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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 7:00 AM

Command line parsers look at what you typed, not what what you typed looks like

Not as forgiving as people.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 7:00 AM

2009 mid-year link clearance

Just some stuff.
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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

Yet another experiment in motivating people to find and fix bugs

Reward the bug finder, not the bug fixer.
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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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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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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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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

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

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, May 28, 2009 7:00 AM

I'm sorry, you don't have permission to know where this shortcut file should show up in the Explorer window

It's confusing when a file's sort order changes.
Posted by oldnewthing | 26 Comments
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 7:00 AM

Before designing and implementing around an assumption, it helps to check that your assumption is true

Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009 7:00 AM

What do you call a gadget that is used for debugging which looks at the properties of other gadgets?

It's naturally the inspector gadget.
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