Drag and drop
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I heard a user describe a new piece of software the business is buying as 'drag and drop'. Or to paraphrase what he said "it's a good piece of software it's drag and drop". In my previous job, the head of the department was always raving about how great the software was because it was 'drag and drop'. This is why software should not be left to users to design, what the software does bears no relevance to it's worth. All that seems to matter is some superficial aspect of the user interface. I think I am going to invent a new term for user interfaces for extracting data - "squeeze and dump". It says it all really - the crap you put into the system will be dumped into a file type of your choosing.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I heard a user describe a new piece of software the business is buying as 'drag and drop'. Or to paraphrase what he said "it's a good piece of software it's drag and drop". In my previous job, the head of the department was always raving about how great the software was because it was 'drag and drop'. This is why software should not be left to users to design, what the software does bears no relevance to it's worth. All that seems to matter is some superficial aspect of the user interface. I think I am going to invent a new term for user interfaces for extracting data - "squeeze and dump". It says it all really - the crap you put into the system will be dumped into a file type of your choosing.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
It's hopeless. Don't fight them. Join them. :)
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It's hopeless. Don't fight them. Join them. :)
Sigh :sigh:, yes I guess so :sigh:.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I heard a user describe a new piece of software the business is buying as 'drag and drop'. Or to paraphrase what he said "it's a good piece of software it's drag and drop". In my previous job, the head of the department was always raving about how great the software was because it was 'drag and drop'. This is why software should not be left to users to design, what the software does bears no relevance to it's worth. All that seems to matter is some superficial aspect of the user interface. I think I am going to invent a new term for user interfaces for extracting data - "squeeze and dump". It says it all really - the crap you put into the system will be dumped into a file type of your choosing.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
The bane of my life is the user who insist they want to export their data into excel and reload it once it has been fiddled with. I'll happily use your term squeeze and dump for this in future.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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It's hopeless. Don't fight them. Join them. :)
But use a left outer join. Or a cross join, to aware them a giant squeeze from the cartesian well of computer knowledge.
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The bane of my life is the user who insist they want to export their data into excel and reload it once it has been fiddled with. I'll happily use your term squeeze and dump for this in future.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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I heard a user describe a new piece of software the business is buying as 'drag and drop'. Or to paraphrase what he said "it's a good piece of software it's drag and drop". In my previous job, the head of the department was always raving about how great the software was because it was 'drag and drop'. This is why software should not be left to users to design, what the software does bears no relevance to it's worth. All that seems to matter is some superficial aspect of the user interface. I think I am going to invent a new term for user interfaces for extracting data - "squeeze and dump". It says it all really - the crap you put into the system will be dumped into a file type of your choosing.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
GuyThiebaut wrote:
All that seems to matter is some superficial aspect of the user interface.
We had some geological modelling software that showed the strata in 3D and you could rotate it, so it was a nice visualization aid. The manager looked at it and asked can you make it show shadows? No, underground there is no light, so everything is shadowy.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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GuyThiebaut wrote:
All that seems to matter is some superficial aspect of the user interface.
We had some geological modelling software that showed the strata in 3D and you could rotate it, so it was a nice visualization aid. The manager looked at it and asked can you make it show shadows? No, underground there is no light, so everything is shadowy.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
:laugh: nice one. I think this is why I have never wanted to move away from a technical role - our current buzzwords from above us in the business are AI, machine learning and block chain.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
