it drives me freaking nuts that wikipedia allows animations on the pages. i'm trying to focus and read some math formula and there's some utterly annoying distracting "look at me! look at me!" graph animation in the way.

There are two things (only 2?!) that are big lies in the computer industry. The first is, "mobile first". The second is "ux". Even Google and Apple utterly screw the poochies in these regards.

I have say, if your programming language and/or code base cannot/does not encode units of measure in any standard consistent prevalent obvious way (even just in variable names), then I think it pretty much sucks.

If there's one reason that the aliens are staying the hell away from us, it is that OpenAL is still a "thing".

Computers kinda suck. Like how Firefox won't print a web page that is still loading even though the information I want has already rendered and I can, you know, see it with my eyes. So I have to, what, break out the bloody screen grab program instead?! What! Ever!

Sony's blu-ray player eternally on-going train wreck of pure badness makes me wish they would get hammered with a class action law suit for shipping broken shyte products, or that all consumers everywhere would grow a backbone and boycott all things sony. I know I will.

Sure, the whole blu-ray thing is a complete and utter end-user usability debacle from start to finish, but somehow Sony goes that extra mile and introduces extra bugs like having the box stop responding to the (perfectly good, working) remote control while it is playing even regular DVDs.

Anybody involved with blu-ray should go out of business immediately, if you ask me. But with extra special love in it for Sony. The company who offers live chat customer service, makes you jump through hoops, and then tells you on we're closed ha ha. (BofA did that to me recently as well. If I were dictator, bad UX would be a severely punishable offense.)

Nice how it seems like pretty much everywhere I turn with technology, something is revealed to kind of deeply, deeply suck.

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