July 2005

Carlton and United Breweries unwittingly discriminate against a third of the population.

Within a few seconds of plugging in the ethernet cable, all of Scott's RSS subscriptions had been replaced with the hotel's registration page URL. All the original feed URLs were irrevocably lost.

The lesson, of course, is not that Hibernate sucks, or that Oracle sucks, or that Charles can't code his way out of a paper bag (although the fundamental truth is that all software sucks, and by corollary, all programmers suck). In the end, it's just a long-winded way to agree with Joel about leaky abstractions.