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by amag 8y ago
> what entity at Microsoft will subvert his leadership? I agree, it seems that both Gates and Ballmer have found new callings in life, which has left Nadella with pretty much control of the company. I remember almost feeling sorry for th
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by amag 8y ago
I lived through the nineties as well, that doesn't mean I think everything that was amazing back then still is amazing today nor that everything that sucked back then still sucks today... I think the Microsoft of today is very differ
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by amag 8y ago
Thanks, that's very interesting! I wasn't aware that IP address is considered personal data under GDPR... That seems exploitable...
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by amag 8y ago
Well, it must've used a Rhino Boat[1]... [1] http://www.rhinoboat.com/boat-models
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by amag 8y ago
> Every problem he brought up is easily solvable by writing good code. I'm curious, how? Would you mind use one of his examples along with some good code?
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by amag 8y ago
> just say hello as if nothing was happening I think the psychology here is that if you behave as if what you're doing is ok and not suspicious, most people will accept that. Same thing for instance when I've gone and picked up
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by amag 8y ago
> Those who have borrowed come out ahead, on average. I once stayed in a hotel room where the shower had the heat I wanted on average , it was horrible. But when it comes to real estate, as long as you can afford the increase in interes
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by amag 8y ago
That would still not level the playing field for several reasons: 1) Some people may find Fortran easier to understand than others even if they haven't touched it before. This was the case when my University decided to use Haskell* as
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by amag 8y ago
Well, technically it would be pretty hot...
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by amag 8y ago
That makes sense because of the "if I did it, you should be able to"-fallacy that fails to take into account that people are different, even coming from identical backgrounds.
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by amag 8y ago
The thing is, once you put yourself in someone else's shoes it is that much harder to act in a way that is against that person's best interest. You would actually need to deliberately work against your emotions to harm someone o
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by amag 8y ago
> free to sell their oil Sweden doesn't have any oil to sell. We're also not crying foul about the increase in shootings as if the rest of the world is to blame. There is definitely a problem here in regards to the shootings, b
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by amag 8y ago
> something is going on It's election year..
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by amag 9y ago
> By the way, I think we can all agree that the Russian Dance from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake is the best piece of music ever written, right? As great as it is, the one that always gives me the chills the article spoke of is the third
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by amag 9y ago
Haha, I spent so much time debugging their crappy FAT-driver. Another time the whole system would just hang when you created a new file in a directory that already contained some files. Turns out that their long-to-short filename algo was:
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by amag 9y ago
Yup, been there too, way, way back. We wrote simulation tools for typical access patterns and ran them heavily for testing out new cards, both for performance and failure rate. Luckily there was enough margin on the devices that we (R&D
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by amag 9y ago
Scary, it seems like they use Newspeak internally.
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by amag 9y ago
> It's one less thing to think about. I've been a professional C++ programmer for almost two decades (and a C++ amateur for almost a decade before that). I've written large amounts of fairly advanced C++ using the latest s
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by amag 9y ago
Hehe, your comment reminds me of Idiocracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL1-340ODCM
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by amag 9y ago
Personally I'm offended by a generous use of perfumes and/or deodorants not by BO.
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by amag 9y ago
Uh, they moved all of Windows into a single git-repo. It used to sprawl over 40+ Source Depot repos but now it's one gigantic monorepo [1]. [1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/02/03/scal
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by amag 9y ago
You still can't overwrite files created by privileged users unless explicitly allowed to do so by the creator of the file. If you could, a lot more things would be broken in Windows.
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by amag 9y ago
...and the disillusioned ones realize that there's a line of bad consultants just waiting for them to turn the project down...
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by amag 9y ago
On the other end of the spectrum, a colleague of mine recently told me about when his previous company (big, 100k+ employees) were starting to adopt git, some people seriously considered having a separate repository per file ! "Becau
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by amag 9y ago
Exactly, forego all "techniques" and just make them feel loved no matter what. Then let them discover the world, pursue their own interests. Take a step back and don't let your fears hold them back. Challenge and push them ge
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by amag 9y ago
I have two kids and they are about as different as two kids can be. They are truly the inversion of each other in every way. There's no way to generalize, what works/worked on one would never work on the other. The only except
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by amag 9y ago
Agreed, there are so many plot holes in AC it wouldn't even do as a sieve. Still I watch it because it's cyberpunk. I just disconnect my brain and enjoy the settings.
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by amag 9y ago
Ah, but it works the same way light sabers in StarWars shoot out super-focused light (in fact so focused that it acts as solid matter) and then suddenly terminates about a yard from the shaft.
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by amag 9y ago
For a new member of a team it's very hard to be committed and take responsibility of the code base if none of the old team members care.
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by amag 9y ago
He cared about being frugal because that was the Sweden he grew up in. I think this video, where he's buying lunch at an Ikea store in Poland, says a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbUE3O03h_s (For those who cann

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