evil and rude adj.
Both evil and rude, but with
the additional connotation that the rudeness was due to malice
rather than incompetence. Thus, for example: Microsoft's Windows
NT is evil because it's a competent implementation of a bad
design; it's rude because it's gratuitously incompatible with
Unix in places where compatibility would have been as easy and
effective to do; but it's evil and rude because the
incompatibilities are apparently there not to fix design bugs in
Unix but rather to lock hapless customers and developers into the
Microsoft way. Hackish evil and rude is close to the
mainstream sense of `evil'.
Both evil and rude, but with
the additional connotation that the rudeness was due to malice
rather than incompetence. Thus, for example: Microsoft's Windows
NT is evil because it's a competent implementation of a bad
design; it's rude because it's gratuitously incompatible with
Unix in places where compatibility would have been as easy and
effective to do; but it's evil and rude because the
incompatibilities are apparently there not to fix design bugs in
Unix but rather to lock hapless customers and developers into the
Microsoft way. Hackish evil and rude is close to the
mainstream sense of `evil'.
Related:
- evil and rude: adj. Both {evil} and {rude}, but with the
additional connotation that the rudeness was due to malice rather
than incompetence.
Thus, for example: Microsoft's Windows NT is evil because it's a competent implementation of a bad desig... - evil: adj. As used by hackers, implies that some system, program,
person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not
worth the bother of dealing with.
Unlike the adjectives in the {cretinous}/{losing}/{brain-damaged} series, `evil' does not imply incompetence or bad design, but rather a set of goals or design criteria fatally incompatible with the speaker's.... - evil adj.
As used by hackers, implies that some system,
program, person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to
be not worth the bother of dealing with.
Unlike the adjectives in the cretinous/losing/brain-damaged Blue Glue interface but decided it was too evil to deal with.... - Bad and Wrong adj.
[Durham, UK] Said of something that
is both badly designed and wrongly executed.
This common term is the prototype of, and is used by contrast with, three less common terms - Bad and Right (a kludge, something ugly but functional)... - ude [WPI] adj.
1. (of a program) Badly written.
2. Functionally poor, e.g., a program that is very difficult to use because of gratuitously poor (random?... - ude: [WPI] adj. 1. (of a program) Badly written. 2.
Functionally poor, e.g., a program that is very difficult to use because of gratuitously poor (random?... - Evil Empire n.
[from Ronald Reagan's famous
characterization of the communist Soviet Union] Formerly IBM,
now Microsoft.
Functionally, the company most hackers love to hate at any given time.... - No evil is greater than indifference toward evil.
- See no evil speak no evil hear no evil and have no fun.
