For weeks, I've been chewing over \<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/07/23/4003873.aspx"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">this post by Raymond Chen, in which he says:

[T]he real cost of compatibility is not in the hacks. The hacks are small potatoes. Most …

The Piss-Screen is a pressure-sensitive inlay for urinals, to play a game with your pee. The game is displayed on a screen above the urinal. Link

The game development industry is the most miserable sector in the software development industry: lower pay, more bozos, worse management. And within that sector …

The Baiji, or Yangtze River Dolphin, appears to be the first cetacean \<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiji"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">driven to extinction by man. No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main …

Jeff Atwood wonders "what's worse than crashing?" and gives a general "application causes data loss and/or corruption." Uh huh. Let's fill between the lines on that:

I once worked on a supply chain system where one of the returns of the supplier's Cancel() function was along the lines of …

Silverlight steadfastly refuses to install on my development Tablet PC or in my "Orcas Beta" Virtual PC. Those are the only two machines on which I'll put an under-development CLR, since experience has shown that it can be very difficult to cleanly uninstall anything in Microsoft's browser-CLR-plugin axis. This is …

Scott Ambler has a great new article on DDJ discussing agile software development on a fixed budget. He discusses the "iron triangle" of time, scope, and resources and gives alternate strategies depending on which "corner" of the triangle is most constrained.

If you're eager to get your first glimpse at Visual Studio X (you heard it here first!), you can download a VPC image Visual Studio

Is everyone else seeing a sudden increase in spam with PDF attachments? I'm not sure if they are payload-bearing virii or just stock spam (many seem to have "investor alert" nonsense in their title). It's just amazing to me the level of idiot on which these apparently-profitable scams are built …

The owners of Patent 5,056,000 have whacked Sony with a suit, on the basis that the Cell processor in the PS3 is a violator. The claims seem center on the idea of an "interconnection switch" that locks the access of a single processor to a particular bank of …

I think programming languages need the complement to "deprecated." It's for those moments when "YAGNI" conflicts with "But I just know I will..." Less imperative than a TODO, but more than a mental note.