{"id":101080,"date":"2019-03-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=101080"},"modified":"2019-03-12T23:58:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T06:58:23","slug":"20190305-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20190305-00\/?p=101080","title":{"rendered":"Alternate definitions for English words, as inferred from bug reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some terms that appear in bug reports. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Empty&#8221; means     &#8220;There are a bunch of things here, but not the ones I wanted.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Blank&#8221; means     &#8220;There are things, maybe.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The picture is wrong&#8221; can mean practically anything,     including possibly &#8220;The picture is right.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;It didn&#8217;t work&#8221; can also mean practically anything,     including possibly &#8220;It worked.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of my colleagues works on video drivers. He pointed out that when there&#8217;s a bug of the form &#8220;&#8230; and then I get a black screen,&#8221; there&#8217;s a decent probability that the bug will include a screen shot. <\/p>\n<p>You can imagine what the screen shot looks like. <\/p>\n<p>At least it compresses well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost in translation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-101080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Lost in translation.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}