Okay, all the times I have complained about Java? Multiply them by "annoying" raised to the power of "stupid" when it comes to JavaScript (which, despite the name, is no relation).

Seriously, who wrote this? The javascript runtime engine goes to enough trouble to auto-generate a Radio object that contains all the information for a set of radiobuttons in a form, and will let you programmatically alter their state and has event handlers for gaining and losing focus, but it doesn't bother to actually figure out what the current selected value is, despite the fact that that selecting it is, like, the entire point of radiobuttons even existing, and is therefore the single most likely to be used piece of information about the damn thing?!?

WTF! Dude!

Addendum: Who wrote this? Brenden Eich wrote this. He is a big dope.

Had a thought about an idea I've run across now and again. The notion is that, when you do a brain scan of people making decisions, they make them much too rapidly to be using conscious reasoning, so what we usually think of as "reasoning" is actually just "rationalization" of a decision that's already been made by the rest of the brain.

I'm sure the research is sound, but that interpretation of it is just absurd.

( Here's why, and a better way to think about it. )