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by sircastor 1436 days ago
This is tangential: I wrote a Mac client for a popular internet service early on. I did it on my own time, without any programming background, learning as I went, spending my own money to get it done.

I remember someone on a forum very angrily posting that the program didn’t have all the features he wanted, and all the bugs weren’t being addressed, and of course Mac users were being treated as 2nd-class citizens.

I was shocked at how presumptive he’d been, and tried to explain without going off how much effort I’d put into this, and how wrong he was. It was a harsh lesson on user expectations.