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Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260611-00/?p=112415
19•tosh•1h ago

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OneManHorde•45m ago
Microsoft is so broken that an employee finds it easier to write a blog post about a documentation improvement than simply making that improvement? Explains a lot. "Conway's Flaw?"
throawayonthe•19m ago
the blog says the documentation improvement was made in 2020? presumably not by the post author either
JohnMakin•31m ago
Am reminded reading this of an esteemed and since passed away colleague who had written windows driver code since the dos days and may have had decades of insanely archaic knowledge die with him - when working on a difficult piece of windows driver code years ago, he said to me in a thick eastern europe accent as best i can remember “you make the primary mistake of thinking anything in windows makes sense. once you abandon this bias, you may someday hope to get where i am”

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Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260611-00/?p=112415
20•tosh•1h ago•3 comments

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54•PrimalNick•16h ago•59 comments