The Maddest My Code Made Anyone
Programmers sometimes have that experience, as do musicians, hardware designers, film directors, novelists, painters, game designers and all other professions that create things regular people interact with casually.<p>Consumers (specifically the sub-genre of critics) often have no real imagination what making a thing <i>means</i> and under which constraints it happens. They often see publishing a imperfect work to the public as an affront to their sophisticated intellect and taste, even (or especially?) if it is free.<p>In German there is the saying: <i>Wer macht, hat recht</i> which translates to <i>who makes is right</i>. Complaining is simple, just shut up and do it better.<p>Of course complaining is totally okay if we e.g. talk about social or political conditions, or some mandatory process you have to subject yourself to by law. But even there I hate people who just complain and leave it at that without even trying to change a thing.