Trivial things that annoy you Part 2

Accidentally clicking the Adtech link

Oh those 24 hr things are a pain! I have tacychardia, and while they were monitoring I had to wear those yokes with the stickers on your chest. Of course I had to be allergic to the nickle in it, so ended up tearing them off me.

Boom_Bap wrote: »

It's painful.....and those that sit in lane 3 and whip accross lanes 2 & 1 to get into the exit lane at the last minute.

Agreed.
My other personal annoyance, when driving on a motorway, happened very early on Monday.
Someone overtakes, there is not another car in sight, but they come back in front of me so sharply, they almost take the front wing of my car with them. FFS!

mickydoomsux wrote: »

I do love to see end users raging about "productivity" software

The reason it's always so obtuse is that it was more than likely designed by commitee.

When I was in college we had a class called Software Engineering and it was infuriating. Software Engineering is what you do in the industry when you are bad at programming. There's numerous flow charts and methodologies and fluff that have been concocted to "aid" the development of software but in reality they just make most applications completely and utterly infuriating because they become over-engineered ****piles and they cause simple projects to become and utter nightmare.

I got into a debate with the lecturer of the course one day and he was not best pleased when i suggested that the entire idea was stupid because all you should really being doing is developing the software, testing it to see if it is easy to use for the average user and then bugfixing and changing the stuff that was deemed to be bad during the usability test.

He wasn't having any of it. Guidelines had to followed, plans had to be made and stuck to even if they made the end product crap. As long as the software came out exactly as described in the design document (that was written long before the first line of code, usually by someone who themselves could barely code), then it was considered a successful project.

Nyaaaysus! :pac:


Dammit I just couldn't let this one go! No, honestly micky I have to fully agree with your lecturer. He was bang on the money, as was Steve Jobs when he said -

We built [the Mac] for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research.

and -

A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

I may be a dinosaur at 37 in terms of the younger college graduates emerging fresh from college today, but I have the guts of 20 years software development, implementation and deployment up on them, plus anything they can do, I can do too, because I didn't just sit on my tod after I gained my degree in computer science and mathematics from DIT nearly 20 years ago (I'd been developing software and learning programming languages since I was about 12, in between downloading jpegs of Cindy Crawford that took HOURS to download! ), I keep upskilling to stay current, not because I need a job, but because I have a job, and in order to maintain that job, that involves telling people what they need, rather than focusing on what they tell me they need.

I can tell you if I let my customers dictate to me what they want, not only would I be out of business, but they'd be long gone out of business too. A typical example being charity organizations, which I do a lot of work for free (because tbh they couldn't afford my services if they actually had to pay for them), but they're all heart and no brains.

They have the best of intentions in mind and want to help as many people as they can, and they have all this money coming in, but their problem is that they're pissing it down the drain just as fast on top heavy administration and management and an often archaic IT infrastructure. Words like "productivity" and "efficiency" generally mean nothing to these people who spend all day with their heads in fluffy clouds as opposed to the digital variety.

I've spent months and in the cases of some organizations, years, pushing them towards a more business model oriented approach, and a lot of people don't like it, a lot of people. That's in the initial stages where I meet with the most resistance, suspicion, and downright *pulls head out of fluffy cloud*, "Fcuk you and the horse you rode in on!", *smiley face, butter wouldn't melt* :pac:

But eventually, they do come round because they see the long term vision as opposed to the short term "we need more money, who do we tap this time?" effort. Their productivity increases, their efficiency increases, and their effectiveness in helping their "clients" (jesus I hate that word with a passion, they're people!) increases.

Often times I have asked myself if they're like the blind leading the blind that they have this ham fisted way of operating themselves while they work with people who need their help, but the thing is, they have access to resources I can only dream about, so they can help more people than I ever will on my own, but because for me, if I can help them to help MORE people, then at the end of the day it's all collectively helping the people that need it, or the "end-users" of their services if you will, who 99 times out of 100 can't tell the difference between what they want, and what they actually need either.


/Ranty McRanterson

Gongoozler wrote: »

People beeping me when I have done nothing wrong :mad:

Myself and some friends were driving into Galway and there was a bit of a back log at one of the roundabouts. My friend is a nice driver and she let another car go ahead of her. She didn't have to and the guy in the car thanked her by giving her the middle finger? :eek: It was so shocking we all just burst out laughing. There really are some nutjobs out there on the roads!

danniemcq wrote: »

10,000 post limits.

But in seriousness phone memory.

My phone has 500+mb free of internal memory but thats not enough space to install a 800kb app or stream a song from google play.

I get that it need memory for X and Y but jeez its annoying

let me guess Samsung s4 no wait s5 even lower memory again ?

deise08 wrote: »

Slowly puts her hand up.

where's this guy?

What's the male equivalent of Single White Female? Because if you want to know, I can send him your way :pac: