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wolrahtoday at 4:56 PM1 replyview on HN

> Hey, implementation, you're a computer! Strip them out automatically on the backend if you don't like them!

This is one of my most hated categories of pet peeves, software that does something in a way that causes a human to have to expend effort every time they use it which could easily be fixed by one-time effort on the developer's part, but the developer is either uninterested or hostile to the idea of fixing it. Computers exist to do the tedious stuff for us, if software makes us do tedious stuff for it that could be avoided with a bit more work on the software side then the software is wrong.

"Enterprise" software on Windows that "requires admin" has been a long time top subcategory here, where in literally 100% of cases I've ever dug in to in 20+ years of professional IT they could change a couple of default paths to point either within the user's private folders or a common user-accessible folder like ProgramData and solve it forever, but instead they tell people to give everyone local admin and people who don't know better actually listen to that idiocy while competent administrators are forced to fire up ProcMon and track down what it's doing so they can bodge around it by pushing out permissions changes or config changes through their management platform of choice.


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nailertoday at 5:53 PM

> software that does something in a way that causes a human to have to expend effort every time they use it which could easily be fixed by one-time effort on the developer's part, but the developer is either uninterested or hostile to the idea of fixing it.

Yes, exactly! It's like devloper doesn't understand that automating thibgs like this is the point of computers.