Pet Peeve: web service "welcome" lessons that disappear forever
We've all signed up for a service in haste only to realize our 15-minute lunch period is about to begin. You activate your account, you open it up, and there's this clever little intro presentation that begins... only you don't have time for that right now. So you close out the window and go away. Hours later, you return to learn. But the intro is gone, and like Homer missing Mr. T at the mall, ...
There is a subculture of programmers that seem to enjoy creating the most interesting or beautiful display on a computer using the least possible amount of memory. This practice has existed for a very long time, at least by computing standards. What's interesting is that the genre of programming still exists, and that things have come a very long way since the days of DOS programs. Ante Dominum ...





