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This is one of my favourite rants. The other one is the SO answer about X/HTML parsing with regex. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open
by hprotagonist 6y ago
This is one of my favourite rants.
The other one is the SO answer about X/HTML parsing with regex. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
- dspillett 6y ago"Please do not flag it for our attention." is the perfect finishing touch too.
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoI find it weird that the comment is locked rather than deleted. Funny it be, it does not seem à propos for answering a quæstion.
- _jal 6y agoAt this point, it is a cultural artifact.
- Alupis 6y agoIt's from a time before StackOverflow (and StackExchange at large) got very ridged with all the rules. Back then, there were a lot of "fun" questions and answers, including the infamous "What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?"[1] Some old timers might remember those days... SO was a much more fun place back then. Now it's rife with down-voters, close-voters and hostile-towards-newbie folks. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-comment-in-source-code-you-have-ever-encountered https://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-...
- NobodyNada 6y agoThe post was locked because it had received hundreds of flags and comments complaining that the post was broken -- even with the moderator note at the bottom -- and several edits trying to "fix" the post. See https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/250099#comment637_250099 https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/250099#comment637_2...
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoMy point is that the comment should be deleted altogether as it's more of a personal rant than a serious answer.
- aasasd 6y agoYou'll fit in extremely well as a moderator on today's StackExchange.
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoI'm not saying that these should be the rules. Only that so long as they be the rules, they should be consistently enforced.
- WhyNott 6y agoTo be fair, "law doesn't work backwards" is an estabilished legal principle.
- Hamuko 6y agoMy favourite is wm4's rant about C locales. It's quite impressive. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f027338b0fab0f5078971fbe https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...
- cataphract 6y agoUnsurprisingly, this kind of attitude got him kicked of his own project.
- stickfigure 6y ago"Those not comfortable with toxic language should pretend this is a religious text." I love it.
- akiselev 6y agoI prefer the end: > All in all, I believe this proves that software developers as a whole and as a culture produce worse results than drug addicted butt fucked monkeys randomly hacking on typewriters while inhaling the fumes of a radioactive dumpster fire fueled by chinese platsic toys for children and Elton John/Justin Bieber crossover CDs for all eternity.
- sam_goody 6y agoOuch! Truth hurts! ;) The worst part is that American programmers may never be hit by most of the horrors of LC_CTYPE et al, so will not fix it for those that do. And the poor guy who installed Postgres and tries to sort Arabic can't figure out why in Heaven's name the order seems random.