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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:00 AM

2009 Q1 link clearance: Microsoft blogger edition

From elsewhere in the collective.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:00 AM

Freudian typo? The spinlock

Or sinlock.
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Monday, March 30, 2009 7:00 AM

What is the implementation of WM_PRINTCLIENT?

It's the same as WM_PAINT, you just draw into a different DC.
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Friday, March 27, 2009 7:00 AM

I drive a car the way most people use a computer

It's not an end in itself, just a means to an end.
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Thursday, March 26, 2009 7:00 AM

The inability to lock someone out of the registry is a feature, not a bug

You have to accept that the registry will change.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:00 AM

Caption contest: The pinball machine

The first and possibly last caption contest...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:00 AM

Double secret auto-arrange probation

Auto-arranging until you care.
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Monday, March 23, 2009 7:00 AM

What's the point of the MoveWindow function when we already have SetWindowPos?

It's just a little helper function, that's all.
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Friday, March 20, 2009 7:00 AM

How to write like Raymond: Intentional typographical errors

As an indication of impatience.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:00 AM

Defense in depth means that you protect against exploits that don't exist yet

Belt and suspenders.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:00 AM

Raymond's highly scientific predictions for the 2009 NCAA men's basketball tournament

Based on graduation rate.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:00 AM

You can't globally reserve screen space; you can put up signs, but if somebody ignores the sign you'll have to decide how to respond

But if an application wants to go fullscreen, it will.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 7:00 AM

Well, duh, I'd sure better get my money back

You'd think that was just part of the implied contract.
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Monday, March 16, 2009 7:00 AM

Overheard conversation fragment: Shrimp is not vegetables

Overhead conversation.
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Monday, March 16, 2009 7:00 AM

Why does the MoveWindow function let you suppress repainting?

In case you think you're smarter than the window manager.
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Friday, March 13, 2009 7:00 AM

Raymond rewrites newspaper headlines, episode 2

Safety patrol.
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Friday, March 13, 2009 7:00 AM

The perilous quandary of including external drivers on the Windows CD

How to get driver updates to customers?
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 7:00 AM

If Michael Jackson took up bhangra dancing

It might look something like this.
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 7:00 AM

Engineering is about tradeoffs: How hard will you work to save 68KB of disk space?

The cost-benefit analysis.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009 7:00 AM

Et tu, Fargo

Who's shut down now?
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009 7:00 AM

Sometimes people don't even read what they're typing

You answered the question yourself.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 7:00 AM

The house no-electronics zone

No beeps or bloops.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 7:00 AM

Why don't the favorites I copy into the common Favorites directory show up in the Favorites menu of all users?

Because it isn't hooked up to anything.
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Monday, March 09, 2009 7:00 AM

Totally Recall: The meal

Made up of recalled foods.
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Monday, March 09, 2009 7:00 AM

Why doesn't the MoveWindow function generate the WM_GETMINMAXINFO message?

Because the application already knows what the limits are.
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Friday, March 06, 2009 7:00 AM

Why is the Win32 epoch January 1, 1601?

It was a convenient boundary.
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Thursday, March 05, 2009 7:00 AM

Race you to the top: The Empire State Building Run-Up

And then you go to work.
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Thursday, March 05, 2009 7:00 AM

Fixups are not the same as rewriting code, they're just fixups

The linker changes only what the compiler lets it.
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009 7:00 AM

Microspeak: Year-over-year

Also known as year-after-year.
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009 7:00 AM

If Twitter is micro-blogging, then is what I'm doing macro-tweeting?

A new strange form of tweeting.
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Tuesday, March 03, 2009 7:00 AM

Why is there a dry fountain in the Redmond North campus?

It leaked into the garage.
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Monday, March 02, 2009 7:00 AM

Do QueryProcessCycleTime and QueryThreadCycleTime include cycles spent in kernel mode?

Yes.
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Monday, March 02, 2009 7:00 AM

The Suggestion Box is for suggestions, that's why it's called a Suggestion Box

Not for chewed-up gum.
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