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Re:PSD is not my favourite file format (2009) by hprotagonist on Thursday January 28, 2021 @01:40PM (#25946714)
This is one of my favourite rants.

The other one is the SO answer about X/HTML parsing with regex. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...

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Re:PSD is not my favourite file format (2009) by Hamuko on Thursday January 28, 2021 @02:09PM (#25947277)
My favourite is wm4's rant about C locales. It's quite impressive.

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...

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Re:PSD is not my favourite file format (2009) by sam_goody on Friday January 29, 2021 @04:51AM (#25955712)
Ouch! Truth hurts! ;)

The worst part is that American programmers may never be hit by most of the horrors of LC_CTYPE et al, so will not fix it for those that do.

And the poor guy who installed Postgres and tries to sort Arabic can't figure out why in Heaven's name the order seems random.

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Re:PSD is not my favourite file format (2009) by stickfigure on Thursday January 28, 2021 @03:05PM (#25948236)
"Those not comfortable with toxic language should pretend this is a religious text."

I love it.

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Re:PSD is not my favourite file format (2009) by akiselev on Friday January 29, 2021 @01:57AM (#25954814)
I prefer the end:

> All in all, I believe this proves that software developers as a whole and as a culture produce worse results than drug addicted butt fucked monkeys randomly hacking on typewriters while inhaling the fumes of a radioactive dumpster fire fueled by chinese platsic toys for children and Elton John/Justin Bieber crossover CDs for all eternity.

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Re:PSD is not my favourite file format (2009) by cataphract on Thursday January 28, 2021 @02:30PM (#25947634)
Unsurprisingly, this kind of attitude got him kicked of his own project.
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Re:PSD is not my favourite file format (2009) by Hamuko on Thursday January 28, 2021 @02:32PM (#25947686)
Clearly I haven't been paying attention to mpv close enough.
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Re:PSD is not my favourite file format (2009) by awestroke on Thursday January 28, 2021 @03:54PM (#25949046)
Really? Where can I read more?
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Re:PSD is not my favourite file format (2009) by Blikkentrekker on Thursday January 28, 2021 @02:02PM (#25947146)
I find it weird that the comment is locked rather than deleted.

Funny it be, it does not seem à propos for answering a quæstion.

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Re:PSD is not my favourite file format (2009) by Alupis on Thursday January 28, 2021 @02:25PM (#25947554)
It's from a time before StackOverflow (and StackExchange at large) got very ridged with all the rules. Back then, there were a lot of "fun" questions and answers, including the infamous "What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered?"[1]

Some old timers might remember those days... SO was a much more fun place back then. Now it's rife with down-voters, close-voters and hostile-towards-newbie folks.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-...

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Re:PSD is not my favourite file format (2009) by NobodyNada on Thursday January 28, 2021 @02:42PM (#25947846)
The post was locked because it had received hundreds of flags and comments complaining that the post was broken -- even with the moderator note at the bottom -- and several edits trying to "fix" the post. See https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/250099#comment637_2...
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Re:PSD is not my favourite file format (2009) by Blikkentrekker on Thursday January 28, 2021 @02:46PM (#25947907)
My point is that the comment should be deleted altogether as it's more of a personal rant than a serious answer.
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Re:PSD is not my favourite file format (2009) by aasasd on Thursday January 28, 2021 @06:44PM (#25951175)
You'll fit in extremely well as a moderator on today's StackExchange.
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Re:PSD is not my favourite file format (2009) by Blikkentrekker on Thursday January 28, 2021 @08:18PM (#25952293)
I'm not saying that these should be the rules.

Only that so long as they be the rules, they should be consistently enforced.

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Re:PSD is not my favourite file format (2009) by WhyNott on Friday January 29, 2021 @07:33AM (#25956581)
To be fair, "law doesn't work backwards" is an estabilished legal principle.
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Re:PSD is not my favourite file format (2009) by _jal on Thursday January 28, 2021 @02:25PM (#25947546)
At this point, it is a cultural artifact.
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Re:PSD is not my favourite file format (2009) by dspillett on Thursday January 28, 2021 @02:01PM (#25947134)
"Please do not flag it for our attention." is the perfect finishing touch too.
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