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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 8y ago
Did he ever explain why he was banned from Something Awful? Surprised it never came up. The Old Internet remembers.
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
Wow the majority of posts here are from Microsoft employees.
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
You're right - it doesn't apply to culture. The "corporate person" is being a sociopath as usual and rather than saying "it harms our company" they attempt to spin it into something that hurts the individuals t
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
Man you really destroyed that guy Wonder if he's gutsy enough to change his mind.
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
Nothin like a good old economics circle jerk. I think it's time HN applied the 'no politics' rule to economics too. Nobody is right, nobody is wrong, and nobody ever changes their mind.
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
Unfortunately corporate "people" act like sociopaths 99.99% of the time. This is certainly a Good Thing, but I don't blame people for knee-jerk skepticism.
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
Microsoft's social voting brigade is out in force today because of Microsoft's annual convention thing. Today HN is a safe space for Microsoft supporters.
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
Regardless of my username, I really like this product. Microsoft is the first to do it and (I assume) it works seamlessly with Azure. Microsoft is certainly ahead of the pack with this product.
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
> Citigroup analyst Jim Suva said in a note to clients. One bozo sends out an e-mail and it's news?
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
Corporate CEO goes on cross-country tour to show "regular folk" how relatable he is. Barf. What shit "news".
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
PR bullshit to counter-act visa abuse.
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
I'm surprised that you're foolish enough to fall under the assumption that people here are somehow smarter or better. They are not. This is simply a web site with zero barrier to entry. I don't trust Yelp either. There hav
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
IBM will offshore 8 out of 10 positions by 2017 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/07/ibm_offshoring/ Have fun with your "new collar" - don't let it choke you too much.
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
Yeah, I don't know why HN doesn't change this story to it's proper, correct title. Current title makes it look like Wall Street it saying it. The real title makes it clear that the CEO is saying it, which, as a result, makes
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
It's not. Not to get too political but there are two groups: "the people" and "business". Watch every decision the current administration makes. It's helpful for "business" and hurts "the peopl
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
Downvote any article that mentions Diane Greene. Her job is literally "Google Cloud Hype-woman". There is nothing of substance here or in any interview with her. Nothing more than hot air and marketing bullshit.
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
I would post this in it's own thread but I'm sure it will get buried https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/66kb3c/95_engi...
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/5jg8y6/fyi_crimin... Reddit discusses hackers using weak Skype credentials to access other MS accounts and bypass 2FA
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
Can you expand on this and provide some technical details or links?
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
What is the technical reason for Microsoft's actions? I've used Windows for decades and don't recall anything like this happening in the past.
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
I love tech: Take something old (apprenticeships), re-package it as something new (a farm team) and bam: Instant, free, PR for zero innovation.
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
I love watching the evolution of HN sometimes. Outrage of the Week (TM) story, nothing to do with hacking or technology - 62 points in under an hour. Mind bending. Let the circle jerk begin.
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
Thanks! You and the others are right: I didn't know JSON was serialized. I can see why something in binary would be faster than structured text (think assembler vs Python). Thanks again.
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
Can someone explain to an amateur why serialization is faster than say passing raw JSON? It seems like parsing JSON would be faster than the serialize -> deserialize process but with the popularity of things like Protobuff it's clea
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
The bonus pool is finite. Teams should use their germs to make other teams sick so they get a larger slice of the bonus pool.
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
> Wouldn't you know up front when you're choosing a stack whether they meet your compliance demands? No, not always. Good luck with the refactor (complete rebuild?) when the time comes.
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
I love it when real news like this gets 40 upvotes but stuff that's blatant PR gets hundreds. HN is now a place to discuss corporate press releases and little more.
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
100% agree. People fight their own little personal battles (unrelated to the article) in the name of pride and internet points. The comments sections are almost impossible to read because the signal to noise ratio is getting so large.
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
It had nothing to do with money. Pai is a former Verizon lawyer. He did exactly as he was expected to do.
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by MS_Buys_Upvotes 9y ago
What about the other subsystems that silently collect data?

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