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Old 12-15-2014, 11:15 PM   #274
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Perhaps a professional software developer can answer this question: the notion of good and poor programming practices have existed for decades. While there is some disagreement as to what those practices are, they are typically emphasize maintainability and are among the first things that people learn when they learn how to program. Modern languages and libraries facilitate these programming practices. When we are talking about ereaders, there are typically sufficient resources to use those languages and libraries. Given all of that, how is it possible to make code so obtuse that it is difficult to add an extra font size?

Because most employees of most companies don't give a darn, and those that do are not given sufficient time to fix the pile of dung they inherit from the last overworked person.

Last edited by twowheels; 12-16-2014 at 12:54 AM. Reason: accidental double negative that changed the meaning of what I was saying.
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