When it becomes clear that the maintainers of a piece of software have given
up any plans to fix it after it has been broken for a long time, software
moves from hateful to not worth retaining any contact with. As is the case
with the hates-software website. So I'm unsubbing. Ciao.
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> Even if you could theoretically configure more settings, the coöperative
> multi-tasking wouldn't let you actually get to them, so the benefit was
> nullified. ;-)
I keep hearing people say this, and yet it's still not true, smiley or not.
2009/2/19 Peter da Silva
>
> The operation failed because: The operation completed successfully.
>
[bomb] Sorry, an error unexpectedly didn't occur.
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cunty. Even the classic Mac OS was better on that front than
what you have now.
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E". The effects are built in and just work. Including
Exposé.
Oh no, a hates-software post with no hate! Maybe I'll hate metacity, even
though I've never used it. It sounds a bit rubbish from what you're saying.
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I'm glad I'm not an Office user, because this sounds like exactly the sort
of thing that would annoy the shit out of me.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1074439&cid=26249337
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2008/12/23 Ricardo SIGNES
> Is there a place I can get a big ol' mailbox of past hates-software? Or a
> tarballed maildir? Or a complete newsfeed? Whatever...
>
Not to my knowledge, even http://we.hates-software.com/ has been dead for
months. Which is a pity.
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sons I use it instead of iTunes.
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2008/10/10 Joshua Juran
> At least Mac OS 9 is ASCII.
>
DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS!
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th it as an OS. Then again, I
never tried to use iTunes on it, but my experiences with iTunes have more or
less shown it to be the kiss of death for any operating systems.
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hex.hates-software.com/2004/03/30/77e7b0fc.html
Nothing has changed since then.
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2008/10/3 David Cantrell
> You can fix that bug thus:
>
> :0 fHw
> * ^to_brokenl...@stupiddomain
> | formail -i "Reply-To: brokenl...@stupiddomain"
>
How does I dood in web mailar??
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log box that says "Getting album artwork
requires you to have an iTunes Store account. Please login or go to the
iTunes Store to register an account."
On the other hand, Amarok will just download the art off Amazon without any
fuss.
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2008/9/4 H.Merijn Brand
> Meanwhile I found the solution:
>
> SQL> ALTER DATABASE FLASHBACK OFF;
>
I honestly misread that as "ALTER DATABASE FUCK OFF" and thought "wow, nice
solution".
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2008/8/28 Peter da Silva
> It was less hateful to patch the source to elm.
>
That's a very peculiar measure of hatefulness.
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2008/8/28
> Or would it reach a critical mass where the universe implodes under the
> gravitational pull of hate?
>
I believe this is commonly referred to as the "hate death of the universe".
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2008/8/27 Andy Armstrong
> Tell it to take its input from an empty smart playlist.
>
How very intuitive. This is why I haven't looked back since switching to a
Linux box with Amarok to handle my music.
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t?
I count software that actively interferes with my happiness and
productivity, whether by malfunctioning or by impeding my actions due
to poor design, amongst those things. People's choices of fonts or
colors do not.
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nd carriage on the freeway, who are we to stop
you?
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up a database? Really? And that stops a web page from
being visible?
Also, the wording makes it sound like their database is constipated.
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hyphen (), which I think was originally specified in HTML 2. It
only took them eight years to get around to it, things are looking
good!
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)
That too, but bonus hate to the MozillaZine people for not keeping up
with the code. A workaround was globally implemented for all the cases
of that on Wikipedia a long time ago.
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RL
http://hates-software.com/authors/phil.pennock/ redirects incorrectly
to a 404. Nor does the news:// address on hates-software.com seem to
still work work. And the SVN repository mentioned in the documentation
for Siesta seems to have vanished. How hateful all around.
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else instead of periods
(I think I'd lean towards an oblique) as version component separators,
that would put paid to the harmful notion that version numbers are
actually floating point numbers. The issues with sorting would still
remain, but the mental confusion would lessen a little.
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Start typing in the compose field: web
- Web Support Actions
- Web Systems
Keep typing: web s
- Web Systems
Hello? Where the fuck did the other one go to? I WANTED THAT ONE, YOU
WORTHLESS POOL OF PREMATURELY SQUIRTED BYTES.
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http
en after a few seconds it fades away and
vanishes.
And the update question should look like this. Non-modal dialog:
A new version of Firefox (3.4.5) is available. What's new?
(*) Update now
( ) Don't tell me again about this version
( ) Don't ever tell me about upd
Metadot is a vast heap of shit disguised as a CMS.
Someone I used to work with, who still has to deal with it, hates it
so much that his hate could not be contained in a mailing list post,
thus he has made an entire website for it:
http://www.ihatemetadot.co.uk/
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http://www.slowwave.com/index.php?date=07-11-17
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On 13/11/2007, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> (If anyone is interested in a list, I can provide it. Not sure
> it's on-topic material.)
I'd certainly be interested, if you don't mind.
Thanks,
Earle
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you get a dialog box
waving its finger at you telling you to eject the drive next time.
When I eject flash drives, their icons disappear. Then I remove them.
Then it brings up the same fucking dialog box telling me to eject
first. Every time. I _DID_ EJECT IT, YOU SOURED DRIBBLE RESIDUE FROM A
WIZ
On 11/10/2007, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> In my score list on Radio Paradise, Radiohead scores an avarage of
> 1.05405405405405, which only Coldplay, Simple Minds, Starsaylor and
> U2 can beat.
Totally unnecessary decimal places. Now *that's* hateful.
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On 01/10/2007, Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2007-10-01 at 11:22 +0100, Earle Martin wrote:
> > *BSD or the other extended relatives, so maybe this is normal in those
> > parts, much in the same way that you can marry your sister in some
> > distant tribes.
>
> *BSD uses
is a /usr/local. Which just strikes me as peculiar to say the
least. Then again, I've only been using Linux for seven years, not
*BSD or the other extended relatives, so maybe this is normal in those
parts, much in the same way that you can marry your sister in some
distant tribes.
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On 29/09/2007, Peter da Silva wrote:
> If you unpack an archive and it's already been unpacked
> you should not end up with a duplicate copy.
Sometimes you want one. It should at least ask (and let you set a
permanent preference if you prefer one way over the other).
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On 27/09/2007, Andy Armstrong wrote:
> *but* WTF aren't you just using tar zxf Foo-Bar-0.1.tar.gz ? :)
I'm glad you put a smiley there, otherwise I wouldn't have known you
were trolling.
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-Bar-0.3. Yes, Mac OS X has
decided to increment the version numbers on your downloaded software.
In the old Mac OS, you'd get folders called "Copy of Foo-Bar-0.1" and
"Copy 2 of Foo-Bar-0.1", etc. Whoever replaced this behavior with the
current braindead one is a goddamn
s the demons tear off my skin.
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pain in the most simplistic of version control
tasks as I have since starting to work at a company that made the
mistake of considering you you."
http://weblog.masukomi.org/2007/8/31/dear-perforce-fuck-you
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hould compile a "top of the hates" chart, by frequency
of occurrence.
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lity.html
Triple hate on the rocks all round!
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less
will interfere with your email setup)".
Who the fuck thought that was a good idea? Let me guess, was it Adobe
by any chance?
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On 11/08/07, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> Or maybe "Ingy döt Net". :-)
Yeah, and I bet the list archives will fuck with his name too. Hate!
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On 18/05/07, Peter da Silva wrote:
"This is Worker speaking. Read Me Doctor Memory."
Hey man, you broke the President!
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rs running Acrobat Reader 5.0 under
Mac OS X may experience a few inconsistencies."
So... they're willing to tell you about how running an outdated
product can cause problems, but you're not allowed to use a newer
version? That's incredibly, searingly hateful.
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-a-number-to-send-to screen, enter nothing, *then* hit cancel, it
still saves the picture. So presumably it auto-saves the image after
you've finished composing the message.
It is hateful that I have had to find this out.
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On 16/04/07, Simon Wistow wrote:
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 01:49:54PM +0100, Earle Martin said:
> What, and pay money for the privilege of doing so? No thanks, I think
> I'll live without the photo.
On mine, sending also stores the photo.
That's not something I would have guess
On 15/04/07, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:
Did you try sending it to yourself?
What, and pay money for the privilege of doing so? No thanks, I think
I'll live without the photo.
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;. It brings up a menu... of which the top
item is "send in message". If you accidentally choose that when you
meant to save the photo, you're fucked. There's no way to cancel out
and save the photo instead.
Hate, hate, hate.
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;Nero" folder in the Programs
folder of the Start Menu. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. There's no option that
I could find to stop it doing that.
THANKS A FUCKING LOT, NERO, YOU STUPID WANKERS.
P.S. Here is some bonus Nero hate!
http://iamyouruser.blogspot.com/2006/12/neros-nuts-i-want-to-kick.html
-
ssage suggest that
maybe they should ACTUALLY IMPLEMENT THIS BEHAVIOR?
Sigh.
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XQQLQJDWIXOOVSHHG
WKHRUHWLFDOO\GHYHORSVDERXW -RINLQHWLF
HQHUJ\EXWEHFDXVHRIGLVSHUVLRQRIHQHUJ\DWWKH
WLPHRILPSDFWWKHDFWXDOLPSDFWHQHUJ\LV
FRQVLGHUDEO\OHVV
Thanks a lot, Adobe! That's going to look really fucking great pasted
into my engineering class asse
.
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that
tab I just switched out of has gone to. HATE.
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On 26/12/06, Adam Atlas wrote:
I think one major reason PHP "won" is that it's so stupidly easy that
it allows bad programmers to write web apps that, although horribly
ugly, at least work (in some sense of the word).
Rule of thumb: if it's stupidly easy, it's easily
more so, is something like this, which
generally indicates the author hasn't read any books about Perl that
were published since 1998, or learnt Perl from a shoddy website, last
updated around 2001, whose author hasn't read any books about Perl
that were published since 1998.
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On 19/12/06, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
You hate them until your code needs to work in medieval environments.
Shell scripts: setting castles on fire and shooting people in the
throat with arrows since 1284.
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Hate.
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m buggered if I
can find it these days. Thankfully I leave that to the Windows users;
OOo Calc does the right thing for me. For once.
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e exceptions (international address formats, anyone?).
No, they can't give us the data in any other format. HATE. HATE. HATE.
* http://www.enterprisemrm.com/: "Membership, Charity, Golf, Leisure,
Retail and Schools software. Fully integrated with Sage and Pegasus
Accounts."
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d that,
my friend, is extremely hateful.
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t; (a space) is also valid. Making this possible:
http://beta.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.fwp/2006/09/msg3947.html
Sigh.
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;END_SQL');
select foo, bar
from baz
where duh = ?;
END_SQL
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Control+Shift+U while you type the Unicode codepoint".
Ȳ <- hey, it works! Now I just have to memorize lots of inscrutable
multi-digit numbers. Hooray for progress!
Control-shift-U is also an extremely fucking awkward "shortcut" if
there ever was one.
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On 04/12/06, sabrina downard wrote:
stupid iTunes. stupid iPod. stupid Apple.
iTunes is the most hateful sack of shit that I have ever had the
misfortune and displeasure to encounter on a semi-regular basis.
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On 07/11/06, Chris Cantrall wrote:
The above mess is included to demonstrate how broken gmail is
internally.
What mess? It looked fine.
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ecting it and pasted by middle-clicking, which is
just too good to work as I expect it to every time. Yecch.
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On 07/11/06, Juerd wrote:
Earle Martin skribis 2006-11-07 14:10 (+):
> FQIDAxYCAQIeAQIXgAAKCRClPQurRD4YISH0AJ9zmx2JPGt8ELKo3aE0YoGg6EYipwCdH3kR
> ^^^
That's "urR", not "rRD". I wonder in which wonderfully amazing way your
software
rpm-4.3.3 (beecrypt-3.0.0)
[...]
FQIDAxYCAQIeAQIXgAAKCRClPQurRD4YISH0AJ9zmx2JPGt8ELKo3aE0YoGg6EYipwCdH3kR
^^^
Yes, it assumed you wanted to search for matching strings /inside a
block of encrypted text/. How incredibly stupid of it.
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line being commented out. What does that mean? I haven't got a clue.
But what I do know is that you're fucked if you expect to be able to
add repositories with a single line of text, apt-style. CRAP FOUNTAIN.
[1] Or not? Place your hates now!
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http://rebecca.hates-software.com/2006/10/25/cec3b9f8.html
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On 23/10/06, John Sinteur wrote:
I'm considering adding a new A record for "niet.com", pointing to
"127.0.0.1". Let them choke in their own garbage...
Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with
their own confusion. We shall prevail!
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erience. They would still annoy the crap out of me, even if I
wasn't a programmer at all. Isn't that justification enough for nuking
them from orbit with extreme prejudice? Hate.
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oblems; I
wouldn't expect ^H to delete a character (that gets you the history window),
nor would I expect ^A to take me to the start of a line (that's what the
"Home" key is for, in the context of a text box.)
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illa.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57342
HATE.
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ne
software? You know, that would do things like copy a file from one disk to
another, like every other music management application under the sun.
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he correct operation of your system"?
"Either immediately *or* in the future"? WTF? And add to that the FUD factor
of what the message is implying.
Hate. Hate. Hate.
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On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 06:17:16PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> only "Restart Later" is greyed out.
Been there, hated that:
http://luke.hates-software.com/2005/04/21/b19de0db.html
(grep for "Windows Automatic Updates")
Still hatin'.
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ting.
> > >>>>>Full quoting here.
> > >>>>Oddball attributions. :)
> > >>>Lack of sig.
> > >>Signed emails I can't verify.
> > > Email cascades.
> > Me Too's.
> Off topic postings.
"Best thread ever"s.
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On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:13:10PM +0100, Earle Martin wrote:
> W: GPG error: http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable Release: The following
> signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available:
> NO_PUBKEY 010908312D230C5F
> W: You may want to run apt-get update
ot found (press RETURN)". Same results for "man
apt".
YOUR PROGRAMMER DIES NOW
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. |
| |
| [ OK ] |
| |
+---+
Three words, my friends: This. Is. Retarded.
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orst thing is that it doesn't give you a "no, I don't want your stupid
update" button. Just "install now" and "install later".
< clintp> Same genre of bullshit. Any programmer that bows to the wishes
of managment and only gives "
pe
system documentation, which says a lot.
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OM A DIALOG BOX. HELLO? THAT TEXT IS
NOT FUCKING SELECTABLE. Or perhaps you just expect me to painstakingly
transcribe it, letter by letter?
"Demand Abacast Technology from Your Service Provider!" Um, no, I'll pick
software that isn't retarded, thanks.
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On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 01:40:08AM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> The markup is meaningless
What meaningful markup would you suggest be created, then, to describe an
indented area?
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 01:36:05PM -0500, Luke Kanies wrote:
> [ a long and interesting post ]
Thank you, that was very helpful.
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 07:09:48PM +0100, Earle Martin wrote:
> > Do you really want to see all the stuff that starts with '.' every time
> > you use *? Isn't avoiding that the whole point of the .name convention?
>
> Yes, I do; I expect * to match everything.
s of this particular convention.
> > Well, that's matching... something. I don't understand the sorting order.
>
> Oh, just whatever order readdir is returning.
If it's not alphabetic then it is damn near close to useless.
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s been under the
impression that the output from 'ls' was not the same as an explicit 'ls *'.
Evidently it's not; I can add it, bash, or both to my list of retarded
software.
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t explicitly, then FUCKING FIX IT
ALREADY.
I love you all.
Earle
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unts
...
What the hell? Asterisk isn't matching '.'? Gah. I don't care any more.
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