Quotes of the week [LWN.net]

The code itself was like a magnificent ASCII waterfall or those Incan irrigation systems I often saw in AP Spanish. It worked, and nothing I read on Google told me that things were actually terribly wrong and that any programmer who read my code would never let me nor my progeny near the web again.

— Michelle Bu (courtesy of a re-tweet by Garrett LeSage)

4. WAKE UP IN A PANIC TO THE SOUND OF MONSTERS IN YOUR ROOM.

5. After getting out of bed and changing your pants, realize that after your computer restarted, Chrome helpfully re-opened all of your tabs, including Netflix, and so it restarted playing the episode of Supernatural that you watched before bed.

— Michael Lehenbauer, detailing the final two "steps to reproduce the problem" in his Chrome bug report.

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Waking up to the sound of monsters in the room

Posted Mar 30, 2013 3:25 UTC (Sat) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]

Moral of the story: close the browser window (or the specific tab containing the Netflix player plugin) before crawling into bed at night.