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May 3, 2007
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Unexpected consequences of self-checkout

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

I heard an interesting report on Marketplace on surprises in the self-checkout lane. Impulse buying is down, and stores have come up with other ways to entice you into buying something you hadn't planned. And it turns out that fears from retailers that customers would cheat at the self-checkout turned out to be misplaced: The reality of the situ...

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May 3, 2007
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Quick overview of how processes exit on Windows XP

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Exiting is one of the scariest moments in the lifetime of a process. (Sort of how landing is one of the scariest moments of air travel.) Many of the details of how processes exit are left unspecified in Win32, so different Win32 implementations can follow different mechanisms. For example, Win32s, Windows 95, and Windows NT all shut down...

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