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Marc Durdin
Personal blog · marc.durdin.netprogrammingsystems
Marc Durdin's personal blog at marc.durdin.net covers programming and systems. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's Windows software posts: one on the green download buttons common on program download sites, and one on the pitfalls of MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT for uninstallers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
They are pretty common on program download sites, not just on pirate sites. http://marc.durdin.net/2012/08/rant-of-the-day-the-big-green...
Comment linking /2012/08/rant-of-the-day-the-big-green-download-button/
on “Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs”Submitted The case of the terribly slow PayPal emails as a story · 11 points
HN discussionEdit: I forgot about this, but there's also the official solution of MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT. But (as with scheduled tasks) the delay can cause problems: https://marc.durdin.net/2011/09/why-you-should-not-use-movef...
Comment linking /2011/09/why-you-should-not-use-movefileex-with-movefile_delay_until_reboot-2/
on “Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware”Submitted The case of the UAC that Just Wouldn’t (2015) as a story · 1 points
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