On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Miles Fidelman <[email protected] > wrote:
> Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > >> John Zabroski <[email protected]> writes: >> >> >> Sorry, you did not answer my question, but instead presented excuses >>> for why programmers misunderstand people. (Can I paraphrase your >>> thoughts as, "Because people are not programmers!") >>> >> No, you misunderstood my answer: >> "Because people don't pay programmers enough." >> >> >> I think that might be an inaccurate statement in two regards: > > - programmers make VERY good money, at least in some fields (if you know > where to find good, cheap coders, in the US, let me know where) > > - (a lot of programmers) do NOT have a particularly user-focused mindset > (just ask a C coder what they think of Hypercard - you'll get all kinds of > answers about why end-users can't do any useful; despite a really long > track record of good stuff written in Hypercard, particularly by educators) > > Note: This is irrelevant vis-a-vis Jon's question, however. The answer to > why he can't find easy ways to upload files, is because he isn't looking. I have probably spent the better part of my life looking for examples of good design, and my conclusion is there are so few good designers. Even fewer non-designers actually notice a good designers' abilities to put them in a position to succeed. For that reason, we are languishing under the canopy of a squalid subcultural darkness where I get answers saying greed is good and will solve all. Your answer and Pascal's can only be described as the answers adults would give. My question was a thought exercise, to build in the world of imagination.
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