Talk like a pirate day is coming up. Of course, nobody specified what kind of pirate that was.

Almost everybody has already seen this Popular Science article on the worst jobs in science. Of the worst jobs in computer science, I would have to say user interface design is one of them: everybody has an opinion about it, and most of them are wrong, but they’ll argue with you and criticize you and hate whatever you do anyway. At least, that’s what it feels like. It’s a fine line between listening to customer feedback and just ignoring the whingers, because there always are some whingers, who will like the new UI once they get used to it.

Of course, I think the UI designers say that the QA people have the worse job, and the QA people make fun of the support techs… I mean, we all chose these jobs. I’d take any job in science or software over most of the others, any day of the week.

But not DBA. You have to be crazy to be a DBA.