[quote user="Yorick"]FTFY. Filed under: Did I do it right? [/quote] There's also a convention that you bold the "fixed" parts. But yeah, that's how it's done.

Japanese knotweed very specifically is a BIG problem in many places. Grows like wildfire and gets everywhere. It's well known enough in many places that it'll be called that, and that is most likely IS that. Why so many different 'weed' categories? Because it's an A-Z listing. What...

asuffield: No, I really do mean that the information content of each sound is higher, because it is more efficient than most other languages in this respect. In a language like English, there is a considerable amount of redundancy; on average, written English prose has one bit of information per character...

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The Nokia exploding-battery-recall is all over the tech newssites today, so I found myself wandering along to check if my battery was likely to a splode. Although I'm disappointingly unlikely to be on the receiving end of a delightful display of pyrotechnics, I did find an amusing display of WTF'ery...

I found this today while trying to delete unnecessary code in a program I am updating. (Yes, I knew there would be code that was never used because I have updated a lot of code for this company). Why was I deleting code? To make it cleaner? To make it easier to read? No, because I received the following...