Can he resist the temptation to push the button that, even now, beckons him even closer? Will he succumb to the maddening urge to eradicate history? At the MERE… PUSH… of a SINGLE… BUTTON! The BEAUTIFUL SHINY button! The jolly CANDY-LIKE button!
It’s an internal version of a third-party web app for scheduling phone conferences. I’m guessing it was some weird thing where the app allowed things like labels to be customized but didn’t allow easy wholesale removal of controls, so rather than hacking the app to remove the checkbox they just changed the label…but really, how hard could it have been to just remove it?
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Can he resist the temptation to push the button that, even now, beckons him even closer? Will he succumb to the maddening urge to eradicate history? At the MERE… PUSH… of a SINGLE… BUTTON! The BEAUTIFUL SHINY button! The jolly CANDY-LIKE button!
Will he hold out, folks? CAN he hold out?
Go on, I dare you - name it.
That’s a classic.
It’s an internal version of a third-party web app for scheduling phone conferences. I’m guessing it was some weird thing where the app allowed things like labels to be customized but didn’t allow easy wholesale removal of controls, so rather than hacking the app to remove the checkbox they just changed the label…but really, how hard could it have been to just remove it?