How things work (or don’t)
- Python: Myths about Indentation. Python tends to care how you indent your code, but as most any Python programmer could tell you, that fact doesn’t change squat. (Towards the bottom there’s even a handy tidbit or two for those of us taking CS 143.) [1]
- Explaining the Excel Bug. What looks like a comically random error in Excel is caused by a classic problem with storing floating point (non-integer) numbers in binary. To the Office team’s defense, you could write a book on rounding in JavaScript.
- Google Docs puts Google Users at Risk. Interesting – and, if left unpatched, remarkably powerful – security vulnerability in Google Documents.
- In Memory Of The Original MySpace.com. Back in the heyday of GeoCities, Netscape Communicator, and dialup, MySpace was a free file-sharing service. Their business model didn’t quite pan out, and we have Tom to thank for transforming the site into the ubiquitous wasteland (map) it is today.