This is like when the carpet cleaners call you to do a survey and ask how often your carpet is cleaned, and would you like to have it cleaned next Tuesday?
Because we all know having 20 women a month is what life is all about.
Posts Tagged ‘Hall of Shame’
I have always, always hated applications that give a “Tip of the Day.” The reason is simple: It’s either telling you about something obvious, or something that you don’t need. The odds of it telling you something you actually need to know on a particular day are astronomically against. So tips of the day usually don’t push my button.
This one, on the other hand, did:
Let that sink in for a moment. In KDevelop, an IDE, you can debug. I know, it’s earth shattering. Further, you do it by choosing commands from the Debug menu.
I hope I haven’t lost you…
This is the stupidest tip of the day dialog I have ever seen.
Someone, somewhere paid something so that this ad could pop up in my browser earlier today. Hard to believe, isn’t it?
From time to time I like to highlight bad interface decisions. The pomposity of this text made me laugh. But now I feel so very dirty.
Did nobody ever point this insanity out? Who would ever think this was a good idea?
It may seem like I usually come down hard on Microsoft software. The simple reason for that is that Microsoft software is worse than Apple software. But that doesn’t mean Apple software is flawless.
After the user double clicks a file with no extension (or any other kind of type data), Mac OS X offers a chance for the user to pick an application to use to open the file. So far so good. After clicking the application, I got this message.
If you can figure out what’s being updated, or why Cancel is different than Don’t Update, you are either the developer who wrote this useless message or have the same kind of brain damage. Either way, it’s not too late for you — seek professional help.
Every time someone tells me how great an IDE Visual Studio is, I wonder if we’re talking about the same Visual Studio. Just to be clear, the one I’m using is from Microsoft.
Here’s an error message I ran into today. See if you can guess what it means; it occurs when you try to drag a source file into your project.
The text, in case you don’t want to look at the picture closely, is “A file, filter, or folder already exists at the current scope in project ‘calc’ or access was denied for the desired operation.”
Give up? It means That file is already in your project. It does not mean it is in any particular place in your project, and the group it is in is probably hidden.
I hate overloaded error messages. I hate overloaded error messages where each overloaded error message makes no sense even more. I call for the head of whoever wrote that message! I’m not singling him out; I want the head of everyone who writes useless error messages. And yes, I know that includes my own head, but I’ve already got it, see…