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Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 7 points by ibobev 23 hours ago | past | discuss Why do you say that a COM STA thread must pump messages? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 23 hours ago | past | discuss C++: The Programming Language Cover Raises Unanswered Questions (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by birdculture 6 days ago | past | discuss The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 156 points by paulmooreparks 7 days ago | past | 51 comments A discovery about GCC's unidirectional rotation algorithm (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 41 points by soheilpro 9 days ago | past | 18 comments Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 10 days ago | past | discuss The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern" (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 40 points by paulmooreparks 11 days ago | past | 54 comments What Is the Thread Reaper? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by vintagedave 21 days ago | past What is the history of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 58 points by supermatou 23 days ago | past | 16 comments The case of the Create­File­Mapping that always reported ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 25 days ago | past Why do Windows editions on 32-bit x86 systems artificially limit RAM to 4 GB? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 6 points by supermatou 28 days ago | past IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 397 points by SeenNotHeard 38 days ago | past | 240 comments How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 73 points by ingve 39 days ago | past | 71 comments Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 216 points by ankitg12 42 days ago | past | 97 comments Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 98 points by aragonite 46 days ago | past | 29 comments Another crash caused by uninstaller code injection into Explorer (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by r4um 50 days ago | past XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 231 points by ingve 52 days ago | past | 216 comments Why XOR a register with itself instead of subtracting (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by LorenDB 52 days ago | past How did code handle 24-bit formats with video cards with bank-switched memory? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ingve 53 days ago | past Hyrum's Law: The hunt for a faster syscall trap (2004) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by signa11 54 days ago | past The cover of C++ The Programming Language raises questions not answered by cover (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by ibobev 57 days ago | past | 1 comment Why is a delay between a thread exiting and Wait­For­Single­Object returning? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 57 days ago | past Finding a duplicated item in an array of N integers in the range 1 to N − 1 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 57 days ago | past Finding a duplicated item in an array of N integers in the range 1 to N − 1 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by birdculture 59 days ago | past The cover of "C++: The Programming Language" raises questions (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by krylon 72 days ago | past | 4 comments How to change a dialog box's message loop to do a Msg­Wait­For­Multiple­Objects (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 74 days ago | past It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway (2006) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 5 points by JoshTriplett 74 days ago | past | 1 comment Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 168 points by michelangelo 75 days ago | past | 100 comments Window 95 defenses against installers overwriting files with older versions (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by supermatou 78 days ago | past Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by ibobev 79 days ago | past More

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