One person's bloat is someone else's feature

[johnckirk]

Most people are familiar with the way that indicators work in a car: you have a stalk sticking out of the steering wheel, and you knock it up or down depending on whether you want to indicate right or left. After you've finished your turn, the indicator will automatically turn off

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[dwagon]

I love the graph for 'safe' delete vs normal delete and especially the comment about statistics being hard to interpret!

[pozorvlak]

"An anaysis of the 350 million lines of windows source code revealed that there were four unused TECO interpreters in there already, so it was very easy to add a fifth one."

You know, that wouldn't actually surprise me...

[pozorvlak]

While "change default locale without a reboot" is a relatively minor thing, "change system settings in general without a reboot" is a serious architectural issue, IMHO :-)

I think MS started taking internationalisation seriously when they lost basically the whole of Iceland to Linux because they hadn't done an Icelandic version of Windows, but Icelandic Linux hackers were more than happy to internationalise Linux and Linux apps to Icelandic.

Incidentally, I'd always thought the mines in minesweeper were sea mines - they certainly look more like sea mines than land mines.

[non_trivial]

Good point. A minesweeper is a naval vessel; on land, mines are 'cleared' rather than 'swept' IIRC.

[johnckirk]

Not according to Minesweeper The Movie...

But yes, I quite liked the suggestion from one of the comments to that article: "Perhaps taking a different tack like the MSN/Messenger MineSweeper game and making it even more nautical in feel (flags are bobbing bouys, splooshing noises for misses)."