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My favourite is wm4's rant about C locales. It's quite impressive. https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f027338b0fab0f5078971fbe https://gi

by Hamuko 6y ago

My 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 ago
Unsurprisingly, this kind of attitude got him kicked of his own project.
- Hamuko 6y ago
  Clearly I haven't been paying attention to mpv close enough.
- awestroke 6y ago
  Really? Where can I read more?
stickfigure 6y ago
"Those not comfortable with toxic language should pretend this is a religious text." I love it.
- akiselev 6y ago
  I 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 ago
Ouch! 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.