Pet Peeves

[Arrow_Raider]

List your pet peeves.

1. Users that double click on html links.

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

I think i'll just second that, because it's bloody annoying, especially when they continue to do it after many, many, many explanations why it isn't necessary. Or smart.

[JuggaloBrotha]

I'm going to take this one step further and point out that I don't do html links because of users double clicking, I'll do a regular button with an ajax call that disables it after the 1st click so they can't double click it

[timeshifter]

This certainly works, but go figure, IE fails on the easiest way to do it... need to rely on a timer instead... grr

[JuggaloBrotha]

This certainly works, but go figure, IE fails on the easiest way to do it... need to rely on a timer instead... grr

I don't code for IE, I code for common sense and make things w3c compliant, if IE fails, it's not me, it's MS.

[timeshifter]

I wish I could code the same way... half my company uses IE, and our network is mostly car electronics installers... not exactly computer whizzes. I kind of have to code for IE...

[Hack]

My Pet Peeves are my pet's fleas.

[Arrow_Raider]

Coding for managers is just the same as coding for blue collars; they both aren't exactly computer whizzes.

[timeshifter]

Try working for a manager who is the opposite... great coder, but little managerial skill...

[demotivater]

I can't stand going to a meeting that gets sidetracked by issues unrelated to what your meeting about. If you're meeting about an interdepartmental application or something like that, and one of the departments starts having a meeting within a meeting about their processes or whatever. Meanwhile, everyone else in the room watches the clock tick. Drives me nuts. Going to a meeting in a few minutes and I guarantee that will happen.

[oceanebelle]

Be in the middle of a conversation about iPhones. I don't have one and I don't like thinking about or seeing before my eyes people comparing the glossiness each other's iPhone.

Chewing loudly, reminds me of the chomp chomp chomp pigs do.

[I_Love_My_Vans]

I don't have to code for IE! My entire work is going open source... Ubuntu with FireFox *beam of light shines down to carry me off to heaven*...

Suck it

[mendhak]

Apple product users.

Apple products.

Onions.

Summer holidays with the bucket-and-spade brigade.

Children.

[I_Love_My_Vans]

Mendhak our posts were only a minute apart... we need to synchronise our watches again.

[timeshifter]

I code for Firefox because I code for standards compliance. I've noticed that good code tends to work in IE anyway, so it's usually not a problem for me. There are still times when IE messes up, though...

[dclamp]

It seems that all threads in Chit chat keep getting hijacked with topics about IE and standards compliance... is microsoft sending us subliminal messaging?

[I_Love_My_Vans]

Don't be stupid Dylan, now I will be right back I have to go and look at the words on the frontpage of that news paper, I hope they excel at interesting me.

As I could fit all the other products in my funny sentance, access, powerpoint and paint.


You're welcome

[Torc]

Apple products.

Does this mean you don't drink Cider?

[NeedSomeAnswers]

Quote:
Originally Posted by mendhak
Apple products.
Does this mean you don't drink Cider?

Or eat Apple Pie ?

[abhijit]

My pet peeve is when the person riding with you in the car starts talking to someone else on the phone.

That and people looking over my shoulder, when I am posting on vbforums.

Why can't they wait for me to go get back to my coding window?

[EntityX]

Buying something new and having all sorts of problems with it.

Also something being advertised as doing this or that but when you buy it it completely fails doing the this or that that it was supposed to do.

An example of this:
I had bought a HotPoint refrigerator back in 2001 at Home Depot for less than $ 400. It had a good energy rating and hasn't given me any problems but isn't as quiet as I would like. I wanted to buy a refrigerator that was expecially quiet. There was a Kenmore Elite refrigerator that was advertised as having a sound reduction package to "greatly reduce operating noise". I decided I was going to buy a new refrigerator just so I could get one that was quieter. The $ 1000 Kenmore Elite turned out being noisier than my inexpensive eight year old Hotpoint. I returned it and just got an Amana refrigerator that is noticeably quieter than my HotPoint. Though the Amana could still be quieter I think I'll stick with it.

I had a Whirlpool that I bought back in 1998 used from a private party that was quieter than the three I just mentioned. The only reason I got rid of it was because I wanted somethinig that was especially energy efficient. The Hotpoint has a very good energy rating but keeping everything the same I didn't notice any difference in electricty expenditure after starting to use the Hotpoint. If I could turn the clock back I would just stick with the Whirlpool refrigerator. I would have saved myself about $ 1700 and some headaches.

[Spoo]

Inappropriate use of "there's".... as in "There's 3 ways to do this."

[mendhak]

Misuse of apostrophe's. Its like being stabbed in the eye's.

[JuggaloBrotha]

Misuse of apostrophe's. Its like being stabbed in the eye's.

In the eye's what? The eye as many parts in which it owns that could be stabbed in.

[mendhak]

Sarcasm detector fail.

[Spoo]

Inappropriate use of 'fail' it's better to use its nomnitive form, 'failure'

[EntityX]

I failure to understand what you're talking about.

[Quiver318]

My peeve is about the people who run a cash register asking me for my name, address, and phone number. When I claim I don't want to be added to their marketing lists, they respond with a straight face that the information I provide them will never be used for that reason.

[kregg]

My peeve is about the people who run a cash register asking me for my name, address, and phone number. When I claim I don't want to be added to their marketing lists, they respond with a straight face that the information I provide them will never be used for that reason.

Maybe the person loves you very much and has mustered up all their courage to ask you out in an indirect way?

Which brings me onto my pet peeves: People who don't ask for things directly.

And also people who speak so eloquently that their points in an argument goes entirely missed on you, thus making the eloquent speech pointless.

[InvisibleDuncan]

Misuse of apostrophe's. Its like being stabbed in the eye's.

Similarly, peeple hoo cant speel. There's no excuse for it (unless English isn't their first language).

[Spoo]

Similarly, people who say "refer back" or "it's the exact same"

[JuggaloBrotha]

2. People who improperly use the phrase "same difference"
3. People who use the phrase "very much so"

[Spoo]

What's the proper way to use the phrase "same difference"?

[mendhak]

You can say "Doesn't matter" or "The pros and cons of the situation are of an equivalent nature." You can use either one... same difference.

[JuggaloBrotha]

You can say "Doesn't matter" or "The pros and cons of the situation are of an equivalent nature." You can use either one... same difference.

:smiley of middle finger:

[EntityX]

What really gets me is VBForums members listing their pet peeves in a thread called Pet Peeves. Of course it's ok if I want to list mine but everyone else listing theirs, now that really peeves me.

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

Similarly, people who say 'refer back' or 'it's the exact same'

We must completely eradicate superfluous redundancy

[BillGeek]

Similarly, peeple hoo cant speel. There's no excuse for it (unless English isn't their first language).

I hate it when people can't speak proper English.

English isn't even my first language, yet I notice incorrect grammar instantly. My colleague, for example, will say something like:

There's many different ways of doing it.

IT'S "ARE"!!! There ARE many different ways!


*walks off to go have a cigarette*

[mendhak]

People who touch your monitor when showing something to you. I can very well see what you're pointing at. Stop trying to get the L in the LCD with your greasy fingers.

[InvisibleDuncan]

I hate it when people can't speak proper English.

People who incorrectly use reflexive pronouns. Why do they think they sound clever when they say "If you have any questions, please contact myself"? It's not "myself", it's "me".