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An exeption to a rule is just another rule.

As I was heading home at the end of the day, I ran into one of my colleagues who was also going home, and he was carrying a Star Wars-themed metal lunchbox similar to this one. For those who didn't grow up in the United States, these metal lunchboxes are the type of things elementary school children use to carry their lunch to school. I remarked,...

But you already pwn that thread.

Sucking the flags out of the header.

It's useful on the server side, not the client side.

Poof, it's gone.

In my illustration of how to make a window resizable in only one direction, commenter Josua asks, "Why don't you forward and clamp the results?" I'm going to assume the question is really "Why don't you forward before clamping the results?" rather than "Why did you bother writing all this code in the first place? Why not simply forward and cla...

Task Manager shows a piece of information called "Up time". How is this value calculated, and why doesn't it agree with the value reported by /? Task Manager calculates "up time" by subtracting the system boot time from the current time. In other words, it is misnamed; it really should be called time since system was started. It doesn't subtract ...

You can, but you shouldn't.

Once it's documented, it needs to remain supported forever.