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A Private Email Address, GMail and Outlook: An Exercise in Frustration
How Setting Up Mom’s Email Became An Unnecessarily Painful Experience
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Software Developers Are (Usually) Not IT People
Q: How many software developers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None, that’s a hardware problem.
I’m a software engineer, and I’m pretty good when it comes to User Experience design. The reason for this, to be honest, is that I’m the worst kind of user there is: I will find all the bugs, I will press all the wrong buttons, and I will lose patience very quickly when forced to read or click or type any more than is absolutely essential.
Like most software developers, I’ve been hounded all throughout my professional career by friends and family who need help with their computers. And like many software developers, resolving IT issues is really not my forte. There are two reasons for this: the first, that it’s really not interesting to me at all, and the second, when faced with a terrible, trashy piece of software that doesn’t serve me well I will usually either hunt down something better or roll my own…
