Timeline for What's the most absurd myth about programming issues?
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| Jan 17, 2011 at 11:25 | comment | added | Bart van Ingen Schenau | I wonder what I have been doing the last few years. All those projects I worked full-time on should have been finished in no time, because they did not have any UI at all. :-) | |
| Dec 13, 2010 at 1:42 | comment | added | JoelFan | Don't you hate when some huge, almost-impossible, request is phrased as "can you add a button to do..." | |
| Sep 26, 2010 at 17:29 | comment | added | Jason Evans | 1+ There was a time when I demo'd a SharePoint related project (a multi-lingual addon) to my former boss, having spent hours working on the complex backend code. The end result was not much was done on the UI, which led my boss to believe that not much has been done on the project. That pissed me off. He wasn't the one sitting at the keyboard for hours trying to get around SharePoint's oddities, as well as the text replacement logic. | |
| Sep 11, 2010 at 8:45 | comment | added | Evan Plaice | I think I read it on Joel Spolsky's blog but the article mentioned only showing as GUI progress in relation to the back-end progress. That way you can give a realistic estimate of progress to the pointy haired guys who are too dumb to understand that most programs consist of a lot more than eye candy. | |
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| Sep 9, 2010 at 18:11 | comment | added | orokusaki | this is true, I could build Twitter and Google over a single weekend. It isn't their software that is complex; for Google, it is their search algorithm (which is more comparable to a code library, or database driver), and Twitter (up until the last 1.5 years) was extraordinarily simple, with only scalability and database issues being complex. Now that it is more complex (requiring more employees), it also has a much more complex UI, and many more UIs. | |
| Sep 9, 2010 at 16:34 | history | answered | JohnFx | CC BY-SA 2.5 |