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"Accept everything"

Turning off Javascript made the dot go away.

That sounds like shoulder pain.

The hospital information system Millenium from Oracle was bought by two regions in south of Sweden for around 400 million USD. It turned out to be unusable for Swedish healthcare a…

And knowing how to get the version of an application (which used to be in Help -> About).

For group chats in Microsoft Teams with more than seven participants, if you click on "View and add participants" (an icon with two people and a plus sign) you see a list of seven …

Then it turns out that the book was written by an LLM.

Why don't we instead focus our energies on the user . For some very important software applications the customer is not the user. Let the sales department focus on the customer.

Isn't the manufacturer to blame if I get neck problems then?

Something that would be useful in my case is a monitor stand stand. Does anyone know why almost no current monitor can be raised so that the upper edge is at eye level? Is it due t…

Postconditions are in conflict with programmers' love of early returns.

The argument in the article was that the for loop is (potentially) "lying" and that is still true in my example. Niklaus Wirth's Modula-2 had a LOOP statement in which an EXIT stat…

It's also worth noting that statements like for (i = 1; i are just as bad since `break' (and `continue' and early `return') are a just gotos in disguise.

"universal access to a large universe of documents" It's a sad fact that a large part of the web doesn't work without Javascript, a technology which enables privacy-invasive practi…

With so many ready meals to choose from I don't understand why anyone nowadays would cook anything from scratch.

Should be easy to correct the default behavior for the next release if the issue is reported.

It's also worth noting that a customer is not necessarily a user. As a developer I don't care so much about the customer but I care wholeheartedly about the users.

In the best scenario the developers are also active users of the software they produce. Then a design flaw or an error that affects the users will also affect the developers and wi…

Progressive enhancement is the way to go if you care about technical excellence. For some reason it fell out of fashion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_sampling

And also bring back progressive enhancement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement

Or create the family

If the input parameters are invalid there is an error in the program so it makes more sense to use the assert function. Why would you need to undo something due to the restriction …

Better stick to a single point of exit. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20311080

Then there is the joy of making the program source code as easy as possible to comprehend. This motivation seems to be rather unusual among programmers unfortunately.