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[–] [email protected] 126 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I got something similar in a requirement specification once:

"Resolution supported: Max" "OS support: The latest one"

🀦🏼

[–] [email protected] 62 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I literally got the description "make it look cool" in my current project.

We all know the context and can roughly guess what it means, but still...

[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago (5 children)

make it look cool

Got it. Animated background, GIFs, HTML 4.01 frames, marquee, privacy-friendly ads which are just GIFs linking to other websites. Did I go too far with the last one?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I used to have one like that, only with more tables (using the default border, of course).

It what's later became known a "programmer design".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

All wintery themes too as that is the coolest season.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Blink tags and snow effects

[–] Laticauda 20 points 11 months ago

Stuff like this is part of why I dropped out of multimedia production in college, I only enjoy that stuff as a hobby for myself, doing it for other people is a creative nightmare lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Every time I click on this link I listen to all the cymbal tracks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Finally, all that time making the coolest myspace profile pays off!

[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (2 children)

"OS support: The latest one” is not that bad of an requirement...

If they complain like "why doesn't this work on Windows Vista, on IE8" - you can just point to the specs and say you only support the latest OS.

So basically you only support the latest Nightly Build of Ubuntu, since that's the current latest OS

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You don't even need to support anything older than the last windows hot fix with requirements like that.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why support windows when you can argue that linux has a newer OS?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

I am humbled by your chess of many D's.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This is completely reasonable, but requires significant CI infrastructure

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Honestly, I think that line of thought has a really cute reflection of the person's experience with technology.