On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 03:19:21PM +0100, Marco Von Ballmoos said:
I would have said exactly the same thing before I learned git, but
you're missing out. It's worth learning, but it's hateful for making
itself seem so intimidating -- and for including so few safeguards or,
at the very
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:30:44PM +, Matthew King said:
Emacs why do you put '# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-' at the top of my files?
Why did you put it back when I took it out?
Why did you do all that and not tell me how to get rid of it once and for
all.
Oh, that's easy -
C-x M- ^- C-x
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:00:24PM +0200, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker said:
This is because the python prompt is just a REPL and they are just
objects that stringify to the text and do their thing when called as a
function. The reason license needs to be called as a function is that
it's so
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 01:29:26PM +, Roger Burton West said:
I should like to find the person who decided that since bookmarks and
history were both lists of URLs they ought to be integrated in a
single database. I should like to shake him warmly by the throat until
his head comes off.
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 07:13:06PM +0100, demerphq said:
You see RPM thinks that any given file can only have one source.
That's mostly but not strictly trues. AFAIK you can differentiate
between files it installs and what it claims it supplies. By default
they're the same but you can make it
My app needs some databases set up. because I'm a good boy the SQL
that's needed for the schemas is included with the app and there's even
a command to run it for you and get everything set up.
Wünderbar.
Except, can you spot what's wrong with this SQL statement?
CREATE TABLE IF NOT
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 05:29:36PM -0500, David Champion said:
I get that you hate mutt. I don't care.
Or, to put it another way
o/~ I like small Mutt's and I cannot lie ... o/~
I'll, I'll just get my coat shall I?
So Jav allows you to have anonymous inner classes. For example this is a
really easy (if ugly) way to run something asynchronously
new Thread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
// do some stuff
}
}).start();
All well and good. But there is one down side.
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:56:16PM +1300, Mike Beattie said:
It's all about the (lack of) punctuation.
Eats Shoots and Fails?
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 04:05:48PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis said:
Every single weblog where I've ever left a comment used internal
anchors to make comments linkable individually. That makes the
hates-software permalink pages *the worst* of any blog engine I
have ever seen.
If you send me a list of
I was recommended uTorrent last year and have been using it since. I was
generally pleased with it - my two issues being that when it was on then
I couldn't open new sockets - no new SSH connections, no reading web
pages, no starting up the daemon that's part of my current project.
I accepted
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.
Software version is R374_G_0E.40.3CR
(you can get this by pressing *## quickly)
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 05:44:27PM -0500, seph said:
My Putty hasn't ever done that. Active or inactive.
I am indescribably happy for you.
Given that PuTTY is generally pretty damn nifty I'm willing to possibly
lay the blame on something else (for example, XP itself. Or a a peice of
Virtual Desktop software I'm running called Virtual Dimension) hwoever
the hate still stands with ... with SOMETHING DAMMIT.
And it smells like this.
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:19:11PM -0500, seph said:
While all software is hateful, the windows's close window button on
the title bar works fine. If your window manager hides that, then it's
truely hateful.
Weirdly enough that was my first port of call - it's not hidden it's
just greyed out.
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 03:13:49PM +0100, Juerd said:
Earle Martin skribis 2006-11-07 14:10 (+):
FQIDAxYCAQIeAQIXgAAKCRClPQurRD4YISH0AJ9zmx2JPGt8ELKo3aE0YoGg6EYipwCdH3kR
^^^
That's urR, not rRD. I wonder in which wonderfully amazing way your
software screwed
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:42:58AM +, Earle Martin said:
Incidentally, I hate the hates-software blog-style archive because it
can't cope with Unicode. Contrast the above with:
http://rebecca.hates-software.com/2006/10/25/cec3b9f8.html
Fixed in SVN
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 01:04:30PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson said:
Why repeat? I've jsut had to rename a bunch of mp3's where the
band name is in some Manadrin character set.
I'm estimating that 99% of my songs have different titles. Hence needing
to repeat. Although I didn't know about the
I don't know about you, dear hates-software reader, but, in general,
when wanting to write something like an index for a search engine I have
two major uses cases.
The first is - open the index and start using it. The second is - open
the index, if it doesn't exists then create it, then use
Oh tcsh - so much to despise about you my little hate dumpling stuffed
with loathsomeness.
How we could while away the evenings talking about your little
pecadillos. I can picture it now - you'd be on the floor cowering and
I'd be standing over you, repeatedly hitting you using a bat with a
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 02:27:32PM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi said:
I guess they fired those developers because they had to pay the salaries
of the Brushed Metal Clan.
http://daringfireball.net/2005/09/anthropomorphized
http://daringfireball.net/2006/01/brushed_metal
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 07:52:23PM +0100, me said:
GAH GAH GAH GAH!
bloody mail clients.
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 08:43:09AM +0100, I said:
GAH GAH GAH GAH!
bloody mail clients.
Right, found in /tmp/mutt-{mumble}.
Following simple but convoluted instructions my linux machines are all
now fully UTF-8 aware.
HUZZAH!
99% of my Linux time is spent using screen for IRC and mail.
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 08:45:33AM +0100, me said:
Right, where's that other bottle of German booze?
It has been pointed out to me that there are, apparently, these things
called 'manuals' of which i have previously been unaware.
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:42:07AM +0930, Bill Page said:
the only useful thing i can think of about the windows key is
windows+e brings up windows explorer
though i assume there's another way of doing that anyway?
Windows-m minimises and unminimises everything which is hella useful
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 10:50:57AM -0500, sabrina downard said:
is it too early in the morning to start drinking?
The sun is over the yard arm somewhere in the world, I say go for it.
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 12:29:19PM +0100, Phil Pennock said:
Software hate of mine: RPC libraries which include some cryptographic
checksums which are almost-MD5 but called MD5. MD5 with a different
initialisation vector. But the internal library uses the same function
names as the standard
It's a lovely sunny Wednesday. I recline, trendily, in my Herman Miller
Aeron chair and take a sip from my Latte revelling in my meeja world
comfort.
I get a phone call.
The python wrapper round a C library I recently released a new version
of is not working claiming that it can't find some
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