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#1741 | | Does a good farmer neglect a crop he has planted? Does a good teacher overlook even the most humble student? Does a good father allow a single child to starve? Does a good programmer refuse to maintain his code? -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
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#1742 | | Don't compare floating point numbers solely for equality.
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#1743 | | Don't get suckered in by the comments -- they can be terribly misleading. Debug only code. -- Dave Storer
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#1744 | | Don't hit the keys so hard, it hurts.
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#1745 | | Don't sweat it -- it's only ones and zeros. -- P. Skelly
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#1746 | | DOS Air: All the passengers go out onto the runway, grab hold of the plane, push it until it gets in the air, hop on, jump off when it hits the ground again. Then they grab the plane again, push it back into the air, hop on, et cetera.
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#1747 | | DOS Beer: Requires you to use your own can opener, and requires you to read the directions carefully before opening the can. Originally only came in an 8-oz. can, but now comes in a 16-oz. can. However, the can is divided into 8 compartments of 2 oz. each, which have to be accessed separately. Soon to be discontinued, although a lot of people are going to keep drinking it after it's no longer available.
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#1748 | | Due to lack of disk space, this fortune database has been discontinued.
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#1749 | | During the next two hours, the system will be going up and down several times, often with lin~po_~{po ~poz~ppo~{ o n~po_~{o[po ~y oodsou>#w4k**n~po_~{ol;lkld;f;g;dd;po~{o
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#1750 | | E Pluribus Unix
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