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Jul 7, 2005
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What struck me about life in the Republic

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

When people asked me for my reaction to the most recent Star Wars movie, I replied that what struck me most was that the Republic doesn't appear to have any building codes. There are these platforms several hundred meters above the ground with no railings. For example, Padmé Amidala's fancy apartment has a front porch far above the ground. ...

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Jul 7, 2005
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What are SYSTEM_FONT and DEFAULT_GUI_FONT?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Among the things you can get with the function are two fonts called and . What are they? They are fonts nobody uses any more. Back in the old days of Windows 2.0, the font used for dialog boxes was a bitmap font called System. This is the font that retrieves, and it is still the default dialog box font for compatibility reasons. Of co...

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