hyperrail

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by hyperrail 10y ago
I don't know the exact numbers, but when I left Microsoft a couple of years ago, the following product divisions were among those based in the 6 buildings of the Mountain View SVC ( https://www.google.com/maps/place
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by hyperrail 10y ago
Microsoft's Silicon Valley Campus is also just north of the 101 Shoreline Blvd exit - currently, it and LinkedIn HQ are only about 1 mile apart, possibly within walking distance. If and when this deal goes through, this won't be t
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'Embodiment of Grit': How Children of Farm Workers Became Tech Professionals(npr.org)
1 points by hyperrail 10y ago|0 comments
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by hyperrail 11y ago
It's even worse than that if you include recent past job cuts too: > LivingSocial will employ around 200 to 225 people after the cuts. > [...] > The Washington, D.C.-based company has now cut nearly 900 jobs over three rounds
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by hyperrail 11y ago
FWIW, Windows has had a built-in Cherokee font since Vista, several years before this font (2014). Windows 8 added another font and, more importantly, a partial Cherokee localization of the UI. srcs: [1] http://blogs.microsoft.co
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by hyperrail 11y ago
Interesting that Eric Lawrence didn't choose to go back to Microsoft. Though given how much vitriol he directs on Twitter at MSFT and the IE/Edge group he was part of, I imagine neither he nor they wanted him back...
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by hyperrail 11y ago
This part seems eerily prescient, doesn't it? > "I think it's an important step in pioneering this work, but later on we'll probably see more exciting things in the way of digital cash," said Philip R. Zimmermann
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Field Experience with Standard C Annex K – Bounds Checking Interfaces(open-std.org)
1 points by hyperrail 11y ago|0 comments
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by hyperrail 11y ago
> Also, "dnf" is not at all awesome to say out loud, while "yum" is among the most awesome commands to say out loud. Indeed, to me, saying "dnf" out loud suggests "did not finish," which is the opp
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by hyperrail 12y ago
One issue with the str..._s() functions is that the invalid-parameter handler is a global setting - all code that calls the slibc functions and hits an invalid parameter problem will call the handler. This could cause anything from your app
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by hyperrail 15y ago
"Crazy" is probably the wrong word for me to use (I have been known for my hyperbole in speech). What I meant was that, from my point of view, having multiple depots is almost the same as having multiple directories at the root of a single
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by hyperrail 15y ago
Please elaborate on "training". Do users check in things they shouldn't? Complain that clones take forever because of the sheer size of the files in a tree? Something else?
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by hyperrail 15y ago
> All of the secret code depots DepotS ? So I assume Google finally gave up on making their one Perforce server scale, then? (Unless Google is crazy enough to actually do multiple depots on a single p4d instance...)
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by hyperrail 15y ago
This looks like a close competitor to CoApp ( http://coapp.org/ ) - both are FOSS package managers for Windows, although it appears Chocolatey places less emphasis on libraries and other developer-focused packages. That is, CoApp is emphasi
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by hyperrail 15y ago
No, no, it's still up: http://blindsearch.fejus.com/
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by hyperrail 15y ago
Finally! True serializability! Never let anyone (including the docs for older postgres versions) tell you that predicate locking is too hard to implement.
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by hyperrail 15y ago
How recent was your experience with TFS? It's been around for 6 years and shipped 3 versions, that should be enough time for it to be good enough for dogfood.
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by hyperrail 15y ago
> When you reconnect to the server, just ask your P4 client to "synchronize offline changes" (in P4V, I think)... I'm sure these operations could be easily scripted, too. p4v does have a lot of added features and conveniences. Maybe I'm
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by hyperrail 15y ago
> TFVC is a centralized-server model that requires constant and active communication between a client (read: developer) machine and the server. If, for example, the network goes down for 1 hour, development grinds to a halt. The reason
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by hyperrail 15y ago
> Google can launch products with a much better work/life balance than most games studios, and their engineers make a lot more money for it too. I wonder: if Google decided to get into the video game business, would it fall into the gam
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by hyperrail 15y ago
> graduating a semester late (at the cost of several thousand dollars to myself) Really? Your funding isn't guaranteed? When I did my Master's I was funded as an R.A. without my advisor/lab having to tap her particular grants. Grants
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by hyperrail 15y ago
> I would imagine [Visual Studio would] improve a lot if they ate their own dogfood. We do - just not VS :) I used to work on Microsoft SQL Server. Our build system back then was substantially the same as Windows's. We used the Visual C