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When computer programmers dabble in economics: Buying prepaid lunch vouchers
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Meet the authors: Mario Hewardt and Daniel Pravat, authors of Advanced Windows Debugging
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Anybody can make up a generic mapping
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ERRORLEVEL is not %ERRORLEVEL%
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The description of my 2008 PDC talk is wrong
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Even if a function doesn’t do anything, you still have to call it if the documentation says so, because it might do something tomorrow
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When attending a training session on how not to mess up your life, try not to mess up your life
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How do I change the size of my desktop icons?
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