The Old New Thing

December 9, 2003 - The Old New Thing

Scoble's rant on UI defaults

December 9, 2003 Dec 9, 2003 12/9/03
Raymond Chen
Robert Scoble posted an entry in his Longhorn blog on the subject of what the UI defaults should be. It sure has stirred up a lot of controvery. I may pick at the remarks over the upcoming days, but for now I posted responses to two of the comments he kicked up. We recently did a survey of users ...

Why you should never suspend a thread

December 9, 2003 Dec 9, 2003 12/9/03
Raymond Chen
It's almost as bad as terminating a thread. Instead of just answering a question, I'm going to ask you the questions and see if you can come up with the answers. Consider the following program, in (gasp) C#: When you run this program and hit Enter to suspend, the program hangs. But if you change the worker function to just "for...