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Nice insight into the life of long time MS Windows hacker Mark Russinovich

This guy has been around in the world of MS operating systems for a very long time, he developed one of the most useful suites for optimization, debugging and troubleshooting of windows OS the sysinternals suite, in fact his work is so important that despite having uncovered many flaws and pitfalls inside Windows he got a Job at the company and now is working full time at the Azure team. I highly recommend the article where he shares his view on the future of cloud computing between many other interesting facts.

Alcohol: A chess performance enhancing drug?

This interesting article discusses an old issue between chess professionals and aficionados, it is known that many world class players had serious problems with drinking and there is a myth about the benefits of playing with a couple of "shots" aboard. But seriously that's just a myth, the only possible truth is that there are some geniouses that are able to perform even in some extreme conditions, to my mind come some names and anecdotes, just to name a few, Tahl, Kramnik, Ivanchuck. Those three were frequent pub visitors and won chess tournaments in the middle of eternal hangovers. Don´t ever drink and play chess to a russian or you will get you a** severely kicked.