Avoiding Comments Trap

a quick look at the Win2k source: kuro5hin.org: "Microsoft appears not to have fallen into the trap of enforcing over-rigid standards or universal use of over-complicated automatic tools. They seem to trust their developers to comment well, and they do."

עם ומנהיגיו

נעמה כרמי: "אולי כל אומה מקבלת את המנהיגים שהיא ראויה לה, אבל לא מאוחר להתחיל להשתפר."

Prison breakout attempt

Jerusalem Post: "The two confessed during questioning that they had tried to escape, saying that the decision was simple, because they had nothing to loose in trying."

PC's performance and the slowest subsystem

Coding Horror: "it [the Windows Experience Index] expresses the total score as the lowest subscore. This is an incredibly intuitive way to highlight that your PC's performance is only as good as the slowest subsystem."

Offensive Coding - Don't Use NULL

Michael Feathers: "What we've done here is introduce a stupid-free zone in the code. If we tend it, it can grow."