Gregory's Server@gsuberland lol how did that pass QA tho
It's one thing to design a brain fart, another to actually qualify and mass manufacture it.
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 @timonsku @gsuberland this happened because all the cabling available to devs and QA is shitty old bootless RJs with the retaining clip snapped off. @Unixbigot @gsuberland Even with that condition, the placement of both those USB ports is very questionable even without the hood on the cable that would cause issues. @timonsku @gsuberland I think itโs actually illegal to put thought into the placement of USB ports. @Unixbigot @timonsku @gsuberland @PhilRandal There are retaining clips?Huh? who knew? ๐ @timonsku @gsuberland  @silvermoon82 @timonsku @gsuberland Branding teams and marketing teams must not be allowed to work inside the shipping box: they must be limited to fancy packaging (and sometimes they even mess with that).  @silvermoon82 @silvermoon82 @timonsku @gsuberland Having worked on technical projects and been at the mercy of managers and marketers for over a decade, this is what I assumed had happened when I saw the picture. When stuff like this goes wrong its common for people to go "lol technician bad ๐" but in my experience it's almost always caused by some non-technical person pushing through a change. @timonsku My experience of silicon valley is Theyโve mastered the art of inadvertently overlooking bugs in the product that everyone else sees unavoidably. Lincoln Spector wrote in the late 1970s of the cleverly designed Seppuku Mark 3 keyboard. To save precious space, the Mark 3 had the reset button adjacent to the backspace key. @gsuberland |
@timonsku I should've really said "design team" not "design engineer" - this was definitely a culmination of errors involving people and processes.