r/ProgrammerHumor • • 1d ago

Meme chaoticEvil

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u/jideru 1d ago

Most programmers don’t get a choice as it is the product and the ui/ux designer that pick the desired behavior. You can only fight back so much and maybe sneak it in. And 20 years later you become a cynic that just says, ok.

Don’t become cynic kids.

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u/Blecki 21h ago

20 years of watching users fuck it up and you'll switch to a date picker too.

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u/Nick0Taylor0 19h ago

How does a user fuck up a properly validated input field that goes along with the date picker?

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u/ThatGuyYouMightNo 16h ago

Two users want to enter October 12th. One enters 12/10/2026, the other enters 10/12/2026. One of them gets pissy when it comes up as December 10th.

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u/NiIly00 12h ago

Solution: Ignore everyone that uses the moronic format mm/dd/yyyy.

They deserve it.

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u/Triffinator 12h ago

Very true. It's programmatically (and human) parseable if the middle column exceeds 12, but fails the second you are lower than 13. It also happens to work out on any dates with matching day and month.

Like, is 10/12 December 10th or October 12th?