Older blog entries for haruspex (starting at number 252)

apenwarr, isn't that usually called prefetching?

tonyyarusso, You might also add this tragic absurdity to your list.

waa, The '*' also needs to be escaped.

fejj, Gosh, just maybe they cooperated because they didn't want their country destroyed? We now know the war was programmatic and nothing would have shoved aside the War President's drive to smash Iraq. It's undeniable that he, and each of his allies, lied to their publics repeatedly, and continue to do so, about the "motives". Feel good?

(update) nutella, not for everyone.

fraggle: OMG that's dumb.

roozbeh, AMEN. It's amazing nobody's called Fedora on to the mat for that.

sasubillis, Why not a web application? And skip C++, use something higher level.

gilbou, It's not Google's problem. It's the way whois greps the database that allows entries from non-Google domains (read from the right) to appear in the results.

nutella, The pithiest remark I've read on VSS is this one:

Here's a quote I once heard from someone who works at Microsoft:

"Visual SourceSafe? It would be safer to print out all your code, run it through a shredder, and set it on fire."

Also see this page.

johnnyb, I can perhaps explain the true/false one, having investigated this recently. The database client libs typically don't report a BOOLEAN column as a Boolean type to the client. It will be reported as TINYINT 0/1 (MySQL), CHAR(1) 't'/'f' (PgSQL), or perhaps other things. This can make it difficult to write a portable schema.