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Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by Arnor »

joshrotenberg wrote: post #35
sharkweek wrote: post #15

Love it - How about this as an alternative: The user is stuck in a very (corporate/government/sluggish) environment. I will review your site/app from a major bank's / federal government's offices and report back! Or maybe this: The user is a 65 year old dad whose son doesn't come around often enough to ensure his father hasn't installed countless malware that he blames "internet" on. I will go to my dad's house and u…

The user has cats: what your site looks like just on the corners of the screen (or maybe even one or two corners) while random keys are being pressed by paws.

AWS failed this test hard for me a couple weeks ago. A cat walking across my keyboard terminated an EC2 instance. Lesson learned: no cats on the desk when logged into mission critical software :)

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by nickysielicki »

wz1000 wrote: post #125
nickysielicki wrote: post #55

I just wanna give you props for how good this site looks on a vertical monitor. Full screen background images generally tend to break HARD, and sites are always either going into mobile mode or look ugly as hell. This looks like it was made for my monitor, though. http://i.imgur.com/DZBvync.jpg

Is that i3 and surf?

i3wm and vimb

https://fanglingsu.github.io/vimb/

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by lhc- »

bunkydoo wrote: post #197

So what prevents me from saving $150 and getting some homeless guy at the shelter to do this same shit for the price of a bottle?

The homeless guy probably doesn't know anything about UX, whereas this guy lists himself as a UX expert

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by jasonjmcghee »

ccvannorman wrote: post #5

well, i threw my $50 in. looking forwards to the results! (mathbreakers.com)

Hi there. Also sober, noticed you don't have any kind of security on a filesystem level. If someone visits https://mathbreakers.com/static/, they'll find a goldmine! It looks like you're storing the full version of your software behind no security, and one can only wonder what 1000gamecodes.txt is ;)

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by fataliss »

I like how I could't get anything out of this guy's personal website while drunk. Start to get your own stuff together before selling advices for other.

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by semi-extrinsic »

bobbykjack wrote: post #143
semi-extrinsic wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I let my 3 year old play with my laptop at times, by giving her a full screen xterm running bash in a separate tab on my tiling window manager. She mostly likes to type the letters she knows (her initial, my initial, uncle's initial etc) but it's surprising how often she manages to Ctrl-R or Windows-Shift-3 or some other combo that makes things go haywire.

I hope she's not called Rebecca Mary-Rachel Ford ...

Haha! Fortunately, her initials are not all in ASCII, so it's not gone wrong yet. But true, I should set her up with a user account that doesn't have write access on anything.

Re: The User Is Drunk

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Post by johnlbevan2 »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #130
mrmondo wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you just misread his comment - his point was anti-sexist.

There is exactly zero reason for bringing up gender in this thread, unless you're the kind of person who wants to turn every discussion into a gender problem. If my service targets general population and I'm using only men in UX testing, I'm not being sexist - I'm just being an idiot, missing out on feedback that could be relevant to 50% of my audience.

This thread is inspired by a joke concept (an interesting one, but ultimately primarily intended for fun). It features comments about drinking, cats, pensioners, toddlers and men. My intent was not to bring up a gender argument any more than the cat one was intended to enrage dog owners and have YouTubers flock to upvote. Merely to provide some amusement to the other readers of HN, an audience generally enlightened enough to appreciate such comments, and to join in on the theme & variations initiated by @sharkweek's comment.

With regards to your last comment; again I don't understand.

    "I'm not being sexist - I'm just being an idiot"
    "I'm not targeting only the tech savvy - as above"
    "I'm not forgetting accessibility - as above"
    "I'm not ignoring usability - as above"
    "I'm not a fan of IE6 - as above"
Consider also: your response could be considered trolling from another's perspective.
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