Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Tag: rants

Dear Adobe July 2nd, 2007

Dear Adobe – Acrobat sucks gigantic mountain-goat testicles. Everything about it from the installer to the interface to its performance seems designed to be as user-hostile as possible. Everyone involved in this project should be ashamed. That is all.

I don't care whose is bigger February 19th, 2007

Lately there’s been a big flare-up of web geek dick waving. This happens from time to time, and every time it just pisses me off to no end. All this arguing over “glue” versus “decoupled”, “full-stack” versus “NIH”… it reminds me of the ridiculous “surge”/“escalation” frenzy flaring up over in D.C. And like politics, these dick waving contents only really succeed because the sane people get too disgusted to participate. All that’s left are the people who are pedantic or insane enough to keep shouting back and forth.…