mccIt is mind boggling to me how many websites make it difficult or impossible to express the idea you no longer wish to use an old credit card
So I've got two credit cards on the account, and one expired in 2019, and that's the one you're defaulting to. Do you think you're making a good decision here
Bad assumptions programmers make about time: It does not exist, and no piece of information related to a person will ever need to change
"At first we believed that programmers were latently sexist/transphobic, and due to their demographics had never thought about the fact that minoritized communities might need to change their name or gender marker. However with further research, we discovered the problem was larger: Programmers have never thought about anything, at all"
Gabor Major 🇪🇺 ☕@mcc As a programmer I strongly believe no computer program should need to know the gender of a user. It is the rarest of use cases in which this piece of information is relevant or useful at all - to facilitate the correct operation of a software.
If we accept the above, it might as well be treated as an optionally input free-form field. An indicator.
Only biz people want to know such metrics. For all the wrong reasons.
Programmers are not the decision makers in this matter.
Sensible Crone@goobemaster I’ll raise you no one needs to know anyone’s gender, unless they specifically do need to know. Gendered pronouns are a trap. Too much for the service worker to have to determine gender in order to greet a person.
@goobemaster My bias... I am a cis woman who does not do any of the [drag] things women do to look like women... hair, make-up, jewelry, boobs evident. Also, am tall. I am called sir every time a stranger addresses me. The mistake is clear when I respond, & then they feel terrible, apologize,
& I have to console them. So annoying. I've taken to wearing dangly earrings in public, as that pretty much takes care of it. FYI, kids who want to appear female: dangly earrings.
& I have to console them. So annoying. I've taken to wearing dangly earrings in public, as that pretty much takes care of it. FYI, kids who want to appear female: dangly earrings.
Michaela Sue@susiemagoo @goobemaster That's amazing! For me, long hair, dress, purse, heels, jewelry all combined would get me 100% sir, or, if someone came up from behind, a ma'am followed immediately by an 'apology' and a whole lot of sir. But in recent years wearing the pandemic respirators people suddenly really do take me seriously as being a woman!