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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 7:00 AM

2009 mid-year link clearance

Just some stuff.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 7:00 AM

Microspeak: The plan for the plan

Don't forget the pre-planning meeting.
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Monday, June 29, 2009 7:00 AM

Learning to lie: Early forays

You don't have a dog.
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Monday, June 29, 2009 7:00 AM

If you want to consume all the virtual address space, well, then go ahead and consume it, you don't need my help

It's not like there's a ConsumeAllAvailableVirtualAddressSpaceAndExhaustTheHeap function.
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Friday, June 26, 2009 7:00 AM

John Swansburg deftly declines the fine print disclaimer on his Heelys

Declining the fine print.
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Friday, June 26, 2009 7:00 AM

The thread that gets the DLL_PROCESS_DETACH notification is not necessarily the one that got the DLL_PROCESS_ATTACH notification

Don't do things with thread affinity.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:00 AM

News flash: Children are influenced by advertising

Anything in a McDonald's wrapper tastes better.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:00 AM

First, try reading the error message, episode 2: Even programmers see error messages without reading them

An example from database land.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 7:00 AM

Spam trackback attack week 3 statistics

I think it's over
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 7:00 AM

Yet another experiment in motivating people to find and fix bugs

Reward the bug finder, not the bug fixer.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 7:00 AM

Oh great, and my phone even has a CPU meter

Remember when they were just carbon granules and a switch?
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Monday, June 22, 2009 7:00 AM

High school students guess what happens to money deposited into checking accounts

Half of them got it right, even!
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Monday, June 22, 2009 7:00 AM

Why does a flashing taskbar result in a fullscreen console returning to windowed mode?

Because otherwise you wouldn't see the flashing window.
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Friday, June 19, 2009 7:00 AM

The butter and the money for the butter

A French idiom.
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Friday, June 19, 2009 7:00 AM

You can't leave a critical section you never entered

Enter first, then leave.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009 7:00 AM

Don't you hate it when someone leaks a ref to your clothes?

The weird world of dreams.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009 7:00 AM

The dangers of mixing synchronous and asynchronous state

Race conditions.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:00 AM

Welcome to Leavenworth, Washington's faux-Bavarian village

Gotta have a hook.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:00 AM

Sure, I can get spurious WM_MOUSEMOVE messages, but why do they keep streaming in?

Usually it's some bonus enhancement software.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:00 AM

Management-speak: Upping the sats and stimulating the ecosystem

Another incomprehensible sentence.
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Monday, June 15, 2009 7:00 AM

Happening to be at the same post-concert restaurant as symphony performers

Third time so far.
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Monday, June 15, 2009 7:00 AM

Why do some file operations take file names and others take handles?

Because when you haev a choice, people will choose differently.
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Friday, June 12, 2009 7:00 AM

Fortune cookie fortunes are getting less and less interesting all the time

For fear of causing offense.
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Friday, June 12, 2009 7:00 AM

A concrete illustration of practical running time vs big-O notation

Memory access time changes the math.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:00 AM

Spam trackback attack week 2 statistics

Keeps on coming.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009 7:00 AM

Why does Explorer use the term KB instead of KiB?

Because nobody knows what a KiB is.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 7:00 AM

Foreign languages can be used as a secret code, but it's not always a good secret code

Turns out a lot of people know your code.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009 7:00 AM

Why does MS-DOS use 8.3 filenames instead of, say, 11.2 or 16.16?

Because that's what CP/M did.
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 7:00 AM

Mixed messages from the IT department regarding email safety

To read or not to read.
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Monday, June 08, 2009 7:00 AM

On the importance of sanity-checking values where money is involved

Swapped positions.
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Monday, June 08, 2009 7:00 AM

Why isn't there a separate British English version of Windows?

You get to choose 20 languages. Do you spend one on a language you can get by without?
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Friday, June 05, 2009 7:00 AM

I'm sorry, Brian George, but we got cut off and I couldn't call you back

Taunting telemarketers.
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Friday, June 05, 2009 7:00 AM

Bonus chatter about that virus that is responsible for the top six Explorer crashes

What a surprise: There's money involved.
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Thursday, June 04, 2009 7:00 AM

Cool guys don't look at explosions

They just walk away.
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Thursday, June 04, 2009 7:00 AM

Why can't I rotate the display with ChangeDisplaySettingsEx?

Secret sauce.
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009 7:00 AM

Last tube standing: The Cardboard Tube Fighting League

Bam, pow, zap. Well, no zap.
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009 7:00 AM

What does the "Zw" prefix mean?

Nothing.
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009 7:00 AM

Spam trackback attack returns, it's not a matter of whether but how much

And it's back with a vengeance.
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009 7:00 AM

Who you calling boring?

Oh, not that boring.
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Monday, June 01, 2009 7:00 AM

Whew, I'm not doing *that* again!

Writing a book.
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Monday, June 01, 2009 7:00 AM

Why does the CreateProcess function modify its input command line?

Somebody was trying too hard to be clever.
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