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Monthly Archives: January 2008
OK or Cancel?
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. … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Idiocy, Rants
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Unintended Consequences
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Programming
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