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Lazy Programmers

September 4, 2007 – 9:02 pm

From Microsoft Excel for Mac:

[Lazy Microsoft Programmers]

I sure love being told that the programmers knew exactly what I was trying to do, but decided they weren’t going to bother doing it for me.

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2 Comments

  1. smadin
    Posted September 4, 2007 at 9:38 pm | Permalink

    Wow, that’s awesome. Either the Excel group’s QA team needs to be fired, or it needs to be doubled in size — a message box like that should never even have seen the light of beta.

  2. Russell Finn
    Posted November 16, 2007 at 11:21 am | Permalink

    Look closely — all the versions of Excel mentioned are for Windows (2007, 2003, ‘97). Unless the add-in was actually supplied by Microsoft, it’s hard to blame Excel for Mac for this. (And if it *was* supplied by Microsoft — what the hell were they thinking?)

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  1. By When your help messages are telling _you_ something. on September 6, 2007 at 12:09 pm

    [...] Ashworth’s Lazy Programmers is a perfect example of someone not going ‘huh’ while writing the lengthy instructions [...]

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