\nAllowing other programs do gross things to Explorer wasn’t on its list of design goals.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Other entries require more thought. Each non-code entry takes me a half hour or so, more if I have to do research (if somebody asks me a question outside my area of expertise and I feel like hunting for the answer), and the code entries require an hour and a half or more. Some of them take days. I think I spent three weeks on the dialog box template series, and about as much on the context menus. (And there are plenty of other series in various stages of completion.) <\/p>\n
I don’t get paid to do this. It’s just a hobby. It’s frustrating when people order you to spend more time on your hobby. And then when you decide it’s too much and start closing comments to try to get some of your life back, people call you a coward and assume that you stopped for some nefarious reason. (Like when they say, “Look, Raymond closed comments as soon as people started asking embarrassing questions.” But the comment timestamps prove otherwise. I closed comments weeks or months later.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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