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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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    1. Options. We’ve got lots of them. So many in fact, that you need two strong people to carry the documentation around. So many that it will be a cold day in hell before half of them are used. So many that you are probably not going to do your work right anyway. However, the number of options isn’t all that important, because we picked some interesting values for the options and called them …

    2. Defaults. We put a lot of thought into our defaults. We like them. If we didn’t, we would have made something else be the default. So keep your cotton-pickin’ hands off our defaults. Don’t touch. Consider them mandatory. “Mandatory defaults” has a nice ring to it. If you change them and your system crashes, tough. See Figure 1.