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Friday, September 29, 2006 7:00 AM

Eating Belgian food at Brouwer's Cafe in Fremont

Pub food plus Belgian equals a lot of frites.
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Friday, September 29, 2006 7:00 AM

Quotation marks around spaces aren't necessary in the PATH environment variable

Their job is to protect delimiters, but the space isn't the delimiter.
Posted by oldnewthing | 28 Comments
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Thursday, September 28, 2006 7:00 AM

When you crash, make sure you crash in the right place

Keep an eye on that security boundary.
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Thursday, September 28, 2006 7:00 AM

Saturday is Museum Day, courtesy of Smithsonian Magazine

Free admission to many museums around the country.
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Wednesday, September 27, 2006 7:00 AM

IsBadXxxPtr should really be called CrashProgramRandomly

Masking a bug just creates a different, harder-to-find, bug.
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006 7:00 AM

News flash: The heart produces urine

Breakthroughs in science reporting?
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Tuesday, September 26, 2006 7:00 AM

Isn't DDE all asynchronous anyway?

It's mostly asynchronous, but not entirely.
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Monday, September 25, 2006 7:00 AM

Filming for The Battle in Seattle has begun

Latte in one hand, rock in the other.
Posted by oldnewthing | 21 Comments
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Monday, September 25, 2006 7:00 AM

Waiting until the dialog box is displayed before doing something

Answer to previous exercise.
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Friday, September 22, 2006 7:00 AM

Hand gestures for numbers

And their variations.
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Friday, September 22, 2006 7:00 AM

Things you already know: How do I wait until my dialog box is displayed before doing something?

Posting a message isn't good enough.
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Thursday, September 21, 2006 7:00 AM

It's that season again: The Microsoft Company Meeting

Woo-hoo.
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Thursday, September 21, 2006 7:00 AM

If you don't trust your administrators, you've already lost

Administrators have control of the machine; that's why they're administrators.
Posted by oldnewthing | 34 Comments
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 7:00 AM

It is as if our leaders have not been educated in orbital space colonization

Those other candidates on the ballot.
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 7:00 AM

Don't forget to unregister your window classes when your DLL shuts down dynamically

You can get strange errors otherwise.
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006 7:00 AM

The tale of the radioactive Boy Scout

What happened when a teenager tried a dangerous experiment in his backyard
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006 7:00 AM

Why doesn't the Shutdown dialog use Alt to get alternate behavior?

Because Alt already has other meaning.
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Monday, September 18, 2006 7:00 AM

Project Update 2: Voyage to Our Hollow Earth

Postponed another year.
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Monday, September 18, 2006 7:00 AM

Sometimes my psychic powers are weak

It doesn't always work.
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Friday, September 15, 2006 7:00 AM

Disaster averted, thanks to international time zones

Another prediction fails to materialize.
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Friday, September 15, 2006 7:00 AM

Allocating and freeing memory across module boundaries

Make sure you're using the same allocator.
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Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:00 AM

The lost follow-ups: Products and people that appear to have vanished without a trace

What ever happened to them?
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Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:00 AM

The danger of using boldface for Chinese characters

Intricacies become lost in the ink.
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006 7:00 AM

Raymond's excursions into East Asian pop music, episode 3: Morning Musume (モーニング娘)

A logistical nightmare.
Posted by oldnewthing | 26 Comments
Wednesday, September 13, 2006 7:00 AM

Philosophical discussion on when to mark a method as virtual

The technical explanation is easy; it's the philosophical one that's hard.
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Tuesday, September 12, 2006 7:00 AM

Grammar review: Verb+particle versus compound noun

A grammatical error that I see far too often.
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Monday, September 11, 2006 7:00 AM

If you ask a Yes/No question, make sure the user also knows what happens when they say No

Because sometimes it isn't obvious.
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Friday, September 08, 2006 7:00 AM

Turns out you can't learn Mandarin Chinese by watching television

To the dismay of couch potatoes everywhere.
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Friday, September 08, 2006 7:00 AM

Const pointers: Logical consequences

Give what you know about const pointers, you can draw conclusions.
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Thursday, September 07, 2006 7:00 AM

What you don't apologize for is as important as what you do

Especially when it's conspicuous.
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Thursday, September 07, 2006 7:00 AM

You have to free memory with the same allocator that allocated it: Logical consequences

You can use this rule to draw other logical conclusions.
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006 7:00 AM

In case of fire, go to lunch

May as well put the time to good use.
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006 7:00 AM

You already know what your target architecture is (or at least you should)

It's what you're compiling for.
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Tuesday, September 05, 2006 7:00 AM

Just change that 15 to a 1

As if it were a simple 15.
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Monday, September 04, 2006 7:00 AM

I think I've just broken the internet

It's been done before.
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Friday, September 01, 2006 7:00 AM

You're white. Do you want to be in my friend's soap opera?

Foreign Babes in Beijing.
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Friday, September 01, 2006 7:00 AM

On the unanswerability of the maximum number of user interface objects a program can create

It's not like there's one number that controls everything.
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