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I was surprised when I saw BEGIN_INTERFACE and END_INTERFACE for the first time, because the SDK COM Tutorial Samples didn't use them. I guess the fact that it's defined to nothing on x86 platforms has...
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What kind of compiler doesn't support offsetof?[A very old one. -Raymond]
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I love this blog, but I found this post a bit off-putting. As Matt said, the snark is a bit unwarranted. It seems like you're setting up a straw man here in the form of the "enthusiast", and then...
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re: The C language specification describes an abstract computer, not a real one
Those adresses beyond 0xFFFFFFFF sound very dangerous. So no standard way to catch this exception, huh?
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re: 2013 Q1 link clearance: Microsoft blogger edition
Steve Yegge's post was written in 2007. So... what is the real identity of NBL ? I'm not reallty knowledgeable in programming langages but I would be interested to know...Cheers.
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"Nadyne's third fallacy is something I see when other companies who are interested in employee blogging ask"Yea, I don't think this kind of PR control over employees are a good idea in this day and age.
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> _spawnl and friends are obviously broken in Windows. Here we have a nasty case. The function exists for portability from Unix;Actually these are CRT functions. The CRT on Windows has a version...
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Oops, I quoted the wrong part in my reply. I meant to quote this:> however the existing Windows implementation is dangerously broken, but probably won't be fixed for backwards compatability reasons.
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That pack of cards would be useless for a timed game.After all, how do you expect the back of the stock to animate? ;-)
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[A very old one. -Raymond]I found this in stddef of a 16 bit compiler:#define offsetof(type, member) ((size_t)&(((type *)0)->member))I personally can't imaging any Win32 compiler missing it.
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re: "Adjust visual effects for best performance" should really be called...
I turn most of visual effects off not for performance, but because I dislike all those animations.And some of them are plain evil and unbearable, like "slide open combo boxes".
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That lesson in dynamic range made no sense. Do DACs not come with volume knobs on your side of the pond?
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<quote>Because enthusiasts who think they are so awesomely clever looooove disabling anything that makes the computer look pretty, because they're convinced that effort making the computer look...
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You must be careful not to try to apply math to rants....
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Are (latest) plaform/windows sdk officially supported with any other compiler than msvc?
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re: Some trivia about the //build/ 2011 conference
@JackBNimble - jas88 knows that, he was making a pun on the typo ("infant morality" ~ "stealing milk").
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re: Some trivia about the //build/ 2011 conference
So the answer was yes, I was missing something.
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re: Some trivia about the //build/ 2011 conference
Great stories! Thank you for sharing. I work at a small company that puts on our own yearly user conference. It's nice to hear how the big boys do things. Mad props to Jensen.
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It was interesting to learn about the MVP acronym origins. Also a nice touch to introduce other MSDN blogs, thanks.
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re: The joke's on you, because PATH goes to Penn Station, not Grand Central!
If the path spirals so as to pass through the playroom twice, but has no hills, then that means it has to cross itself, and then there's a possibility that two riders would collide. I'm afraid we're...
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