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Friday, August 29, 2008 7:00 AM

What possible use are those extra bits in kernel handles? Part 3: New object types

Extending the namespace to cover new object types.
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 7:00 AM

The stroke-count-based sort isn't random, although it looks that way if you only see it in translation

And other strange learnings from the Beijing Olympics.
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 7:00 AM

What possible use are those extra bits in kernel handles? Part 2: Overcoming limited expressiveness

When you have only 32 bits available to express more than 32 bits of information!
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 7:00 AM

What does each country claim for its own?, greatest hits

Best from the comments.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 7:00 AM

What possible use are those extra bits in kernel handles? Part 1: Sentinels

Sentinel values.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 7:00 AM

DHS: The Television Series - the next chapter

Not finished yet.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 7:00 AM

Microspeak: Pencils down

It means code complete, except it doesn't.
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Monday, August 25, 2008 7:00 AM

Wedding + two-year-old flower girl = wildcard

You never know what's going to happen.
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Monday, August 25, 2008 7:00 AM

Why was the RAM drive removed from Windows 95?

Once again, you're looking at it backwards.
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Friday, August 22, 2008 7:00 AM

Keeping a visit a surprise after people have already guessed that you're coming

How to keep a surprise visit under wraps.
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Friday, August 22, 2008 7:00 AM

Destroying the module and resource information associated with an icon

Creating icons without the recovery information.
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:00 AM

Oh no, there's fog in San Francisco!

Who'd'a thunk it?
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Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:00 AM

Why does Explorer generate a page fault every two seconds?

Heisenbehavior.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008 7:00 AM

When somebody says a game is like chess, it is usually completely unlike chess

The gold standard of board games.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008 7:00 AM

Icons and cursors know where they came from

If you create them via LoadIcon or LoadCursor.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 7:00 AM

It's not Christmas: Nobody enjoys unwrapping your present

It's not a gift, it's just a picture.
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Monday, August 18, 2008 7:00 AM

As a courtesy to performers and other audience members, please turn off blinking head-mounted devices

I guess it needs to be said.
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Monday, August 18, 2008 7:00 AM

What happened to the Search option on the right hand side of the Start menu?

It was redundant with the search box.
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Friday, August 15, 2008 7:00 AM

The Seattle Danskin Women's Triathlon 2008

An annual tradition.
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Friday, August 15, 2008 7:00 AM

The implementation of iterators in C# and its consequences (part 4)

Iterator disposal issues and using iterators for their state machine.
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Thursday, August 14, 2008 7:00 AM

The gradual erosion of the car trip experience

Separate DVD screens for the back seat passengers.
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Thursday, August 14, 2008 7:00 AM

The implementation of iterators in C# and its consequences (part 3)

Exceptions.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008 7:00 AM

The implementation of iterators in C# and its consequences (part 2)

Composition, not subroutines.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 7:00 AM

The unwritten rule of riding a Seattle Metro bus

Be friendly now.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 7:00 AM

The implementation of iterators in C# and its consequences (part 1)

A secret state machine.
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Monday, August 11, 2008 7:00 AM

Psychic debugging: Why can't StreamReader read apostrophes from a text file?

One of those apostrophes.
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Monday, August 11, 2008 7:00 AM

Supplementary reading on the subject of anonymous functions and other CLR topics

Welcome to CLR Week 2008.
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Friday, August 08, 2008 7:00 AM

Raymond rewrites newspaper headlines

Schmonorail.
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Friday, August 08, 2008 7:00 AM

If you return FALSE from DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH, will you get a DLL_PROCESS_DETACH?

Yes, no, and yes.
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 7:00 AM

If the law says you can't file a petition, you might need to file it anyway, in case somebody later says that you should've even though the law says you couldn't

You had to follow a rule that didn't exist yet.
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 7:00 AM

For that, you'll have to call security

But you're security.
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 7:00 AM

The caret serves as the continuation character for batch files

It's the general-purpose escape character.
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 7:00 AM

What's with this MSH_MOUSEWHEEL message?

The old way of managing wheel messages.
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 7:00 AM

AOL is moving closer to jettisoning dial-up, except for one person

That old contest.
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 7:00 AM

Microspeak: The long pole

It holds up everything else.
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Monday, August 04, 2008 7:00 AM

Why, when you sort by name, doesn't it actually sort by name?

Because "Sort according to the default sort order for the column whose title is... Name" is too long.
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Friday, August 01, 2008 7:00 AM

I warned you: The dangers of attaching input queues

You become tied to their fate.
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