The Hacks of Life

If you call an a non-blocking method on a COM object that's in a different apartment and you need to receive callbacks, you need to sit ...

Well we just had a bit of a firedrill when we learned that gl_FragCoord causes some ATI cards on windows to revert to software shading. I d...

Ever wonder how the STL list works in GCC? What? No? You haven't? Where's your sense of curiousity about the way your code works? ...

We're trying to answer the question: why did X-Plane run out of memory? To answer that, we need to look at the contents of virtual memo...

So you're minding your own business when you come across a gem like this: typedef enum __MIDL___MIDL_itf_qnetwork_0082_0001 { AM_EXSEE...

...stupid code is slower. In a performance tuning situation, sometimes you have to figure out: Is the problem that I'm not doing each op...

I have a tree-view (think like the tree of files in an Explorer or a Finder window). Since all of my rows are based on objects with integer...