On 2009-05-24, at 15:20, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Peter da Silva wrote:
Things the Perl community should be embarrassed about:
1. Perl
Careful gents, we're straying away from software hate and into
straight on
trolling. This is supposed to be a safe, welcoming and inclusive
community
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com 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
On May 24, 2009, at 3:48 PM, Yoz Grahame wrote:
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com
wrote:
Let's see, have we had one about horrible home-brewed defect tracking
systems lately?
You'll be here all YEAR.
I just want one - home-brewed or commercial, I don't care
Dear Website That Shall Not Be Named,
it's not so fucking complicated to remember the credentials of a
user for more than three fucking minutes -- even I can write code
that manages that! So quit fucking logging me out on every other
fucking page load, you worthless piece of shit
. Hate!
British Airways's ticket purchase interface has (a) a ludicrously
short timeout and (b) various UI hurdles that make me think the two
problems were deliberately combined to create some kind of website
Krypton Factor. In particular there's this gem, which - while not
being a stellar example
Yoz Grahame writes:
British Airways's ticket purchase interface
http://skitch.com/yozlet/bgtsh/british-airways-passenger-details
Snap!
http://anbaric.co.uk/yesno.png
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Aaron Crane ** http://aaroncrane.co.uk/
http://cutbot.net/ -- media monitoring for the internet age
2009/5/24 Yoz Grahame y...@yoz.com:
please do not enter any phone number
punctuation characters as our programmer is far too inept to work out
how to filter them correctly
Urgh, yes.
Please take some of your time to preprocess your input *exactly* the
way we want it because our computer is
On 2009-05-24, at 02:28, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
Dear Website That Shall Not Be Named,
[followed by a complaint that applies to hundreds of bleeding nasty
websites]
Yep, better not try and name 'em all, we'll be here all day. :(
On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 06:08 -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2009-05-24, at 02:28, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
Dear Website That Shall Not Be Named,
[followed by a complaint that applies to hundreds of bleeding nasty
websites]
But only one that the Perl community should be particularly
On 2009-05-24, at 09:11, Denny wrote:
On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 06:08 -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2009-05-24, at 02:28, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
Dear Website That Shall Not Be Named,
[followed by a complaint that applies to hundreds of bleeding nasty
websites]
But only one that the Perl
Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2009-05-24, at 09:11, Denny wrote:
On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 06:08 -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2009-05-24, at 02:28, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
Dear Website That Shall Not Be Named,
[followed by a complaint that applies to hundreds of bleeding nasty
websites
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 10:33:33AM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 11:15 +0200, Juerd Waalboer wrote:
Change the captcha for each failed attempt, or every n failed attempts.
And hence back to the original hate ...
Captchas are hateful anyway. I get them wrong at least half
And for that matter, why do I want to have a username? Why can't I just use my
email address, and if the website needs something it can display to others, let
me enter my name. If there is more than one Timothy Knox already on the system,
display my name as Timothy Knox (3) or whatever. For every website that has
Peter da Silva skribis 2007-06-05 19:30 (-0500):
And for that matter, why do I want to have a username? Why can't I
just use my email address,
What happens when you want to change it?
Then you probably need to reconfirm.
Do you foresee any problems?
As opposed to remembering which email
On Jun 5, 2007, at 7:37 PM, Juerd Waalboer wrote:
Peter da Silva skribis 2007-06-05 19:30 (-0500):
And for that matter, why do I want to have a username? Why can't I
just use my email address,
What happens when you want to change it?
Then you probably need to reconfirm.
Do you foresee
Peter da Silva wrote:
I have to remember which contortion of my usual username wasn't
already taken by some previous user of the system. GH!
As opposed to remembering which email address you used?
At least that is under you control (largely). I try to use one of two
different email
On Jun 5, 2007, at 11:39 PM, Peter da Silva wrote:
You change your email address, you lose all the accounts tied to
it, sooner or later.
..hence the appeal of a pobox.com account, which just forwards on to
whatever account you feel like using that week, and the people
sending you mail --
http://www.mailinator.com/
That's a bit TOO throwaway for my liking. o_O
creation is
a sure way to drive people away. They won't register on weblogs
and the other asteroids floating through the web.
If you want comments from anyone else than the relatives you'd
prefer weren't reading you, you generally need to allow anonymous
comments.
If you want to have a website
* Timothy Knox t...@thelbane.com [2007-06-06 00:05]:
Why can't I just use my email address, and if the website needs
something it can display to others, let me enter my name.
This is me, failing to hate OpenID.
Regards,
--
Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/
On 5 Jun 2007, at 16.07, Andrew Black - lists wrote:
How many times have I gone to a form
...
Why can't it check your username is sensible before all the other
things. I guess with Ajax you can
Indeed, indeed. It's not just checking the username, for that matter.
It's any sort of
How many times have I gone to a form
Username : AndrewB
Password: x
Password again: x
email:
Graphic to check you are really human :
Submit
Sorry AndrewB is taken
Change to AndrewBlack
Sorry you must give a password (been cleared down)
Type password twice
Sorry AndrewBlack is taken
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 21:07 +0100, Andrew Black - lists wrote:
How many times have I gone to a form
Why can't it check your username is sensible before all the other
things. I guess with Ajax you can
Yes this is annoying, especially where you have a big stupidly designed
form that
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