* david.mackint...@xdroop.com david.mackint...@xdroop.com [2012-05-29 18:25]:
So I'm messing around with a web interface on an Exchange hosting
system. This particular page lists a bunch of user accounts,
a page which is a forest of enhance, add feature, and delete
permanently links, one for
* Michael G Schwern schw...@pobox.com [2012-05-19 18:50]:
Or still using it, basically unchanged, as our primary system
programming language in 2012.
Indeed: why oh why… One has to wonder.
is right about
such things such that they work, than I am in enumerating the nine
billion names of how they suck. But I realise that that is off-topic
on this list.)
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* Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com [2012-05-14 02:45]:
* Imagining that there's some relationship between computer languages
and human languages.
* See COBOL
* See Perl
* Imagining that there's no relationship between computer languages and
linguistic cognition.
* Mathematical
* Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk [2012-05-14 12:20]:
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:06:59AM +0200, demerphq wrote:
I kinda wish perl had an interface like
my $iter= iterator(%hash);
while (my ($key,$value)= $iter-each) { }
Which I think would be sane. You could even pass the iterator
* Andy Armstrong a...@hexten.net [2012-05-13 20:05]:
I find it very hard to live with Lua's 1-based arrays. I don't think
it's just familiarity - lots of index calculations work out
significantly more verbose and ugly with 1-based arrays.
Ever since I’ve dealt with them in XPath I would add
* Numien num...@deathwyrm.com [2012-05-04 12:30]:
I'm not entirely sure which software to hate more in this case.
Any way you turn it, the mail server. That was plain stupid. What, does
it cost extra in string manipulation fees to grab more characters?
* Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org
Hooray, it just crashed on me after I’d spent an hour writing a comment.
“Well, this is embarrassing” is cute when you don’t see it thrice daily
for 10 days. I fail to remember if I even had any crashes with versions
6 thru 11, but since the upgrade to 12 it has been crashing on me every
couple of
* Gert Doering g...@greenie.muc.de [2011-08-05 21:35]:
Why oh why can't something that should be a virus scanner
just do exactly *that*,
And why doesn't snake oil do just its one damned job, either?
, and provides syntax for where a plot begins but none
for where it ends.
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* Piers Cawley pdcaw...@bofh.org.uk [2011-02-08 17:10]:
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de wrote:
* Philippe Bruhat (BooK) b...@cpan.org [2011-02-07 09:50]:
You probably want this instead:
git stash
git reset --hard HEAD^
git stash pop
,
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a patch to add
a `--dangling` switch or some such to gitk and git-log, to remove
the need for that question and answer in the first place. Hmm.
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* Jarkko Hietaniemi j...@iki.fi [2011-02-06 11:15]:
You know, it's gobbledygook like the below that makes me stay
away from learning git.
And using what instead?
,
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* Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org [2010-12-26 08:20]:
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:15:03PM +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
The point is that it does not work in the *general case*,
because a confluence of UI and API choices means that
applications *may* crash under FFM, because of how the menu
. But I'm not a normal user as
probably many others on this list aren't: I live almost entirely
in browsers, text editors and shells, so I have the luxury of
ignoring lots of cruddy software, including such basics as file
managers. (To this day I haven't seen one I didn't hate.)
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a source-code buffer. Even typing a new
function definition could still trigger a rebuild of the IMenu,
which (for all anyone knows) could crash Emacs.
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* John Sinteur j...@sinteur.com [2010-12-21 21:10]:
On Dec 21, 2010, at 21:00 , Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
It's actually *technically impossible* to implement Focus Follows
Mouse on MacOS.
defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string YES
defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_ffm
people on the planet who do work at Apple.
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? Then it is well hidden.
[^1] I think it was something like needing Option to be able to
enter backslashes and tildas because they can only be input
as chords, but needing Meta as well, eg. for Meta-b/Meta-f
word-wise jumping in bash's line editor.
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Security Summit] (and during the rest of the week),
with the year of the Linux desktop now apparently permanently
canceled due to smartphones and similar devices.
---James Morris
http://blog.namei.org/2010/08/18/linux-security-summit-2010-wrapup/
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* Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com [2010-11-29 00:05]:
On 2010-11-28, at 15:35, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
It is not a bug. It is the place we have arrived after years
of walking down the path that followed the wrong direction
chosen from the start. I am not complaining about the hack
* Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com [2010-11-28 17:05]:
On 25 October 2010 21:25, Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de wrote:
My very most favourite recent addition is
bind -x ’“\C-l”: clear’
which ultimately goes all the way back to how stupidly
terminals were bolted onto the side of Unix
* demerphq demer...@gmail.com [2010-11-28 11:50]:
On 25 October 2010 21:25, Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de wrote:
It almost seems like half my .bashrc is unbreak-me-harder
crud.
My very most favourite recent addition is
bind -x '\C-l: clear'
which ultimately goes all the way
of software;
an exhaustive list should have to be twice as long.
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already gotten everyone used to double-
encoded HTML and there was no winning that battle.
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of a database?
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in
the world follows the spec on this point.
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* Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de [2009-12-29 14:55]:
I tried getting this not-a-list archived on www.mail-archive.com
but that requires getting arch...@mail-archive.com subscribed to
the list, and since I'm not a list admin I cannot seem to do that
in a way that the list manager
` and the inheritance of that value to other
more appropriate variables such as `LC_MESSAGES`, and instead
seizes on `LC_CTYPE` as the basis for the language of its UI.
And does not let me change this from the GUI prefs.
*boggle*
Your fellow in hate,
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a colon, so you have to
either select carefully instead of triple-clicking, or you copy
the colon along and delete it after pasting.
It could be worse I guess.
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that is backwards compatible
with tools using any of the different mbox-ish formats: if a
mail contains a line starting with `From `, then transcode to
quoted-printable so you can store it as `=46rom `. (That is what
mutt does.)
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Just to warn you... bringing up version numbers in a room full of
old grumpy Perl/CPAN hackers is never a good idea.
--
*AUTOLOAD=*_;sub _{s/(.*)::(.*)/print$2,(,$\/, )[defined wantarray]/e;$1}
Just-another-Perl-hack;
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* Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de [2009-11-02 16:40]:
Just to warn you... bringing up version numbers in a room full
of old grumpy Perl/CPAN hackers is never a good idea.
Oh, and so that those who aren't in the know can enjoy basking in
the hate:
http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/369
addressed by their given name rather than as Mr Paul's Son).
Oh, if you go into names in cultures with non-Latin writing
systems there is *plenty* more fun you can have... f.ex. Thai:
http://blog.jclark.com/2007/12/thai-personal-names.html
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strangers stay, then the central road and (most of) the directly
connected ones are named, but the streets further off the central
roads are nameless (and might be only partly paved).
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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahir_%C3%87a%C4%9Fr%C4%B1
/offtopic
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. Even though Apple
specifically *don't* try to please everyone. And even if we
grant that their way is better for the *majority*.
This is hates-software; worship-apple is over there.
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should be forced to use click-to-focus.)
* Joshua Rodman jrod...@hate.spamportal.net [2009-07-08 07:45]:
luckily software is *configurable*.
You are on the wrong list. Again.
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move the pointer
out of it. So in strict FFM, when the pointer is over the root
window, no window has focus, whereas with sloppy focus the last
focused window keeps focus.
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occasionally it catches on fire like
a mailing list... but it's not a mailing list dammit!! It's...
it's... a collaboratively authored weblog! Whose sole interface
just happens to be a maili^W^W an SMTP gateway. Well. Except that
only the, uh, SMTP gateway half works any more.
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is tolerable not because it's actually good, but by
virtue of passively sucking in easily ignored ways -- unlike all
the other players that actively shove their suckage in my face.
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players all suck so bad that using *mplayer in a
shell* turns out to suck less.
Yours with the only winning move,
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.
And if you can't do it right, make up your mind and don't accept
mail on two addresses.
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manage to write code
as comically bad as that even on purpose.
/froth
I can't wait until you are finally relegated to the dustbin of
history and I can at last delete every trace of you from my
browser.
Disdainfully yours,
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with
a mistaken premise and you go off the design choice deep end.
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copy of those specs, and launch them on a spaceship
directly into the sun.
PSD is not my favourite file format.
[1]:
http://code.google.com/p/xee/source/browse/trunk/XeePhotoshopLoader.m?spec=svn28r=11#107
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Richardson mentioned causing him a feeling of unease.
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* Matthew King matthew.k...@monnsta.net [2009-03-24 16:50]:
[Excel] is the effort of an impressive collection of morons all
the way from the luser to the cpu.
Joel Spolsky was the Excel program manager at one time.
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* Matt McLeod m...@boggle.org [2009-03-26 00:25]:
Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
* Matthew King matthew.k...@monnsta.net [2009-03-24 16:50]:
[Excel] is the effort of an impressive collection of morons
all the way from the luser to the cpu.
Joel Spolsky was the Excel program manager at one
]: Or is it? I forget what hates-software is supposed to be,
other than not-a-list.
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.
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everywhere else, so that's what I did when
I first subscribed here too. Two (or three?) flamefest threads
later (each on the order of 50 mails or so), I gave up and got
in line with the parochial ASCII regime.
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* Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com [2009-03-04 14:00]:
Well, because I don't have a Flashblock for Safari (need to
look for that again).
http://github.com/rentzsch/clicktoflash/tree/master
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* Joshua Rodman jrod...@hate.spamportal.net [2009-02-19 06:40]:
Then the next generation of idiots
http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
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Hi Omry,
congratulations, the subject of your mail alone created a hate
singularity.
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kernel does not come with
userland, any OS based on the Linux kernel (or for that matter
reliant on something like the GNU coreutils) by definition does
not have the concept of a vendor core OS.
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* Martin Ebourne li...@ebourne.me.uk [2008-12-31 09:35]:
That paragraph alone is proof that negative options in software
should be legislated against.
You don't mean that they shouldn't not be legislated for, no?
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* Smylers smyl...@stripey.com [2008-10-17 09:50]:
Aristotle Pagaltzis writes:
That's actually totally wrong!
(Is being actually totally wrong different from just being
wrong?)
Yes: what you wrote was wrong on multiple levels and did not
incorporate any individually correct statements
that it into pedantry territory.
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* Simon Wistow si...@thegestalt.org [2008-10-16 22:00]:
Mmm, can you taste the *crunchiness* of 6 year old code?
In the case of the MT codebase, most assuredly.
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that it’s been
like that for over 5 years (ie. for most of my Unix life, which
started belatedly in late 2000 – with a copy of Slackware 7.1).
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* Joshua Juran jju...@gmail.com [2008-10-11 21:15]:
On Oct 11, 2008, at 6:15 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
But `\n` always means *exactly one character* which on ASCII
systems is always `\x0a`.
[citation needed]
#!/usr/bin/perl
foreach ( @ARGV )
{
s{ [\] n }{ \r }gx
explicitly hate on anything, but if you don't
think the above conglomerate isn't hateful, I can't help you.)
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* Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de [2008-10-11 15:20]:
(I realise I didn't explicitly hate on anything, but if you
don't think the above conglomerate isn't hateful, I can't help
you.)
Also, wetware that can't properly parse or formulate stacked
negations is hateful, but that's off-topic
* b...@cpan.org b...@cpan.org [2008-10-09 00:00]:
Now, of course we hate Perl. We just do it in private. ;-)
Nah, it's more like marriage.
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, at least, I see that much.)
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* Earle Martin hates-softw...@downlode.org [2008-10-03 13:20]:
Obligatory classic hate from the archive:
http://hex.hates-software.com/2004/03/30/77e7b0fc.html
Nothing has changed since then.
*One* thing has -- brushed metal is gone! Snrk.
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is what Apple gets much of its bad
press for) or that someone won’t be tempted to see how
far they can bend the law when no one is looking (see
Google and tax manipulation).
But anyway, this is rather far removed from software and
the hating thereof.
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as numbers you use a different operator
than if you want them treated as strings. Python goes the other
viable route, with polymorphic operators and *no* value coercion.
MySQL... let's not talk about MySQL.
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* Chris Devers cdev...@pobox.com [2008-08-22 18:45]:
Surely punting with not my problem is itself hateful.
You seriously want each application to come up with entirely new
ways of making text editing hateful?
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I just like mail clients with wheels already built in.
And obviously it does not bother you that these wheels are
elliptical, square, or otherwise malformed[1] half the time.
[1]: I almost typed mailformed.
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would have a
very different opinion of wood or steel wheels and of whether
it's worth thinking about them.
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in their life on their
happiness and underestimate the impact of the little things.
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and reasonably respond to pieces of the message
inline. An email is not a fracking webpage. If you want me to
look at a webpage, send me a link, don’t shovel 150kb of manure
down my throat whether I care about it or not.
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by is that the
schizophrenia of X11 WRT selection vs clipboard leads me to get
some other text than I thought I was going to get upon pasting,
but that has nothing to do with the select and middleclick
gestures themselves.
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(remember those?) business, yes.
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and
message passing doesn't fix sucking software with poor buffer
handling. it just mitigates the bad behavior.
Funny definition of just. I guess people should just pay
attention and not create bugs, right?
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* Aaron J. Grier agr...@poofygoof.com [2008-07-01 19:25]:
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:05:33PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
* Aaron J. Grier agr...@poofygoof.com [2008-07-01 03:30]:
a (possibly buggy) heirarchy of priviliged process spaces
and message passing doesn't fix sucking
I know that does things like Firefox
et al. and that's Visual Studio. The toolbars displayed depend
on the current document, which has the frustrating side effect
that the tab bar *moves vertically* as you change tabs.
Well in Firefox it does not.
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* Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com [2008-06-13 23:55]:
Whatever posessed them to put the tab bar above the other
toolbars? Does ANY other application in the world do that?
IE7. Snrk.
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the user wanted in the first place? The only
reason I can honestly conceive of is spite.
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* H.Merijn Brand h.m.br...@xs4all.nl [2008-06-09 19:05]:
elm and mailx both do it that way IIRC, though elm does not
accept exit or quit, but just plain x and q
mutt has the same exit/quit distinction and binds those functions
to the same keys by default.
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you see.
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Not my hate, but I thought the people on this list would
appreciate it (and maybe take away a solution from it):
http://www.betalogue.com/2008/05/20/word-2008-how-to-assign-command-g-to-find-next/
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Hi Jarkko,
* Jarkko Hietaniemi j...@iki.fi [2008-05-07 01:55]:
http://www.iki.fi/jhi/NetwrokProblem.png
That's all. Over.
looks like a good candidate for the _Error'd_ feature at
DailyWTF; submit it? http://thedailywtf.com/Contact.aspx
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proper and don't
need an extra copy of each mail. Thanks.]
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* Marco Von Ballmoos mvonbal...@gmail.com [2008-04-05 00:10]:
C#'s generics are better, but still forbid covariance
Have to, to ensure type safety.
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need
platform dependent code to add offline capabilities to a web app.
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* David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk [2008-03-11 21:55]:
Sometimes I think that XML would be preferable to the
half-XMLish hatefulness that is httpd.conf.
Says the guy who wrote something he calls an XML parser even
though it isn't... :-)
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, current directory), but also the perfectly good
already-established ssh tunnel.
Given a sufficiently recent OpenSSH, you can at least get it to
reuse the existing SSH connection. Doesn't fix the other problems
of course.
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* Ann Barcomb a...@domaintje.com [2008-03-02 18:35]:
I was starting to think I was the only person in the world who
would rather have the original.
http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/ at least indicates you're not.
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* Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org [2008-02-28 23:30]:
I felt that emacs jumped the shark
I thought emacs was *born* on the other side of the shark.
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.
Beachball. Safari Beachballed.
A ball of swirling colours. Safari's tripping... again.
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, that was just a one-shot hate and so far
I don’t hate anything else about it. All in all it Just Worked,
and once I figured out the USB protocol setting menu, it mounted
as a storage device without any further ado. I threw gphoto away
again. Less software == less hate.)
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that is not listed when you pass `-help`.
How could it be otherwise?
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