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My friends iPhone got replaced 3 times, every single time the same fault. Something to do with audio interface going missing and mic not working.

His next phone was an Android.

I remember looking it up and there were rumours that Apple had initially acknowledged this fault and replaced them with no questions asked but then withdrawn the memo.

In the spirit of the Halloween documents, Microsoft implemented and extended the Kerberos protocol.

Extended it just a tiny bit enough to be incompatible with everyone else. After getting bad PR in the media, they reluctantly agreed to publish their changes. And guess what?

... in order to get it, you have to run a Windows .exe file which forces you agree to a click-through license agreement where you agree to treat it as a trade secret, before it will give you the .pdf file

See https://slashdot.org/story/00/05/02/158204/kerberos-pacs-and...

Wow, this both a fantastic joke and could be used as a school book example of the importance of context.

Given of course that everyone would have watched Father Ted. But the world would be a better place if everyone did.

This is not burnout, this is simply bad planning.

This is not helpful, this is simply Besserwisser nonsense.

What worked for printed text has no bearing for what works on an illuminated screen.

Yes it does.

... but it is equally important that things aren't too bright. You should avoid using extremes like #000000 and #ffffff ...

No, you shouldn't avoid them. Users are fully capable of adjusting the brightness and contrast of their monitors.

Believe me, as a 50+ year old, I notice when it's hard to read things.

I believe you. I just don't think your personal experience is relevant.

Printing out an exception stacktrace is generally awful in a non development context.

But hiding them and printing out "failed to run" is even worse.

I've seen people do that to have a "neat output".

Don't be that person.

You can say two things about a piece of technology.

"It's going to change the world". Yeah right. It's written by a marketing dept. to generate hype.

"It's not going to change the world". Now, who writes that and why? There's definitely something interesting about this tech.

its just that

It's not just that. OP's title is "I've built a tool for musicians using mod..."

1. The title is highly inaccurate. It's not a tool for musicians, it's for a specific subset of musicians (like you say).

2. The OP got a front page listing on HN. He missed a golden opportunity explaining things. He probably got a lot of musician visitors that found it interesting, but just got confused and left.