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Nov 6, 2019

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How can I have a C++ function that returns different types depending on what the caller wants?

Raymond Chen

Quantum superposition comes to C++.

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Nov 5, 2019

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The legend of Steve Ballmer’s rental car, the most diligent employee in the world

Raymond Chen

What a hardworking new employee that must be.

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Nov 4, 2019

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I tried to adjust the time on my alarm clock. I failed.

Raymond Chen

Now it's not even wrong twice a day.

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Nov 4, 2019

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What happened if you tried to access a network file bigger than 2GB from MS-DOS?

Raymond Chen

What a strange world you live in.

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Nov 1, 2019

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Why does my program crash if I terminate a thread that is waiting to enter a critical section? It never got the critical section, so who cares?

Raymond Chen

But we care that it's still waiting.

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