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May 2006 - Posts

Wednesday, May 31, 2006 7:00

Do it for Katie

The show must go on.
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006 7:00

Mellifluous NPR reporter name: Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

Displacing Sylvia Poggioli.
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006 7:00

People are very sensitive to how the icons look

If it looks too much like something, they get upset.
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Monday, May 29, 2006 7:00

Every discipline has its crackpots: Stories of mathematics

The letters that mathematics departments get...
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Saturday, May 27, 2006 1:42 PM

Wordplay (the movie)

A must-see for all crossword puzzlers.
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Friday, May 26, 2006 7:00

Assaulting users with dialog box after dialog box

Dialog box fatigue.
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Thursday, May 25, 2006 7:00

Using Yoda on an x86 may be hazardous to your systems' health

In former times very cross-platform NTVDM was.
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 7:00

Beware the C++ implicit conversion

It can create large stack objects when you weren't expecting them.
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 7:00

Raymond makes a psychic prediction for 2006

Gazing into the crystal ball.
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 7:00

That mysterious J

It's a lost smiley face.
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Monday, May 22, 2006 7:00

How do I write a regular expression that matches an IPv4 dotted address?

No, you don't do that.
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Friday, May 19, 2006 7:00

Raymond 1, Sidewalk 1

Successfully negotiating the sidewalk.
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Friday, May 19, 2006 7:00

Redirecting output can result in altered program behavior

Buffering.
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Thursday, May 18, 2006 7:00

Making up new Winter Olympic events

Ski Jumping Pairs anyone?
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Thursday, May 18, 2006 7:00

The redirection operator can occur in the middle of the command line

It doesn't have to come at the end.
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006 7:00

Don't mention the war. I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it all right

John Cleese tries to calm the waters.
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006 7:00

Beware of digits before the redirection operator

They specify which stream will be redirected.
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006 7:00

The real scoop on the the x64 calling convention on 64-bit Windows

Official (though preliminary) documentation.
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006 7:00

Command line redirection is performed by the command line interpreter

Sounds obvious when you put it that way.
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Monday, May 15, 2006 7:00

The first word on the command line is the program name only by convention

It could in principle be anything.
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Friday, May 12, 2006 7:00

On languages and spelling

Random musings.
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Friday, May 12, 2006 7:00

When people mimic the display rather than the actual data

Hard to believe but people actually do this.
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Thursday, May 11, 2006 7:00

Automatic messages when you're not in the office - the infamous OOF

What a strange name.
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 7:00

Solutions that don't actually solve anything

You've already lost the game.
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006 7:00

Why doesn't Ethan Hunt have to wear identification?

It would ruin the look of the whole outfit.
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006 7:00

Subtle ways your innocent program can be Internet-facing

It turns out that nearly everything can be made Internet-facing
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Monday, May 08, 2006 7:01

Seattle boating season opens but never closes

Sort of like Denny's?
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Monday, May 08, 2006 7:00

It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway

Not every code injection bug is a security hole.
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Friday, May 05, 2006 7:00

What can I do with the HINSTANCE returned by the ShellExecute function?

It used to mean something on 16-bit Windows.
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Thursday, May 04, 2006 7:00

On the bogusness of reporting the winning word in a spelling bee

The winning word says nothing.
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Thursday, May 04, 2006 7:00

Doing quick arithmetic from the command prompt

The "set /a" command.
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Wednesday, May 03, 2006 7:00

The alertable wait is the non-GUI analog to pumping messages

The non-GUI way of scheduling code to run on a thread.
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Tuesday, May 02, 2006 7:00

A cache with a bad policy is another name for a memory leak

Watch it happen.
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Monday, May 01, 2006 7:05

Tips from an American on on driving in Taiwan

Fortunately I've never had to drive in Taiwan.
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Monday, May 01, 2006 7:05

What's so special about bitmaps and DCs?

It's the only mutable thing you can select into a DC.
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