Did Windows ever find solutions for programs that crashed? December 1, 2020 Dec 1, 2020 12/1/20 Raymond Chen It did on occasion.
The prank cursor that resulted in an employee being fired before they even started November 10, 2020 Nov 10, 2020 11/10/20 Raymond Chen Don't try this at home.
The BurgerMaster segment may have been legendary, but some legends aren’t true October 27, 2020 Oct 27, 2020 10/27/20 Raymond Chen Just give them a call.
In 1979, some software company in Bellevue was hiring October 12, 2020 Oct 12, 2020 10/12/20 Raymond Chen Digging through the archives.
A consequence of being the first to adopt a standard is that you may end up being the only one to adopt it: The sad story of Korean jamo October 9, 2020 Oct 9, 2020 10/9/20 Raymond Chen To be a leader, others must follow.
How did we end up parsing Savvyday 29 Oatmeal 94 as Saturday 29 October 1994? September 29, 2020 Sep 29, 2020 09/29/20 Raymond Chen Unsophisticated pattern matching.
Why did I lose the ability to co_await a std::future and concurrency::task? September 16, 2020 Sep 16, 2020 09/16/20 Raymond Chen Early moves in a direction that didn't pan out.
Embarrassing product names averted: Windows Embedded POS and Windows 10 for Advanced PCs September 15, 2020 Sep 15, 2020 09/15/20 Raymond Chen If you see something, say something.
How is it possible to jam a virtual card reader? September 8, 2020 Sep 8, 2020 09/8/20 Raymond Chen Did you feed it a bent virtual card?
More on trivial functions like CopyRect and EqualRect September 1, 2020 Sep 1, 2020 09/1/20 Raymond Chen Let's go code golfing.