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It's a little silly to hate a technology. They're just tools - pick the one that suits the task or your mood and crack on; ignore the one you 'dislike'.
I've often found that when people hate a technology it's because they don't get it or they're so deeply into an opposing technology that they don't want to get it.
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This. Exactly. Especially for programming languages.
The tool is only as intelligent as the one who holds it.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: The tool is only as intelligent as the one who holds it.
The tool technology is only as intelligent as the one tool who holds it.
That's the problem, isn't it? 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Smartphones.
A regular cell phone (preferably the size and weight of a brick to discourage people from carrying them into restaurants, cinemas and other places) was fine for making calls in emergencies or, at least, when the call was essential.
Smartphones first encouraged people to be on them all the time - even when ordering at a coffee shop or restaurant - and then encouraged people to either google everything all the time or be endlessly texting nonsense to each other.
Texting is great for the hearing impaired - which explains why people sitting next to each other in clubs, etc. text each other. The music is so loud that:
1. They cannot hear one another speaking so need to text things like "hello", "do you want a drink?" and "do you think this music needs to be a bit louder?"
2. They are all going to be hearing impaired very soon anyway so they might as well get used to texting.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: even when ordering at a coffee shop or restaurant
that is not that bad. But for a damn good sake leave it in the pocket while you are driving a caaaaaaar 
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Voice recognition systems.
A pox on them.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Voice recognition systems.
They work great when you don't have a mouth full of food. Perhaps that is the problem?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Mobile Phone
I feel with computers like if I was semi god Thor, child of Zeus (is it?). But with a phone, it seems like you gave me a toy hammer.
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Right now, I hate the CP abuse system, because evil-minded scumbags are using it for political reasons.
Things like that will lead to the ruination of CP. The failure of bulletin boards/newsgroups/etc. always starts with small abuses like that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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After 10+ years of doing c++ on linux I would say Windows.
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You should never work with me if you have that opinion of XML. 
But to answer your question: television, the destroyer of both the social fabric of society and the people's will and intellectual ability to do something about, well anything and everything.
Marc
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here here. Television is the bane of all civilization.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Yah, I've heard your opinion on television before I wouldn't say I disagree with it, especially if we include all mass media, not only the television.
There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet!
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1. Internet Explorer
2. Internet Explorer
3. Internet Explorer
4. Windows Server
5. Windows Phone
6. Apple (iOS, OS X, ...)
7. Visual Basic
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Except for web-services, I have to agree with the original post. However, I believe he should have added JavaScript to his list. VBScript was a far more sophisticated client-side scripting language than Java will ever be and was very well documented in comparison.
JavaScript has also promoted a host of redundant frameworks, which offer little in the way of benefit for using them over standard implementations while adding a lot more bloated code to the front-end...
Steve Naidamast
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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+1 to XML and COM
And +100 to all MS bullsh!t like Azure, SharePoint, WCF.
And +1000 to all stupids writing on PHP - most horrible language ever.
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So, in summary ...
I hate my job. I really, really hate my job. Won't someone just get me outta here. Fix the lottery! Or shoot me ... that works too!
... ?
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to pick the best of what has been said already.
Television - worst invention for civilization to move forward ever!
iTunes - worst software ever consumed
and
sticks.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Non-politically correct answer:
Like that which feeds my family and pays the bills or shows potential to do so.
All else is subject to hate.
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Surprised about XML. I find it easier to read (as a human) than equivalents (i.e json) so long as the XML format itself isn't tortured (i.e what SAP does to it). I mostly like the System.Xml.Linq namespace classes for dealing with it - particularly cool when building xml documents from object models. Speed and size can be issues, but TBH speed has never really been a problem for us and size is manageable (if still not as good as json) if you compress before transport. To each their own I guess.
Web services - Again I have no problem with the MS implementation and tooling, and SOAP while it has some overhead, actually does things for you that you often have to build in yourself otherwise. I am Perfectly happy building and using .Net SOAP services in VS. However, I would probably put this on my list because *every* *single* php SOAP service we've ever been asked to use has had a badly formed WSDL which breaks the MS tooling, and trying to get PHP developers to acknowledge that I like pulling teeth. It always ends up being the WSDL and the php guy's fault, but they always insist it isn't.
Agree about COM. It's had it's day, and while it has some good points, mostly it's a PITA. I can't believe WinRT is based on it. Makes me sad. I shall cry into my coffee.
I would put iOS on this list. I know I'm like the only person on the planet that feels this way, but every time I use it I find it unintuitive, frustrating, ugly and somehow it feels 'old'. I always thought if I didn't have a WP I'd want an iPhone over Android, but having done some Xamarin development recently I think Android might actually be my preferred option.
I also have a love/hate relationship with Xamarin, and particularly Xamarin Forms at the moment. The concept is awesome. The execution is filled with missing features, broken tooling, bugs, performance issues, and what looks like (though I haven't proved) poorly thought out implementation that isn't easily extended/replaced.
WinRT - Ugh. Ugly API's. Missing API's. Poor exception logic, with poor reporting across language boundaries. Features missing (inheritance in public WinRT components) because... jscript. COM underneath. WTF. Ugh.
Jscript. I'm not a web dev, and I don't like the web stack much so I'm biased anyway. The tools have also come along way since I last tried, so probably I'm just out of touch. However, personally, I don't like the language and have always found the tools awkward/lacking whenever I've tried to use it. Basically my initial experiences put me off so much I do everything I can to avoid it now. While I remain ignorant of the details, the proliferation of frameworks to make things better/work cross browser (like jquery) etc. is doing nothing to change my mind. I can't imagine why anyone wants nodejs... jscript on the server? Shouldn't we be trying to replace it everywhere, not move it up the stack?
There's probably a hundred others, but that's all that comes to mind right now. I'm a grumpy old man these days.
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Wow, reading the other answers, so many good suggestions. Phone/smartphone, internet, PDF, regex. Yep, dislike all those on some level too.
I also have to say I enjoyed computers much more before they became a social tool. Sitting alone in the basement in the dark hammering out code no one would ever see, that was fun. All this connected all the time, social, communication/chat rubbish has just ruined computers for introverted geeks like me.
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"The phone".
Every day cutting edge gadgets: "The phone".
Every year new technology: "The phone".
Every one is excited about new toy coming out: "The phone".
Every technological news: "The phone".
For the last 15+ years of innovation: "The phone".
The future of automation: "The phone".
Radio Shack is not selling anything else anymore except: "The phone".
Arrggghhh!!! I hate "The phone".
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0) JavaScript. No explanation needed.
1) Social media APIs. The very idea that a social media company can up and decide at any time to change/deprecate/turn off APIs that are widely used all over the Web just makes my blood boil. This kind of thing happens with applications too, but on the Web it can hit you suddenly, there's no workaround, and usually poor documentation and communication about the change and little or nothing in the way of actual support. I'm starting to get the feeling that no matter who I work for, I'm really working for Twittter/FB/etc.
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