Oct 19, 2021
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That time we had a network outage due to unexpected hunter activity
Watch where you're pointing that thing.
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Oct 6, 2021
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Why is the main() function always at address 0x00401000 in a simple program?
When multiple technical decision add up, literally.
Oct 5, 2021
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Not from inside the Redmond Reality Distortion Field: Microsoft Streets and Trips support for ferries
From somebody else's reality distortion field.
Aug 24, 2021
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How to sneak the Windows 95 credits screen into the build without anybody noticing
Write it in an obscure language.
Aug 18, 2021
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What’s with all of the references to “dude” in the accessibility header files?
A catch phrase from long ago.
Aug 10, 2021
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Why did the old RAID database use a signed 16-bit integer for its record count? Why not unsigned, or a 32-bit integer?
You have to understand decisions in context, and that includes knowing the problem it was trying to solve.
Jul 27, 2021
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Twitter misdetected the 2011 Build conference keynote as a denial-of-service attack
Just a lot of excited developers.
Jul 23, 2021
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The history of passing a null pointer as the key name to RegOpenKeyEx
It doesn't mean anything special any more, but it once did.
Jul 13, 2021
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How did copying and renaming with wildcards work in MS-DOS?
By lining up two parallel arrays.
Jun 25, 2021
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The ARM processor (Thumb-2), part 20: Code walkthrough
Putting together what we've learned, with a surprise.