Today we have a true confession from Carl W. It has the benefit of being in R, which means that at a glance, ..
Frequent contributor Argle Bargle (recently, or even in last week's Errord) works with a programmer ..
It's common to see code in the form of if (false == true). We get a fair bit of it in our inbox, ..
We know 2026 is not a leap year. But how do we know that? We need to call some function to find out. Steve ..
We've talked about the For-Case anti-pattern many, many times. And while we've seen some wild ..
A long time ago, Joey made some extra bucks doing technical support for the neighbors. It was usually ..
As the single-digit Farenheight temperatures creep across the northeast United States, one's mind ..
Today's anonymous submitter sends us a short snippet. They found this because they were going through ..
We recently asked for some of your holiday horror stories. We'll definitely take more, if you've ..
When writing software, we like our code to be clean, simple, and concise. But that loses something, you end up writing ..