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Riddled is a common word that native English speakers tend to use. It’s not a tell. Your aggression, on the other hand, is uncommon. It is a tell.
by hluska 5y ago
Riddled is a common word that native English speakers tend to use. It’s not a tell.
Your aggression, on the other hand, is uncommon. It is a tell.
- rendall 5y agoSorry. Not intending to be aggressive. That's me being weirded out, not intentionally aggressive. As a native English speaker, I can assure you it's not a common technical term at all. It's a poetic phrase, designed to elicit thoughts of illness and damage. A house can be riddled with termites, a body can be riddled with cancer, a bridge can be riddled with rust. But Flash, uniquely, is "riddled" with security holes. No one says that about Windows.
- warble 5y agoAs an engineer, I hear it used all the time in contexts outside of Flash. It's extremely common.
- Ferrotin 5y agoGetting “riddled” specifically means to get holes put in you, as in with bullets. It’s a very fitting term for having lots of security holes.
- hluska 5y agoStrange, I googled “windows riddled” (without quotes - try it). This was the first result: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/why-is-windows-10-riddled-with-so-many-bugs-and/36472c84-bb02-4f86-9520-c86f8a3fa604 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/why-is... “Why is Windows 10 riddled with so many bugs and the updates make matters worse?” It’s likely time to admit that you’re wrong. Riddled is a word, the meaning fits and people use it to describe software.