I read the title and just knew it was going to be an Old New Thing post. I went to a session at Microsoft Build a couple years back that was basically just "Raymond Chen tells stories about weird...
I read the title and just knew it was going to be an Old New Thing post. I went to a session at Microsoft Build a couple years back that was basically just "Raymond Chen tells stories about weird dev things for 45 minutes" and it was great.
I love this. It calls to mind the classic Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names. We devs love to define schemas but it's good to remember that the analog world is messy, complex, and...
Just another situation where the world is more complicated than you think. You thought you understood uppercase and lowercase, but there’s another case in between that you didn’t know about.
I love this. It calls to mind the classic Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names. We devs love to define schemas but it's good to remember that the analog world is messy, complex, and unpredictable.
Raymond Chen is a gem. I love his articles every time.
I read the title and just knew it was going to be an Old New Thing post. I went to a session at Microsoft Build a couple years back that was basically just "Raymond Chen tells stories about weird dev things for 45 minutes" and it was great.
I love this. It calls to mind the classic Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names. We devs love to define schemas but it's good to remember that the analog world is messy, complex, and unpredictable.
Suit cases.
I know! I know! Nouns in romance languages!
Sanskrit, too!