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No, it's taxation. A pretty common phenomenon.
https://world.hey.com/dhh/it-s-easier-to-forgive-a-human-tha...
The "annoying" part I do get -- it's obviously nicer to have instant feedback than being forced to rebuild things -- so for things where you iterate a lot, that does weigh in the other direction.
The thing that annoys me is that this is best case scenario when it comes to climate change. If we do in fact manage to avoid the apocalypse, all the "climate deniers" are going to feel vindicated.
What good would that do?
>Of course we gave them a login. We’ve been publishing apps on the App Store for over a decade. This was not a low-level mistake. It went all the way to the app review board.
In another response he writes that the reviewers did in fact log in.
>Of course we gave them a login. We’ve been publishing apps on the App Store for over a decade. This was not a low-level mistake. It went all the way to the app review board.
In another response he writes that the reviewers did in fact log in.
Well, maybe they think that it's worth "hating" on it because people are using it, and they want to make people aware of the problems? I know I do, though "hating" sounds like I have malicious intent, which I do not. I am sure the creator(s) are very bright people with nothing but good intentions. But I agree with the article that YAML is frustrating to work with. The "it's not perfect, but neither is anything" argument is a bit of a cop-out in my opinion, as that can be applied to anything and everything.
I feel (but don't know!) that YAML was inspired by markdown as an attempt to create a format that felt like the most natural and intuitive to read for humans, while still machine-consumable. A noble idea, but in my opinion, one that fails as soon as you have more than half a page of configuration. Then, it just becomes a pain to even figure out which parent a specific bullet belongs to. And that's not even getting into all the cleverness.
I don't want to create a new language because [XKCD standards comic]. I'd prefer people use JSON or TOML as I consider those better even if they have plenty of issues on their own.
Please don't destroy the term gaslighting. It means something very important and not at all what you are using it for here.