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Remember seeing this and thinking we all have that one client....

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[–] Zagaroth@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

My brain hurts reading this.

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It could work if the users doesn't question why your site asks for camera permission

[–] asjmcguire@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Suspect if we went down that road though, the next thing would be - can we add some sort of filter over the camera stream, to make the potential customer look like they NEED to buy my products.....

[–] rcoelho14@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, could actually be a cool feature

[–] cyps@typemi.me 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When I was young and didn't know better I was hired to make a small website for a pet company. What started as a simple broucher about their business morphed through multiple revisions into a completely custom CMS monster that had integration with their inventory system so the website always had the up to date items they carried and prices.

I had to put my foot down in the end. They were happy, everything looked and worked great, but they wanted one more thing to top it off. An animation of dogs running down through a a grassy field playing with each other around the logo. I was like, you mean hand drawn like in a Disney movie?

[–] mr_jp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

'Easy! Just use AI or something. You nerds figure it out!'

-the client

[–] oranges@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

This is just beautiful! I'm most definitely sharing this with my Co dev tomorrow. He is going to love the level of scope creep (he is well known for dropping us right in it and leaving them get away with things never discussed or agreed before hand) and the dogs and logo is chefs kiss!

I'm perplexed daily by what planet some people are living on. Just when you think you have witnessed it all, seen every crazy request in the book a client drops one pit of the blue that leaves you with a feeling of "how the fuck do I respond to this without insinuating their a total and utter moron".

[–] Saauan@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I find it so cute how he cluelessly wants to have a mirror on the website. It reminds me of people wanting to download more RAM or store Wi-Fi in a box for later usage.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

It reminds me of those videos where people put a piece of paper over their mirror with an object behind it, then look at it from the side and say "HOW DOES THE MIRROR KNOW?!?!", because they cannot understand how the object behind the paper is visible in the mirror, when the paper clearly blocks its "view".

[–] oranges@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Like the box that contains the internet on the IT Crowd.....

As the audience stares in sheer awe !

:)

[–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

This is great

[–] UpperBroccoli@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Charles Babbage put it best:

I am not rightly able to apprehend the kind of confusion that could provoke such a question.

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still some of the sanest requirements I've read

[–] oranges@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I once had one on an e-commerce store...

"The dollar sign before the price looks a little bland.... Can you make it POP or doing something more interesting like make it move around or something?"

[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have to wonder what sort of model of the world someone who makes this sort of request has. How do they think mirrors work? Screens? Images?

[–] oranges@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I have given up on Logic when dealing with clients.... Trying to figure out what they actually mean is never what they actually mean.

It seriously blows my mind that some of these people are like CEO status of huge companies. How they even function in every day society and remember to breath is beyond me.

[–] dullbananas@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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