OK or Cancel?

By Jim, on January 23rd, 2008%

I decided to cancel the email message I was composing, and my mail program responded with this confirmation dialog box. I actually read it twice and then pressed the Cancel button as an experiment. Pressing Cancel cancels the Cancel operation. OK completes the Cancel operation.

Is it any wonder that people find computers confusing?

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Unintended Consequences

By Jim, on January 17th, 2008%

Changing any non-trivial program will almost invariably have unintended consequences. Nowhere is this more readily apparent than when you’re modifying a program that has multiple threads. A change in the behavior of one part of the program will change the way that it communicates with other threads–either directly in thread-to-thread messages or indirectly in the . . . → Read More: Unintended Consequences

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