{"id":501,"date":"2007-01-03T09:37:04","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T14:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/501"},"modified":"2007-01-03T09:37:04","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T14:37:04","slug":"who-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/501","title":{"rendered":"Who?  Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ouch&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&amp;storyID=2007-01-02T232857Z_01_N22270966_RTRUKOC_0_US-SOFTWARE-PLATT.xml&amp;archived=False\"><strong>Programmers to blame for hard-to-use software<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Platt, who has also written nine books for computer professionals, has a message for software developers: &quot;Your. User. Is. Not. You.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>People who write software programs value control. The user, on the other hand, just wants something that&#8217;s easy to operate.<\/p>\n<p>To illustrate his point, he notes that computer programmers tend to prefer manual transmissions. But not even 15 percent of the cars sold in the United States last year had that feature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I bought the Honda Accord over the Toyota Camry because Honda would sell me a nicely dressed up Accord with a stick, while Toyota would only sell me the economy version with a stick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ouch&#8230; Programmers to blame for hard-to-use software Platt, who has also written nine books for computer professionals, has a message for software developers: &quot;Your. User. Is. Not. You.&quot; People who write software programs value control. The user, on the other hand, just wants something that&#8217;s easy to operate. To illustrate his point, he notes that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-uncategorized","tag-computer-geeking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}