Robert McFarlane has written an outstanding piece on the dangers and difficulty of disposing with radioactive waste: Deep in the bedrock of Olkiluoto Island in southwest Finland a tomb is under construction. The tomb is intended to outlast not only the people who designed it, but also the species that designed it....

Why does software accept invalid data? And, at what software layer should we reject it? Also, what are “namespaces” and “special pages” on Wikipedia? Premise One day, our server monitoring was reporting a high frequency of fatal errors from web servers. Over 10,000 an hour. The majority shared a single root cause –...