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One thing not mentioned is that Visual C++ and Visual Basic historically were separate IDEs with separate codebases. When the time came to unify them, only one of them could contin…

The author mentions the screen being corrupted when a DOS prompt is opened in windowed mode. This can happen because the DOS prompt runs in a separate VM (in V86 mode), and makes c…

Maybe one day you'll be rich too, and can work tirelessly to avoid paying your fair share to the government. But I kind of doubt it, because you don't know the difference between "…

So, it's just enantiomerically pure S-ketamine - not really a new drug discovery. The drug is already around as an anesthetic but it is almost finished with the FDA's approval proc…

What is the value that private equity and/or VC are adding to dermatology? I guess what I'm asking is, why would the physicians be interested in sharing some portion of their incom…

Application Verifier is a feature of Windows for developers to use to check program correctness. Bruce says he turned on Full Page Heap, which makes every allocation go on a separa…

At Microsoft the compiler team (Visual C++) and the Windows team are joined at the hip. I'm sure the same was true at Sun. This can lead to good decisions about undefined behavior …

There may be an expectation at work for you to have the desire to advance within the organization, i.e. career ambition.

It says 8.6 on the page

Just finished benchmarking this for a key workload in our build process. It's 3% faster than Node 8.x for us. But node-chakracore (the Microsoft runtime) 8.9.4 was 11% faster -- we…

Such a weird title; it makes me think he works for them, but he doesn't

Man, I really wouldn't. My understanding is that of the people who present to the emergency department with chest pain, something like a third of them have been using cocaine. It c…

What are metal button covers? I can't picture it

The garbage collector for Microsoft's Common Language Runtime (CLR -- the VM for .NET) was written in Lisp originally and then transpiled into C.

Her Majesty's Revenue Collector ?

You're both right. Yes, it's WPF, and there are lots of parts written in C#. But the parent is right -- Visual Studio is C++ using COM and Win32 at its core, going back all the way…

Like Brian Krebs said yesterday on his blog -- it seems like the doctrine of felony murder should apply here.

My recollection is that Dan was working at Microsoft during "Third real job (2015-2017)." (He has a couple of posts in this timeframe where he refers vaguely to his employer. "Hiri…