I like Raymond Chen's blog but I think he's making this stuff up
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Or maybe too many years of Windows programming makes you crazy.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2013/12/02/10473015.aspx
"One evening, I had a series of three dreams. In each one, I visited an unusual home.
In the third dream, I visited the home of a friend of mine. He lived in a white stucco split-level, a stereotypical suburban home. What made the house interesting was that if you did things just right, dark dots would appear on the wall and slowly consume it.
My friend explained, "This house is running a very old build of DirectX, and sometimes it just does that."
We set up a repro and calculated that when the dots appeared, stack usage was exactly 5124 bytes. This was a 16-bit house, and the stack overflow into the heap caused a return address to be changed to point into the DirectDraw flood fill function.
When I told my friend about this strange dream, he quipped, "I've since then upgraded to a 64-bit house."
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@Muppet 3.11 pro gold said:
Or maybe too many years of Windows programming makes you crazy.
If this site has taught me anything, it's that you don't need to be a Windows programmer to be crazy.
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Either he made it up, or there is substance abuse involved.
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@Muppet 3.11 pro gold said:
dreams
I skip the posts in my RSS feed that even so much as mention the bollocks he dreams about - I subscribe to read about programming/Windows history. If I wanted fiction I'd go to alt.fan.raymon-chen.
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@TGV said:
Either he made it up, or there is substance abuse involved.
Why is the consumption of such substances always referred to as 'abuse'?
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@steenbergh said:
Why is the consumption of such substances always referred to as 'abuse'?
Because moderate use doesn't lead to bad trips. Or so I've been told.
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@Ben L. said:
@Muppet 3.11 pro gold said:
"Yeah, but it helps!"Or maybe too many years of Windows programming makes you crazy.
If this site has taught me anything, it's that you don't need to be a Windows programmer to be crazy.
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@steenbergh said:
It's an example of persuasive definition. The Partnership for a Drug-Free America crowd would have you believe that any drug use inevitably leads to the brain-as-egg-bashed-by-frying-pan scenario, so it is all abuse as far as they're concerned.@TGV said:
Either he made it up, or there is substance abuse involved.
Why is the consumption of such substances always referred to as 'abuse'?
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@PedanticCurmudgeon said:
@steenbergh said:
It's an example of persuasive definition. The Partnership for a Drug-Free America crowd would have you believe that any drug use inevitably leads to the brain-as-egg-bashed-by-frying-pan scenario, so it is all abuse as far as they're concerned.@TGV said:
Either he made it up, or there is substance abuse involved.
Why is the consumption of such substances always referred to as 'abuse'?
Wow, that's delusional! What are they smoking, the Drug Free America crowd?
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So.. are his dreams responsible for the Win 8 UI? I'd like to hope that one day I'll wake up and find that it was all just a bad dream.
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@steenbergh said:
Toasted bread and cheese is such a substance, notorious at one time for causing alarming dreams, although not these days considered a drug.@TGV said:
Either he made it up, or there is substance abuse involved.
Why is the consumption of such substances always referred to as 'abuse'?