Simple vs complex machinery.
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Magic statics vs. std::call_once
They sort of do the same thing, but differently.
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Why do Microsoft job levels start in the high 50’s instead of starting at a sane number like 1?
It used to start at 1, but that was the old system.
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Why didn’t ReadDirectoryChangesW provide a way to correlate the two sides of a rename operation?
Perhaps it wasn't necessary, or perhaps it didn't occur to them that this a problem.
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Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?
It came after ud0 and ud1.
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How can I remove the Close button from my window caption?
Not through normal means.
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What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
It's random, really.
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A sample use of the winstart.bat file in Windows 95
For a driver that needs high resolution mode only in Windows.
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Why don’t we allow stacks to be sparse, instead of forcing them to be contiguous?
Imagining how to report a memory allocation failure for a sparse page.
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What happens if you change a window class’s GCL_CBWNDEXTRA?
You're changing the value for future windows.
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The case of the progress callback that never got called when progress happened
Are you talking to the right guy?
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The perils of binding to value types in XAML
Loss of identity.
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Microspeak: Funded / unfunded
People are our most valuable asset.
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AWE does not require PAE, though PAE makes it much more useful
All dressed up with nowhere to go.
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On forcing all derived classes to implement a specific non-virtual method, part 2
Explicitly denying that you implement the method.
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On forcing all derived classes to implement a specific non-virtual method, part 1
Don't implement a stub. Just don't implement it at all.
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In the product end game, every change carries significant risk, episode 2
The smallest perturbation.
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Why didn’t the Windows Entertainment Pack just run the MS-DOS version inside an emulator?
It wouldn't be a Windows Entertainment Pack then, would it?
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Comparing the two holograms on the Windows 95 box
Filling in with your imagination.
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Reducing C++ template bloat by factoring out the type-dependent portions of the function, practical exam
Applying our principles.
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Reducing C++ template bloat by factoring out the type-dependent portions of the function
Looking for consolidation points.
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On wrapping a callable in a lambda that just calls it with the same parameters
Just use the callable directly.
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Why did the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows have a special sticker announcing that it also had Tetris?
A contingency plan.
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How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?
The usual probing.
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Forcing an ARM64X executable to run as a specific architecture
You can request the target machine architecture.
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A little helper class for managing LPPROC_THREAD_ATTRIBUTE_LISTs
Another RAII-style wrapper.
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The comments that go into code versus those that go into the pull request description
Understanding the temporal relevance.
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The little-known winstart.bat batch file
It had been there long before Windows 95, but nobody remembered.
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How can I perform a CopyFile­ in unbuffered mode?
Try one of the fancier alternatives to CopyFile.
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Creating a fake agile wrapper that is technically agile but is not useful outside its home apartment, part 5
Cheating with std::unique_ptr.
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