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Jan 7, 2009
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Raymond misreads flyers: A Taste of WWL

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

There were flyers in our building inviting people to attend a food event called A Taste of WWL. The letters WWL stand for Windows and Windows Live, but the font they chose for the sign was confusing to me. The capital L looked like a capital I, and I misread the poster as an invitation to attend A Taste of WWI. And then I thought, "Who the hec...

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Jan 7, 2009
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When debugging a stack overflow, you want to focus on the repeating recursive part

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

When your program breaks into the debugger with a stack overflow, you will get a ridiculously huge stack trace because your program has gone into some sort of recursive death. (This is not a statement of metaphysical certitude, but it is true with very high probability.) But the place where the program crashed is usually not interesting at all. He...

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