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I think PCDOS/MSDOS copied CP/M's use of CRLF for line separator. Some believe Gary Kildall picked CRLF for CP/M since he used DEC TOPS-10 to develop CP/M. see https://www.quora.co…

HN just had a post about the craigslist founder donating over half billion dollars to charity. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588216

The spec, i assume you mean iCalendar, came later.

It seems to be called the Rule of 3. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(writing) Like Caesar's supposed "Veni Vidi Vici" saying, people seem to prefer and remember it…

The article mentions that new Outlook uses a Webview2 control as the UI. You can call it JS/Webview. Similar to Electron, but using an MS Edge browser window control as the webview…

Schedule+ had the concept of exceptions to a recurring appointment (RA) - meetings that didn't follow the recurring pattern (e.g. every week on thursday at 4pm). This was exposed t…

Since Classic Outlook was developed in the glory days of OLE2.0, it's got OLE Automation baked in. VB and JScript code can access emails and appointments and perform relevant opera…

For early history about Active Directory, you can't get much better than straight from the horse's mouth ( manager of the Exchange / Active Directory group ). see https://hardcores…

Microsoft Schedule+ was Microsoft's workgroup calendaring app before the Office division merged email and calendar into one app. Outlook was late so Schedule+ was included in Offic…

FTA: The CBC, which began televising NHL games in 1952, had operated under that agreement since Rogers Sportsnet acquired the league’s Canadian rights in 2013 for $5.2 billion.

In the USA, women initiate divorce proceedings ~70% of the time. see https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220511-why-women-file...

It's more likely that one dev wrote the draw-cell code. Another dev who's fixing a bug, realizes if they call a certain function either directly or indirectly, their particular bug…

And Android 11+ has been doing similar userspace stack-init thing - https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/06/system-har...

I was looking through the compiler docs about memory allocation and I found the section about the debug version of the CRT which could fill the allocated memory with a non-zero can…

It's not impossible - in Ontario, it required a law. Resale ticket prices capped at original ticket face value. see https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ontario-ticket-resale-cap-e...

I'm not disputing your point. I'm explaining why the infinite loop actually occurs for those who haven't encountered the problem. The problem would happen for an array whose beginn…

None of my college CS courses used programming languages that featured FAR pointers. The above example would cause an infinite loop on Win16's seg:off far memory model, but compili…

You just had to live with the constraints. It biased your selection of data structures and algorithms. Max 64KB array size meant pointers to allocated structs and linked lists were…

But like real-mode Windows, the Macintosh OS was designed with small amounts of RAM. 32K limits pop up in various APIs. Handle memory allocation. Not as much of a strait jacket as …

University students are predominantly female in Israel as in North America, so female education isn't a differentiator for fertility rate. I recall reading an article about the cul…

It looks like a regional phenomenon - countries near to Israel have a similar fertility rate. see (Middle East fertility rates) https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?…