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This wasn't very rigorous at all, but it was a moderately fun read because it really made it clear how "large amounts of data" with some simple visualization ca

This wasn't very rigorous at all, but it was a moderately fun read because it really made it clear how "large amounts of data" with some simple visualization can help people make some mostly-educated guesses. I was most surprised at them glossing over the activity patterns with guesses based on their assumption of the target's sleeping patterns -- their guess of a time zone would have been stymied by someone who liked to sleep early/late or had an unusual work schedule, but there was no mention of that or their reasoning. That all made sense given patrickaljord's comment about it all being one big Microsoft ad, though.

tetha 8y ago
This also can be a pretty powerful troubleshooting way, which is why I consider having something like grafana or prometheus around extremely valuable. Looking for anomalies at the same time, or in sequence easily turns "What is going on?" into "Alright, why is there so much more stuff coming into the system, and why is that increased ingress causing increased memory usage per event?"
derangedHorse 8y ago
I think it's more unlikely that it would be irregular sleep patterns but you're right, it could've been mentioned.
stephenr 8y ago
> their guess of a time zone would have been stymied by someone who liked to sleep early/late or had an unusual work schedule, but there was no mention of that or their reasoning. As you said - this only makes sense because it's a Microsoft ad and they could have arguably known the answer to start with anyway. Given that this is focused on someone who's at least interested in software development, they made some pretty specific assumptions. There's no way anyone (unless they somehow literally think there is nothing outside America) would just discount the concept of it being someone in another country, and/or with non-'regular' work hours. But this is Microsoft afterall. The imagination of a brick. I suspect if you asked about remote work, they'd think you want to work on remote desktop.

tetha 8y ago

This also can be a pretty powerful troubleshooting way, which is why I consider having something like grafana or prometheus around extremely valuable. Looking for anomalies at the same time, or in sequence easily turns "What is going on?" into "Alright, why is there so much more stuff coming into the system, and why is that increased ingress causing increased memory usage per event?"

derangedHorse 8y ago

I think it's more unlikely that it would be irregular sleep patterns but you're right, it could've been mentioned.

stephenr 8y ago

> their guess of a time zone would have been stymied by someone who liked to sleep early/late or had an unusual work schedule, but there was no mention of that or their reasoning. As you said - this only makes sense because it's a Microsoft ad and they could have arguably known the answer to start with anyway. Given that this is focused on someone who's at least interested in software development, they made some pretty specific assumptions. There's no way anyone (unless they somehow literally think there is nothing outside America) would just discount the concept of it being someone in another country, and/or with non-'regular' work hours. But this is Microsoft afterall. The imagination of a brick. I suspect if you asked about remote work, they'd think you want to work on remote desktop.