Category: Programming

We’re having our front steps replaced. They are made of concrete with embedded tiles (the old steps were badly cracked, and had to be removed anyhow when we had our foundation rebuilt). We were able to salvage about half the tiles from the old steps as they were destroyed, and managed to find matching new…

I’m a programmer by profession, so I sometimes wonder: why are most programs so bad? All sizeable programs are full of bugs. Mostly these bugs don’t matter so much, but why are they there? If computer hardware had as many glitches as computer software, computers would never manage to boot up at all. My current…