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by antics 11y ago
Not sure I understand your point. The source the article refers to claims Windows XP is ~45 million LOC, not me. I myself didn't give any specific numbers about the size of the codebase. Now, I don't think anyone would come for my
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by antics 11y ago
I can't say. I work here, but I don't speak for the company.
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by antics 11y ago
Just because people are talking about it: I work at MSFT, and the numbers Wired quotes for the lines of code in Windows are not even close to being correct. Not even in the same order of magnitude. Their source claims that Windows XP has ~4
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Mesosphere and Microsoft Bring Mesos to Windows Server(techcrunch.com)
10 points by antics 11y ago|2 comments
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by antics 11y ago
It's worth noting that the Mesos project will actually be renaming "slave" to "agent." cf. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-1478
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by antics 11y ago
I am employed at MSFT. This post (currently the top post) is factually incorrect on basically every level, both on subjects that look good for the company, and on subjects that don't. I'm stepping in to correct this because it&#x2
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by antics 11y ago
Let's be clear that this is really terrible advice for every company except very, very small companies. An HR department is not a "big company" thing that's there to get in your way. Its job is to do things like (e.g.) p
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by antics 11y ago
> But I hope that other conference organizers do not follow suit, and I hope that true technologists in turn shun StrangeLoop for conferences that care about technology first, and instead attend conferences that refuse to ban innovators
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by antics 11y ago
I recently helped organize a conference. Since it is apparently not obvious to many people, I'd just like to point out that amongst conference organizers, it is an extremely common belief that your primary responsibility is to delive
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by antics 11y ago
I work for Microsoft. As you can imagine, this is a problem we have devoted a considerable amount of energy to thinking about. A lot of this discussion has revolved around comparisons to previous solutions (particularly Cygwin and Interix&#
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by antics 11y ago
One important thing to remember about MSFT is that more than half of the company is "the field" -- sales, evangelism, operations, and so on. The stack ranking system is and was hugely popular with this org. It is popular nowhere e
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FoundationDB proves the datastore is the worst place in your stack to take risks(blog.nullspace.io)
7 points by antics 12y ago|1 comments
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by antics 12y ago
On the one hand we have lay people (including Altman and Musk) who are warning that AI is progressing too fast. On the other hand you have (essentially) the entire mainstream academic AI/ML community, who are mainly concerned that the
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by antics 12y ago
The LINQ API is modeled after relational algebra (where `Select` acts as projection, and `Where` acts as selection, etc.), which is as good a basis for operations on collections as anything. It is not even clear that other popular names hav
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by antics 12y ago
Only-kind-of-related: Instagram has a cool post about using ordered IDs to shard photos. It's here: http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/10853187575/sha... Pretty cool stuff.
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by antics 12y ago
I take your points to be the following. Correct me if I'm wrong. (1) Morale is low among our DC technicians, (2) many of the tech vendors are incompetent, (3) one time hotmail forgot to renew a cert, (4) you had a bad experience one ti
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by antics 12y ago
The point of moving it to user-space is that you can source a lot of the jobs of the TCP/IP stack to hardware directly. In some cases this dramatically speeds up your I/O. Consider, for example that the dominant costs are things l
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by antics 12y ago
(Author here) Continuing our thread from Twitter, one of the things I wanted to say here is that things like pipelining and threading are good, but there is still improvement to be made at the kernel I/O layer. If we can reduce this la
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84% of a single-threaded 1KB write in Redis is spent in the kernel(blog.nullspace.io)
158 points by antics 12y ago|48 comments
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by antics 12y ago
Say you have a list of full names and you want to teach a computer to get the first name out of each. With "program synthesis", you provide a couple example outputs, and the computer tries to generate ("synthesize") a pr
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by antics 12y ago
I work on infrastructure at MSFT. Collectively we stably runs hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of machines in clusters that are tens of thousands apiece, at scale workloads that only 2 or 3 other companies total have ever seen. So, when
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by antics 12y ago
I work at MSFT too, and have been involved with open sourcing a major project, called Bond[1]. I'm happy to chat about this offline, if you like. Email is in the profile. The short answer is that there are divisions in the company with
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Half of IBM's profits come from mainframes(blog.nullspace.io)
3 points by antics 12y ago|0 comments
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by antics 12y ago
C# isn't "technically" open source, it's just open source. If you want to contribute actual code and have it actually incorporated into the language, then all you need to do is follow the contribution guidelines here: h
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by antics 12y ago
It's both. $10B are spent each year on sales of actual mainframe computers. [1] The article quoted in the last article claims that everything you sell around mainframes, like services, is a quarter of revenue. Now, it's your turn
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by antics 12y ago
johansch, you were wrong in such a fundamental way about this subject that it is hard for me to believe you know anything about it at all. If you have any suggestions about how I can phrase this in a way that makes you both comfortable, and
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by antics 12y ago
You have no idea just how hilariously wrong you are. Just read this passage from an Economist article about IBM mainframes: > At any rate, the mainframe is a hugely profitable business for IBM. Only around 4% of the firm’s revenues come
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by antics 12y ago
Oh give me a break. The mainframe market is still $10B, and the fact that you can't think of a good use for one does not mean that IBM's product lines are irrelevant. The market should be addressed by major hardware manufacturer
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by antics 12y ago
>> I'll put it bluntly: you have no idea what you're talking about. Bond v1 was started when Thrift was not production ready. This is Bond v3. > Let me put something bluntly. I don't care who started writing code fir
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by antics 12y ago
Hey Kenton. I see Adam Sapek bumming around the thread, so maybe he'll chime in here, but Bond works essentially by: (1) inspecting the schematized type, and (2) generating code that will quickly walk over that type and write it to a s

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