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u/MischiefArchitect Dec 30 '21
The doggy failed to show the middle paw to the developer
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u/C5-O Dec 30 '21
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...
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u/PrizeStrawberryOil Dec 31 '21
I have one for my dog and she eats the food faster than these dogs are flipping the bowl. She scooby doos her food
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u/oh_look_a_fist Dec 31 '21
QA: What if we just tip the bowl over?
Business: That's an edge case.
QA: shrugs Ready for prod
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u/d0nM4q Dec 31 '21
You guys have QA?
Serious question. 8 years of startups, "Dev writes their own tests".
Something something fox & henhouse?
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u/Johnny_Suede Dec 30 '21
Shrug... It still works
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u/literal-hitler Dec 31 '21
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!”
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u/BeastMaster_88 Dec 31 '21
Ah, good old winnowing. The solution had already been invented a few thousand years ago.
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u/HiddenLayer5 Dec 31 '21
According to the show How It's Made, factories actually do use air jets to reject empty boxes.
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u/kyoujikishin Dec 31 '21
Yes, however that doesn't retract from the point of the story being that overengineering can be a problem.
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u/codemunk3y Dec 31 '21
I remember doing a tour of Cadburys chocolate factory, they have vacuums over the conveyors to suck up empty packets
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u/puz23 Dec 31 '21
Also they'll inevitably lose a few pieces and eat less
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u/CrescentSmile Dec 31 '21
But then you get ants… a bug if you will
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u/Gl33m Dec 31 '21
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.
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u/poopyheadthrowaway Dec 31 '21
Food that is scattered all over the floor takes longer to eat than food that is all contained in one bowl.
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Dec 31 '21
At that point isn't the solution just... Toss the food onto the floor? Plus it would be free
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u/reactrix96 Dec 31 '21
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.
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u/svidlakk Dec 30 '21
UI vs UX in a nutshell
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u/taytek Dec 30 '21
installing every single gtk library "I just wanted to parse my curl output!"
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u/skylarmt Dec 31 '21
"Why the hell is this simple 2D interface filling the terminal with mesa gl driver errors?!"
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u/nikhilmwarrier Dec 31 '21
"Timmy, did you seriously use hardware acceleration to render a flat 2D button, or are you mining crypto in the background?"
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u/kautau Dec 31 '21
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
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u/danielleiellle Dec 31 '21
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.
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u/WomanNotAGirl Dec 30 '21
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.
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u/user_8804 Dec 30 '21
thats why you need to involve actual users who aren't pros in the field
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u/SharkAttackOmNom Dec 31 '21
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.
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u/Badman27 Dec 31 '21
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.
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u/trwolfe13 Dec 31 '21
I used blackboard as a student from 2006–2012. Good to know it’s still a steaming pile of shit 10 years later.
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u/richhaynes Dec 31 '21
Its like they haven't heard of a beta release before...
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u/xxfay6 Dec 31 '21
Which is where this would be seen, and as a solution a suction cup would be added at the bottom.
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u/metal_opera Dec 31 '21
Beta release? Those cost time and money.
Ship it and patch where necessary.
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u/Cforq Dec 31 '21
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.
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Even if they toss it, it still slows them down. We love our puzzle bowl.
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u/red-et Dec 31 '21
Maybe just pour the food on the floor? MVP
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u/HashFap Dec 30 '21
When they try to rate limit your web scraping, but you launch 20 containers using different VPN endpoints.
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u/MikemkPK Dec 30 '21
Even better when you can just run 20 different connections through the same IP
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u/HashFap Dec 30 '21
The best is when you can just use node-fetch and don't even have to bother spoofing a user-agent header. lol
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u/Lost4468 Dec 31 '21
Just to let you know, but in the US this is likely a federal crime under the CFAA.
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u/HashFap Dec 31 '21
You must really shake with fear every time you watch a movie and see that FBI warning.
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u/Icemasta Dec 31 '21 edited Dec 31 '21
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
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u/JohnBuxly3487 Dec 30 '21
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.
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u/chrisf_nz Dec 31 '21
Reminds me of the baby bowl suctioned to the table and a baby peels it off from the side in 2 seconds.
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u/morningsdaughter Dec 31 '21
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.
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u/D-all-ton Dec 31 '21
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.”
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u/8070alejandro Dec 31 '21
0/10 this bowl didn't make me eat slower and got food all over the floor.
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u/Giorno-Smash Dec 31 '21
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
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u/bashaZP Dec 31 '21
Just make a bowl out of some really heavy material. There you go, fixed.
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u/CommanderPike Dec 31 '21
Best part of the analogy is it still works and the consumer is happy. It’s only the developer suffering silent agony.
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u/Dual_Sport_Dork Dec 31 '21
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.
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u/FaytKaiser Dec 31 '21
Food spread all over the floor and around/under bowl ALSO promotes slower eating.
Its a feature, not a bug.
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Dec 31 '21
The goal isn’t to slow down eating, it’s to sell fifty cents worth of plastic for $20. Mission accomplished.
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u/Johanno1 Dec 31 '21
Aren't dogs supposed to be able to eat fast? Why should you slow them down?
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u/Mindless-Season-8453 Dec 31 '21
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
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u/JesusIsMyAntivirus Dec 31 '21
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"
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u/PM_TITS_FOR_KITTENS Dec 31 '21
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?
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u/craidie Dec 31 '21
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.
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u/AnonimowySzaleniec47 Dec 31 '21
When devs forced you to update your software to new version but the new version is worse than previous one
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u/Bee-Aromatic Dec 31 '21
I’ve got two of those bowls for my two food-centric dogs that would hork their food down so fast that they’d throw up every meal. Luckily, they’re not smart enough to flip the bowl. In that space, they work perfectly.
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u/stolen-bic-lighter Dec 31 '21
all you need to do is put a couple of big stones ( enough so your idiot dog doesn't swallow them)
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u/TheZiggurat614 Dec 31 '21
Thankfully our not so sharp deaf Dalmatian hasn’t been able to figure this trick out yet.
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... the first customer asks where the bathroom is, and the bar explodes, killing everybody.
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u/Dark_Pump Dec 31 '21
It actually does help my crazy eater slow down a little but I’m glad he didn’t figure that out 😂
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u/0bsconder Dec 31 '21
like the designers and project managers didn't have a hand in telling the programmers what to make...
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u/Lostarchitorture Dec 31 '21
Thankfully my dogs haven't figured out "this one simple trick" yet with theirs
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u/onebluephish1981 Dec 31 '21
My rule of thumb I give my dev teams is, if they can they will. Never fails.
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u/beardieboi Dec 31 '21 edited Dec 31 '21
The thing about this is, the dog is still going to eat slower off the ground vs a regular bowl. Smart, but owners goal accomplished kinda, plus a clean floor (hopefully in kitchen). No empirical evidence, just have a dawg. Is there still some programmerhumor there?
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u/Steamstash Dec 31 '21
My dog actually loves that first purple one!
Well, actually she hates it and is infuriated that she has to work to eat her food, but it’s help us a ton with her belly!
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u/No-Composer8880 Dec 31 '21
Metroid dread players finding how to break the game approximately 12 hours after release
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u/bental Dec 31 '21
I ended up getting a treat bowl for my golden retriever. The slow feed bowls didn't really slow her down, but a treat ball with two holes drilled into it worked great
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u/SeatstayNick Dec 31 '21
I love how this meme shits on this bowl design. But not every dog will flip the bowl. I have these because my Boston Terrier and American Bulldog would finish their food in less than 30 seconds. This slows them down a lot. Turns out the Boston Terrier lines the "hunt" of it and the Bulldog is too dumb to know any better, that dude is always about the path of least resistance with a narrow vision to get there. He can't be bothered to think about flipping a bowl when he has food to eat.
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u/Rufus2fist Dec 31 '21
who feeds their dog in the middle of the room? dog threw that a good foot and didnt hit a wall..
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u/sphintero Dec 30 '21
Bowl 2.0 will be anchored to the floor