The Jargon File said in http://catb.org/jargon/html/M/magic-smoke.html:magic smoke ­magic smoke: n. ­ A substance trapped inside IC packages that enables them to function ­ (also called blue smoke; this is ­ similar to the archaic phlogiston ­ hypothesis about combustion). Its existence is demonstrated by what ­ happens when a chip burns up — the magic smoke gets let out, so it ­ doesn't work any more. See smoke test, ­ let the smoke out.Usenetter Jay Maynard tells the following story: “Once, while ­ hacking on a dedicated Z80 system, I was testing code by blowing EPROMs and ­ plugging them in the system, then seeing what happened. One time, I ­ plugged one in backwards. I only discovered that ­ after I realized that Intel didn't put power-on lights ­ under the quartz windows on the tops of their EPROMs — the die was ­ glowing white-hot. Amazingly, the EPROM worked fine after I erased it, ­ filled it full of zeros, then erased it again. For all I know, it's still ­ in service. Of course, this is because the magic smoke didn't get let ­ out.” Compare the original phrasing of ­ Murphy's Law.

@Unperverted-Vixen said in Your compile was to slow: @Tsaukpaetra Is that %TEMP%? It should be trying to copy the ASP.NET website to %TEMP%\Temporary ASP.NET Files when running it. No, but c: should have about 94g of free space.

@kian said in Shuffling off this mortal coil: Shared pointers are only really supposed to be used for sharing ownership across threads, where it's impossible to know who is the last user of a resource and so you have to share the ownership. There are other scenarios which need that sort of thing. The key factor isn't whether threads are in use, but rather whether the lifetime of the object can be tied at compile time to a particular scope. Threads aren't the only way in which that can become … well, complicated to determine. A classic example is with an implementation of an interpreted language: the lifetime of an object is often determined by a scope, but not a scope in C++ but rather in the other language. Simplistic rules are for noobs. We're not noobs round here.