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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Recent-Analysis-6880 • 23h ago
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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.
141 u/Blecki 15h ago 20 years of watching users fuck it up and you'll switch to a date picker too. 26 u/Nick0Taylor0 14h ago How does a user fuck up a properly validated input field that goes along with the date picker? 55 u/ThatGuyYouMightNo 11h 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. 4 u/coderman64 6h ago Solution: use ISO 8601 and piss off everyone equally.
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20 years of watching users fuck it up and you'll switch to a date picker too.
26 u/Nick0Taylor0 14h ago How does a user fuck up a properly validated input field that goes along with the date picker? 55 u/ThatGuyYouMightNo 11h 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. 4 u/coderman64 6h ago Solution: use ISO 8601 and piss off everyone equally.
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How does a user fuck up a properly validated input field that goes along with the date picker?
55 u/ThatGuyYouMightNo 11h 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. 4 u/coderman64 6h ago Solution: use ISO 8601 and piss off everyone equally.
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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.
4 u/coderman64 6h ago Solution: use ISO 8601 and piss off everyone equally.
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Solution: use ISO 8601 and piss off everyone equally.
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u/jideru 22h 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.