I Once Appeared in The Old New Thing
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A developer shares a personal story about getting advice from Raymond Chen (author of The Old New Thing blog) while working on BitLocker at Microsoft. The challenge involved improving error messages by referencing C++ constants in message files, which Chen solved using the C preprocessor. Despite receiving expert guidance, the
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The problem I was trying to solve 🔗︎How Raymond Chen got involved 🔗︎Wasting Raymond Chen’s time 🔗︎I still wouldn’t know how to solve this today 🔗︎Sort: