Windows Pinball, IBM, debugging, the confidential coffee maker, losing your car keys, and more: Dave interviews Raymond Chen, a 30-year developer on Windows at Microsoft. For my book on Asperger's/ASD, please check out: https://amzn.to/3GcdeUM

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CHAPTERS
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:39 The "special edition" of Windows 95
00:02:07 The absence of 64-bit Pinball in Windows
00:03:15 The 64-bit Windows project initially targeted Itanium processors
00:04:46 During the 64-bit Windows project, resolving Pinball's collision detection problem
00:06:00 Pinball's removal from the 64-bit Windows
00:07:23 The fix for Pinball might have involved a floating point rounding issue
00:08:47 Testing for Pinball's collision detection problem
00:11:05 Raymond once received a death threat
00:12:30 Raymond joined Microsoft after applying for graduate school
00:16:07 Raymond's consistent jacket and tie attire
00:18:52 Raymond leverages his extensive network at Microsoft
00:19:31 The term "hive" in the Windows registry
00:21:06 Users sometimes tend to avoid answering dialogues they find confusing or unnecessary
00:23:06 Windows 95 faced challenges with its time zone map
00:30:35 Taskbar grouping
00:34:29 Designing intuitive vending machine interfaces
00:36:49 Windows team had mascots like "Bear," "Bunny," and "Piglet,"
00:42:14 The "USB Cart of Death" was a cart loaded with multiple USB devices used for testing USB functionality
00:46:11 Porting from 32-bit to 64-bit Windows
00:50:31 Dave Cutler
00:52:06 Bill Gates
00:53:01 Windows Power Toys
00:56:12 Tweaking Windows with 'Tweak UI'
00:59:37 Microsoft's policy shift against offering unsupported downloads
01:03:49 The innovative approach to Windows 95 compatibility testing
01:07:32 A dive into game compatibility
01:10:16 Race conditions in multitasking OSs
01:12:21 Raymond Chen fixed Windows Pinball's CPU usage issue
01:14:31 The time travel debugger
01:18:23 Color-coding files (blue for compressed, green for encrypted
01:20:49 Usability studies observing users
01:23:19 Windows 286 and 386
01:25:07 Long file names stored in Unicode
01:28:33 Misaligned data in processors like RISC led to significant performance issues
01:31:52 Splitting a PC into two workstations
01:32:44 Game developers thanked Raymond Chen for getting their games to work on Windows 95
01:34:59 Raymond Chen had an unused VIP ticket to the Windows 95 launch but gave it away;
01:36:08 Colleagues on the Windows NT printing team crafted forgeries of Windows 95 launch tickets
01:38:27 Microsoft employees brought a coffee maker to IBM's office
01:43:17 Steve Ballmer left his rental car at an IBM parking lot
01:45:23 Dave once lost his rental car keys on the beach
01:46:30 Raymond's early hacking and reverse engineering skills
01:51:49 Raymond's transition from mathematics to software engineering
01:52:48 Raymond's father was a mechanical engineering professor
01:56:02 Raymond Chen talks about decluttering his cables
01:56:57 Chen maintains a six-month content buffer for his blog
01:58:18 Windows 95 debugging involved handling programs that allocated excessive memory
02:00:21 Compatibility challenges for Win95 included issues with DOS extenders
02:03:04 Debugging strategy involved trapping and correcting code that disabled interrupts