So, if you’re going to manage to convince the world to change the way it does something, it had better have an benefit that’s immediately obvious and take no more than a few seconds to explain how to do. — A long, rambly exploration of the state…, this is [...]
Still, there’s nothing technically preventing you from using [mouse button] chording in your program. If you want to code it up, then more power to you. — Why is there no support in the window manager for mouse button chording?, The Old New Thing
Does not mean it is a good [...]
George Orwell’s 1984 is rightly a hugely famous novel of the twentieth century. His depiction of a totalitarian future was so griping and compelling that the words and phrases he coined in the creation of his vision have embedded themselves in popular language and culture. I wonder how many teenagers watching reality TV understand where [...]
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