Oct 12, 2020
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In 1979, some software company in Bellevue was hiring
Digging through the archives.
Showing tag results for History
Oct 9, 2020
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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
To be a leader, others must follow.
Sep 29, 2020
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How did we end up parsing Savvyday 29 Oatmeal 94 as Saturday 29 October 1994?
Unsophisticated pattern matching.
Sep 16, 2020
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Why did I lose the ability to co_await a std::future and concurrency::task?
Early moves in a direction that didn't pan out.
Sep 15, 2020
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Embarrassing product names averted: Windows Embedded POS and Windows 10 for Advanced PCs
If you see something, say something.
Sep 8, 2020
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How is it possible to jam a virtual card reader?
Did you feed it a bent virtual card?
Sep 1, 2020
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More on trivial functions like CopyRect and EqualRect
Let's go code golfing.
Aug 25, 2020
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That time Bill Gates went through a McDonalds drive-through with no cash
No special treatment, not even for the richest man in the world.
Aug 6, 2020
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What was so horrible about the FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER flag that the Windows Store disallowed it for so long?
Letting in the riffraff.
Aug 5, 2020
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What does it mean when it says that FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER can be used in Store apps starting in Windows 10?
What happens if you use it anyway?