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The Iceberg Secret, Revealed (2002)

by ikerino on 3/31/25, 12:37 PM with 1 comments

  • by ikerino on 3/31/25, 12:40 PM

    > Important Corollary Two. If you show a nonprogrammer a screen which has a user interface which is 100% beautiful, they will think the program is almost done.

    > People who aren’t programmers are just looking at the screen and seeing some pixels. And if the pixels look like they make up a program which does something, they think “oh, gosh, how much harder could it be to make it actually work?“