Foe

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Dense, dark forests in Europe are a modern phenomenon(phys.org)
3 points by Foe 18d ago|0 comments
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by Foe 7mo ago
The dry run idea is really smart. We've done something similar, where we had Niv Dayan[1] lead a session on Diva[2] (before it won Best Paper at VLDB 2025!). I had worked with him in the past and thought it would be cool to have him pr
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by Foe 7mo ago
The group is open to anyone at Microsoft and I don't gatekeep. The papers themselves act as a natural filter. If someone finds the material interesting, they attend and keep coming back. If it's not their thing, they self-select o
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by Foe 7mo ago
We usually start with quick overall impressions, then go around with a few prompts: "what's something new you learned?", "what didn't you like?", and "what didn't you fully understand?" (every pa
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by Foe 7mo ago
It depends on the theme. If we're picking something in a space the group already knows well, like databases, I'll look at "Best Papers" from recent VLDB/ICDE/SIGMOD conferences. If we're exploring a topic
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by Foe 7mo ago
Thank you! I think the biggest factor for us was that most attendees already had some technical baseline. That makes it way easier to pick papers and have productive discussions. A cross-experience group sounds much harder. We occasionally
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by Foe 7mo ago
There are other groups within Microsoft, but they usually follow a presentation format rather than a collaborative discussion. Off the top of my head, Phil Bernstein[1] and Hanuma Kodavalla[2] run great database seminars for invited speaker
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by Foe 7mo ago
Good question. Most people read the paper on their own time, and we meet over lunch. The meetings themselves are just an hour, so it's not a massive time block. I've found that the people who show up are the ones who are genuinely
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by Foe 7mo ago
Hi HN, I've been organizing a systems reading group at Microsoft for five years now. I wrote down some takeaways on what worked (and what didn't). I'd love to hear if anyone else has successfully kept an engineering reading g
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Five years of running a systems reading group at Microsoft(armaansood.com)
219 points by Foe 7mo ago|54 comments
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The miracle of PowerToys, Microsoft's last great Windows app(fastcompany.com)
29 points by Foe 7mo ago|12 comments
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Cost-Effective, Low Latency Vector Search with Azure Cosmos DB [pdf](vldb.org)
1 points by Foe 1y ago|0 comments
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Seattle light rail makes history with test run across a floating bridge(seattletimes.com)
4 points by Foe 1y ago|0 comments
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Building a Railway on the Longest Floating Bridge [video](youtube.com)
3 points by Foe 1y ago|0 comments
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Andres Freund and the xz backdoor(nytimes.com)
52 points by Foe 3y ago|23 comments
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A modern version of The New Turing Omnibus/a book that gives a survey of CS?
1 points by Foe 3y ago|0 comments
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Why it costs $1M a day to run one of the biggest cruise ships(businessinsider.com)
1 points by Foe 3y ago|1 comments
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Halloween Protection in SQL Server(techcommunity.microsoft.com)
1 points by Foe 3y ago|0 comments
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Why the U.S. Electric Grid Isn’t Ready for the Energy Transition(nytimes.com)
2 points by Foe 3y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft keyboard users are so devastated after discontinuation of accessories(cnbc.com)
39 points by Foe 3y ago|24 comments
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How to Be a Know-It-All (2017)(newyorker.com)
60 points by Foe 3y ago|21 comments
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The Staff Engineer’s Path: You’re a Role Model Now (Sorry)(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
3 points by Foe 3y ago|0 comments
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Google Ran Out of Ideas(theatlantic.com)
30 points by Foe 4y ago|8 comments
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The Latin of Software Code Is Thriving(nytimes.com)
4 points by Foe 4y ago|0 comments
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How to Simplify Your Life(theschooloflife.com)
3 points by Foe 4y ago|2 comments
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The Azure Cosmos DB Journey to .NET 6(devblogs.microsoft.com)
2 points by Foe 4y ago|0 comments
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Russia threatens to abandon American astronaut in space(abc7ny.com)
10 points by Foe 5y ago|2 comments
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by Foe 5y ago
Anyone know of anything like this for (modern) C++?
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Power On: The Story of Xbox – Chapter 1: The Renegades(youtube.com)
2 points by Foe 5y ago|0 comments
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How to Save Your Knees Without Giving Up Your Workout(nytimes.com)
2 points by Foe 5y ago|1 comments

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