dear microsoft: choke on my fuck

[rone]

I have no joke here, i just like saying, "If you think that you are experiencing a memory leak, be aware that memory leaks may not be what they appear to be. You may discover that a memory leak is not a true memory leak, but is a performance enhancement."

Comments

[erikred.livejournal.com]

Wow, that takes arrogance to an entirely new level.

I mean, it was one thing when we joked about things being features, not bugs, but this is insane.

[dr-strych9.livejournal.com]

Help a brother out, here... why exactly is the text you're quoting connected to your desire to see Microsoft choke on your fuck? I don't see any reason for such hostility. What they're saying is perfectly sensible in this case.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Don't be ridiculous. Of COURSE it's perfectly sensible IN THIS CASE given the uniquely narrow context. It's still a completely mental thing to write.

[sambushell.livejournal.com]

If you think that you are experiencing a condescending passage in a technical support page, be aware that condescending passages may not be what they appear to be. You may discover that a condescending passage is not a true condescending passage, but is a vague appeal to legitimate programming practices, spoiled by poor writing and possibly a weak understanding of the topic on the part of the author.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I could just smooch you right now.

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

These kinds of comments are hazardous to my respiratory tract.

[dagbrown.livejournal.com]

I just spent a while hunting around for the "upvote" button, just so I can say "M3 T00" in a non-obnoxious way. Unfortunately LiveJournal only lets me say "M3 T00!!" in the AOL-tastic way, so I'm forced to do so.

That was a spectacularly badly-worded way of saying "Yo dawg, we like to have results in our results, so we remember what we asked for while we remember what we asked for."

[wisn.livejournal.com]

I don't want to be the guy who says, "Given the quality of Windows application developers I've had to work with before, I can understand why they phrased it like that," but given the quality of Windows application developers I've had to work with before, yeah.

It keeps thousands of MCSEs from spending hours trying to understand how caching works, through the use of handwaves and reassuring tones.

[brong.livejournal.com]

That's muggle-speak for "we cache shit". Nothing wrong with caching.

[tau-iota-mu-c.livejournal.com]

(except for when it is not bounded)

[nothings.livejournal.com]

Where's the unbounded part? I saw "For example, the Microsoft Jet database engine can consume large amounts of memory (up to 128 MB on a 256-MB computer) because it retrieves data and writes caches" and stopped reading because it was clearly bounded.

Try this instead: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide#Memory_and_Swap_Space

[tau-iota-mu-c.livejournal.com]

In that particular favourable example they gave, yes. But I've seen mozilla "cache" shit to the point that it fills swap. Which ain't very useful in that a cache is meant to speed things up, not slow them down to molassis in a fit of OOM. (I banished mozilla from my computer in the end. That saves most of the OOMs I ever experienced from happening again).

[nothings.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure Microsoft didn't write Mozilla.

Nor even ship it.

[tau-iota-mu-c.livejournal.com]

Thanks for missing the point.

context exists.

[nothings.livejournal.com]

Rone: "dear microsoft: choke on my fuck"

Me: "what exactly is microsoft doing wrong? that web page doesn't show it, as far as I read it"

You: "Mozilla is a good example of the problem"

Re: context exists.

[tau-iota-mu-c.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, I don't have to deal with the microsoft class of shitty software these days. The only shitty software that had such a bad memory leak otherwise passed off as a "feature" is mozilla. Til I dumped it.

[dagbrown.livejournal.com]

Mozilla is, as it turns out, not a Quality Microsoft Product.

It is merely a side-effect of Quality Microsoft Best (heh) Practises.

This brought to you in the light of subsequent comments by the "Yo Dawg[tm]" Meme Factory.

[tau-iota-mu-c.livejournal.com]

I was expecting that link to point to bugzilla.mozilla.org

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Holy shit. THAT EXPLAINS SO MUCH.

("It's not stupid. It's ADVANCED.")

[mskala.livejournal.com]

http://www.angryflower.com/advan.html

[dagbrown.livejournal.com]

Also applicable to morons who use "gay" as a generic insult.

Seriously. "Gay"? Am I thirteen again? And bear in mind, I was thirteen in 1987. Using "gay" as a generic insult then was pretty well entirely restricted to 13-year-old morons. How did it manage to come back?

Christ, I hate the future.

[waider.livejournal.com]

Reminds me vaguely of when I was tooling around with the WINE project, and came across the wonderful - and as best I could determine, entirely true - statement that in older versions of windows, "Out of Memory" errors frequently meant, "Something broke and we don't know what. Must be out of memory."