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Responsiveness breaks on iPad 4th Gen
Only 3 lines are visible and my Keyboard doesn't have that 88-Key. Seems to be a Mac-Only thingie.
Use "control" not the Mac key sorry! Are you windows? What browser? I don't have the ability to test on Windows or IE and neither does my co-creator (who posted the link).
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You could have just said: "you need to test this in other browsers" http://blog.ycombinator.com/new-hacker-news-guideline and your comment would have been more concise and less gratuitously negative. Same goes for the commenter bragging about how many bugs he's found and how "insecure" this app is. You could just tell him what the problems are. It's a show and tell project, be nice.
I was intentionally shaming him. The problem is becoming much more widespread and it's the product of simple laziness.
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I don't think shaming someone is an effective way to encourage them to create better quality software.
But I think it might still be a way to "discourage" them from being the same lazy next time or be unconcerned about their users' security (as the other user pointed out). IMO, public shaming, as a concept, works.
Hence my suggestion, keep it short:
Example:
"There's a bug on the contact page."
Instead of
"There are so many bugs in this application, I can't believe anyone would put it on the open Internet. It is just asking to be exploited."
Each of us is an individual human being and none of us knows any better how to behave or live life than the stranger on the other end, especially after most of the details are stripped as we are communicating through a thin layer of text, much of reality is lost in translation here.
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But I think it might still be a way to "discourage" them from being the same lazy next time or be unconcerned about their users' security (as the other user pointed out). IMO, public shaming, as a concept, works.
That is pretentious thinking because to begin with it's really none of our business whether OP is lazy or diligent. The role expected of other HNers in a show HN post is to consume the work and provide some feedback. Not to dig deep and make assumptions about the OP's character without even knowing him. Hence my suggestion, keep it short: Example: "There's a bug on the contact page." Instead of "There are so many bug…
- Security is everyone's business. And people WILL criticize sloppy work in real life.
IMO, as a user and as a developer, both the examples you've written would be fine by me. In fact even the second one seems polite to me, when compared to the reviews I have seen for bad apps. :).