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Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by Eliezer »

pfarrell wrote: post #187
SandB0x wrote: post #89

Food. I miss the healthy, affordable, sociable dining halls from university. There are people who cook better than I do, and who should be able to make great food at a reasonable price by buying fresh ingredients in bulk. My options for eating are * Cook it myself [1]. Cheap but takes time and effort to make good food. * Restaurant. Good food but expensive and takes time. I don't always want table service and small p…

Former poet laureate of the US, Charles Simic says, the secret to happiness begins with learning how to cook. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/magazine/03wwln-q4-t.html

Well, I'm sure there's some economics laureate out there who says that the secret to efficiency begins with comparative advantage.

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by thebigshane »

kqueue wrote: post #261

HN has really changed. This question is an example. This is not readdit.

I don't consider the parent a troll comment, but I could be wrong. KQueue, Finding out what annoys a group of people is an excellent way to collaborate and list all things that "need fixing". Some of these things, as you may have seen in this list, are things that other collaborators can fix (or work on fixing). I think polls like this should be a quarterly occurrence here.

You may be right that the question is common on Reddit, but probably for a completely different reason: people like to vent, and the OP wanted karma. [although reddit does have: http://www.reddit.com/r/somebodymakethis/ ]

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

jtbigwoo wrote: post #218
himmel wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There exist combination washer/dryers (all in one, no moving laundry!)

They're not very good, though. It's hard to make something that is both water-tight and has great air circulation.

> It's hard to make something that is both water-tight and has great air circulation.

I don't see how that's true - washer driers circulate fluids with the aim to get maximum interaction between the fluid and the clothing. In one instance that fluid is washing water and in the other it is hot air. They seem very similar things to me.

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by superuser2 »

joubert wrote: post #79
daleharvey wrote: post #5

Banking - My bank has a website that the 90's would be proud of, it gives me little to no information about my spending habits, transferring money is a nightmare, and using kublax (similiarly mint) had my account banned for security purposes.

Online banking in South Africa is excellent - I was shocked when I moved to the US how archaic it is. Transfers are a breeze, fast, and everyone does it. Integration with cell phone infrastructure is also great.

I suspect transfers are archaic (inconvenient, expensive, and take several days or weeks to process) in the US because otherwise the credit card and payment processing industries would cease to exist.

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Post by makmanalp »

rdouble wrote: post #149
agentultra wrote: post #144

1. Seeing a traffic jam where every car has exactly one person in it. This is just a tragedy. 2. Job interviews that require quizzes and an "intensive" multi-stage interview process. As a candidate, I've just sent you a bunch of links to open repositories where you can review my code and offered to give you other code examples from my private repositories on request. I give you links to my previous work and letters o…

This mythical "programmer that can't program" myth has disrupted the hiring process... It's not a myth.

> It's not a myth.

I refute your argument merely by stating the exact opposite.

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by pjscott »

adrianwaj wrote: post #313
pjscott wrote: post #292

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Fail Whale is cute enough that I actually don't mind when Twitter goes down. If I used Twitter more, I might feel differently.

I also don't like when people downvote when they merely disagree.

I would guess that you were downvoted because of extreme brevity (e.g. "Iran") or because your comment trivialized the tough business of making and running something like Twitter. If that's the case, then the downvoting doesn't just mean "I disagree"; it means "I disagree, and don't think this guy is worth arguing with." It's a reply to tone as well as content.

Mind you, that's just speculation. I didn't vote on your comment. But most of the time when someone complains about a comment being downvoted "just because you disagree", there's another reason he's overlooking.

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by jyothi »

dabent wrote: post #166
jyothi wrote: post #155

lies & laziness. I see people around cribbing why they are not rich or can't or not being treated at par or not getting due credits. Dig in a little and you see they don't even want to work hard.

I knew a person who was rather honest about their laziness. One day at lunch he just said "Yeah, I'm ready to be a millionaire." I said "Well, you better get busy!" With all sincerity he said, "Oh, no! I didn't want to work for it!"

So ?

Its not about one off instance where laziness might be welcome. I am talking about people who add no value to their existence, to the well being of anyone.

ps: I don't understand why my previous comment has to be downmodded. It is to the point of what the post asked for, nothing against the terms. This has been happening too much, I see it everywhere on HN. People downmodded for they don't agree.

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Post by bambax »

9ec4c12949a4f3 wrote: post #141

The absolute disgusting nature of standardization of data sets in the world, and this insane notion that we should maintain legacy data as the status-quo of doing things. Just look at the airline industry. IATA, ICAO, ISO, all competing and separate, all with insane and bat-shit psychotic rules and conventions (eg, IATA lets multiple airlines have the same "two letter designator" [by the way, it's sometimes three, bu…

"Identifiers should not carry meaning": for some reason people just hate this rule and try everything to circumvent it. It drives me crazy too.

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by bambax »

username3 wrote: post #65
tsycho wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was thinking of this same problem yesterday. I will try to hack together a Firefox extension for this over the weekend to give the HN comments page Slashdot type filters (min. point thresholds), and date sorting. Will post on HN if it works well.

Chrome can use Greasemonkey userscripts. Can you add collapse-able replies?

I built an extension for Chrome that lets you hide articles + collapse comments (HN HideIt); it's here: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/dibillbafbngeilo...

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Post by lovskogen »

doyouknow wrote: post #259

* Having applied for three internships at major research labs, which obviously lack the courtesy of letting you know that they are not interested. (This pisses me of so much that I hardly find time to do productive work anymore.) * Living in a comparatively rich country that is so full of asshole civil cervants playing shenanigans that it makes you wonder why the hell you should continue providing for these jerks. I…

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