Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category

Floating point not allowed

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

This is the error that pops up when editing the (obviously) floating point value of the character or line spacing in the Mac OS Terminal.app preferences.

safari 4 and…

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

I preferred when Safari was chewing up tons of memory. At least then it didn’t crash every 10 minutes on random web sites. (more…)

dear php, about array declaration

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

So, the following is legal:

$foo = array(
  "bar" => 2*2
);
var_dump($foo);

But this is not:

class Foo {
  public static $foo = array(
    "bar" => 2*2
  );
}
var_dump(Foo::$foo);

I’m sure there is a reasonable explanation for this behavior, but I’m not sure I really want to hear about it.

safari 4 and threads

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Dear Lazyweb, why does Safari 4 takes up to 500 threads after a few days running? Not that I mind much the 5.6GB of virtual memory it takes or the almost 700 MB of real memory, but I’m just curious.

Dear google reader developers…

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

Automatic translation is nice, but please, allow it on a per-post basis instead of per-feed. kthxbye. (more…)

journalists and up-to-date data

Friday, November 21st, 2008

People, if Chinese Democracy was already reported to have cost $13M in 2001, maybe giving such a number now would be misleading since most of the tracks were recorded a few more times since then.

bad taste

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Replacing Brian May’s nice and clean job with some butchered (probably fretless) thing. (more…)

google reader tags.. err… folders?

Monday, November 17th, 2008

So they renamed their tags as folders. But they still act as tags. Don’t people get confused by the “change folders” behavior?

gmail mac notifier wtf?!

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

Downloading gmail mac notifier brings a dmg file (ok) which only contains a shell script (wt?) which opens another URL to download the notifier (W-T-F-F?!). What’s wrong with you, people, seriously?

nin’s website

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Dear Trent,

Your website sucks. Deeply. Oh, not as much as, say, voyage-sncf (which is the high level standard for suckage), but it sucks in its own way. It sometimes looks (and works) like a weblog or even a photoblog, but there’s no history. And when you’re posting 5-6 photos in a row, only crackheads doing a reload every minute can have a chance to pick all of them.

Your website sucks. And to compensate the high suckage level of your website, people built their own website posting everything you post there. But like I said, if they don’t have enough crack incoming, they might miss a post every now and then.

There are different solutions. You could probably enable full content in the corresponding feed, this way we will at least be able to see the content and you won’t have to change the visual aspect of your site, if that’s the problem. And this way, we don’t have to think about the thousands of fan comments (“I love you, Trent”, “come play to my house”, “alessandro is so sexy”, etc…). And I know you can post this content to the full-content feed, because you just do it for the “real” news. Another solution would be to post those pictures on flickr. It’s not like it would be difficult, again, since you’re already doing it for a selection of photos. Having pixelised phone camera pictures in the middle of dark blurry in-concert (not even large) pictures wouldn’t be such a drama.

Thanks for listening, Trent. Think of the ki^H^Hwebsite.

PS: don’t forget to free Robin in time for the VMA. Let him rehearse a bit, I’m sure Josh can help him too.

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My name is Sebastien Tanguy. This is my weblog. I am currently a software developer, but every now and then I also talk about music, books or photography.

 

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