NickGerleman

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by NickGerleman 11mo ago
PCHs give a sour taste in my mouth after working on a project which very liberally added commonly imported headers to a huge one. In practice, it meant each TU was indirectly including many more headers than needed, and it was harder for hu
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by NickGerleman 3y ago
A company using React Native recently used bounties to solicit bug-fixes to RN issues their app was hitting. A lot of positives came out of it, and it did improve framework quality. There are challenges with the model though. More changes t
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by NickGerleman 3y ago
Beyond the other grains of salt, it seems awfully inorganic that the same user advertises this database 6 times as their only submission history.
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by NickGerleman 3y ago
Worth pointing out, there has been quite a bit of contention around this change, both technical, and some accusations of plagiarism/miscrediting here. https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/711
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by NickGerleman 4y ago
It's a good question well above my pay grade :). Changing culture isn't an easy problem. I suspect the way Microsoft does interviewing and performance management (very local to the specific team) contributes to the inconsistency.
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by NickGerleman 4y ago
I previously worked at Microsoft in an unrelated area, but had a friend who worked on CosmosDB, and later a different part of Azure. There are some Microsoft products I genuinely love, but some are terrible. To an extent it is a reflection
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by NickGerleman 4y ago
I'm surprised there were not compiler errors for unreachable code, in the cases where the code was returning directly before a goto. Edit: Looks like GCC removed the warning because it was unreliable. Clang and MSVC seem to be in bette
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by NickGerleman 6y ago
Code signing makes that pretty tricky. System DLLs will have integrity checks against msft certs.
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by NickGerleman 6y ago
How did Qualcomm get on the "naughty companies list"?
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by NickGerleman 6y ago
I haven't touched Ruby in a while, but are there any common multithreaded use cases? It seemed like the direction was to go multi-process for web workloads (E.g. with Unicorn).
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by NickGerleman 7y ago
Microsoft internally uses something pretty similar to Bazel. I'm not familiar enough with the two to fully understand motivations for the divergence. It supposedly initially ran poorly on Mac, just due to differences in what is cheap o
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by NickGerleman 7y ago
I until very recently worked on Microsoft Word. The whole problem gets even more complicated when you add support for richer content like formatting, images, comments, etcetera. Sprinkle in requirements for things like three-way merge, simu
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by NickGerleman 7y ago
Another benefit of deterministic builds is that build output caching becomes more reliable. Microsoft has a system used for this that is heavily used internally that was recently open sourced: https://github.com/microsoft&#x
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by NickGerleman 7y ago
I work on Office and am glad someone brought up this point. Writing a C++ business logic layer is probably too much for a simple CRUD style app, but the equation changes once the view/platform layers are a tiny minority of the logic in
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by NickGerleman 7y ago
I’m a bit surprised Chrome developers went the route of an in memory filesystem instead of trying to sandbox and clear real disk access. Silently using up to 120MB without realizing sounds pretty bad.
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by NickGerleman 9y ago
Radiolab did a story related to this a while ago called "The Future of Fake News". It's worth a listen. https://futureoffakenews.com
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by NickGerleman 9y ago
I've been in Seattle for around a month and can completely agree with this. One time half of an order went to a wrong apartment, and the other half came the next day. UPS and related have access codes to get into the building where Ama
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by NickGerleman 9y ago
I've worked on Office. There's a ridiculous amount of effort put into file format backwards compatibility. Someone I know had to consider Office 2007 compatibility when working on a feature within the last year.
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Office for Mac now shares a codebase with Windows(arstechnica.com)
6 points by NickGerleman 9y ago|0 comments
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by NickGerleman 9y ago
I find it alarming, and somewhat ironic, this article was removed from HN temporarily for it being repeatedly flagged. I don't fully agree with the article, but using a mechanism to prevent abuse to hide an opinion that you disagree wi
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by NickGerleman 9y ago
I interned at MSFT working on Word. Engineers and PMs in Office see a lot of opportunity in AI. PowerPoint Designer and the newer ML based proofing in Word are good examples of things that have already shipped. I never saw anything resembli
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TPL Dataflow: A .Net Framework for Building Data Pipelines Using the Actor Model(docs.microsoft.com)
2 points by NickGerleman 9y ago|0 comments
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by NickGerleman 9y ago
This is really cool but I'm curious why Bloomberg would need this. Ie, what special needs does Bloomberg have that would lead to a primarily non-engineering company investing the resources to create this. Was there nothing off the shel
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by NickGerleman 9y ago
I can confirm that he does. He is a full time lecturer for 3 or 4 classes a semester and produces a staggering amount of material. He is careful to never repeat assignments and each one requires detailing the project, creating automated tes
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by NickGerleman 9y ago
I've been a TA for a couple CS classes at Iowa State University. Cheating here at least is pretty rampant. I would guess 1/3 or more of the students cheat in some capacity. Some of it is really easy to detect too. For a first seme
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by NickGerleman 9y ago
I've definitely had issues doing an upgrade on a real Ubuntu installation. Years ago I needed to update a more or less clean install of Ubuntu Desktop. It managed to completely break Gnome somehow (This was before Unity). I'm gues
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by NickGerleman 10y ago
"The major platform technologies in this space are Direct3D 12 from Microsoft, Metal from Apple, and Vulkan from the Khronos Group. While these technologies have similar design concepts, unfortunately none are available across all plat
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Apple sues Qualcomm, saying chipmaker withheld $1B as “extortion”(arstechnica.com)
24 points by NickGerleman 10y ago|4 comments
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A Fun Easter Egg in the Typescript Docs(typescriptlang.org)
1 points by NickGerleman 10y ago|0 comments
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The Bkd Tree: A Dynamic Disk Optimized BSP Tree(medium.com)
63 points by NickGerleman 11y ago|2 comments

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