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It came from a printers convention: when Caxton started off his presses, 'i' was tiny, and easy to miss, so it was capitalized (as the first letter of the first word of a sentence was by then) to make it easier to see.
And printers are a fusty mob: they don't like change, so when they get an idea, it's very hard to get them to let go ... 
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Marked as the answer!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Being curious, I had to google that.
Why Do We Capitalize I? - Everything After Z by Dictionary.com[^]
> At first, the new word, i, was left lowercase. However, it began to grow taller than other words. It grew for a silly reason: a single letter looks bad. Look at it: i. How sad. By the time Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in the late 1300s, I, the personal pronoun, was slightly taller than its lowercase equivalent. From that point on, it was typically capitalized.
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It used to be "i" but Apple trademarked lower case i so now we have to write I.
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This MUST be the true answer! It makes so much more sense than ancient printers with bad eyesight! 
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...but I stand corrected! 
Finally friday, yay!
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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Do they really make orthopedic clown shoes? 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Seems like it...[^]
Oops - now we're heading for the Soapbox. Sorry bout dat. Wasn't my intention...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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...because then, you are a mile away and you have his shoes.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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OriginalGriff wrote: ...because then, you are a mile away and you have his shoes.
Who cares about that?
The haircut, though...
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You sound surefooted.
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Don't just stand, you will clog[^] the way!
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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"DenyAccess" = "Allow"
"DenyAccess" = "Deny"
When I read "DenyAccess=Allow", I tend to think of it as "Allow denying the access", which means to deny/block.
This naming convention is always confusing. I see it right from DB to Networking UIs.
That "Deny" key should not be part of the attribute name.
May be it can be some 'X'Access, based on the context.
modified 25-Jan-19 8:15am.
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Or better
DenyAccess = true;
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Are you sure you want to delete?
Yes / No
Do you want to keep the file?
Yes / Delete
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Or the message you get when you press the Cancel button in a forum post here:
Quote: www.Codeproject.com says
Are you sure you want to cancel this post?
OK Cancel
Now, does OK cancel the post and Cancel mean it's OK, or does Cancel cancel the post and OK say the post is OK?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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Well, there are only 13,838,483 developers here, so what do you expect?
Things might improve when we reach 15,000,000.
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I wonder how many that number would drop by if they purged all the accounts which hadn't logged in for say... 5 years.
Yes, I know it says "members" and not "active members". You don't have to actually still be alive to be a member but it helps. 
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delete this (or that)
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I would think that it should be true/false and not allow/deny.
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It's a rookie mistake -- never ask for input in a UI using a negative implication; either use a neutral phrase (e.g. "Access Control": Allow/Deny) or a question with positive nuance (e.g. "Allow Access?": Yes/No).
And most definitely never use two implications -- And using actual negatives is the biggest no-no of all.
One of my pet hates with VLC is their audio/subtitle sync hotkeys; e.g. "k" is "Increase audio delay", and "J" is "Decrease audio delay", both of which have a two nuances*. which makes them incredibly confusing to use.
But the worst is how the values have to be reported, because of the dual nuances:
If the audio delay is reported as -250ms, it means that the sound is advanced by 250ms, but the negative number gives the impression that it's lagging by 250ms.
Once you've got your head around the negative number means the sound is moved in advance of the video, you've then got to work out which key will change that negative number into a zero.
Less intuitive than "press the Decrease key to add negative 50ms to a negative number to move the soundtrack in advance of the current tracking" just doesn't exist.
Try synchronising the sound without tapping the wrong key three times out of seven.
* "Increase" has positive nuance, and "delay" has negative
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As others already noted,
DenyAccess = Yes or
DenyAccess = No are pretty clear, even for Osmonians.
Then
GrantAccess = Yes or
GrantAccess = No are even better.
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