I'm being shocked in the other direction by someone on IO9 who's trying to tell me that fixing your code so that it says 1 second instead of 1 seconds during a countdown is introducing dangerous levels of complexity and that the change is too expensive.

I've rather flippantly suggested hiring developers who can count, but why is a programmer (as he is) trying to defend against a bare minimum of professional communication? Even in the worst shops I've worked in, that error would not be permissible to deploy, with a certain assumption that it's not even something QA or UAT would send back--the developer is supposed to take care of that shit.

My requirements never say "grammatically correct" because there are a few things we take as ingrained, so we don't write them down, not because it's optional.

If {timeleft} ==1 then {word after timeleft} = "second"; else {word after timeleft} = "seconds"

....or am I missing something?

(Caveat: Not a professional programmer! Entirely possible I've introduced something dangerously complex here! Read at your own risk!)

I'd answer your question, Jessica, but it seems you've crashed the internet with your cavalier use of conditional plurals.

I'd like you to go to your room and think about what you've done.

There's a lesson here for all of us.

I...I'm sorry. This is why I can't have nice things, isn't it?

One nice things.

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Bwhaha!

My launcher status on my Galaxy Tab is confusing me. Either my normal platform disappeared or the upgrade is so dramatic I am looking at it without recognition.

I think I was using ADW, but what's happened? My dock has vanished. The pages, especially when you're sliding from desktop to desktop, feel awkward, a bad use of real estate and animation. I need to rollback, but I can't even work out how. They need to hang a really big "YOU WILL HATE THIS" banner over the Market listing.

AIIIIIEEE. Not change. I didn't sign of for computers (or Obama, now that I think about it) for CHANGE.

1 nice thing(s).

Why could he not even have argued (s)? I know I'm an easy mark, but I'm stunned at some of the stuff people will choose to argue. He wasn't sure how much I knew about managing a software project, or anything about how an SDLC worked. If your project is such so that's a *fix* and not a condition of passing initial testing you clearly have a problem somewhere, but do you seriously not see a benefit to having a minimum level of "presentable" that includes grammar.

Pfft.

Anyway--so ADW Launcher, amongst other things, seems to have unsorted my app drawer, and I there's no useful logic left--it's in date installed order, which pretty much makes me feel like I'm being stalked by Launchpad, but both ideas are so simply flawed to me.

Do you really have to install a third party application in order to sort Launchpad? What happens when your first screen fills with you-installed programs? Does it put another tiny white dot over a section of your wallpaper that might very well be white itself, meaning you need to flip to the next wallpaper in your series to get more apps out of it?

I don't understand what the immediate benefit of this is, and most anything I can google is either telling you to install something else or run a command line delete of the data behind it. That's not very Maccy, is it? Something like this shouldn't put a novice user in that position to satisfy a simple requirement.

I know the Application folder is still accessible, but the Launchpad must have had a selling point, no?