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Nope, just ironic word Russians borrow to describe old guy, who lives in a previous century and doesn't want to live in an actual time, ignoring modern culture, things, etc. They think "everything great" was made only by his generation.
Java is the same story - people who study it 15 years ago just stopped in progress - they still think programming is writing 100-LOCs to save CSV data. Hardly they will make something meaningful nowadays!
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java. It's terrible.
MySQL. It's terrible (which is strange considering it is from Oracle)
XML is, more or less OK although this does depend on the need. Here we work with CSV, ASCII, xls and FITS files all with their good and bad and worse formats, so here it's not technology itself, but rather how they use it.
Linux. Some swear by it, I hate it.
openoffice/libreoffice.  open office is probably all right, but libre office? 
iTunes. They should execute the humans involved in this piece of cr*p.
Most technologies are OK depending on how you use them.
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I agree with you on each point  except on MySQL, only because I never used it 
Geek code v 3.12
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an example. MySql doesn't support milliseconds in their datetime objects...
See here[^]
However, when MySQL stores a value into a column of any temporal data type, it discards any fractional part and does not store it.
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You rather conveniently left-out the very next sentence.
"MySQL 5.6.4 and up expands fractional seconds support for TIME, DATETIME, and TIMESTAMP values, with up to microseconds (6 digits) precision:"
It seems apparent that the origin of this particular problem lies with the people controlling your working environment, rather than MySQL.
This version of MySQL (5.6.4) was released over three years ago. (20 dec 2011)
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I´ll have to reinvestigate then, because it isn´t working here. My Client is 6.0 I think, but I don´t know about the server.
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V. wrote: Linux. Some swear by it, I hate it
You just have to use it enough to get used to it.... then the flexibility of it becomes quickly apparent (and neat).
V. wrote: iTunes. They should execute the humans involved in this piece of cr*p.
I hate this piece of crap.... and Apple...
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V. wrote: Linux. Some swear by it, I hate it some swear at it.
FTFY 
V. wrote: iTunes. They should execute the humans involved in this piece of cr*p.
Death is too good for them! 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I agree with you in everything but Linux. I love it, wish I knew more about it and like to play around with it from time to time.
It's a playground for me, doing something different from time to time.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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Linux is nice, while you do NOTHING IMPORTANT - like keeping home server with 3 html pages. Once you need to do the job, Linux converts to the time machine and EATS YOUR TIME! Not even twice I tried to make something and caught myself making everything, but the work: update libraries, install missing packages, playing with settings, forcing some device to work, etc. - it's unix way - to waste time for nothing.
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The zipper.
I hate it when it gets stuck and I have to nearly tear away half the cloth to unstuck it.
I'd rather be phishing!
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We've got a bleeder! 
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The phone on my desk - it is able to handle almost any kind of singe-/multi- conversation, but I almost unable to handle it...
I'm also terrified of fax-machines, each of them...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I recoil in terror if my desk phone rings
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I turned the ringer off on mine years ago, been loads better ever since.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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The ringing isn't the problem, but when some-one asks me to transfer the call I'm starting to sweat...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I just pretend to drop the handset. Transferring calls is meddling in the affairs of wizards
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I had a person call my phone at my job (once). I really don't know why I have a phone. I write code... I don't talk to people unless it is about the code... why do I have a phone?
This particular call was from an unrecognized number. I was thinking maybe it is important (this was a new job and I wasn't sure if I was expected to talk on the phone or not - it wasn't in the job description, but I wanted to do my best!)
Anyway, it was an irate customer. She kept stating she was very dissatisfied (like I could comp her bill or get someone to fix her issue). I told her she had the wrong number and I was a software developer. She insisted this was the number to call. I repeated it was not (but tried to be polite) and directed her to the customer support number on our webpage. Again, she said she had called it numerous times and was very dissatisfied. She demanded to be transferred to a VP! I didn't know any VPs at the time, and I surely didn't know how to transfer a call. And I had no idea which VP could possibly help a very dissatisfied customer who had not yet explained her problem.
Not being one to hang up I started to panic, sweat, and then I grabbed my boss. I handed him the phone and watched the whole thing play out again. Luckily, he knew how to transfer her to the customer support number on the webpage (where she had previously been very dissatisfied). Then he looked at me with large exasperated eyes and directed me to NEVER ANSWER THE PHONE AGAIN!
I said ok, because, it really isn't in my job description anyway.
modified 21-Jan-15 9:53am.
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Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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you can transfer a call ? 
Yup I hate phones too and practice myself in getting to know absolutely nothing about them. I went as far as press 0 for an outside line... (or 9, sometimes it´s 9, right?)
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I have a check list to do so!
1. Calm down
2. Hit the 'Transfer call' button
3. Calm down
4. Enter number
5. Calm down
6. Put down the phone
7. Calm down
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Use the Internet Help Desk method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL24aNugo_4[^]
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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I thought I was the only one. I mean I'm a software engineer but I hate the phone, any phone, mobile phones included, especially smart phone. I'm forced to carry a beeper. I never figure out how to use my desk phone until may be a year or so into any new position.
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