A list of things that suck (2012-06-15)

The things in this list suck. If you think they don’t suck, you’re wrong, but you are nevertheless welcome to email me about it at amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il.

1. War.
2. Fascism.
3. Viral upper respiratory tract infection.
4. Microsoft Internet Explorer.
5. Git and Gerrit.
6. mosquitoes.
7. Andrew Keen.
8. Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland.
9. Yahoo!
10. The fucking bird that speaks Ukrainian and wakes me up at 6 am every now and then.
11. These variable names: i, j, any name shorter than three letters and any name that has anything to do with “buffer”.
12. Expedia.
13. Apple Inc. and all its products, including iPod, iPhone, iPad and Macintosh computers with their dysfunctional one-button mice.
14. Mailing list digests.
15. Software localization websites, with the possible exception of TranslateWiki.net. To alleviate any doubt: Transifex, Pootle, GlotPress, WTS, Narro and Rosetta – all suck. If you are familiar with a software localization website that doesn’t suck and isn’t TranslateWiki.net, email me about it at amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il, although it will probably take me about 42 seconds of using it to prove that it sucks.
16. Mobile phones, without any exception. To alleviate any doubt: Apple, Nokia, Android, Samsung, Sony, Telit, Motorola, HTC and BlackBerry – all suck. If you are familiar with a mobile phone that doesn’t suck, email me about it at amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il, although it will probably take me about 42 seconds of using it to prove that it sucks, and it will definitely take me at least a month of using it every day to get convinced that it doesn’t suck.
17. Digital music players, without any exception. To alleviate any doubt: Apple, Sansa, Microsoft, SilverLine – all suck. If you are familiar with a digital music player that doesn’t suck, email me about it at amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il, although it will probably take me about 42 seconds of using it to prove that it sucks, and it will definitely take me at least a month of using it every day to get convinced that it doesn’t suck.
18. Google+.
19. Facebook. (At least until they fix their RTL support.)
20. Google Chrome. (At least until they fix the RTL support.)
21. Instagram.
22. Any software for managing music files collections. This includes iTunes, WinAmp, Windows Media Player and Amarok.