idiosyncrasy

" But there is a deep set of Zen ideas -- lifting fingers which you do not have, and not getting attached to idiosyncrasy.

It's obvious which port you've bound it to. Nonstandard SSH port numbers are just security through idiosyncrasy.

"[Taking] advantage of every idiosyncrasy of [the] instruction set" is a waste of time.

My job is to create web applications, not to keep track of every little idiosyncrasy in how various browsers have implemented core DOM methods.

"I had expected this was just an idiosyncrasy of that particular salesperson, but you make a good case that Apple intends for this behavior to be common.

> It looks like the Intel 8086 architecture and its descendents will be with us for ever ... Why not take advantage of every idiosyncrasy of that instruction set?Because ARM.

"Costco does not hire business school graduatesthanks to another idiosyncrasy meant to preserve its distinct company culture.

It is not my idiosyncrasy to be ironic or sarcastic, but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists.

And you basically trade sysadmin time with developer time in working around GAE's idiosyncrasy and proprietary API.

Looks like a lot of people commenting didn't bother to read the article:"Costco does not hire business school graduates—thanks to another idiosyncrasy meant to preserve its distinct company culture.

But the writing is stale as yesterday's cornflakes, and the characters as unidimensional as Heinlein's laziest pulp, without the Heinlein all-transgressive idiosyncrasy.

Long ago I thought about writing something that compiles to batch files, if only to make complex logic a bit easier to write or make the process of thinking about every little syntactic idiosyncrasy less tedious.