A collection of things done wrong.
- Windows user interface which has many modes, ranging from click-activated (rather than press-activated) menus to buried options that control behavior.
- Keyboard layout which limits typing speed (some say intentionally). See BadKeyboards.
- Information persistence in relational databases. See AreRdbmssDead.
- Struggling to make programming as easy as possible so that the least capable thinkers can write the rules of the new economy. Amen. User-hostile software!
- Internet E-mail standards that make it ridiculously easy to forge E-mail
- Letting people program without learning programming Amen again!
- Letting people learn to program without programming (See: EssentialDifficulty)
- Not changing to the metric system when it was introduced. Warning: AmericanCulturalAssumption and/or BritishCulturalAssumption at work.
- Calling the electric charge of the electron negative and the complex numbers complex.
Compare also to
ZombieTechnologies and
OnceAndOnlyOnce.