Adventures in Mamboland
"Jazz Fish, a saxophone playing wanderer, finds himself in Mamboland at a critical phase in his life." --Howie Green, on his book Jazz Fish Zen
Yeah. That sounds about right.
Yeah. That sounds about right.
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Date: 2002-01-16 05:43 am (UTC)1. Yeah, and when I started working fast food I figured it was a step up from having no job. I was right, too. Doesn't mean it didn't suck nonetheless.
2. Interestingly, Exegetics was arguably a better job. Better pay and benefits, obviously, but also my immediate superior actually _gave_a_damn_ about me being able to do my job right, as opposed to my immediate superior firmly believing that the best thing I could do would be to leave her the fuck alone. I worked in a hallway in both places, although Exegetics had nerf basketball (and/or beach basketball) in said hallway. There are actually free sodas available here, as opposed to there where there were theoretically occasionally sodas. Usability is more important in general here, but that's hardly difficult.
Christ, have you ever tried to _use_ the Data Sources dialog? Click to select a row and then double-click a cell to edit it. No TABbing or arrow-key navigation, despite the appearance of a spreadsheet-like thing. Pressing ENTER to finish editing a text field closes the dialog. An Apply button and an OK button, but no Cancel button (and the Big Black X works as OK). But that's the way it was implemented, and it would take actual coder _effort_ to improve it, so by God that's the way it's going to be-- and not only that, but this style is reused in the Constraints and Methods dialogs, and (I think) in the Select Source/Target dialog as well.
Don't get me started about the context-menu crashes, either. That's only going to get worse with multiple diagrams... "I right-click and... hey, there's no Close option in the context menu! Okay, I'll just go and close the diagram window and... hey, the program crashed!"
This, of course, is just the pent-up aggravation from the testing side. I spent yesterday putting together a list of new features in 8.1 so that we could release. One might conjecture that Dan had me do this because he felt it was important. Clearly one would be wrong, as evidenced by a complete lack of implementation (from the coder side) of a menu item proclaiming "What's New in 8.1"...
gah. I'm losing it.