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Software design that assumes text behaves predictably like English reflects the cultural bias of its typically white American developers.

Drawn from what Phil Hagelberg said

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

What Phil Hagelberg actually said

  1. Phil Hagelberg Programmer known online as technomancy
    In my opinion the root cause of this bug is that when a white american developer sees a terminal they immediately interpret it as this idealized cartesian plane where they can lay out any writing they want in neatly-spaced characters that behave in "predictable" ways (in other words, behave exactly like English).

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