Name the No-Name Condo: Kovan Symphony
Just entered the contest with my bid: Kovan Symphony after being tempted by the weirdo ice cream man on TODAY newspaper.
Go check it out: http://www.nonamecondo.com.
Anyway, just want to share that the site, probably written by some retarded programmer who don’t understand the intricacies of the English language (the javascript “language” is fine). When you give a message of Please enter min chars of 600 in your description. regardless of the fact that it’s not grammatical, it means you need more than 600 characters for the description, or a minimum of 600 characters. But that’s not what your code says:
var enterLengthMsg = 'Please enter min chars of ';
...
{
var len = 600;
if(f.condoDesc.value.length > len)
{
alert(enterLengthMsg + len + ' in your description.');
f.condoDesc.focus();
return false;
}
}
This means the exact opposite, i.e. fail with error msg if the length of the description is more than 600. So one should either say: Please enter max chars of 600 in your description, should the broken grammar continue to be necessary to make the code look “elegant”, otherwise, write a simple grammatical sentence, for example: Please shorten your description to no more than 600 characters. I mean, this contractor company (fynch) has been around and have quite big name clients, can’t possibly make this kind of simple mistakes, unless I’m making the wrong assumption based on the domain name owner of nonamecondo.com)
Relax bro, no doubt it’s wrong.
But surely there’s no need to get so worked up to the extent of insulting the programmer’s intellect and basic understanding of the English language.
Common scenario from my daily work:
Day 1
Small Boss : Make sure users enter at least 600 words. Else very hard to judge. Must got standard ok?
Programmer: Yes Boss…
Day 2:
BIG Boss tried the website. Typed 10 characters only. Damn, need to enter so many words?
BIG Boss: Come on man, who’s gonna judge if you let everyone write so many words? You? Me? No need so many words la…max 600 characters will do.
…
(Just about time the office ends…Boss walks to Programmer’s desk. Programmer’s girlfriend waiting at the cinema)
Small Boss: Urgent! New changes from up management, make it at most 600 words. Now!
Programmer: Yes Boss…Easy la. Min becomes max..simple la..just flip “”.See? Done!
Boss : (Enter 100 characters. No problem) Steady. Good job.
Everyone is happy. Except Jiin Joo…. LOL
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Goodness.. how CS can you get.
suyuen: a LOT more 😉
szelee: well, how do you propose to fix the “root” of the problem? currently the solution is “public QA”, (to my knowledge) famously practised by amazon.com …
ei, bosss, help me remove 2nd, 3rd, 4th and this comment before they make me look more retarded than the programmer you mentioned 😀
I’ve got no proposal.
Follow the Beatles, let it be…
Maybe they should spend more time on conducting user testing and gathering feedback before they launch?
szelee: no la – you where got retarded… 🙂 anyway i’ll delete la.
woohoo the problem is fixed! 🙂