alt Hacker NewsAm 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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csours • today at 7:27 PM
Implemented by intention vs implemented by history
caporaltito • today at 1:04 PM
We all knew this kind of guys. Bless them
If there's anything I've learned from reading Raymond's blogs, it's that Windows internals actually make a fair bit of sense. Every weird thing I've ever seen him address turns out to be something that has had real thought and engineering put into it, and if the solution is ugly that seems to be more due to external constraints placed upon the engineers than it is the engineers doing weird stuff shooting from the hip.