The original Walt Whitman wrote
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
and it’s a great quote both in and out of its original context. Who knows, maybe there’s a closet Whitman fan among the makers of CSE HTML Validator? They’ve just sent me an email asking why I did not upgrade to the latest version of the validator. Here’s a part of it (click to enlarge):
Started Foobar today and got this:
Click OK, the program shuts down. Without an internet connection you get locked out of the application. I don’t care that it’s beta; it’s not like the code became stale overnight. Warn me, inform me, by all means, but never lock me out of your software for an arbitrary reason like this. It annoys me and breaks my flow.
(And no, when I ...
more →A drop-down list to select priority from an otherwise fetching task management application. I don’t think a comment is necessary.
In the unlikely case the colors are throwing you off the scent, here’s the same design principle in its pure form – a list of risk levels:
Don’t do this!
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