Caught out by the FDA. I happened to be in the bug spray section of the store when I spotted a bottle of mosquito repellant that proudly proclaimed “100% DEET”. But the FDA-mandated labelling tells a different story:
| Active ingredients | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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95% | ||
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5% |
Similarly, foods labeled “zero fat” are actually allowed to contain up to a half gram of fat. (Well, up to but not including.) This is a definition of “zero” with which I had previously been unfamiliar.
Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.
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