The Old New Thing

The Hater's Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Catalog

Today is the traditional start of the holiday shopping season in the United States. If you are thinking of getting something from Williams-Sonoma, Drew Margary has selected a few items of note for your consideration (NSFW: language). (It cracks me up that the model is using the batter dispenser which "measures out uniform circles" to fill a...

When studying performance, you need to watch out not only for performance degradation, but also unexpected performance improvement

In addition to specific performance tests run by individual feature teams, Windows has a suite of automated performance tests operated by the performance team, and the results are collated across a lot of metrics. When a number is out of the ordinary, the test results are flagged for further investigation. The obvious thing that the ...