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Dec 26, 2012
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What celebration of Kwanzaa would be complete without Sandra Lee's infamous Kwanzaa cake?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

For those unfamiliar with Sandra Lee, her gimmick is that the ingredients in her recipes are primarily prepared foods, a food-preparation technique (I'm reluctant to call it cooking) which she calls "semi-homemade." First, the creation one critic called "an edible hate crime." Next, the apology from the creator. I guess I imagined something ...

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Dec 26, 2012
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A question about endian-ness turns out to be the wrong question

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Via a customer liaison, we received what seemed like a simple question: "How can I detect whether a Windows machine is big-endian or little-endian?" You could actually answer this question (say by coughing up a code fragment that stores a 16-bit value to memory and then takes it apart into bytes to see how it got stored, or by simply hard-coding ...

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