Comment by bombcar

10 months ago

This is the kind of thing I'd expect from Raymond Chen - which is extremely high praise!

I'm glad they tracked it down even further to figure out exactly why.

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bombcar

Or randomascii. A freaking legend (although he had a heart braking streak of bad events ... I wish him the best)

Raymond is a wizard. Read his blogs for many years and love his style and knowledge.

Discordian93 10 months ago
He's a total legend, yet apparently he's never met Bill Gates in person from what he said in an interview in the Dave's Garage YouTube channel a few years ago. You'd think that someone who's been that prominent for so long in the company would have been invited to a company dinner where he was present or something.
- bombcar 10 months ago
  
  Microsoft's a big company, and billg "stepped down" in 2000. Raymond is still working, so they overlap less than may appear.
  
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MattSayar 10 months ago

Small thing but I love the effort he puts into actually coding up his examples instead of screenshots. For example: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250414-00/?p=11...
He has many better ones but that's the latest one I've seen
RcouF1uZ4gsC 10 months ago
Raymond knows everything. From microcode bugs on Alpha AXP to template meta programming to UI.
- transcriptase 10 months ago
  
  I wonder how many times a Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, Bain, EY, McKinsey, or BCG consultant naively tried putting him on a shortlist for being “impacted” over the years because he was in the Top X of a spreadsheet sorted on Y.
  
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- gosub100 10 months ago
  
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