* Earle Martin [2008-12-23T14:15:39]
> 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/
Is there a place I can get a big ol' mailbox of past hates-software? Or a
tarballed maildir? Or a complete newsfeed? Whatever...
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* Peter da Silva [2008-10-16T07:20:22]
> >And then it shows me the "raw" version of my changed version. Not
> >the WYSIWYG
> >version, which is what I was editing.
>
> WYSIWYG editing in web page text boxes is hateful. WYSIWYG editing in
> text boxes in a Wiki? Oh mamma, the burning.
Yeah, l
* Aristotle Pagaltzis [2008-10-08T11:41:52]
> * Ricardo SIGNES [2008-10-08 15:10]:
> > Replacing hypermail was divine.
>
> Hmm, I am not really hating the Hypermail install used by the W3C
> (see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ for examples). Is it
> just a par
* Léon Brocard [2008-10-08T04:53:22]
So much hate, but let's start here:
http://lists.launchpad.net/drizzle-discuss/msg01658.html
OH GOD YOU HAVE AWAKENED THE HATE WITHIN.
That archive is generated by MhonArc which is either a branch of the Hypermail
archiver or was intended (for some unkn
* Matthew King [2008-09-04T12:38:09]
> Every site which does this.
> Please die.
> My server will tell you if my email address is invalid, which it is not.
There's nothing wrong with it, as long as you get it *right*. That means at
least two parts: don't accept anything that is not actually vali
* Timothy Knox [2008-07-03T19:52:35]
> which is followed by an HTML version of of the actual mail, THAT is NOT
> ACTUALLY multipart/alternative. multipart/alternative is only for messages
> where each part is simply an alternative format for the same basic content!
> The type you want is multipart
* Martin Ebourne [2008-01-17T19:50:44]
> Sites really shouldn't try to validate this stuff. The most annoying one
> of course is the very common mandatory county (as already mentioned on
> this thread). At least 7 million people live in London so over 10% of
> the population has no county, not to
* Robert Rothenberg [2008-01-16T12:37:42]
> At least with Gnumeric it gives me a dialog: I recall either Excel or Lotus
> 1-2-3 saving as their own format without even telling me (but it's been
> years since I've touched them).
Excel, at least in 2005, would stay in the same format or say, "You
* Peter da Silva [2008-01-15T10:37:22]
> >but the porters decided that people weren't realizing how big a change was
> >involved when x became x+1. so, for marketing reasons, you became allowed
> >to write 5.00x as 5.x
>
> So instead of fixing a bad design, they papered over it.
I don't really
* jrod...@hate.spamportal.net [2008-01-15T09:43:56]
> > ~$ perl -v
> > This is perl, v5.10.0 built for darwin-2level
> >
> > ~$ perl -V
> > Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0) configuration:
> >
> > ~$ perl -E 'say $]'
> > 5.01
>
> So as a general class, perl
* jrod...@hate.spamportal.net [2008-01-15T08:37:19]
> > 1.80 means 1.80. 1.95.1 means 1.095001.
>
> How in the nine hells of software hate doesn't it mean 1.950001 or some
> such crap? How is this defensible in any possible way?
It's emulating the behavior of perl itself.
~$ perl -v
Th
* Peter da Silva [2008-01-14T23:47:06]
> On 2008-01-14, at 16:18, Phil Pennock quoted a very very unstable mind:
> >the real problem is that the version number on Parse::RecDescent went down!
> >from 1.80 (which translates into 1.800.000) to 1.95.1 (which translates
> >into 1.095.001).
>
> OK. I
* Matt McLeod [2008-01-14T19:10:19]
> It's about a 50% chance that speaking my email address will result
> in the other person being confused and trying to use 'boggle.com'.
>
> An alarming proportion of the Great Unwashed think everything is
> under .com. Even .com.au confuses some locals.
...
* Michael G Schwern [2008-01-14T13:18:07]
> The worst part is that this is a VIRUS SECURITY COMPANY who thought this up.
> Not only should they realize it's totally worthless, and a waste of space, but
> actually counter productive. You're NOT supposed to trust what the incoming
> email says. Th
* Peter da Silva [2008-01-11T21:27:05]
> On 2008-01-11, at 20:00, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
> >Mail.app will never allow you to use localhost for SMTP. It will not allow
> >127.x.y.z, localhost, or any name for the local box. It *will* allow it
> >for your IMAP server.
>
OS X ships with a postfix install. It's very easy to set it up to relay to a
trusted SMTP server over SASL. This is great for sending mail when offline; it
just flushes when you're online.
Mail.app will never allow you to use localhost for SMTP. It will not allow
127.x.y.z, localhost, or any n
* Smylers [2008-01-03T07:01:20]
> I've already told the computer to start Firefox; it then interupted that
> to do something updatey of its own accord, so even the concept of
> finishing something isn't really in my mind. And that's the only
> enabled button on the window anyway -- it isn't like
* Jarkko Hietaniemi [2007-12-09T09:52:56]
> So it *is* possible for banks to have a clue, at least sometimes.
> What *is* hateful is that I know it is possible to do it better, and
> then being subjected to the utter disasters of web sites in other banks
> and similar institutions.
Yeah, like Cen
* Chris Devers [2007-10-11T01:23:27]
> Except, err, in 20 minutes of poking around, I can't find a link for it.
> I keep getting linked to different domains, including one selling all of
> their other albums, but nothing for this one. The closest is a link
> labelled "HODIAU DIREKTON", which po
* Dave Hodgkinson [2007-08-14T17:13:07]
> On 14 Aug 2007, at 17:11, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> >Anyone who tells me I should be piping or some shit to justify this will be
> >destroyed.
>
> You all lose.
>
> man xargs
...the program that you pipe to?
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* Patrick Quinn-Graham [2007-07-13T07:22:14]
> On 13-Jul-07, at 11:51 AM, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
> >As I admitted in a recent post, I use a MacBook. In fact, like that big
> >black monolith, it always leaves me flailing my arms, whacking at my
> >trackpad. TAP TAP TAP TA
* Bill Page [2007-07-13T15:04:05]
> sure it's stupid that you can't do it with the keyboard, but you can
> just turn on the triggers for rating in quicksilver, which is about as
> close to default osx as you can get while remaining something that
> makes the mac worthwhile
Okay... so I'll make on
How is it that I went for all of 2006 without a hate?
As I admitted in a recent post, I use a MacBook. It has a gigantic touchpad
with one big button. I set that trackpad to tap-to-click, and I use the
button... well, never? I guess I use it for the "hold button while booting to
eject stuck co
* Minty [2007-07-12T10:29:15]
> Func+Shift+PageUp/Down = scroll up/down a line
> Shift+Func+PageUp/Down = scroll up/down a page
This is a hardware hate. On some revisions of MacBook (etc) firmware,
there is a quirk such that (I forget which is which): function-modifier-up is
modifier-pgup but m
* Ann Barcomb [2007-04-04T10:38:44]
> ScanGear CS is Canon's scanning software for the CanoScan LiDE 25, for
> MacOSX. It might be available for other operating systems, and it might
> apply to other scanners.
Tell me about it...
I remain dumbfounded that there is no Mac OS X "iScan" or somethi
* Michael G Schwern [2007-03-16T17:39:36]
> be easily answerable by opening up the "Key Caps" or "Keyboard Viewer"
> application which lived with all the others. Now its...
>
> * [ many hateful steps ]
>
> What a mess. Fortunately the recently maligned Applescript offers a way out.
> http://ww
* Abigail [2006-12-21T05:29:49]
> It's not so difficult for people with normal vision, but it extremely
> limits the usability for blind people. I've blind friends who can only
> use a few number of cash machines (that is, a few cash machines, not
> cash machine from a few banks), because they hav
* Earle Martin [2006-12-18T09:06:34]
> "Foo","Members List Report","3816","Somebody Incorporated23B
> Snibbits Building69 Foonly StreetLondonFO0 8AR+44 20 7123 4567","a
> couple","of other", "fields here","Report Run Time: 05 Dec 2006 at
> 10:53:50","Page -1 of 1","Company Name Snipped
* "Shawn P. Stanley" [2006-10-04T11:59:57]
> Gmail uses the "Sender:" line to show which Gmail account you're
> sending from regardless of how you've configured your "From:" or
> "Reply-To:" lines. Just in case anyone cares about your Gmail
> account. But why should they, unless you're dealing i
* Martin Ebourne [2006-10-03T17:59:20]
> On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 23:51 +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> > The filesystem is not a good way to organise music. For small
> > libraries it's OK. To navigate big ones, it blows.
> The filesystem is an entirely excellent way to organise music. So long
> as it'
* Simon Wistow [2006-10-03T07:54:06]
> 1) Obtain mp3 from somewhere
> 2) Realise that ID3 tag, whilst technically correct, is lowercased
> 3) Try and edit that
> 4) Have iTunes know better than you do and autocomplete the field back
>to the lowercase version
retro-hate: http://rjbs.hates-sof
* Chris Devers [2006-09-22T10:28:55]
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, sabrina downard wrote:
> > Stupid, steaming pile of shit. If you're going to auto-allocate drive
> > letters to removable storage media, maybe you should consider
> > allocating drive letters that aren't already in use? Just a thought
* Jarkko Hietaniemi [2006-09-02T13:32:11]
> David Cantrell wrote:
> > I find it to be surprisingly good as being a presentation tool. The
> > suck is mostly in the idiots who comprise 99% of its users.
>
> A good presentation tool would electrocute morons using it,
> that would be the rightful p
* Chris Devers [2006-07-11T00:34:30]
> As for the menu key, show me any other way to bring up a context menu
> for the current focus (highlighted) item without using the mouse.
I thought this nearly always was Shift-F10..?
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* Peter da Silva [2006-06-15T18:24:44]
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:40:50 +0200, Adeodato Sim?? wrote:
> > * John Handelaar [Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:16:13 +0100]:
> >
> > > Me, I hate top-posting.
> >
> > Full quoting here.
>
> Oddball attributions. :)
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* Peter da Silva [2006-06-01T20:19:38]
> There should be a "/Local/Applications" by default to drag stuff
> into and install stuff into, and "/Applications" should be stuff
> that only Apple fucks with. Then maybe the few remaining idiot
> developers who write pointless "installers" would catch on
* Mike Macgirvin [2005-11-15T00:31:26]
> program name. It actually worked. But after a year of development and
> software and hardware that grew rapidly obsolete I discovered that I
> already had the perfect ColorFile. To this day I keep a stack of 3x5
> cards and a set of magic markers near my
* Peter da Silva [2005-11-14T20:35:42]
> Spotlight looks more and more like they've taken something that
> does almost everything I want from a search tool, and implemented
> it in an application that does just about everything I hate. AND
> as a bonus, they've taken stuff that works and replaced
* Ricardo SIGNES [2005-11-14T19:22:19]
> set StickiesRunning to
> (do shell script "ps ax | grep Stickies.app | grep -v grep | wc -l") + 0
Aristotle replied to me privately, presumably to save me a public
shaming. I will make my shame public because it led to mor
* "A. Pagaltzis" [2005-11-14T20:15:58]
> Useless use of `ps | grep -v grep` and another useless use of
> `grep | wc -l`. The first, you eliminate by munging the grep
> pattern so it doesn???t match itself: `grep [S]tickies.app`. The
> second you eliminate by using `grep -c`. So that makes your
> c
I want a way to take really quick notes. I want to scribble down a to-do, write
down a MySQL log position, write down the length of time it took to build the
CPANTS database, or whatever.
Using Vim is annoying: I have to have an open screen, I have to run Vim, I have
to give it a filename, and sa
* "A. Pagaltzis" [2005-11-06T15:47:52]
> * Ricardo SIGNES [2005-11-06 21:05]:
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit
> > Content-Disposition: inline
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> >
> > e is not =E9
>
> Your mai
e is not ?
They are different.
When I start typing the artist into track info in iTunes, and I type
"Jos?" do not autocomplete to "Jose A. Casta?eda." I know you think I
can keep typing to correct you, iTunes, but you are wrong. If I keep
typing, I end up with "Jose Urfe" and then I have to go
* Dave Vandervies [2005-10-30T16:04:38]
> xdc. I See A Great Need.
>
> Actually, I'll settle for xrpn. If I want turing completeness, I can
> always run it in an xterm. (Of course, that'd help more if I could
> find a decent manual for the thing, so I could actually figure out how
> to program
* Peter da Silva [2005-10-27T07:44:19]
> On my Mac I have "Courier" and "Courier New". I use Monaco and Lucida
> Sans Typewriter.
> So...
>
> Which Courier are you using, and why are you using Courier at all?
I was using Courier (plain old Courier) because it was the default. I
suppose I never
* Peter da Silva [2005-10-26T22:16:49]
> On Oct 26, 2005, at 4:04 PM, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
> >http://search.cpan.org/src/ALEXP/Net-Domain-TLD-1.5/TLD.pm
>
> I'm using Monaco 10 as my monospace font in Safari.
> Works ffine ffor me.
Argh!
\{fi}rst, to Jeremy, I apologize
* Jeremy Weathers [2005-10-26T19:08:08]
> > didn't line up. Why? Because fi is a kernable letter pair, of
> > course! Lining up columns is nice and all, but it just doesn't
> > compare to the awesomeness of having your f dot your i!
>
> Actually, the combined "fi" is called a ligature. Kerning
Apple knows that good design is key. If you present the user with a
beautiful experience, they will keep coming back, right? That's why
they've always spent so much money on having good typesetting. I mean,
hey, they kern fonts on screen!
You know when this is really great? When you're viewin
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