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It seems that no matter what you do, somebody will get offended. Every Windows 95 box has an anti-piracy hologram on the side. The photographer chose his

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How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack? - The Old New Thing

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In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words - The Old New Thing

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Starting in Word and expanding to nearly every other word processor, and even things that aren't word processors.

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The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad that they fixed it during emulation - The Old New Thing

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Rotation revisited: A shocking discovery about gcc's unidirectional rotation algorithm - The Old New Thing

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The back cover of C++: The Programming Language also raises questions not answered by the front cover - The Old New Thing

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The back cover of C++: The Programming Language also raises questions not answered by the front cover - The Old New Thing