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2009-01-02 - Kids love cake but that doesnt make them good judges of cake.pdf
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2009-01-02 - Why doesnt Windows 95 format floppy disks smoothly.pdf
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2009-01-05 - Even if you have code to handle a message youre allowed to call DefWindowProc because you were doing .pdf
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2009-01-05 - Not my finest hour Misreading a product label.pdf
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2009-01-06 - Microspeak Learnings.pdf
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2009-01-07 - Raymond misreads flyers A Taste of WWL.pdf
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2009-01-07 - When debugging a stack overflow you want to focus on the repeating recursive part.pdf
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2009-01-08 - The programmers dont design skins they just make skins possible.pdf
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2009-01-09 - Its surprising how suddenly those new skins started pouring in.pdf
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2009-01-11 - Follow-up A new DUI record set in the state of Washington.pdf
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2009-01-11 - How do I write a program that can be run either as a console or a GUI application.pdf
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2009-01-12 - How does PostQuitMessage know which thread to post the quit message to.pdf
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2009-01-12 - xkcd breaks the news on the new Windows 7 user interface.pdf
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2009-01-13 - Excessive speed appeared to be a factor in the crash.pdf
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2009-01-13 - Where does shellwindowscom get information about file extensions and how do I get in on that action.pdf
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2009-01-14 - The day shellwindowscom went down.pdf
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2009-01-15 - If youre at a Thai restaurant with a Thai person whos ordering food in Thai and she asks you if you l.pdf
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2009-01-15 - What is this magic setting that synthesizes Unicode from non-Unicode.pdf
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2009-01-16 - You cannot pre-emptively reserve a file extension.pdf
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2009-01-19 - May the Horse Be With You Stories from the racetrack.pdf
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2009-01-19 - Why isnt the screen resolution a per-user setting.pdf
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2009-01-20 - If you didnt like the answer asking the same question again is unlikely to help.pdf
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2009-01-21 - If you have full trust then you can do anything so dont be surprised that you can do bad things too.pdf
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2009-01-22 - Why do I get the error REGDB_E_IIDNOTREG when I call a method that returns an interface.pdf
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2009-01-23 - Why cant you apply ACLs to registry values.pdf
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2009-01-26 - But then we ran into problems when we started posting 10000 messages per second.pdf
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2009-01-26 - I think I can read the bassoonists music from here.pdf
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2009-01-27 - Theres camping and then theres luxury camping and then theres ridiculous luxury camping.pdf
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2009-01-27 - Why cant I see all of the 4GB of RAM in my machine redux.pdf
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2009-01-28 - The great thing about being popular is that everybody wants to see you go down.pdf
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2009-01-28 - When you have only 16KB of memory you cant afford to waste any of it on fluffy stuff.pdf
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2009-01-29 - A process shutdown puzzle.pdf
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2009-01-29 - Games to play at your Battlestar Galactica watching party.pdf
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2009-01-30 - The problem with The Month Where Everyone Focuses on Improving Documentation is that most people are .pdf
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2009-02-02 - How do I programmatically show and hide the Quick Launch bar.pdf
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2009-02-02 - Welcome to Groundhog Day a holiday where the same thing happens over and over.pdf
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2009-02-03 - Microspeak Recommends noun.pdf
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2009-02-03 - The 20092010 Seattle Symphony subscription season at a glance.pdf
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2009-02-04 - Being lucky is observing what you werent expecting An illustration.pdf
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2009-02-04 - What is the terminology for describing the various parts of the registry.pdf
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2009-02-05 - What the various registry data types mean is different from how they are handled.pdf
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2009-02-06 - A process shutdown puzzle Answers.pdf
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2009-02-09 - Changes to the the 20092010 Seattle Symphony subscription season.pdf
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2009-02-09 - What is the purpose of the RunAsCommand value.pdf
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2009-02-10 - A different type of writing exercise this time in preparation for buying a house.pdf
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2009-02-11 - If you get confused by a register dump then youll just have to accept that some of my postings wont m.pdf
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2009-02-11 - In order to serve you bett wait it really is better Fuel surcharges.pdf
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2009-02-12 - Superthunderstingcar is go.pdf
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2009-02-12 - What does the COM Surrogate do and why does it always stop working.pdf
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2009-02-13 - The checkbox The mating call of the loser.pdf
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2009-02-13 - The love bus also known as Metro Bus Route number 308.pdf
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2009-02-16 - Dont keep track of information you dont need.pdf
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2009-02-17 - Another Seattle bus tool One Bus Away.pdf
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2009-02-17 - Why doesnt the file system have a function that tells you the number of files in a directory.pdf
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2009-02-18 - Guest TCP psychic debugging Why the remote server keeps RSTing the connection.pdf
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2009-02-19 - Why do my file properties sometimes show an Archive check box and sometimes an Advanced button.pdf
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2009-02-20 - Announcements on the ferry and hills that grew while I was away.pdf
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2009-02-20 - Foreground activation permission is like love You cant steal it it has to be given to you.pdf
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2009-02-23 - Why is there no supported way to get the command line of another process.pdf
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2009-02-24 - Email tip Just because you get answers when you misuse a mailing list doesnt doesnt mean you should c.pdf
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2009-02-24 - Rob Cockerham investigates those companies that pay cash for gold.pdf
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2009-02-25 - Smart quotes The hidden scourge of text meant for computer consumption.pdf
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2009-02-25 - Star Trek meets The A-Team.pdf
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2009-02-26 - Pressing a registered hotkey gives you the foreground activation love.pdf
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2009-02-27 - How does Raymond decide what to post on any particular day.pdf
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2009-02-27 - What are your high school language students complaining about today.pdf
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2009-03-02 - Do QueryProcessCycleTime and QueryThreadCycleTime include cycles spent in kernel mode.pdf
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2009-03-02 - The Suggestion Box is for suggestions thats why its called a Suggestion Box.pdf
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2009-03-03 - If Twitter is micro-blogging then is what Im doing macro-tweeting.pdf
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2009-03-03 - Why is there a dry fountain in the Redmond North campus.pdf
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2009-03-04 - Microspeak Year-over-year.pdf
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2009-03-05 - Fixups are not the same as rewriting code theyre just fixups.pdf
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2009-03-05 - Race you to the top The Empire State Building Run-Up.pdf
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2009-03-06 - Why is the Win32 epoch January 1 1601.pdf
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2009-03-09 - Totally Recall The meal.pdf
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2009-03-09 - Why doesnt the MoveWindow function generate the WM_GETMINMAXINFO message.pdf
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2009-03-10 - The house no-electronics zone.pdf
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2009-03-10 - Why dont the favorites I copy into the common Favorites directory show up in the Favorites menu of al.pdf
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2009-03-11 - Et tu Fargo.pdf
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2009-03-11 - Sometimes people dont even read what theyre typing.pdf
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2009-03-12 - Engineering is about tradeoffs How hard will you work to save 68KB of disk space.pdf
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2009-03-12 - If Michael Jackson took up bhangra dancing.pdf
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2009-03-13 - Raymond rewrites newspaper headlines episode 2.pdf
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2009-03-13 - The perilous quandary of including external drivers on the Windows CD.pdf
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2009-03-16 - Overheard conversation fragment Shrimp is not vegetables.pdf
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2009-03-16 - Why does the MoveWindow function let you suppress repainting.pdf
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2009-03-17 - Well duh Id sure better get my money back.pdf
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2009-03-18 - Raymonds highly scientific predictions for the 2009 NCAA mens basketball tournament.pdf
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2009-03-18 - You cant globally reserve screen space you can put up signs but if somebody ignores the sign youll ha.pdf
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2009-03-19 - Defense in depth means that you protect against exploits that dont exist yet.pdf
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2009-03-20 - How to write like Raymond Intentional typographical errors.pdf
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2009-03-23 - Whats the point of the MoveWindow function when we already have SetWindowPos.pdf
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2009-03-24 - Double secret auto-arrange probation.pdf
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2009-03-25 - Caption contest The pinball machine.pdf
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2009-03-26 - The inability to lock someone out of the registry is a feature not a bug.pdf
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2009-03-27 - I drive a car the way most people use a computer.pdf
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2009-03-30 - What is the implementation of WM_PRINTCLIENT.pdf
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2009-03-31 - 2009 Q1 link clearance Microsoft blogger edition.pdf
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2009-03-31 - Freudian typo The spinlock.pdf
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2009-04-01 - Office redecoration The classic Microsoft prank.pdf
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2009-04-02 - Windows 95 almost had floppy insertion detection but the training cost was prohibitive.pdf
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2009-04-03 - On the almost-feature of floppy insertion detection in Windows 95.pdf
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2009-04-06 - Theres nothing wrong with making bold treeview items.pdf
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2009-04-07 - Clap and the filter graph claps with you.pdf
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2009-04-08 - Let GDI do your RLE compression for you.pdf
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2009-04-09 - Being able to call a function without using GetProcAddress is not a security vulnerability.pdf
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2009-04-10 - When people ask to disable drag and drop they often are trying to disable accidental drag and drop.pdf
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2009-04-13 - Why is there no support in the window manager for mouse button chording.pdf
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2009-04-14 - Microspeak The plate.pdf
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2009-04-15 - Taxes redux You cant open the file until the user tells you to open it.pdf
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2009-04-16 - The frustration of people who are not interested in why something works but only interested in the ma.pdf
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2009-04-17 - Why is the animation common control limited to RLE8-compressed animations.pdf
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2009-04-20 - Principles of economics translated.pdf
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2009-04-20 - The dangers of destroying a window while it is processing a sent message.pdf
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2009-04-21 - How to answer the telephone according to the manual.pdf
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2009-04-22 - If you cant find the statistics you want then just make them up.pdf
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2009-04-22 - What structure packing do the Windows SDK header files expect.pdf
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2009-04-23 - Fashion is something that can be acquired by looking at lots of different fashions.pdf
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2009-04-23 - Why are there two values for PSH_WIZARD97.pdf
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2009-04-24 - No were not nerds why do you ask.pdf
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2009-04-27 - The Start menu pin list is just a list of items theres no magic.pdf
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2009-04-27 - What kind of uncle am I.pdf
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2009-04-28 - A simple bar chart on letter distribution.pdf
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2009-04-29 - Qrystal does more research into those spam blogs.pdf
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2009-04-29 - Why is there sometimes a half-second delay between the click and the action.pdf
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2009-04-30 - Identity theft via repeated name changes.pdf
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2009-04-30 - Those notification icons with their clicks double-clicks right-clicks whats up with that.pdf
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2009-05-01 - When advanced users outsmart themselves The device removal notification icon.pdf
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2009-05-04 - The dummy icon that doesnt know that its fifteen seconds are over.pdf
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2009-05-05 - The social skills of a thermonuclear device Why did you hang up.pdf
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2009-05-06 - You can tell which people listed blogging as a performance review goal.pdf
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2009-05-07 - A puzzle Why are so many fake LiveJournal blogs written by 29-year-olds.pdf
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2009-05-07 - When you subclass a window its the original window procedure of the window you subclass you have to c.pdf
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2009-05-08 - Writing a sort comparison function redux.pdf
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2009-05-11 - How do I get a window back on the screen when it moved far far away.pdf
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2009-05-12 - Microspeak T-shirt sizing.pdf
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2009-05-13 - People become more trustworthy the more you trust them.pdf
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2009-05-14 - Creating shortcuts in the same folder as the target isnt as stupid as you may think.pdf
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2009-05-14 - Parents billed when kids miss school Pay for play.pdf
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2009-05-15 - Imagine our luck when we found one of the fancy conference rooms available for our meeting.pdf
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2009-05-15 - Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines is online and downloadable.pdf
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2009-05-18 - How do I know whether a window message was processed.pdf
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2009-05-19 - Just letting you know I had to reboot my telephone.pdf
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2009-05-20 - Signs that your new building was originally designed for another purpose Rest rooms.pdf
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2009-05-21 - First try reading the error message Episode 1.pdf
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2009-05-22 - Chicken chicken chicken chicken.pdf
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2009-05-22 - If an event is signaled more than once are they delivered in the order in which they were signaled.pdf
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2009-05-25 - The latest installment of Wallace and Gromit coming to Seattle.pdf
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2009-05-25 - Why cant you change the alignment of an edit control after it has been created.pdf
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2009-05-26 - How to hide privacy violations in a privacy disclosure statement part 2.pdf
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2009-05-26 - What do you call a gadget that is used for debugging which looks at the properties of other gadgets.pdf
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2009-05-27 - Before designing and implementing around an assumption it helps to check that your assumption is true.pdf
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2009-05-28 - An unexpected application of the First Law of Thermodynamics.pdf
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2009-05-28 - Im sorry you dont have permission to know where this shortcut file should show up in the Explorer win.pdf
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2009-05-29 - Alternatives to using the error directive to check whether the compiler even sees you.pdf
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2009-05-29 - Lessons from the state police like what to do when they pull you over.pdf
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2009-06-01 - Whew Im not doing that again.pdf
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2009-06-01 - Why does the CreateProcess function modify its input command line.pdf
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2009-06-02 - Spam trackback attack returns its not a matter of whether but how much.pdf
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2009-06-02 - Who you calling boring.pdf
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2009-06-03 - Last tube standing The Cardboard Tube Fighting League.pdf
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2009-06-03 - What does the Zw prefix mean.pdf
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2009-06-04 - Cool guys dont look at explosions.pdf
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2009-06-04 - Why cant I rotate the display with ChangeDisplaySettingsEx.pdf
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2009-06-05 - Bonus chatter about that virus that is responsible for the top six Explorer crashes.pdf
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2009-06-05 - Im sorry Brian George but we got cut off and I couldnt call you back.pdf
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2009-06-08 - On the importance of sanity-checking values where money is involved.pdf
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2009-06-08 - Why isnt there a separate British English version of Windows.pdf
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2009-06-09 - Mixed messages from the IT department regarding email safety.pdf
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2009-06-10 - Foreign languages can be used as a secret code but its not always a good secret code.pdf
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2009-06-10 - Why does MS-DOS use 83 filenames instead of say 112 or 1616.pdf
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2009-06-11 - Spam trackback attack week 2 statistics.pdf
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2009-06-11 - Why does Explorer use the term KB instead of KiB.pdf
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2009-06-12 - A concrete illustration of practical running time vs big-O notation.pdf
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2009-06-12 - Fortune cookie fortunes are getting less and less interesting all the time.pdf
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2009-06-15 - Happening to be at the same post-concert restaurant as symphony performers.pdf
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2009-06-15 - Why do some file operations take file names and others take handles.pdf
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2009-06-16 - Management-speak Upping the sats and stimulating the ecosystem.pdf
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2009-06-17 - Sure I can get spurious WM_MOUSEMOVE messages but why do they keep streaming in.pdf
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2009-06-17 - Welcome to Leavenworth Washingtons faux-Bavarian village.pdf
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2009-06-18 - Dont you hate it when someone leaks a ref to your clothes.pdf
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2009-06-18 - The dangers of mixing synchronous and asynchronous state.pdf
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2009-06-19 - The butter and the money for the butter.pdf
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2009-06-19 - You cant leave a critical section you never entered.pdf
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2009-06-22 - High school students guess what happens to money deposited into checking accounts.pdf
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2009-06-22 - Why does a flashing taskbar result in a fullscreen console returning to windowed mode.pdf
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2009-06-23 - Oh great and my phone even has a CPU meter.pdf
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2009-06-24 - Spam trackback attack week 3 statistics.pdf
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2009-06-24 - Yet another experiment in motivating people to find and fix bugs.pdf
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2009-06-25 - First try reading the error message episode 2 Even programmers see error messages without reading the.pdf
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2009-06-25 - News flash Children are influenced by advertising.pdf
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2009-06-26 - John Swansburg deftly declines the fine print disclaimer on his Heelys.pdf
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2009-06-26 - The thread that gets the DLL_PROCESS_DETACH notification is not necessarily the one that got the DLL_.pdf
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2009-06-29 - If you want to consume all the virtual address space well then go ahead and consume it you dont need .pdf
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2009-06-29 - Learning to lie Early forays.pdf
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2009-06-30 - 2009 mid-year link clearance.pdf
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2009-06-30 - Microspeak The plan for the plan.pdf
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2009-07-01 - The New York Times says Im doing it all wrong but maybe thats for the better.pdf
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2009-07-02 - Foreign languages can be used to impede communication.pdf
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2009-07-02 - You can use a Coke slogan as your password but not a Pepsi one.pdf
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2009-07-03 - The most unwanted song ever.pdf
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2009-07-03 - Why does my screen go black when an emergency hibernation is in progress.pdf
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2009-07-06 - A 32-bit application can allocate more than 4GB of memory and you dont need 64-bit Windows to do it.pdf
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2009-07-06 - If somebody speaks a language Im not expecting sometimes I dont understand it even though I should.pdf
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2009-07-07 - Command line parsers look at what you typed not what what you typed looks like.pdf
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2009-07-07 - More musings on the peculiar linguistic status of languages acquired in childhood.pdf
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2009-07-08 - Attack of the rogue feature Oh no where did my Explorer icon labels go.pdf
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2009-07-08 - Up and down often substitute for compass directions but you have to know when youve taken it too far.pdf
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2009-07-09 - Film students and The Bicycle Thief.pdf
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2009-07-09 - MS-DOS also allowed spaces in file names although vanishingly few programs knew how to access them.pdf
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2009-07-10 - If dynamic DLL dependencies were tracked theyd be all backwards.pdf
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2009-07-10 - The world reaction to the unexpected death of Michael Jackson extends to young children.pdf
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2009-07-13 - Failed follow-up The case of the dubious dental work.pdf
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2009-07-13 - Speculation on how a mishandled 13-character string can result in a blue screen.pdf
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2009-07-14 - The fun and profit of manipulating the DIB color table can be done without having to modify it.pdf
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2009-07-14 - What happens to your restaurant tip.pdf
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2009-07-15 - On gender differences in expectations of thinness and the impact on guys who live in their parents ba.pdf
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2009-07-15 - Separating the metadata from the DIB pixels Precalculating the BITMAPINFO.pdf
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2009-07-16 - Caption contest The pinball machine Results.pdf
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2009-07-16 - Separating the metadata from the DIB pixels Changing the raster operation.pdf
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2009-07-17 - The disembodiment of DIBs from the DIB section.pdf
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2009-07-20 - Why was MoveTo replaced with MoveToEx.pdf
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2009-07-21 - Proto-Microspeak Coceptualize.pdf
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2009-07-22 - I saw a fascinating documentary about bugs.pdf
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2009-07-22 - Microspeak Whale Boy.pdf
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2009-07-23 - Changes to the the 20092010 Seattle Symphony subscription season part 2.pdf
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2009-07-23 - Your debugging code can be a security hole Contest tickets.pdf
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2009-07-24 - If you wished a language supported the preprocessor you know you can fix that.pdf
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2009-07-24 - The guerilla wedding.pdf
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2009-07-27 - Conway-Kochen Free Will Theorem Lecture series.pdf
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2009-07-27 - Polling by sleeping versus polling by waiting with a timeout.pdf
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2009-07-28 - How do I quickly position two windows side by side.pdf
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2009-07-28 - Mr Lee CatCam lets you see what a cat does all day.pdf
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2009-07-29 - How do I put a window at the edge of the screen without triggering the automatic positioning behavior.pdf
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2009-07-29 - The advantage of knowing your limits of discrimination.pdf
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2009-07-30 - How do I quickly position two windows side by side using only the keyboard.pdf
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2009-07-30 - What is the difference between CSIDL_DESKTOP and CSIDL_DESKTOPDIRECTORY.pdf
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2009-07-31 - How organizations inadvertently confirm facts when they try not to.pdf
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2009-07-31 - What is the difference between Directory and DirectoryBackground.pdf
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2009-08-03 - A burglar tells you the best place to hide your money.pdf
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2009-08-03 - When giving a presentation with a diagram pretend the diagram doesnt exist.pdf
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2009-08-04 - Programming means that sometimes you have to snap two blocks together.pdf
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2009-08-05 - How do you drop on the background of an Explorer window when it is in details view.pdf
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2009-08-05 - Searching for Evil Spot the scam.pdf
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2009-08-06 - The great thing about regular expression engines is that there are so many to choose from.pdf
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2009-08-07 - Not beany enough.pdf
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2009-08-07 - SHCIDS_CANONICALONLY is the moral equivalent in the shell namespace of the Unicode ordinal comparison.pdf
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2009-08-10 - The wisdom of seveHHHHsixth graders What it means to be an adult.pdf
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2009-08-10 - Why doesnt StringFormat throw a FormatException if you pass too many parameters.pdf
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2009-08-11 - Actually FlagsAttribute cant do more thats why its an attribute.pdf
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2009-08-11 - The wisdom of seventh graders What it means to be an adult.pdf
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2009-08-12 - The wisdom of sevHHHeighth graders What it means to be an adult.pdf
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2009-08-12 - Why cant I pass a reference to a derived class to a function that takes a reference to a base class b.pdf
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2009-08-13 - Common gotchas when writing your own pinvoke.pdf
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2009-08-13 - Landing the Space Shuttle is hard enough as it is.pdf
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2009-08-14 - Its not just on the Internet that nobody knows you dont have a real office.pdf
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2009-08-14 - Why cant I declare a type that derives from a generic type parameter.pdf
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2009-08-17 - The format rectangle is recalculated whenever the window resizes and thats a good thing.pdf
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2009-08-18 - Microspeak Action on.pdf
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2009-08-19 - Theres no law that says a meeting cant end early.pdf
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2009-08-20 - Why does Windows wait longer than my screen saver idle timeout before starting the screen saver.pdf
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2009-08-21 - Restating the obvious about the WM_NOTIFY message.pdf
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2009-08-24 - City noises and their effects on songbirds.pdf
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2009-08-24 - The operating system doesnt know which language programs are written in by the time the code hits th.pdf
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2009-08-25 - Meta-content Suggestion Box 4 will open sometime next year.pdf
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2009-08-25 - My phone just DoSd my office network.pdf
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2009-08-26 - In Ephesus you juggle or die.pdf
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2009-08-26 - The way to stop people from copying files to a folder is to use NTFS security not to block dragdrop.pdf
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2009-08-27 - Isnt every dinner at a technology conference a geek dinner.pdf
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2009-08-27 - What is the maximum number of timers a program can create.pdf
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2009-08-28 - A different perspective from the first row of the symphony.pdf
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2009-08-28 - The great thing about naming conventions is that not everybody will follow them.pdf
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2009-08-31 - And they dont take American Express.pdf
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2009-08-31 - Why do new controls tend to use COM instead of window messages.pdf
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2009-09-01 - One way to make sure nobody sends you feedback.pdf
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2009-09-01 - Walt Mosspuppet The return of the fake blog.pdf
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2009-09-02 - The wheels of government bureaucracy turn slowly Green cards.pdf
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2009-09-02 - Welcome to the 11th annual Mid-Atlantic Road-E-O.pdf
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2009-09-03 - Grown in the middle of some very respectable Seattle suburbs such as Renton.pdf
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2009-09-03 - Woe unto PROGMANINI.pdf
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2009-09-04 - Reading the error message carefully can help you see how the computer misinterpreted what you typed.pdf
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2009-09-04 - Two-year-old as finite state machine.pdf
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2009-09-07 - Thanks for identifying the good programmers for us.pdf
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2009-09-08 - Things other people have written that have amused me Episode 2.pdf
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2009-09-08 - Why are developer tools orange.pdf
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2009-09-09 - Hey you look Chinese we have a class for people like you.pdf
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2009-09-09 - When you agree to write to a particular length make sure your content is actually that length.pdf
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2009-09-10 - Management-speak Focus.pdf
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2009-09-10 - Start with a 50000 grant hold a fundraiser lose 47000.pdf
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2009-09-11 - If youre handling an out of memory exception you probably shouldnt allocate memory.pdf
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2009-09-11 - Most people who go to an open house arent actually interested in buying it.pdf
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2009-09-14 - A complex family calculus.pdf
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2009-09-14 - Can you create an information context for the display.pdf
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2009-09-15 - Crazy Eddie His prices were insane because it was all a criminal operation.pdf
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2009-09-15 - Why does the Start menu search box autoselect some items but not others.pdf
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2009-09-16 - Rentonites concerned about Hooters opening in their town but not for the reason you think.pdf
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2009-09-16 - Whoa there logging on awful fast now are we.pdf
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