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The world is unfair. Everybody is stealing my favorite things to hate. I have been single-handily hating Java since 1996 and never, never took a Java job. It f
by old-gregg 17y ago
The world is unfair. Everybody is stealing my favorite things to hate.
I have been single-handily hating Java since 1996 and never, never took a Java job. It felt so f-ing awesome coding C with Python and laughing at Java groupies up until around 2004 when hating Java became mainstream. Ridiculing Java is so uncool now... everybody is doing it, no need to engage your neocortex in this activity anymore: it's like breathing. Ugh.
Facebook "platform" was awesome to hate but only for a short while: in less than a year everybody stopped loving it and the cave of Facebook haters got too crowded. I don't even remember the name they used for that "platform" anymore.
Then the iPhone came out, a 100% closed and proprietary little cutie. Then the DRM-crippled Kindle! It felt like being a kid in a candy store for a while: those two were awesome gifts to a serial crippled tech hater like me. It's been so awesome not owning these two and bashing them all over internets! And suddenly I'm not alone, the beach is full of fatties and the water is muddy. Hey you're all, get outa here and go zoom some maps with two fingers, dammit!
Ugh... Only Flash is left as the last bullet on my list of things to hate. And the camp of Flash bashers is growing uncomfortably large. It is getting increasingly difficult to find a universally loved crap to loathe. Even not owning a TV, an all-time American love affair, is trendy!
- jrockway 17y agoI must be really cool because I hate people that hate everything just to be cool
- old-gregg 17y agoDon't scare me Mr. Jrockway. If you have read my comment in full, you would have noticed that I don't hate "everything". In fact my 12 year old list is only about 5 positions long. Notice that I only hate Adobe Flash full-time at the moment. It takes a skill, time and dedication to hate a particular technology - just look at my bookshelf. You, on the other hand, just committed to effortlessly hating a bunch of strangers! May I ask which gym you happen to frequent these days? :P