Saturday, May 27, 2017

Programming languages that refuse to have the C style for(int i=0.1; i<100.7; i+=3.14159) {} style of loop are, I believe, kinda crap. At least super especially so if they do not have any documentation about how to get something just like it.
I think Ubuntu default web browser is a rather large indictment of the whole enterprise.

Sunday, May 14, 2017

I pray there's a circle of hell reserved for people who implement sorting that defaults to the wrong sort. I consider all of these to be the wrong defaults: oldest first; smallest first; most expensive first; lowest rating first.

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

If your cloud service doesn't support sync'ing out to something else as a primary use case and function, then I kind don't like your cloud service. Like, whatever document I am working on, I should be able to connect it to a git(hub) repo, or an S3 bucket, or whatever the heck, even just emailing myself .tgz copies daily - whatever. But otherwise you look like yet another jerky vendor trying to get user lock in, rather than giving me what I really want, what I really really want.

Saturday, May 6, 2017

The sky is literally falling.

(That particular explanation echoes what I heard about Steve Jobs talking to Dr.'s at Stanford about his pancreatic cancer: he delayed getting involved with any particular physician, trying to find the best of the best of the 2nd opinions, by which time the cancer was too advanced. Terribly sad consequences.)

Monday, May 1, 2017

No wonder Neiman Marcus is going out of business. Their web site doesn't even (afaict at a cursory glance) let me filter by 'things in stores near me'.
For the most part, it is probably safe to bet that I strongly dislike whatever you did with mouse hover over reaction. Seems like everybody wants to make things zoom or change or wiggle or heaven only knows what, and all I'm trying to do is scan through a list of things, not have stuff get all jiggy on me.