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Eric Lippert is a prolific writer and is amazing at explaining anything related to computer programming. His blog is a MUST read for every .NET developer: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/

I also follow Eric's activity on SO here:

http://stackoverflow.com/users/88656/eric-lippert?tab=activi...

Some of his answers which I liked:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2704652/monad-in-plain-en...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/921180/how-can-i-ensure-t...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5032081/coding-style-assi...

He is on HN as well:

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ericlippert

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Heads up: the two links at the top go to the same source:

Eric Lippert is a prolific writer and is amazing at explaining anything related to computer programming. His blog is a MUST read for every .NET developer: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/

I also follow Eric's activity on SO here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/*

I don't know who downvoted you, you are correct. I fixed up the links.

this one is an eye opener and very humble too http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2186595/c-is-there-a-diff...
edit: also thanks for making me spend probably next several hours reading through all that stuff :)
edit2: oooh this one is good as well http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3110154/why-is-the-explic...
edit3: Not from Eric but check out this C# code:
sbyte[] foo = new sbyte[] { -1 }; var x = foo as byte[]; // doesn't compile object bar = foo; var f = bar as byte[]; // succeeds var g = f[0]; // g = 255
edit4: oh and check out this description of c# compiler actions http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1917935/how-does-c-compil...

Is twos compliment behavior guaranteed in C#?

Yes, check out the Partition I 12.1 table 6 of ECMA-335 standard

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