OneAndOneIs2

A strength of open-source software is how customisable it is. This is a good thing. However, it has one downside - once you get used to having certain behaviour in place, it drives you nuts to be on another system that has different behaviour.Of cour… more »

At work, we frequently refer to yaks.It's a term we picked up from the Perl community. I imagine it's used by other hacker communities as well, but I wouldn't know.The story goes:You wake up one morning and think to yourself, "I should mow th… more »

It's the Information Age. It's easier to communicate now than it ever has been before, via a plethora of different ways.This is generally a good thing. There are bills being mooted in the USA at the moment that would damage people's ability to commun… more »

The previous JS example was all well & good - it used a closure to store the data it needed - but it was a 'public' variable - you could intrude on the object and change the value yourself. This is bad, of course. THIS is far better: Instead of cr… more »

I hate Javascript.Mostly because of things that aren't really its fault, to be fair: The DOM is ugly, so JS DOM manipulation is inherently ugly. Most of the JS you encounter is badly-written, because too many people just cobble it together unti… more »