On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:47 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:
> > The truly mind-boggling thing is not that the Apple keyboard came top, =
> > but that there are nine keyboards that are even worse than it, and many =
> > unreviewed keyboards that weren't even as good as those ten.
>
> Most of them have l
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Numien wrote:
> I know, I know... this is hates-software, hates-hardware is down the hall
> and hates-reporters is on the 3rd floor. But since this topic was discussed
> here not too long ago, and even the most avid fanbois among us seemed to
> agree that Apple ke
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
>
> So now we have at least a somewhat reliable solution to refer to
> stuff posted here.
AWESOME. Many thanks!
-- Yoz
... because We (sorry, using the Royal We) wants to link to Joshua's
"Previous Recipients" rant as a great example of accidentally-viral
features in popular OSes (compare with:
http://www.wlanbook.com/free-public-wifi-ssid/ ) but We Can'ts,
because the Great Archive Of Hates doesn't work.
Anyone k
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Peter da Silva wrote:
>
> You're right, we've already had the "Perl" thread* and if I was going to do
> it right I'd be here all day. Sorry.
>
> Let's see, have we had one about horrible home-brewed defect tracking
> systems lately?
You'll be here all YEAR.
I jus
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Oooh, web sites that auto log you out while you're writing a long post or were
in the middle of a multi-step process and wandered away to make dinner or
something. And then when you log back in again it's all lost. Hate!
British Airw
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
>
> Our entire infrastructure as a society has moved to digital storage, and
> yet we don't have backups that would last for more than a few decades.
> We haven't noticed only because we've changed technologies so much in
> the short lifespan o
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 2:19 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
>
> And while we're on Apple Hate ...
>
> Tiger won't send my shiny new LCD monitor to sleep properly. The
> screensaver kicks in fine, then a few minutes later the screen's
> backlight turns off - but then a few seconds later comes back on.
Try:
http://we.hates-software.com/index_1.html
alternatively, add your own query terms to:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=site%3Ahates-software.com&btnG=Search
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Ricardo SIGNES
wrote:
>
> Is there a place I c
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:
> On 2008-09-03, at 02:39, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>>
>> Dear Evolution [...] why do you break this workflow horribly by deciding
>> to force the first
>> app to drop its selection as soon as I touch a key?
>
> Because it's written by the great m
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
>
> What happened when you tried it on your VAX?
There are VAXen with USB ports?
(I'm not being snarky, I'm now genuinely intrigued as to whether there are.)
-- Yoz
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Joshua Juran wrote:
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> Unfortunately, what actually happened wasn't so benign as any of those.
> Instead, the OS promptly wedged itself, forcing a system reset.
Based on my experiences with Mac OS pre-X, I'm amazed this outcome
wasn't top of your list of expecta
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Earle Martin
wrote:
> 2008/7/6 Aristotle Pagaltzis :
>> You *like* reading centered 22px pink on blue mails?
>
> I didn't say I liked it, I said it doesn't bother me.
>
>>> There are really much worse things to worry about in life.
>>
>> By that logic you should pro
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Peter da Silva wrote:
>> I don't mind for certain file types, especially document types, since
>> I'm almost always going to want to open them as soon as they're
>> downloaded - quite often I don't want to keep them, I just want to
>> look at them.
>
> That must ne
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:
>> Having checked, I realise that I just reflex-clicked through the
>> standard FF three-option download dialog, which had defaulted to "Open
>> with (insert standard Mac expansion app)" rather than the usual
>> "Save".
>
> I am disturbed tha
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:
> On 2008-06-29, at 18:37, Yoz Grahame wrote:
>>
>> The ZIP file was auto-unpacked by Firefox too, which is always great,
>
> OK, that's a (minor) security hole right there.
>
> How did that happen?
Havin
Rockbox is an alternative firmware/OS/UI for MP3 players, mostly iPods
and Archoses. Given that my wife has various demands of an MP3 player
that aren't met by our iPod's Steve-given interface, I thought I'd try
it out.
Note: I have not got as far as actually installing anything yet. I am
already
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:
> On 2008-03-02, at 05:50, demerphq wrote:
> > *Nix editors are laughingly hateful across the board. Lots of
> > features, too bad about the goddamned USER INTERFACE.
>
> What's an example of an editor that isn't hateful?
I was going to pos
On Jan 21, 2008 1:27 AM, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
>
> I am pissed that Google Video only searches YouTube, and not the myriad
> other video sites. But that probably is outside the scope of software hate.
It's outside the scope of any hate at all, I'm afraid...
http://video.google.com/videosearc
On Jan 8, 2008 6:56 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
> >
> > You know what that would look like? MySQL. Oh, yeah, for sure, because
> > people don't want their file storage telling them that they can't delete
> > or rename a file for whatever reason.
>
> This very stupidity doesn't prevent people from
On 7/12/07, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
* 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): functi
On 5/20/07, Matt McLeod wrote:
SMS is unreliable the way UDP or email is unreliable.
Um, aren't those two completely different classes of unreliability?
Email is unreliable due to shitty implementations of a reliable
protocol, whereas UDP is unreliable by design. (Unless this definition
of "un
On 5/6/07, demerphq wrote:
Not true actually, CPAN as bundled with ActiveStates installs is
preconfigured these days afair.
Alas, it doesn't, because ppm != CPAN. ppm (AS's Perl Package Manager)
has the approach of "just grab a precompiled tarball from AS's own
servers", which works 80% of th
Don't forget the Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License:
http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/
(I don't understand how it can be FSF-valid while BSD isn't, but never mind)
-- Yoz
On 4/27/07, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
That was pretty good, but my favorite copyright/license of all time still is:
## Cop
On 1/24/07, Hakim Cassimally wrote:
Yup I tried the xp powertoy one too. I forget the details of why it
was hateful, i think something to do with moving windows to other
desktops. have you used it and found it less hateful?
Not really, but then I'm not a virtual desktops person. I remember it
On 1/24/07, Hakim Cassimally wrote:
On 24/01/07, Andrew Black - lists wrote:
> DO I get the feeling that virtual dimensions is worth avoiding.
As per muttley's conundrum, I'm not sure whether to hate Virtual
Dimensions or XP. Allegedly XP now supports virtual desktops. Yay!
we all cry. Wind
On 1/23/07, seph wrote:
Simon Wistow writes:
> 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
On 12/27/06, Earle Martin wrote:
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,
On 12/26/06, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do
It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something. :-)
---Larry Wall in <9...@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
PHP does not hesitate. There is only a single s/// operator in
Perl; PHP has
On 12/26/06, Peter da Silva 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). With PHP, "there's
> always more than one way to do it" holds true,
On 12/26/06, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
Errm, right. That's why noone on the mailing lists uses anything
but TT2 and DBIC, why the beginner's tutorials don't mention any
other options, and why inquiries about these two tend to get
answered very quickly.
Wasn't the case last time I checked, which I a
On 12/26/06, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> Are you proposing that programming languages should be rigid and
> unsuitable for a wide range of tasks?
I propose nothing of the sort.
I propose that perl's generality tends to cause reimplementation of many
wheels, even if CPAN (or perl's builtins) conta
On 12/22/06, Earle Martin wrote:
Just as hateful, or even 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 abo
Oh go on, Firefox! Please freeze solid on me again! It's only been,
what, four times today?
I can't tell if it's your core code that's causing the problem or one
of the extensions I've installed in an attempt to stave off other
kinds of hatefulness. And I won't be able to tell unless I play the
t
On 12/17/06, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
Bad comparison: traditional regexps are much easier to read than the ones
used in contemporary programming languages.
PCRE-style regexp in Javascript:
regexp = /(\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}/;
Traditional POSIX regexp in C:
char regexp[] = "\\([:digit:]\{1,3\}\\
On 8/12/06, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Challenge response systems. Particularly those hooked up to mailing lists.
I'm not sure whether I want to kill the authors first, or the users.
T-Rex agrees, will stomp:
http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=499
-- Yoz
On 7/25/06, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>> itself would run there.
>
> The scary scary thing for all you open source fanboys out there is that
> the set of technologies that became the proto-AJAX were invented for
> Outlook Web Access some six years ago
DHTML? That's more like nine years..
On 7/12/06, Hakim Cassimally wrote:
Just to keep the hate nice and focused on topic, Safari, on gf's,
dad's, and brother's iBooks beachballs to a half when I try to run it
with more than 2 or 3 tabs. That and failing to work on pretty much
for any credit-card purchase I want to make really don
On 7/12/06, Hakim Cassimally wrote:
So, I had to reboot it every 1-2 days or it would run like treacle,
Same with mine. And the problem - oh how I laughed - appears to be
Firefox leaking like a wounded oil tanker. Sure, I'm frequently
running in excess of 30 tabs, but when the process starts
On 6/2/06, Patrick Carr wrote:
Tangential point: Assuming all of your users are the most complete
idiots imaginable is hateful for the rest. Why, for example, won't my
bank email my online transaction receipts encrypted, especially since
they out different quads in the credit card number t
On 6/1/06, Chris Devers wrote:
Draw whatever conclusions from this that you like, but it seems to me
that there is some kind of UI breakdown going on here. As much as the
alpha geeks may be impressed by the "just drag from the .dmg to the
Applications folder" "simplicity", maybe there's somethi
On 5/29/06, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
JavaScript -- the new respectable face of the web. Until you want to do
anything with it outside of a browser. There's apparently lots of choice:
* Rhino -- except that loading a full JVM to run a few lines of
JavaScript code is living using a JCB to swat a
On 5/23/06, Philip Newton wrote:
On 5/23/06, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Philip Newton [2006-05-23 13:40]:
> > User interface guidelines are there for a reason, and even
> > Microsoft kinda-sorta sticks to them.
>
> Except for their media player.
*sigh* Yes. Which, as I result, I can hardly use.
Be warned:
The next smug Mac owner I see who publicly makes the mistaken
statement that lovely shiny OS X is a whole world more stable than
that Blue Screening crock of shit XP is getting this fucking useless
Mac Mini (currently beachballing its little heart out, yet again,
while I type this on m
On 11/9/05, John Sinteur wrote:
If rms is an asshole, it is my opinion that the world needs more
assholes.
Of a certain kind, of course.
My experiences with RMS remind me of that word in "The Meaning Of
Liff" defined as "the minimum distance at which sheep remain
picturesque".
I find his wr
On 10/19/05, David Cantrell wrote:
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 09:00:40PM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > If that's the only thing about the Unicode charset that you find hateful
> > then you've not looked at it very hard.
> I find especially hateful people who whine about Unicode.
I think most
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