When hackers leaked thousands of e-mails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, last year, global-warming sceptics pored over the documents for signs ...

Do you know the law of least astonishment? I am not sure of its origin, but I first learned it from the excellent “Tao of Programming.” Simply put, it is the principle that software should always ...

Nothing can be more frustrating than when you're in the middle of a productive workflow or racing to meet a work deadline and suddenly encounter an error code on your ...