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by bradford 8y ago
<disclaimer, MS employee> I'd like to point out that MS adheres to GDPR regulations and has applied those protections to all users. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/microsoft-extending-gdp...
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by bradford 8y ago
MS already lets you see and delete what they collect on you at account.microsoft.com/privacy We did a lot of work to comply and provide these tools and people still think MS is part of some grand conspiracy.
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by bradford 8y ago
disclaimer: MS employee, this is solely my opinion Does the GDPR do anything to put your concerns on this issue to rest? (By those regulations, MS is required, under penalty of very large fines, to not do what you are accusing them of doing
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by bradford 8y ago
I'm not the parent poster, but I think the document glossed over the biggest perceived disadvantage: Despite technological advances, I still believe that face-to-face communication is the most efficient way to transfer information and
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by bradford 8y ago
The Radiolab podcast had an episode a while back where they interviewed some of the event participants. It was organized and funded via remote sources (they were implied Russians, although the organizers weren't interviewed), but atten
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by bradford 9y ago
I'm a hobbyist woodworker. I was recently searching for an unusual wood-joint, and I had to give up because the google search results were absolutely polluted with pinterest.
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by bradford 9y ago
This seems like a rather defeatist attitude; the kind that keeps people away from the gym. I can assure you that once you commit to a regular exercise schedule, it is both highly stimulating and an end in itself.
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by bradford 9y ago
I write shaders as a hobbyist game developer (I'm not in the gaming/graphics industry). I appreciated the submission. Shader code is often counterintuitive, I tend to think like a mathematician and not an optimizer when I read co
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by bradford 9y ago
I don't think it was winnable. Based off of experience in Korea, US didn't want China to enter the war. To avoid this, the US couldn't commit to full-scale of invasion of North Vietnam, which I believe would have been necess
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by bradford 9y ago
Campaign laws exist. It's absolutely possible that a small sum used illegally could have larger impact than a large sum spent legally. (that said, I'm not an expert on campaign law and I'm not in a position to say what was&#
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by bradford 9y ago
For me it's not about wasting time, it's that frequently switching between mouse and keyboard is a repetitive stress injury waiting to happen. The accumulated damage that can occur after doing it everyday for a few years really c
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by bradford 9y ago
Yes, and, I might be misunderstanding your question, but I view that as a good thing. I don't ever want to spend my time in a meeting witnessing people bicker over where to position a dialog button, when you could just run an A/B
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by bradford 9y ago
I started at MS during Vista and I've been involved (sometimes tangentially) with Windows ever since. This is all my opinion, but It's been very interesting seeing the decision making process change over time. If I had to summari
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by bradford 9y ago
In University computer architecture courses, we were challenged to write a quicksort routine in assembly. We were also asked to compare the assembly that we authored with assembly that was compiled from C++ (after we authored our own solut
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by bradford 9y ago
> .NET had/has a higher cost to entry > It is arguably also a bad business decision to shell out $$ for a language that isn't used at your company. What cost(s) are you thinking of here? .NET doesn't cost anything (mon
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by bradford 9y ago
There's a common notion that drinking with food in ones stomach and proper hydration can prevent a hangover. I'm not sure that you're personally making this claim, but it's a personal mission of mine to dispel the claim
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by bradford 9y ago
This is an argument against running word as an admin and then explicitly allowing macros to execute, it has little to do with breaking the app-containment, which is the claim made in the article.
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by bradford 9y ago
Running calculator.exe isn't sufficient enough for the claims that are made in this article, since it's already in the 'trusted' domain of the OS. If they could get 'myPersonallyDevelopedExecutable.exe' to run,
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by bradford 9y ago
[disclaimer, MS employee here] Question: If governments could inspect and audit MS source code, would the concerns brought up in the article be addressed? This is a clarifying question, not a loaded one. To avoid any surprises: government
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by bradford 9y ago
fixed, thanks.
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by bradford 9y ago
I haven't used C++ in a long time, but I didn't like it when I did use it. The FQA brought me much comedic joy when I found it, but I'm wondering how serious the criticism is. I guess I'm not sure if I should treat the
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Ask HN: looking for opinions on how to interpret the C++ FQA.(yosefk.com)
2 points by bradford 9y ago|5 comments
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by bradford 10y ago
I'd say that 'jettisoning QA teams' is a mischaracterization. The role is still filled, it's just evolved a lot since the windows 8.1 (and prior) era. Similarly, I'd say that 'Trusting telemetry alone' is
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by bradford 10y ago
Can't tell if you're being tongue-in-cheek, but that was kind of the problem. The cost it took to do QA for Windows was immense, and even with an army of testers, there were still highly embarrassing (and very expensive to fix) f
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by bradford 10y ago
(disclaimer, ms employee here and the below is just my opinion). > Just don't harvest the data in the first place. for better or worse, I just don't think this is feasible anymore. Telemetry is, by now, a fundamental part of
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by bradford 10y ago
http://bicyclesafe.com/#righthook http://bicyclesafe.com/#dontPassOnTheRight the above article lists one mitigation for the right hook: "Ride to the left" and, similiarly "Don't pass on
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by bradford 10y ago
The analogy is the least important part of my statement. I'm not entirely clear on what you're saying. Just to be clarify, suppose that the hack was done either by a script kiddy, or a nation state. Are you saying it doesn't
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by bradford 10y ago
> The fact that it was a state actor is a red herring. Would it had made any difference if it were an unknown US hacker? I think it makes a huge difference. The specific parties involved and their intent matters. Suppose this were a sho
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by bradford 10y ago
There's a difference between "no evidence exists" and "evidence exists, but we haven't disclosed it". Perhaps my original comment was unclear, but I believe the statements made in the article imply the latter.
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by bradford 10y ago
Yes, American citizen here. With the lack of any publicly available evidence, I guess the reasoning behind it largely comes down to trust. You either trust the government on this or you don't. On this issue, I do, but again, I wouldn

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