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		oliverkwebb 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rethinking the C Time API He was the publisher of the Halloween documents (from my understanding leaked by a whistleblower to him) and has always been a firm opponent to Windows in all his works. Are you thinking of Poettering?

1718627440 7 months ago [–]

<del> Isn't this his blog: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ ?

It is hosted by Microsoft and talks about implementation details of Windows. So I always assumed, that he works there.</del>

My bad, that's Raymond Chen.

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