Maniacal Rage
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Maniacal Rage is a developer's blog on software, Apple devices, and web services, with posts on customers, bug reports, and Adobe crashes.
What HN saysHN commenters link its Adobe crash report posts as evidence against claims that Adobe software is reliable.
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davidcollantes · 2013-01-23
See: http://log.maniacalrage.net/tagged/cscr
It is not "one of the most amazingly reliable pieces of software out there" by any stretch of the imagination.
ZeroGravitas · 2009-05-22
I really don't think it's that simple. Things I believe but can't prove:
* Open Source Usability, just like OS security, engineering, marketing, QA, translation, installation, update schedule, funding model etc. etc. will be different from the closed source analog. Doesn't make either "better" a priori, but does mean you can't transplant one to the other wholesale and have it work the same, nor can you easily compare one against the benchmark of the other.
* That Open Source Usability will in fact follow your two steps with a crucial difference. It will still involve super awesome frameworks that do everything but will be followed by figuring out how to expose different subsets of those features in multiple UIs. Potential case study the UI horror that is Evolution (because it tried to copy proprietary Outlook) spawning multiple new frontends like the pimlico suite that expose just contacts or calendar and the new Anjal mail client:
http://blogs.gnome.org/sragavan/2009/03/18/announcing-anjal-the-new-ma…
* Corollary of the above: if you're copying a proprietary UI wholesale then you're probably doing it wrong. Steal the ideas yes but re-interpret them in a way that makes sense for open source platforms.
* iTunes is a usability disaster since commercial and proprietary pressures have forced a CD player, CD ripper, music library, internet radio, online music store, party music player, network jukebox, video player, iPod manager and god knows what else into a…
nolanbrown23 · 2011-03-23
A quick Sinatra app I made using HTML5, CSS3, Aristo, Heroku and based on a post by Garrett Murray.
http://log.maniacalrage.net/post/4030658171/tip-how-to-get-an-ipad-2-a…
sohooo · 2010-04-21
Hating Adobe can be fun too; just look at some of those hilarious crash reports :)
http://log.maniacalrage.net/tagged/cs4cr