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Depends on who is setting it.

A car park in Birmingham switches from English to German in times of stress. That reminded me that over a decade ago, a colleague of mine noticed an error message on the screen at the exit to the parking garage at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The way the airport works, you pick up a ticket as you enter, and you pay your parking fee a...

It has been famously said that England and the United States are two countries separated by a common language. The same holds true for Microspeak. In the Redmond dialect of Microspeak, we talk about extensibility: Designing a system with specific points where features can be added in the future, often by outside parties. For example, an example ...

Surely by now you've seen the video where NextGenHacker101 shows you how to use the "Tracer T" program to view "how many IP's are looking at Google", their name, and connection speed (to then to then to then). (And commenter squizz explains why it "worked" in spite of the http prefix.) But more awesome is the fact that some...

For some time (I am too lazy to look up when it was introduced), the Visual Studio linker has supported a feature known as delay-loading. But why can't you use this feature to delay-load a function from ? It would be very handy: If you write the program fails to load on versions of Windows which do not support the function because the Win32 ...