Re: A simple hate for livejournal

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From: Joshua Rodman
Subject: Re: A simple hate for livejournal
Date: 19:52 on 23 Aug 2006
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 12:00:13PM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> jrodman@xxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx wrote:
> > I was writing my grand opus explaining to an interested non-unix user
> > all the hateful things about GNU Texinfo, the lack of manpages, botched
> > Debian manpages, incorrectly installed Debian Texinfo pages, idiocies of
> > the info tool, and so on, in response to a question he asked about my
> > post to this list.  It was pretty good.
> 
> That sounds like a very worthy piece of hate (can we see it somewhere?)

On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 11:22:15AM -0500, sabrina downard wrote:
> i second this Call for Hate!

The (series of) comments are posted in a livejournal entry which is
private, and mostly describes the idiocy in broad strokes instead of
specifics.  I'll give it a shot, maybe it the process will generate some
good secondary hate.


Jarkko again:
> I once was awestruck by some Linux fanboy trying vigorously (spittle and
> all) to explain to me all the goodness and beauty inherent in the info
> system.

As an unforgivable linux fanboy myself, I still cannot comprehend this
concept.  Is there some transformation of the precept about the fleas
taking in their littler fleas which applies here?  Something about like
"No matter how taken you are with Stockholm, there are always those who
will love the flatbread more."

-josh

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