I've heard all this shit before - that the guys in charge are listening to your efforts, that your concerns are being taken under advisement and that the end result will something everyone will appreciate. What people here especially hate most of all is fucking corporate speak they've heard a thousand times before and despite from the bottom of their hearts. It's patronizing to the audience who know exactly how things will play out. They always follow the same formula
People complained loudly to Microsoft regarding the all-caps of Visual Studio 2012/13 and Office 2013 during their pre-releases. What happened? They remained there, shouting back at the user in the finals. People complained to Microsoft regarding the lack of contrast between the various elements of the Office 2013 GUI as well as the default eye-melting white theme. What happened? Some very minor tweaks and the same eye-melting theme with minimal contract. They threw in a couple of darker themes which do add more contrast, but also make the software far more drab and miserable looking compared to say Office 2010, which in my mind is a thing of beauty.
Companies don't care. They don't give a shit unless there's a real threat to their bottom line. I'm honestly surprised though that the powers that be aren't scrambling to push out the news that they're throwing away the beta as a failed experiment before more people sign off permanently and move to greener pastures.
True. One problem Slashdot/Dice has here is that so many in this community are actually in the industry and recognize and see through the corporate bullshit they just tried out here. (Kind of like when clueless IT fuckups try to use their standard lies on better-informed software developers.) Second problem is that Slashdot types have both the ability and the precedence for forking projects when needed.
One problem that we have is that, like all conglomerates, the Slashdot branch of Dice is probably fairly s
(Kind of like when clueless IT fuckups try to use their standard lies on better-informed software developers.)
Yeah, but at least in the workplace the people the lies are targeted at have to pretend they can't see through them. In the end if the company wants to pay you to help it fail, well, it is a paycheck you can collect while you look for something better.
In the case of people you aren't paying if you pull a Digg, OpenOffice, or XFree86 the results have already been demonstrated...
People complained loudly to Microsoft regarding the all-caps of Visual Studio 2012/13 and Office 2013 during their pre-releases. What happened? They remained there, shouting back at the user in the finals.
People complained loudly to Microsoft regarding the all-caps of Visual Studio 2012/13 and Office 2013 during their pre-releases. What happened? They remained there, shouting back at the user in the finals.
I have mixed case menus in Visual Studio 2012. Download VSCommands for Visual Studio 2012 or 2013 from the MSDN Visual Studio Gallery to fix the all caps problem. Somebody at MS was listening about this problem (or their own developers got sick of all caps).
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Good ol' corporate speak (Score:5, Insightful)
I've heard all this shit before - that the guys in charge are listening to your efforts, that your concerns are being taken under advisement and that the end result will something everyone will appreciate. What people here especially hate most of all is fucking corporate speak they've heard a thousand times before and despite from the bottom of their hearts. It's patronizing to the audience who know exactly how things will play out. They always follow the same formula
People complained loudly to Microsoft regarding the all-caps of Visual Studio 2012/13 and Office 2013 during their pre-releases. What happened? They remained there, shouting back at the user in the finals. People complained to Microsoft regarding the lack of contrast between the various elements of the Office 2013 GUI as well as the default eye-melting white theme. What happened? Some very minor tweaks and the same eye-melting theme with minimal contract. They threw in a couple of darker themes which do add more contrast, but also make the software far more drab and miserable looking compared to say Office 2010, which in my mind is a thing of beauty.
Companies don't care. They don't give a shit unless there's a real threat to their bottom line. I'm honestly surprised though that the powers that be aren't scrambling to push out the news that they're throwing away the beta as a failed experiment before more people sign off permanently and move to greener pastures.
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True. One problem Slashdot/Dice has here is that so many in this community are actually in the industry and recognize and see through the corporate bullshit they just tried out here. (Kind of like when clueless IT fuckups try to use their standard lies on better-informed software developers.) Second problem is that Slashdot types have both the ability and the precedence for forking projects when needed.
One problem that we have is that, like all conglomerates, the Slashdot branch of Dice is probably fairly s
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(Kind of like when clueless IT fuckups try to use their standard lies on better-informed software developers.)
Yeah, but at least in the workplace the people the lies are targeted at have to pretend they can't see through them. In the end if the company wants to pay you to help it fail, well, it is a paycheck you can collect while you look for something better.
In the case of people you aren't paying if you pull a Digg, OpenOffice, or XFree86 the results have already been demonstrated...
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"Yeah, but at least in the workplace the people the lies are targeted at have to pretend they can't see through them."
I've never done that. Up to and including calling a guy out on it at my workplace last night.
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People complained loudly to Microsoft regarding the all-caps of Visual Studio 2012/13 and Office 2013 during their pre-releases. What happened? They remained there, shouting back at the user in the finals.
Not strictly true. They added an option to turn off all-caps. [msdn.com] It's a simple registry setting and the first hit on Google.
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People complained loudly to Microsoft regarding the all-caps of Visual Studio 2012/13 and Office 2013 during their pre-releases. What happened? They remained there, shouting back at the user in the finals.
I have mixed case menus in Visual Studio 2012. Download VSCommands for Visual Studio 2012 or 2013 from the MSDN Visual Studio Gallery to fix the all caps problem. Somebody at MS was listening about this problem (or their own developers got sick of all caps).