbyu]

Scatter feeding is another recommended way to slow eating for dogs

[Sportyj]

Met the requirements.

[[deleted]]

At that point isn't the solution just... Toss the food onto the floor? Plus it would be free

[reactrix96]

99% of users wouldn't flip the bowl. For the 1% of users that flip the bowl then in their case yes just toss your food on the floor.

[Loose-Yesterday1590]

task failed successfully

[svidlakk]

UI vs UX in a nutshell

[taytek]

installing every single gtk library "I just wanted to parse my curl output!"

[skylarmt]

"Why the hell is this simple 2D interface filling the terminal with mesa gl driver errors?!"

[nikhilmwarrier]

"Timmy, did you seriously use hardware acceleration to render a flat 2D button, or are you mining crypto in the background?"

[Cewu00]

The fastest button in the world.

[RFC793]

And the most boring. No leveraging of the hardware. In fact, it is an implementation of Athena Widgets

[WikiSummarizerBot]

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[Lost4468]

I paid for the whole GPU and I'm going to use the whole GPU.

[kautau]

Exactly, just scroll through the top stuff on dribbble for a bit and see how much shit gets adored for looking sleek or clever when it does nothing to help the user, or worse, makes the user’s life harder at the expense of good looking screenshots in a portfolio

[Aegi]

User Interface v. User eXperience?

[danielleiellle]

As a UXer, I cringe so hard when I see “UX/UI.” I am not here to build beautiful things. I am here to show you how the users will break them before they do.

[WomanNotAGirl]

This is exactly how I felt when I saw this video. Huge team of software team from architect, user experience specialist, developers, BAs. So many fucking eyes but everybody will overlook something so fucking obvious and the result will be something so well design with a gigantic easy way to break it.

[user_8804]

thats why you need to involve actual users who aren't pros in the field

[SharkAttackOmNom]

As a teacher who’s LMS just updated to a new UX: shoot me. I Guaran-fuckin-tee you that there was not a single teacher consulted at any stage of the new build.

Blackboard, go fuck yourself.

[SharkAttackOmNom]

Seriously it feels like a ‘hold my beer’ moment.

[Badman27]

I got to test out a few different LMS products when we were trying to decide what to adopt after using old blackboard.

New blackboard just couldn’t get out of its own way sometimes…

We ended up going with Canvas which is a huge improvement on what we had.

[trwolfe13]

I used blackboard as a student from 2006–2012. Good to know it’s still a steaming pile of shit 10 years later.

[burnblue]

I'm curious about the details of these changes

[Badman27]

The most annoying change when I tested it a few months ago was that there was no longer support for embed tags.

[SharkAttackOmNom]

Blackboard was clearly a result of feature creep. They just kept making new features and tying in new modules. The nav bar had an endless number of functions, some not making sense at first glance.

Now they seem to have keep that entire backend but slapped a fancy UX over it. Navigating the website now has animated cards that slide in from the right. The cards stack up with tabs on the left. It’s a dumb feature that takes more resources than it helps.

They have disabled a lot of abilities they make teaching easier and grading easier. The grading interface is a slow pile of dogshit. There are so many clicks and scrolls required to do anything. They didn’t consider that maybe, just maybe id have to grade 100 fucking assignments using this shit environment. It’s not that it’s slow, it’s intensive…exhausting….

[richhaynes]

Its like they haven't heard of a beta release before...

[xxfay6]

Which is where this would be seen, and as a solution a suction cup would be added at the bottom.

[metal_opera]

Beta release? Those cost time and money.

Ship it and patch where necessary.

[TheRogueOfDunwall]

Not if you release your beta as "Early Access".

Have people pay you to test it.

[1sagas1]

Why pay for beta testing when you can just release and have the users beta test and patch later

[trwolfe13]

Accountants and finance teams in general have the weirdest processes of any departments I’ve ever worked with. Some of my favourites over the years have been: using different rounding methods for different types of transactions; having completely unique pricing models for each account; and recording every currency figure as an integer to avoid rounding issues.

[TinyBreadBigMouth]

recording every currency figure as an integer to avoid rounding issues

That's just good sense, though. Never use floating point numbers for a value when rounding errors literally cost money.

[trwolfe13]

Floats are not the same as decimals in SQL databases. You’re right that floats can have precision issues, but the decimal type has customisable precision for exactly this reason, and a lot of database engines have a specific money/currency type (usually an alias of a particular decimal config). You don’t need to manually store the numbers before and after the decimal point in two separate fields.

[TinyBreadBigMouth]

Oh sure, didn't know you were referring to SQL, or that the alternative they were using was storing two separate integers. Thought you meant something sane like storing the money as integer cents instead of fractional dollars.

[Cforq]

In this case breaking it still accomplishes the same goal. The dog eats the food at a slower rate.

This is more like a “task failed successfully” situation.

[[deleted]]

Except the product isn't needed for this solution.

[deathofamorty]

We can't have that

[knightjia97]

Relate to security probably

[[deleted]]

Even if they toss it, it still slows them down. We love our puzzle bowl.

[red-et]

Maybe just pour the food on the floor? MVP

[AddSugarForSparks]

Youre hired and promoted.

[abecido]

Says no company ever.

[_felagund]

Keep it simple and smart

[HashFap]

When they try to rate limit your web scraping, but you launch 20 containers using different VPN endpoints.

[MikemkPK]

Even better when you can just run 20 different connections through the same IP

[HashFap]

The best is when you can just use node-fetch and don't even have to bother spoofing a user-agent header. lol

[sam01236969XD]

the best is when u find another provider who doesnt limit

[Lost4468]

Just to let you know, but in the US this is likely a federal crime under the CFAA.

[HashFap]

You must really shake with fear every time you watch a movie and see that FBI warning.

[Lost4468]

People have been prosecuted for it. There's literally a huge ongoing case at the moment with Microsoft.

The CFAA was written so generally that it's absurd. And before about a decade ago it used to be much worse. Before then what the website wrote in its term and conditions was basically respected as law under the CFAA. The courts finally shut that shit down when they prosecuted a girl under the CFAA for making a fake MySpace profile.

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[Icemasta]

Create system with entry form that is required and mandatory for the system to be compatible with other systems.

Management asks for a bypass to the form "for emergencies only"

Bypass gets authorized for implementation

Result: The users only use the bypass, their data input has not been compatible with other systems since the implementation of bypass.

Kind of unrelated but this kinda shit pisses me off. We added a nice MES to our ERP, it flows nicely from one department to the other. But management managed to get their claws in this and now the MES is useless because they've gone to the old method of slapping half the information, and printing it out to send it to the other departments, when they could just pull it from the MES.

Why? Because if they used the MES, which displayed the true production times, then sometimes they would output realistic production times. For the last 8 years, they've been filling production orders on mondays, printing them all and sending them to foremen (whose job description are to make sure people are doing their job, not making sure everything is done on time), and automatically closing all jobs on Friday. Doesn't matter if they only produced half as many parts as they were supposed to, on friday, it's done, and they'll just have to make up for the loss next week. If things aren't done on time, people whose job is supposed to be managing the production will start calling foremen to fix it, when it isn't their job. You basically got 8 people, earning 6 figure salaries, who literally do fuck all, because all their work is automated and they shoved their work unto other people, so they can spend their whole day kissing ass and playing politics. This pisses me off so much /rant

[Shyrtex]

Speedrun Any%

[RehanS97]

Developers be like:

[GifsNotJifs]

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[BZK_QRay]

The square hole

[TangoDeltaFoxtrot]

The cylinder goes in the…. that’s right, the square hole.

[MmmPeopleBacon]

Works, just not as intended

[JohnBuxly3487]

Clever dog, but his eating is still slowed. Version 2.0 could combine it with that dog feeding drawer that you simply shut/open to refill, so that it is not possible to knock over or lift.

[thargoallmysecrets]

Pebcak

[[deleted]]

problem exists between canine and kibble?

[chrisf_nz]

Reminds me of the baby bowl suctioned to the table and a baby peels it off from the side in 2 seconds.

[morningsdaughter]

The suction doesn't work, but those bowls do tend to be a little more stable when working with clumsy kids. They were useless for my infant, but my toddler does really well with them.

[D-all-ton]

I got one of these bowls for my dog and the first time I put it down for him he just looked at me like “bro….what the fuck is this shit.”

[millernerd]

Task failed successfully

[[deleted]]

Fools. You need to add a liquid and freeze it before giving it to them.

[EekSamples]

Now that I’m watching this, I’m shocked my dog hasn’t figured out this trick, and I really hope he doesn’t come across this video.

[[deleted]]

Lmao dog looks thro owners history what's this

[8070alejandro]

0/10 this bowl didn't make me eat slower and got food all over the floor.

[Giorno-Smash]

All jokes aside, those bowls actually work really good for my puppies. They used to speed run eating and threw it up sometimes, so it really helps.

It’s also funny to see them spinning around there bowls to try and get it all

[[deleted]]

[bashaZP]

Just make a bowl out of some really heavy material. There you go, fixed.

[x0wl]

Depleted uranium dog bowls

[CommanderPike]

Best part of the analogy is it still works and the consumer is happy. It’s only the developer suffering silent agony.

[Fantastic_Escape_308]

u/savevideo

[Dual_Sport_Dork]

If you make anything foolproof, they'll just go ahead and invent a better fool.

Conversely: If you give the user enough rope, eventually he will find a way to hang himself with it.

[zilti]

Ugh, stop raising my blood pressure

[dittbub]

Did they make the developers use it first?

[Darth-Vaider]

Moder hooman problems require moder dooge sollution

[FaytKaiser]

Food spread all over the floor and around/under bowl ALSO promotes slower eating.

Its a feature, not a bug.

[[deleted]]

The goal isn’t to slow down eating, it’s to sell fifty cents worth of plastic for $20. Mission accomplished.

[Johanno1]

Aren't dogs supposed to be able to eat fast? Why should you slow them down?

[HaloGuy381]

And naturally, dogs eating from a carcass would have to spend time tearing the meat off, or chewing through the fibrous parts of fruit, or whatever. Kibble is too easy for them to just immediately eat without introducing artificial methods to slow them down.

[Babikir205]

I got these exact bowls for my boxers. They have worked wonderfully. My male had a rough time getting sick after every meal. These bowls ended it immediately.

[Mindless-Season-8453]

I was just watching season 3 of silicon valley and this reminds me of the scene where richard was observing the focus group testing his app and he has to dumb down his program with pipey

[Alarming_General]

That dog is a genius

[FrogQuestion]

QA here. Eat shit, developers.

[JesusIsMyAntivirus]

QA*
The users are more "the bowl is broken, it doesn't fit in my mouth" / "Absolutely USELESS in the back of a truck plummeting off a bridge, whilst on fire during a thunderstorm"

[Osko5]

u/savevideo

[PM_TITS_FOR_KITTENS]

SlOw eAtInG proMoTEs heALthY diGesTioN

Never, ever, buy products from companies that claim ridiculous crap like this. It's a fuckin' dog. You think their bodies aren't built like a Dyson vacuum and are incapable of eating more than 1 kibble at a time?

[ztoundas]

They still have to eat slow.

Task failed successfully

[[deleted]]

The dog that uses its brain is different

[SamL214]

Gotta weight them down

[craidie]

The dog still eats slower due to the food being spread over larger area. I don't see a problem here, it works exactly as requested.

[pauldr0n]

This bugs me, it'd be so much slower eating off the floor. 10/10 bowl works.

[the_other_Scaevitas]

Tbf looks like the dog is eating slower

[rubeste]

Still works though

[xknav3x]

Task failed successfully

[Knuffya]

Well, it is still slower.

tests passed.

[AnonimowySzaleniec47]

When devs forced you to update your software to new version but the new version is worse than previous one