After the depreciation of Google+ and Twitter's short messages remaining inadequate, I'm still using this place for occasional rants. My carefully curated OCD serves as personal mild superpower to offer views on the world that hopefully you find interesting, too.
Wednesday, 30 March 2016
Please abandon daylight saving time
It's quite possibly the most stupid useless "invention" of mankind, and not even worth a lengthy rant. Let's just get rid of it and never talk about it again.
Saturday, 13 February 2016
cmake sucks the camel dick dryer than the Gobi desert
There. I said it. Short post, I know, but it needed to be said.
cmake is like a Microsoft product. Very appealing in the beginning, almost enchanting during the first steps where everything works great and surprisingly easy. But there comes a time, it's not an if, it's a when, when it does not do what you need out of the box, and you have to convince it to bend to your will. That's the point where you hit the brick wall, and from this point on there is a steady increase in the number of workarounds and manual additions to the build system, until you eventually notice "Overall, it did not save me any trouble compared to plain old Makefiles."
Except if the dev ecosystem was your own choice to begin with. Then you know "I should have used Go right away."
cmake is like a Microsoft product. Very appealing in the beginning, almost enchanting during the first steps where everything works great and surprisingly easy. But there comes a time, it's not an if, it's a when, when it does not do what you need out of the box, and you have to convince it to bend to your will. That's the point where you hit the brick wall, and from this point on there is a steady increase in the number of workarounds and manual additions to the build system, until you eventually notice "Overall, it did not save me any trouble compared to plain old Makefiles."
Except if the dev ecosystem was your own choice to begin with. Then you know "I should have used Go right away."
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