{"id":60175,"date":"2018-04-01T14:06:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T19:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=60175"},"modified":"2018-04-01T14:06:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T19:06:44","slug":"the-world-is-hard-for-the-ungifted-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=60175","title":{"rendered":"The world is hard for the ungifted &#8211; bugs."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps wouldn&#8217;t let me switch from bike to drive directions. App state was confused, the left most icon inaccessible.<\/p>\n<p>So I switched from bike to walk. That reset the app state and made drive accessible.<\/p>\n<p>A routine bug workaround. In the iOS 11 era we run into this sort of thing a few times a day. Barely notice them any more.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many bugs. Apple has the most now, but they are everywhere. The bike share I used this morning has a 15 sec delay in releasing a bike, if you don&#8217;t know that then you think the transaction failed. A bug equivalent.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a global genius you may not notice these. If you merely have a knack, and are not yet too old, they are a minor annoyance. If you are an Old, as I am, they are ticks of the reapers clock, they take a bit longer to solve from year to year.<\/p>\n<p>Ahh, but if you don&#8217;t have a knack &#8230; you didn&#8217;t get the academic gene, didn&#8217;t go to college, didn&#8217;t get the orthogonal geek gene &#8230; then this might be Hell. A regular reminder that you are not Elite. That the world has moved on and left you behind. That what you have, what you can do, what you have done &#8230; it doesn&#8217;t count any more.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine what that feels like. Who do you vote for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps wouldn&#8217;t let me switch from bike to drive directions. App state was confused, the left most icon inaccessible. So I switched from bike to walk. That reset the app state and made drive accessible. A routine bug workaround. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=60175\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60176,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60175\/revisions\/60176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}