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Which is why no other browser does anything with it, which is why it works so nicely. The only drawback is that it doesn't validate. You can either wrap it in a conditional comment…

"If anything, cancer resistance (which would probably mean less cell mutation ability) would be disadvantageous from an evolution standpoint because you would have less variation a…

The stark irony of this is, of course, that very few games on the Commodore 64 used or required BASIC, and certainly none of the popular ones. BASIC games where the first generatio…

Interestingly, neither the original image nor the manipulated one can be called racist. The trouble only comes from realizing we're looking at a before and after. Microsoft general…

The perils of DRM were no different back then, except that the term hadn't been coined yet. I remember disassembling and working around the tape loader for a game on my C64 just so…

> Yes, I did. Does it hurt to offer a different perspective? No, I was questioning whether you had considered his arguments at all, given the "why do we start counting at 0" questi…

Did you read Dijkstra's article? He's making the case for 0, though he's doing it a little abstractly. Simply put, if you start numbering at 1, you are setting yourself up for more…

I feel like some qualification is in order. I can't make any excuses for SOAP (maybe someone else wants to take that up), but COM, at its core, is indeed a simple and dare I even s…

Good advice from the irrepressible Dijkstra on this matter: "Before embarking on an ambitious project, try to kill it." ( http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd10xx/EWD1055A.PDF ) …

Funny that he has this under "Signs that you shouldn't be a programmer": "you think the presence of code in a program will affect its runtime behavior, even if it is never invoked"…

It's quite possible there is none, and they're independent "inventions". There aren't that many four-letter words composed of hex digits (by my reckoning, the only common ones are …

It's what bensummers said above: it's not whether MySQL on Windows is a good idea at all, it's why MySQL management implies that it is by claiming to support it. You're probably ri…

Does that matter? Those users who do care should get the support they can expect if management claims to be committed to Windows, regardless of how many they are. It's a simple mat…

There's one argument in there that's semi-sensible: in case of a power outage, it would seem important for the police to be able to continue processing data. Yes, aggregates help, …

You're kidding, right? Obsessing over (potential) micro-optimizations is a timeless programmer pastime. It will never go away. Imagine something worse: suppose it had made a differ…

I still crack up every time I see the "master programmer" part, which uses COM. The joke here is the ridiculous overhead that the COM boilerplate is putting in isn't even exaggerat…