http://christopherj.us/government-websites-are-amateur-hour/ Rants on UI, UX, and Javascript Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:01:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://christopherj.us/government-websites-are-amateur-hour/comment-page-1/#comment-491 CPA Test Review Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:09:41 +0000 http://christopherj.us/government-websites-are-amateur-hour/#comment-491 A storm broke loose in my mind. A storm broke loose in my mind.

]]> http://christopherj.us/government-websites-are-amateur-hour/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Christopher Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:04:33 +0000 http://christopherj.us/government-websites-are-amateur-hour/#comment-11 Credit card websites are a perfect example of companies being stuck in an old way of doing things. If you have a bill due on the 3rd, it is no trouble for the system to allow you to pay up until 11:59:59pm. At midnight, the system could automatically run a cron job to caculate all late fees and auto-generate a report to be ready before the office opened on the 4th. It really isn't that hard if people would just step back and realize that the entire reason for the 2pm cutoff is due to humans being slow and needing time to process things before they get off of work. Computers do not have that issue as they are incredibly fast at calculations and do not need to stop work for trivial things like sleep. ;) Credit card websites are a perfect example of companies being stuck in an old way of doing things. If you have a bill due on the 3rd, it is no trouble for the system to allow you to pay up until 11:59:59pm. At midnight, the system could automatically run a cron job to caculate all late fees and auto-generate a report to be ready before the office opened on the 4th. It really isn’t that hard if people would just step back and realize that the entire reason for the 2pm cutoff is due to humans being slow and needing time to process things before they get off of work. Computers do not have that issue as they are incredibly fast at calculations and do not need to stop work for trivial things like sleep.

]]> http://christopherj.us/government-websites-are-amateur-hour/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Sarah Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:00:22 +0000 http://christopherj.us/government-websites-are-amateur-hour/#comment-10 word. i HATE stupid sites like that. you know what i don't understand? credit card websites. why do i have to pay before 2pm on your site to get it in by 5pm (or whatever) when i could call you at 5 & still meet the deadline? grr... word. i HATE stupid sites like that. you know what i don’t understand? credit card websites. why do i have to pay before 2pm on your site to get it in by 5pm (or whatever) when i could call you at 5 & still meet the deadline? grr…

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