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What Witchcraft Is This? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 5 points by soheilpro 57 days ago | past | 1 comment API design principle: Don't tempt people to divide by zero (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by signa11 57 days ago | past The outside investigation of SoftRAM 95 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by AndrewDucker 57 days ago | past Code comments should apply to the system at the point the comment "executes" (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by thunderbong 61 days ago | past Code comments should apply to the state of the system at the point of execution (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by signa11 62 days ago | past Remembering the end of support for VRML in Internet Explorer (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by ibobev 63 days ago | past | 1 comment The problem with inferring from a function call operator (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 65 days ago | past Comments should apply to the state of the system at the point they "execute" (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by ibobev 65 days ago | past Why was Windows 3.0's WinHelp called an online help system when it ran offline? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 10 points by doener 76 days ago | past | 4 comments Samples note: Use comments to describe what code does, not what you wish the (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by OptionOfT 76 days ago | past Why is Windows still tinkering with critical sections? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 5 points by paulmooreparks 77 days ago | past Why was Windows 3.0's WinHelp called an online help system when it ran offline? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by ingve 77 days ago | past | 1 comment Why is Windows still tinkering with critical sections? – The Old New Thing (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 124 points by OptionOfT 77 days ago | past | 124 comments Learning to read C++ compiler errors: Not a legal base class (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 78 days ago | past Why was WinHelp called an online help system when it ran offline? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by todsacerdoti 79 days ago | past Learning to read C++ compiler errors: Not a legal base class (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by ingve 82 days ago | past Why Microsoft has the name of an old mouse hidden in its Bluetooth drivers? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by _p2zi 84 days ago | past Why is the name of a wireless mouse hard-coded into Windows Bluetooth drivers? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 6 points by LorenDB 86 days ago | past The case of the crash on a null pointer even though we checked it for null (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by mooreds 3 months ago | past The case of the crash on a null pointer even though we checked it for null (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by signa11 3 months ago | past | 1 comment The case of the crash on a null pointer even though we checked it for null (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by warrenm 3 months ago | past How to write a C++/WinRT IAsyncOperation<T> where T is not a WinRT type? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 3 months ago | past Protecting Windows Users from Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by sensanaty 3 months ago | past How is it possible to run Wordpad by just typing its name? (2011) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by bariumbitmap 3 months ago | past Why the replacement for 16-bit installers was itself a 32-bit program (2015) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by xattt 3 months ago | past Thoughts on creating a tracking pointer class (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 3 months ago | past How can I detect that Windows is running in S-Mode? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by thomasjb 4 months ago | past Why are Windows semiannual updates named H1 and H2? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 5 points by dwattttt 4 months ago | past | 2 comments Why doesn't the file system tell you the number of files in a directory? (2009) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by HeliumHydride 4 months ago | past What happens if C++/WinRT is unable to resume execution on a dispatcher thread? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 4 months ago | past More

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