overgryphon

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by overgryphon 11y ago
This is a demo from Microsoft Research, which does research into new areas, not a product group.
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by overgryphon 11y ago
The two most recent technical previews for Windows Server support containers natively. You don't need a VM to run containers on Windows.
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by overgryphon 11y ago
The cost of a parking space in an urban center is also a large part of the equation.
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by overgryphon 11y ago
Parenting style doesn't cause schizophrenia.
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by overgryphon 11y ago
Vmconnect(1) is a local exe. The best experience for a console to your Hyper-V VM is remote desktop, but that requires a Windows guest and virtual networking. If you are trouble shooting networking or boot, or are using Linux guests, vmconn
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by overgryphon 11y ago
Lots of powershell cmdlets have aliases too. They are less discoverable than the verb-noun names, but for cmdlets I use often they are great. Get-ChildItem is aliased to gci, ls, and dir.
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by overgryphon 11y ago
Many people lead normal happy lives with a mental health diagnosis. Something is wrong with everyone. Putting a name to the common class of struggles you struggle with most can be empowering. It makes it easier to find resources more tailor
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by overgryphon 11y ago
Mental disorders are often internal, not external. What to others looks like someone coping okayish or just a bit quirky can have a huge negative impact on that persons quality of life.
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by overgryphon 11y ago
Microsoft was ordered to hand over an Irish citizen's emails stored outside of the US to US government officials in a drug case. The case is still in appeals. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/judg
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by overgryphon 11y ago
Why? This isn't true of the current Surface.
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by overgryphon 11y ago
Failing a class often has devastating consequences in college. Scholarship programs generally have strict GPA requirements, and once lost cannot be regained. Nursing programs are particularly harsh. Failing a class by a percentage point may
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by overgryphon 11y ago
Anecdotally, women encounter verbal assault a lot more frequently than men. Catcalling, whistling, "give me a smile babe" and the like are an awful experience and dehumanizing.
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by overgryphon 11y ago
Reading mode in Edge solves this problem, if you're looking for solutions.
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by overgryphon 11y ago
Choosing to take on management roles doesn't mean someone cares more about total salary than time earned. They probably just care more about team culture and mentorship.
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by overgryphon 11y ago
Hours are flexible on my team, so the hours someone is available for in-person discussion varies widely. It's never been a problem to send an email asking someone to stop by when they have a chance. I absolutely agree that it is import
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by overgryphon 11y ago
Touch laptops already exist.
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by overgryphon 11y ago
It's not the first step to letting an employee know there performance is at risk. Or it isn't supposed to be.
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by overgryphon 11y ago
No, it's not the same everywhere. My coworker recently came back from five months maternity leave, and next year women at my standard big corp will receive 8. Parental leave is seen as a completely normal part of work life.
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by overgryphon 11y ago
Are there any existing products comparable in quality and speed to Cortana/Siri that do all of the processing locally?
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by overgryphon 11y ago
That hasn't been my experience. Students at top CS schools have much more access to recruiters at well known companies, who assign recruiters to particular schools. It's a lot harder to get an internship at such a company from a s
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by overgryphon 11y ago
The in-box Settings app already has a privacy section that is easy to find, has a nice GUI, and breaks down privacy options into reasonable categories (location, contacts, calendar, feedback, devices, ect). Microsoft may need to add a few m
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by overgryphon 11y ago
I find it interesting that you both complain the settings have stayed the same and change too much. What would you have wanted here?
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by overgryphon 11y ago
Triage generally means the feedback will be routed to the relevant people. I'm confused why a promise Would be expected here. How do you envision a system for handling large amounts of public feedback working?
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by overgryphon 11y ago
It's a little hard to describe Microsoft as a company built on free software. Another thing that gets lost here is that large companies certainly pay full time senior engineers to contribute to open source projects. They just work at t
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by overgryphon 11y ago
Interview environments are always stressful, but so are other common workplace situations. Being unable to manage stress effectively might contribute to poor on-the-job performance, even for people with great pure coding ability. The proces
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by overgryphon 12y ago
You're reading too much into the article than is there. The father in the article mentioned speech therapy, therapists and lots of doctors. It's clear that he is doing what he can to help his daughter, this particular article just
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by overgryphon 12y ago
This is the wrong question to ask. What blocks people from switching isn't some specific MS Office feature missing in LibreOffice. It's a lack of compelling features in LibreOffice that are not available in competing products to j
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by overgryphon 12y ago
I really like to hook the kickstand over my knees sitting on the couch. I haven't had problems comfortably using it as a laptop, though laying down I generally use it as a tablet.
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by overgryphon 12y ago
From FTDI's point of view, their driver's are not free, they are distributed for use by FTDI customers. FTDI doesn't want their drivers to run on non-FTDI chips regardless of whether they are marketed as real FTDI chips or no
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by overgryphon 12y ago
I would be surprised if WHQL tested drivers on counterfeit hardware.

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