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by bgrainger 14y ago
This OP is referring to this issue: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/... The C++ Runtime Library doesn't support XP, so C++ programs compiled with Visual Studio 2012 can't run on Windows XP. (It is possible to w
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by bgrainger 14y ago
There's a registry value you can set to go back to normal (title case) menus: http://www.richard-banks.org/2012/06/how-to-prevent-visual-s...
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by bgrainger 15y ago
If you're interested in the types of bugs that are present in modern CPUs, AMD makes their errata documentation publicly available. (As far as I know, Intel's errata are not public. Edit: See tedunangst's comment below for a correction.) Th
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by bgrainger 15y ago
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3132761
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by bgrainger 15y ago
Also posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2968132
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by bgrainger 16y ago
One small nitpick: if earthquakes were still measured on the Richter scale, the difference between 8.2 and 8.9 would be 5 times (as stated in the corrected article). However, the USGS uses the Moment magnitude scale (M_w, see http://earthq
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by bgrainger 16y ago
It does not have a spell checker. The Microsoft Connect issue for this (with 40+ duplicate suggestions) that's closed as "By Design" is: https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/598257/spe...
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by bgrainger 16y ago
A link to a pre-order page at informit.com (cheaper than Amazon) was already posted here: http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2104796
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by bgrainger 16y ago
Andrew West provides an excellent (and detailed) list of the rules for using "long s" (as well as some Ngram graphs) at http://babelstone.blogspot.com/2006/06/rules-for-long-s.html .