Articles by paulmooreparks
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The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern" (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)

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Show HN: Yavchn – Yet Another Vibe-Coded Hacker News Wrapper (parkscomputing.com)

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Show HN: Yavchn – Yet Another Vibe-Coded Hacker News Wrapper (parkscomputing.com)

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Show HN: Yavchn – Yet Another Vibe-Coded Hacker News Wrapper (parkscomputing.com)

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How did MS-DOS decide on two seconds to keep the floppy disk cache valid? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)

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The Next Train to Bracknell (parkscomputing.com)

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How Many Years of Pizza Do You Have? (parkscomputing.com)

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Swapping two blocks of memory inside a larger block, in constant memory (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)

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Just Spell the Month (parkscomputing.com)

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Behind the scenes on how Windows 95 app compatibility patched broken programs (microsoft.com)

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I hate screenshots of text (parkscomputing.com)

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A century-old piano mystery has just been solved (sciencedaily.com)

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Why is Windows still tinkering with critical sections? (microsoft.com)

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Show HN: XferLang, a data-transfer and configuration alternative to JSON (xferlang.org)

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Show HN: XferLang, a data-transfer and configuration alternative to JSON (xferlang.org)

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Ask HN: Exposing C ABI from Rust library?

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Does AI Make Us Lazy? (calnewport.com)

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An Important New Study on Phones and Kids (calnewport.com)

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Abusing copyright strings to trick software into thinking it's on competitor PC (microsoft.com)

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The MIDL compiler still has trouble with double greater-than signs, sadly (microsoft.com)

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Application compatibility for Windows 95 crashed a cash register (microsoft.com)

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The symbolism of the magnifying glass is not universal (microsoft.com)

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Microsoft makes another pitch for React Native in Windows desktop development (devclass.com)

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What is the dev set-up for developing Windows for multiple proc architectures? (microsoft.com)

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How does Hawking radiation lead to black hole evaporation? (bigthink.com)

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What were the intended uses of those icons in moricons.dll? (microsoft.com)

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Show HN: Sudoku Web Game (github.com/parkscomputing)

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A design flaw in the Windows 3D Pipes screen saver pointed out by a customer (microsoft.com)

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Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems? (microsoft.com)

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Show HN: Xfer, a data-transfer language (github.com/paulmooreparks)

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"The Feeling of Power" by Isaac Asimov (urbigenous.net)

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Personal Names Around the World (2011) (w3.org)

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The tortoise and the hare – building faster with low level programming (eno-writer.com)

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Going beyond the empty set: Embracing the power of other empty things (microsoft.com)

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Microsoft may be removing the Windows Control Panel (ghacks.net)

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Who Wrote the Blue Screens of Death (microsoft.com)

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Show HN: clic - a CLI stack-based calculator in C# (github.com/paulmooreparks)

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There is no mystery over who wrote the Blue Screen of Death (microsoft.com)

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Show HN: ClifferBasic, a simple BASIC interpreter as a .NET REPL (github.com/paulmooreparks)

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eno writer: My First Demo (eno-writer.com)

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The origin story of the Windows 3D Pipes screen saver (microsoft.com)

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Can (Windows) INI files be Unicode? Yes, they can, but it has to be your idea (microsoft.com)

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Paytm: Rockstar Indian fintech startup faces serious crisis (bbc.com)

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On Slow Writing (calnewport.com)

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The Quiet Workflow Revolution (calnewport.com)

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We Don't Need a New Twitter (calnewport.com)

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We Don't Need a New Twitter (calnewport.com)

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Has Amazon finally created a viable supermarket? (grocerydive.com)

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STL: Smart Pointers (microsoft.com)

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If you want to watch games on your tractor, please use your own iPad (microsoft.com)

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Meta rediscovers the cubicle (calnewport.com)

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On Section 230 and the Dream of a More Human Internet (calnewport.com)

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Why are the Windows chassis hardware button hotkeys so strange? (microsoft.com)

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How big is a visible photo? [video] (youtube.com)

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Reading the User's Saved Passwords (microsoft.com)

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Hyperlinking to Hutchison Whampoa Limited is still forbidden (microsoft.com)

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Ethiopian ET302 final report released, NTSB and BEA issue comments (flightradar24.com)

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A Week with No Meetings (zapier.com)

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Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics: What's the Link? [video] (backreaction.blogspot.com)

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C++ constexpr parlor tricks: How can I obtain a string length at compile time? (microsoft.com)

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Why is there a system sound called Asterisk? What sound does an Asterisk make? (microsoft.com)

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What do longtermists want? (backreaction.blogspot.com)

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Why are many Windows UI elements positioned at multiples of 4 or 8 pixels? (microsoft.com)

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I've said it all before but here we go again (backreaction.blogspot.com)

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How to compute with a computer that doesn't compute