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Remember seeing this and thinking we all have that one client....

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Charles Babbage put it best:

I am not rightly able to apprehend the kind of confusion that could provoke such a question.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When I was young and didn't know better I was hired to make a small website for a pet company. What started as a simple broucher about their business morphed through multiple revisions into a completely custom CMS monster that had integration with their inventory system so the website always had the up to date items they carried and prices.

I had to put my foot down in the end. They were happy, everything looked and worked great, but they wanted one more thing to top it off. An animation of dogs running down through a a grassy field playing with each other around the logo. I was like, you mean hand drawn like in a Disney movie?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is great

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My brain hurts reading this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It could work if the users doesn't question why your site asks for camera permission

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, could actually be a cool feature

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have to wonder what sort of model of the world someone who makes this sort of request has. How do they think mirrors work? Screens? Images?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I have given up on Logic when dealing with clients.... Trying to figure out what they actually mean is never what they actually mean.

It seriously blows my mind that some of these people are like CEO status of huge companies. How they even function in every day society and remember to breath is beyond me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I find it so cute how he cluelessly wants to have a mirror on the website. It reminds me of people wanting to download more RAM or store Wi-Fi in a box for later usage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It reminds me of those videos where people put a piece of paper over their mirror with an object behind it, then look at it from the side and say "HOW DOES THE MIRROR KNOW?!?!", because they cannot understand how the object behind the paper is visible in the mirror, when the paper clearly blocks its "view".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like the box that contains the internet on the IT Crowd.....

As the audience stares in sheer awe !

:)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So kind of the Elders of the Internet to lend it out!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It needs to go straight back to Big Ben..... Great episode :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

a blackened div titled "this is a mirror >"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still some of the sanest requirements I've read

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I once had one on an e-commerce store...

"The dollar sign before the price looks a little bland.... Can you make it POP or doing something more interesting like make it move around or something?"