Looked to the past for some time-traveling entries to round out a themed post. They're 25% fresh. Robert apparently got a notification of a planned past delivery. It could be just a case of two system...
Greta ( previously ) sends us more updates from her "Ancient Development Environment". An important task an IDE must do is report build errors to its users. Arguably, that's one of the most important ...
Frederick A sends us a bit of null checking code, and offers us a better solution. class ConferenceService { /// /// Checks if conference is active /// public bool IsCalling { try { return m_Connectio...
Frequent submitter Capybara James sends us this simple snippet, which highlights that even when you have the lovely convenience of Optional types, you can use them wrong. if (StringUtils.hasLength(dto...
Flat-file style databases were designed to fit the constraints of the systems they were running on. You specify your schema in terms of "how many characters in a file we use to store this data", meani...
Killian Brendel was looking through the.NET source code, and found this comment on the TimeSpan struct. // TimeSpan represents a duration of time. A TimeSpan can be negative // or positive. // // Time...
Today, we look at a "representative comment" from Mark W. This particular comment appears on a function: /// /// Does something wonderful. /// Well, I'm glad it's wonderful, but are we talking "Christ...
One minute, you’re fine. The next, you’re doubled over with tears spilling down your face while an aching black hole in your heart threatens to drag you into oblivion. Grief’s funny like that. Aggie S...
"Watch to the end", the scammers demand. In today's episode of Error'd, the end is a long time coming. But at least it's amusing. In the meantime, Amazon irked and/or terrified thousands of their cust...
Honestly, with the wildfire smoke and the oppressive heat, maybe it's time to find a nice quiet cave to hang out in. Something with no natural light and no natural ventilation. I wonder if anybody has...
We keep our summer break going. Today, there's something floating in the pool, and I don't think it's a Snickers bar. Original. -- Remy A few years back, Adam C. was brought in to help with some perfo...
It's summer break time, which as always, means we dip back into classic articles. Today, we pick which table we want. Original. -- Remy "In my native language of German," writes Christian, "the word q...
Sam suggests this Error'd indicates "Disney+ preparing the ground for usage-based billing." I'm intrigued by the idea that Disney might charge by the minute, but I suspect the reality is far more mund...