Mar 18, 2016
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What are the consequences of reserving a huge amount of memory, most of which is never committed?
It's mostly harmless now.
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Mar 17, 2016
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Why not use weak linking to solve the retargetable library problem?
A discussion.
Mar 16, 2016
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Randomly-generated passwords still have to be legal strings
Well-formed strings according to the encoding.
Mar 14, 2016
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Adventures in UI Automation: Scraping the Driver Files dialog
Drivery goodness.
Mar 10, 2016
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Could there be any problems with calling GetModuleFileNameEx on your own process?
Yes.
Mar 9, 2016
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String comparisons against program output is not usually the best solution
Look for programmatic interfaces.
Mar 8, 2016
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If what you’re doing is undocumented, it’s not guaranteed to keep working, and your promise not to complain doesn’t really hold water
Because that's what undocumented implies.
Mar 7, 2016
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On word breaking in Chinese and Japanese
Different rules.
Mar 4, 2016
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Why not auto convert week-based time zone information to date-based?
What an adorable snowflake.
Mar 3, 2016
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Are SetProp and RemoveProp thread-safe?
As thread-safe as they can be.