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Why does the MonthCalendar control show the wrong week numbers in Romania?

Wrong from whose point of view?

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In the state of Washington, you are allowed to turn left on a red light onto a one-way street

And freeway onramps count as one-way streets.

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If the prototypes of DispatchMessageA and DispatchMessageW are identical, why have both?

Because there’s still a character set dependency.

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Dulce et decorum est pro patria party

Anyone up for a toga party?

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What happened to the Arial Unicode MS font?

It couldn’t do what it was originally created to do.

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The case of the oplock deadlock poppycock

Call Sherlock.

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How do I prevent users from using the mouse to drag the trackbar thumb to positions that aren’t multiples of five? Part 2: Nudging the thumb position

A little nudging here, a little nudging there.

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How do I prevent users from using the mouse to drag the trackbar thumb to positions that aren’t multiples of five? Part 1: Reframe the problem

Make everything a multiple of five.

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Adding a Ctrl+arrow accelerator for moving the trackbar by just one unit, part 2: Second try

Intercepting the thumb motion.

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Adding a Ctrl+arrow accelerator for moving the trackbar by just one unit, part 1: Initial plunge

The obvious thing starts to get out of hand.

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