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#post-id: 7321-14-11
#original-date: 11.08.2020 Tue
#original-time: 2:11 PM
#original-day:  7321
#original-host: WinXP Home SP3 (Build 2600)

> A customer wanted to know how to get the complete list of programs 
> from the Settings, System, Notifications & Actions, Get 
> notifications from these senders list, as well as whether the user 
> has enabled notifications for each app.
> 
> Upon closer questioning, it turns out that this isn’t really what 
> they wanted. They didn’t need the complete list of apps and the 
> user’s preference for each one. When asked what they were going to 
> do with the information, they said that they were going to search 
> through the list looking for their app, to see whether 
> notifications are enabled. If notifications are disabled for their 
> app, then they are going to warn the user, “You need to enable 
> notifications for Contoso Sports to receive game alerts.”
> 
> In a sense, this was a case of the “for/if” antipattern: Instead 
> of asking for the thing that they actually want, they ask for 
> everything and then try to filter to the thing that they want.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20200810-00/?p=104058

Рэймонд Чен почти открыл XY problem.