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Re:Ask HN: Programs that wasted you 100 hours? by 14k12j41j211 on Monday April 13, 2020 @08:12AM (#22855108)
LaTeX. Compiler errors, add-ons from the 80s, and unhelpful defaults. No problem to write Chinese chara… oh, in this environment? Sorry.

C++ compiler (or even better: linker) errors. They are just not meant to be read by humans, lacking any pointers on what's really the issue.

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Re:Ask HN: Programs that wasted you 100 hours? by ytch on Monday April 13, 2020 @09:05AM (#22855469)
Also the Makefile. I still cannot write customized Makefile for my side project now
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