In the spirit of yesterday's entry on a Unix annoyance :
If you're fond of Unix, and especially if you're uncritically fond ofUnix, it's good to read the Unix-Haters Handbook (originally published in dead trees format, but now available online);another website on it is Don Hopkins' here ,which has bonus bits and pieces.
I don't agree with the Handbook; my position is probably closest toDennis Ritchie's marvelous anti-forward, which really
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Unix: where you have to escape command line arguments twice, oncefrom the shell and once from the program.
I dearly love Unix, but I am forced to admit that every so often ithas what I can only describe as 'robot logic'; things that areperfectly logical, but not to normal humans. For example, consider thefun of trying to remove a file called something like " -Brad Foo ".
$ rm -Brad Foorm: invalid option -- B$ rm "-Brad
Piracy
The correct place to put your site navigation is on the right side ofyour pages, not the left. (This assumes you have enough geegaws thatthey don't fit in a header or a footer, but then most people do.)
There's two pragmatic reasons why.
The most important is what happens if the page is too wide for theuser's browser, namely the browser displays the left however much itcan fit in. In this situation, which is more important for the user to