What induces nerd rage in you?

[inactive_user]

Do you type or say “purchase” enough that you need to abbreviate it to “purch”? No, you don’t. No matter who you are, you don’t.

[TheTrunkDr]

That always fills me with paranoia, actually. Oh god, what did I change? Was it important?

In the case of Excel (not sure about others) it actually stores what line you were at and where the cursor was and other silly stuff that really doesn’t seem important and I don’t understand why it’s stored. So just moving the scroll bar or clicking anywhere in the spreadsheet is considered an edit.

[WarrenM]

People who pop into random Facebook threads and make wildly off topic comments. For example, someone posts a picture and the first comment is someone chiming in with, “Megan, how are you? It’s been so long since we’ve been down to visit, give us a call so we can talk about blah blah”. What does that have to do with the picture? Send Megan a fucking private message, thank you!

[CheesyPoof]

The back button on my Android phone. Where’s it going to dump me this time? Who knows! Fucking UX nightmare.

Oh yes.

A new one with Android is the gmail app is fucked. I get an email, I read it on my PC and then my phone magically thinks there’s a new email, but when I check the phone there is no email.

[Bahimiron]

Google ads that never actually load so the browser just sits there and churns away.

[jerri_blank]

Oh yes.

A new one with Android is the gmail app is fucked. I get an email, I read it on my PC and then my phone magically thinks there’s a new email, but when I check the phone there is no email.

And why does the icon on my Samsung Charge’s “back” button look more like a “refresh” icon? Just put a backwards arrow on there, please, for those of us who don’t want to read a manual just to figure out how to go back.

[RobotPants]

People who pop into random Facebook threads and make wildly off topic comments. For example, someone posts a picture and the first comment is someone chiming in with, “Megan, how are you? It’s been so long since we’ve been down to visit, give us a call so we can talk about blah blah”. What does that have to do with the picture? Send Megan a fucking private message, thank you!

In a sea of annoying things about Facebook, this one annoys me the most by far. Also on the list: pictures of the temperature inside your car. Yes, we all know it’s hot, stupid.

[Universal_Leader]

It’s not peaked, it’s piqued my interest, Goddamn it!

[sinnick]

The way Excel sometimes uses two slots in the “Alt-Tab” list, so that when I “Alt-Tab” away, nothing happens. Eff you, Excel.

[Zylon]

The way Excel sometimes uses two slots in the “Alt-Tab” list, so that when I “Alt-Tab” away, nothing happens. Eff you, Excel.

Excel is all-around incompetent when it comes to window management. No idea if it’s been fixed in Office 2010, but as of Office 2007 it still doesn’t allow viewing multiple spreadsheets side-by-side (without hacks), and it’s the only Office program that doesn’t support un-minimizing in Win7 by dragging the title bar.

[jerri_blank]

Google has done something wonky - at least I think it’s Google. You can no longer just hit the “back” button in your browser to go back to a list of search results from a particular site in the results list. Instead you get put back at the blank search form. This is annoying.

[kerzain]

This was happening to me in Firefox, till I upgraded to 6. It had something to do with the instant-result feature. If I typed in a search, and instant-results popped up before I ever actually hit the search button - and I selected something from the instant results, then trying to go back to Google using the ‘back’ button would send me to google’s home page instead of the results.

[dermot]

Excel is all-around incompetent when it comes to window management. No idea if it’s been fixed in Office 2010, but as of Office 2007 it still doesn’t allow viewing multiple spreadsheets side-by-side (without hacks), and it’s the only Office program that doesn’t support un-minimizing in Win7 by dragging the title bar.

I don’t know about hacks but this annoyed me enough recently to prompt me to look into it (running 2007). It depends on how you open the second (third, fourth,…) spreadsheet. If you use File->Open then it opens in a second ‘master window’ that’s independent from the first and can be moved to a different screen. If you open it via double-clicking on an icon then it opens in the same master window as the first and you can’t move it to a different screen. I may have these arse-about-face though. Either way, it’s frustrating.

[Zylon]

Basically, you need to have a separate instance of Excel running for every open spreadsheet.

[TimJames]

From the Dead Island thread:

FOV setting is in Data0.pak\Data\Skills\default_levels.xml
Change <prop n=“CameraDefaultFOV” v=“62.5”/> to a more sane value, like 80.
Christ, I can’t wait until this trend passes and nerds stop referring to every slightly unreasonable thing as “insane.”

[Zylon]

Christ, I can’t wait until this trend passes and nerds stop referring to every slightly unreasonable thing as “insane.”

Don’t hold your breath. In geek culture “sane” has been used as a synonym for reasonable or correct since at least the 60s. See for example.

[TimJames]

Don’t hold your breath. In geek culture “sane” has been used as a synonym for reasonable or correct since at least the 60s. See for example.

That’s just batshit crazy, amirite?

“Sanity check” gets a free pass. It’s one of the many cute and useful terms nerds have made, before tediously beating the concept into the ground.

[Zylon]

Ok we get it, you hate slang from all cultures other than your own.

[TimJames]

Ok we get it, you hate slang from all cultures other than your own.

I’m not falling for your troll. I’d rather talk to someone who’s, you know, not insane.

[Creole_Ned]

Writing ‘etc’ as ‘ect’.