Brent Simmons has a sly sense of humor: from the release notes of the most current beta:
Increased the limit for the feed parser from 500 items to 1000. (There does have to be a limit, because sometimes there are runaway feeds -- created by runaway scripts -- that have many thousands of items in them. Erroneously. It amounts to a denial of service attack on your aggregator.) (You can surely picture runaway feeds -- slack-jawed youth, living on the streets, up to no good, duplicating news items endlessly and pointlessly.)
You need an oversized sense of humor to be a good programmer, at least in my experience. The humorless programmers usually make lesser code. Life's too short not to laugh now and again.
Tags: NetNewsWire, /software
