Showing archive results for December 9, 2003

Robert Scoble posted an entry in his Longhorn blog on the subject of what the UI defaults should be. It sure has stirred up a lot of controvery. I may pick at the remarks over the upcoming days, but for now I posted responses to two of the comments he kicked up. We recently did a survey of users of al...

It's almost as bad as terminating a thread. Instead of just answering a question, I'm going to ask you the questions and see if you can come up with the answers. Consider the following program, in (gasp) C#: When you run this program and hit Enter to suspend, the program hangs. But if you change the worker function to just "for(;;) {}" the ...