From: Adam Atlas Date: 18:22 on 16 Oct 2007 Subject: Autoconf and so forth God I hate Autoconf, Automake, etc. Mainly because I hate the whole "here are a bunch of shell scripts that process M4 scripts in order to generate some more shell scripts that generate a bunch of Makefiles that will hopefully eventually generate some executable code" thing... honestly, can't we reduce that to one step and one language by now? Dearie me. And also the "even though we're providing you with a hateful-but-at- least-functional macro language, you still have to include tons of retarded boilerplate code in every project even for really common tasks" thing. Not to mention the "this script was written for Autoconf 2.5999999998, so don't even think about trying to process it with Autoconf 2.5999999999" thing. (This thing called SCons looks like it *might* be a relatively-decent replacement for this whole mess. But I have yet to try it, so I do not yet know how much I will hate it.)
From: Adam Atlas Date: 03:47 on 01 Jan 2007 Subject: Some quick bookmark hate Am I the only one who finds it hateful that most web browsers add new bookmarks/favourites to the BOTTOM of the list? When I find some site that I'd like to come back to later, the bookmarks feature would be more useful if I didn't have to scroll through hundreds of old ones to get to it...
From: Adam Atlas Date: 03:34 on 11 Dec 2006 Subject: Regarding audio software interfaces Dear audio software (including, but not limited to, mixers, synthesizers/samplers, and effects): Who told you you were supposed to look like audio HARDWARE? Please, stop. It's really bad interface design. Love, An aspiring musician who's tired of his music programs being full of fucking knobs and cables and LEDs
From: Adam Atlas Date: 05:01 on 04 Oct 2006 Subject: Email address validation Dear MSN and other authors of email address validators who don't read the RFC, The ASCII plus sign is a valid character in email addresses. I will kill you. Love, Adam
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