Re: Stupid Language Designer Tricks

a genuinely better alternative. is it because there are not genuinely better alternatives, or the cost of moving to them is too high? 50 years of legacy code seems a difficult (if not impossible) momentum to overcome. -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

Re: Zero Install

. are modern versions of FORTRAN still column sensitive? -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

Re: Subversion Lifetime Achievement Award (was Re: GNU diff)

On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 04:40:26PM +1100, Michael G Schwern wrote: On 2011.2.4 1:39 PM, Aaron J. Grier wrote: is there a knob for me to always default git merge to --no-commit ? [...] The real solution is to allow users to make errors, but quickly and easily detect and undo them. Thus

Re: Subversion Lifetime Achievement Award (was Re: GNU diff)

. it was full of its own hate, including local-only access (no split client / server over a network), and some scrotty C++ code that I had to patch as libstdc++ was updated. but the branching was great. -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

Re: Subversion Lifetime Achievement Award (was Re: GNU diff)

merging to merge(1), but since it tracked parentage and common ancestors, it was able to do smartish things. not as good as git, but servicable. is there a knob for me to always default git merge to --no-commit ? -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

Re: This is why I gave up on Linux desktops

. seems like a deliberate decision to drop this in OS X. apple, why can't you move the menu bar inside the application's window? -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

Re: This is why I gave up on Linux desktops

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 06:31:38AM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: On 2011-01-02, at 14:51, Aaron J. Grier wrote: under NeXTStep the right mouse button brought up the app's menu. That would have been good if it was true, but it's not what they actually did. Under NextStep the apps menu

Re: bash

programming API appears to be pretend everything is an NS16550A which is arguably worse. are there any OSes where the serial API actually hid the UART(s) and wasn't so hateful? -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

Re: Outlook Forwarded Email Hate

On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 03:52:57PM -0500, Chris Devers wrote: How much of this stuff is, in practice, an actual problem for a system that is, as all systems should, synchronizing the clock over NTP? internet access always being 100% available when system are rebooting... -- Aaron J. Grier

Re: Apple Mail munges ASCII art

the cunning technique of ticking the box in the preferences labelled Use fixed-width font for plain text messages. yes, but does it substitute ligatures? fi ft fl ff - -- --- double forward quotes, please 'how about single?' -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

Re: We Hates we.hates-software.com

of exposure to C. -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

browser APIs

why do you need access to the clipboard when you can modify the selection by hooking onto mouse events? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/include/lib/copy_paste.js?v=1.02 I'm horrified and amazed at the same time. -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

mutt hate (was Re: a three course hate meal)

a fourth course of mutt hating for dessert? how about a topping of S/MIME handling? -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

Re: kill all Linux weenies

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:30:22PM +0100, Matthew King wrote: Aaron J. Grier agr...@poofygoof.com writes: the point of autotools is to lower the barriers to write portable software. so why is so much autotools software non-portable? Much as autotools suck, they are still better than most

Re: kill all Linux weenies

, except it's demonstrably broken. making the bald assumption that everything is ELF and skipping libtool entirely is at least not self-delusional. the point of autotools is to lower the barriers to write portable software. so why is so much autotools software non-portable? bleh. -- Aaron J

Re: Gnome focus-follows-mouse

could take care of that for you. windows does. Now, go write a useful, non-trivial, Makefile that doesn't use extensions. make is hate unto itself. the fact that none(?) have transform rules based on file content is just a bit of flaming icing. -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy

Re: Gnome focus-follows-mouse

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 08:27:10PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: On 2009-07-08, at 14:35, Aaron J. Grier wrote: NeXTstep had been my primary operating environment for a couple years in college, and as an experiment recently I tried running some gnustep apps under my standard windowmaker setup

Re: Gnome focus-follows-mouse

the whine) on my ann arbor ambassador and just using that, except for that pesky web that most things require these days. w3m does a pretty damn good job at text rendering, but usability wise is often worse than a graphics head, so I have to hate that too. -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy

Re: BBC Radio

separate activities handlable by separate pieces of software. I hate excessive integration that can't be decomposed. even emacs is more modular than itunes. -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

multipart/alternative

. but I'm pissing in the wind here. at least I never have to suffer comic sans. -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

Re: Printing Gnus

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:55:30PM +0100, Matthew King wrote: Dear Gnus, you had me before Gnus simply by using emacs. the first chapter of the unix-hater's handbook calls out unix users as hair-shirt wearing self-flagellating shamans. I have no idea what that makes emacs users. -- Aaron J

Re: Thanks a lot, Sun

not as robust as a simple dumb terminal or facsimile thereof. -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

Re: Linux hates (was Re: alias rm rm -i)

something, but they install into the longstanding location for custom-built software. Hateful. pkgsrc (usually seen in NetBSD) uses /usr/pkg. I reserve /usr/local for my custom-built junk. -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

Re: Linux hates (was Re: alias rm rm -i)

) -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

Re: Why hating on editors? Re: Mutt, was Re: iTunes is unable to browse album covers on this computer

through external program! this unix hairshirt sure is itchy. -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

Re: Perforce branch views

and subversion. -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

a software shaman moment

a two-line diff. - install and get back to the task at hand software, you suck. (I wonder if am-utils is working on a FUSE port to replace the userland NFS pseudo-server? that might actually make some sense...) -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

Re: Rockbox

... why are you so bloated, software?) I hate that the proposed solution to poor software is usually more software. -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

Re: Rockbox

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:05:33PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Aaron J. Grier agr...@poofygoof.com [2008-07-01 03:30]: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 05:16:19PM -0700, Joshua Juran wrote: This wouldn't need to be a problem if the image decoder ran in a separate process with limited

Re: Why Python's is not my favorite REPL

that python is all about the Proper Approved Way. I'm still holding out for #pragma DWIM myself. maybe it will be the default in the c2012 spec. -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

Re: a .properties file hate...

-snmp.version != 0) { /* code that actually needs config-snmp.version == 2 */ } but then we're in hates-software-programmer territory... -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

Re: krashing krap

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:05:25AM -0400, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: That's nothing. Microsoft pledged support for running NT in Alpha and MIPS processors! which they did. NT 4.0 supported both. rumor has it that Alpha support was in Windows 2000 all the way up to RC2. -- Aaron J. Grier

boot spew (was Re: Uncontrollable Tool Tips)

comment here foo0: more information about device foo vs this appears to be a foo putting workarounds in place for subtype foo since it is yukky message about foo that doesn't even have the string foo on the line -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

remote editing (was Re: emacs hate)

editing to be put into an editor would result in a veritable plethora of hateful one-per-editor remote file access implementations, which I'm sure emacs and vim have already implemented. -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

Re: Autoconf and so forth

reply that sorry, Perl is unlikely to run in your system. nobody's written a C compiler in fortran? (I guess g77 counts as a fortran compiler written in C) -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

Re: Pesterware

with the GUI end. -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com The United States is the one true country. The US is just. The US is fair. The US respects its citizens. The US loves you. We have always been at war against terrorism.

Re: Firefox 2.0's printing

? -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com silly brewer, saaz are for pils! -- virt

Re: Denial of denial of service

problem now. the only thing worse than hating software is endlessly complaining about it rather than make it less hateful. or is the fixing more hateful than the unfixed hate? -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com silly brewer, saaz

Re: We know what you need, and we'll push it down your throat.

/article/20803 . -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com silly brewer, saaz are for pils! -- virt

Re: perl

. On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 09:36:52PM -0800, Aaron J. Grier wrote: I'm an engineer. not a poet. An engineer who only ever does things, like, say, build a boiler, in one way, without regard for how that boiler is to be used, what pressure it will have to handle, and so on, is a pretty fucking poor

perl

possible in the language. perl apparently prides itself on this. I'm an engineer. not a poet. -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com silly brewer, saaz are for pils! -- virt

code poetry

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 07:01:18AM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Aaron J. Grier agr...@poofygoof.com [2006-12-18 06:40]: I'm an engineer. not a poet. No, you're not. Nor are those other people computer scientists or the like. Doing software shares basic similarities with a lot

Re: Invalid Operating System

.) -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com silly brewer, saaz are for pils! -- virt

Re: Regarding audio software interfaces

are the worst. how the hell do you twist things with a mouse? prentend it's a slider! MAKING SENSE NOW! some people in the industry seem to like this too. universal audio and bombfactory both seem to take pride in their it looks like the gear virtual interfaces. -- Aaron J. Grier

Re: smtp servers

. isn't that what the null envelope is supposed to handle? -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com silly brewer, saaz are for pils! -- virt

Re: Windows XP

(thanks Mr. Cutler) but it was dropped in NT 4 due to speed issues. -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com silly brewer, saaz are for pils! -- virt

Re: sendmail, user catchalls, and other MTA hate

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 08:11:37AM +0200, Juerd wrote: How hateful does your software have to be? if you can't hate it, is it still software? -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com silly brewer, saaz are for pils! -- virt

Re: A simple hate today.

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 01:40:39PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: -? is a MSDOS-ism. you mean of course /? :) -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com silly brewer, saaz are for pils! -- virt

dump

necessary. there's got to be a less hateful way. -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com silly brewer, saaz are for pils! -- virt

amavis scripts

: virus_scan FAILED: ALL VIRUS SCANNERS FAILED: amavisd-new[10950]: (10950-01) PRESERVING EVIDENCE in /var/lib/amavis/tmp/amavis-20051120T064404-10950 maybe someone can explain the method to this madness... -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com silly

ups-nut

TIME COMMAND 9915 ?? Ss 0:00.01 /usr/pkg/bin/upslog -s mge1...@localhost -l /var/log/ups # kill -HUP 9915 # cat /var/db/nut/upslog.pid 9915 # ps p 9915 PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND # behaviour != documentation. grr... -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com

Re: Don't even know where to start...

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 11:02:07AM -0800, Mike Macgirvin wrote: Oh great - there's no [list-id] in the message subject for this forum. because there's nothing like overloading fields. what's wrong with the the List-Id: header? -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr

Re: Significant whitespace (was Re: Blogging sucks)

On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 12:14:52AM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: Don???t like that part much, either. could you explain to me why UTF-8 is used for an apostrophe in the above word Don't ? -- Aaron J. Grier | Not your ordinary poofy goof. | agr...@poofygoof.com silly brewer, saaz

Re: du

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 01:39:55PM -0500, Luke Kanies wrote: du -dsk * | sudo sort -n why do you need to sudo to run sort from a pipe? sudo du -dsk * | sort -n I could understand... but there's no reason sort needs to be priviledged, or am I missing something? -- Aaron J. Grier