It's perfectly reasonable to sugar-coat a bitter pill, but giving someone a teaspoon of sugar while you sneak up behind them with the suppository won't make you any friends at all. (826 Words)

It's perfectly reasonable to sugar-coat a bitter pill, but giving someone a teaspoon of sugar while you sneak up behind them with the suppository won't make you any friends at all. (826 Words)

This behaviour was later moved into the CPU, which means every Intel-based PC built in the last twenty years (including the X-Box) has contained a variant on this quick-and-dirty hack, for those few 8086 applications that expected a couple of segments of memory memory to wrap around above 1MB. (230 Words)

This behaviour was later moved into the CPU, which means every Intel-based PC built in the last twenty years (including the X-Box) has contained a variant on this quick-and-dirty hack, for those few 8086 applications that expected a couple of segments of memory memory to wrap around above 1MB. (230 Words)

Around the Atlassian lunch-room table, during a discussion about operating systems, it was noted that Linux-use seemed to correlate quite strongly with having a beard and that traditionally, the length of one's beard is an indicator of Unix expertise. (78 Words)

Around the Atlassian lunch-room table, during a discussion about operating systems, it was noted that Linux-use seemed to correlate quite strongly with having a beard and that traditionally, the length of one's beard is an indicator of Unix expertise. (78 Words)

If you're going to invent words and concepts unfamiliar to the reader, you can't introduce them gradually without undermining the reality of the language. But at the same time explaining everything up-front would make a book awkward and top-heavy. (333 Words)

If you're going to invent words and concepts unfamiliar to the reader, you can't introduce them gradually without undermining the reality of the language. But at the same time explaining everything up-front would make a book awkward and top-heavy. (333 Words)

Somebody prodded my conscience, pointing out I’ve been neglecting the Fishbowl lately. I’ve been going through one of those phases where... (21 Words)

Somebody prodded my conscience, pointing out I’ve been neglecting the Fishbowl lately. I’ve been going through one of those phases where... (21 Words)

This is really just an SSO problem, right? The fact that it's SSO across a single application with no shared state, instead of across multiple applications, doesn't really change the problem domain much.

By my estimate, this makes the new definition of 'instant' somewhere close to forty-four hours. (85 Words)

By my estimate, this makes the new definition of 'instant' somewhere close to forty-four hours. (85 Words)

Microsoft get a free run on the "evil" front because hell, they're Microsoft. That's what they do! Google don't get a free run, they invite debate and ask the world to hold them to their stated principles, and I sort of like that they're not getting rid of that slogan any time soon. (689 Words)

Microsoft get a free run on the "evil" front because hell, they're Microsoft. That's what they do! Google don't get a free run, they invite debate and ask the world to hold them to their stated principles, and I sort of like that they're not getting rid of that slogan any time soon. (689 Words)