@boomzilla said:
I never did.
You asked "Why do you hate usable software?". Firstly, I don't, and have never claimed to or even implied that I do, "hate" any software so the question is pointless. Less pedantically, the usability of a program does affect how I feel about it but it is never the main contributing factor so the only way the question makes sense to me is as "what reasons do you have to dislike individual pieces of software despite them being very usable?" and I wouldn't be able to give any. Second, even if I did hate (some or all) usable software, the question, and my answer, would still not add anything relevant to this discussion.
@boomzilla said:
OK, I'll spell this out for you and the rest of the slow people. There's nothing obvious about that. It goes against pretty much every other similar search utility, including Ctrl-F (I'm not sure what the equivalent is in SSDS, but I'm sure someone here will pipe up about that).
And insults too, how mature. In my opinion, any programmer (which I'm assuming you are) who wouldn't try entering *look into a search box to find Outlook after discovering that look doesn't work either has never experienced any use of * as a wildcard (likely?) or does not have the mental faculties required to be a decent programmer. I never claimed it was consistent with other search facilities or was obvious to less technical users or was easily discoverable. I said it was a fairly easy to understand way of choosing whether to search for something starting with a string or something containing a string.
@boomzilla said:
The only person who thinks this is an obvious thing to do is you.
You speak for everyone now do you? Perhaps I should have written "trying something that should have been obvious to you" as that is obviously (obvious to anyone not deliberately trying to pick holes) what I was implying.
@boomzilla said:
Here are some more relevant questions (though recent experience tells us that you probably won't understand why):
Three questions? Let's see how well you score...
@boomzilla said:
Why do you think it's obvious?
I think it's obvious to me because of the opinion I gave above. This dicsussion wasn't about whether it's obvious. I simply pointed out that something claimed to be impossible was actually possible and various people reacted in a completely over-the-top way. It is no more "fucked up", as one person put it, than not being able to do a "contains" search at all. Can't score this higher than 0.2
@boomzilla said:
Are you really as stupid as you're trying to be in this thread?
I'm not trying to be, or being, stupid. Questions based on false premises can hardly be considered relevant and this is just an insult masquerading as a question. Score 0
@boomzilla said:
Are you a blakeyrat sock puppet?
No, but after reading lots of messages from both of you, I reckon he has both more and better moments of "talking sense" than you do. Only relevant to the discussion in the sense that blakeyrat was involved in it. Score (a generous) 0.1
So, total, 0.3 out of 3. Way to go...