ryanmolden

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by ryanmolden 14y ago
People that rank on the Hare scale of psycopathy are over-represented (relative to prevalence in broader society) in corporate C-suites, controlling for age, gender, race, etc...[0] I am not sure what the representation of MBAs is in the C-
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
Yes, I likely oversimplified her message, sorry. She never advocates praising effort in isolation from outcome. She advocates praising effort as the key factor in successful outcomes, and analyzing failures to understand what caused them an
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
This was probably taken from the work of Carol Dweck[0]. I recently read a book she wrote (Mindset[1]) that was recommended on a thread here. The book title sounds like some corny self-help book, and honestly some of the stories in it seeme
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
If your webserver is down what does it matter that the CDN that hosts your library scripts is up?
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
If you think admitting you are not perfect would "rule you out" of a job it sounds like you haven't really interacted with real humans much (i.e. no sane person thinks that someone talking about something they struggle with when specificall
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
Worse than lying, a huge number of people aren't even aware of their weaknesses, which is probably a big red flag. People shouldn't think they are self-reflective if the only reflection they do is to bask in their own awesomeness.
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
Luckily we have people here who can spot "real" hackers and make such pronouncements, smh.
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
I've toyed with it a bit. The three biggest problems are probably the inability to link with libs that were compiled with MSVC (they are working on being able to make and consume libs that are MSVC compatible, but it isn't there yet), probl
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
>With 4 years of data we now know who was right and who was wrong Do we? I think at best you could argue that what was done was wrong, that doesn't imply the other alternative was right. There exists more than two possible courses of ac
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
This. I can't believe how many conversations I have had to have in my (short) career trying to convince people that catch(...) { /* ignore */ } is not an error-handling strategy, it is an error-ignoring strategy and opens you up for hilario
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
I don't think it was seriously trying to make a point, it was just a comedy, and it had what plants crave!
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
A good read on this is [0], he calls it the hedonic treadmill, where you are always thinking that thing that will make you ultimately happy lies in your next goal achievement. [0] http://www.amazon.com/The-Joyless-Economy-Psychology-Satisf
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
This is definitely interesting (though the formal language talk in the beginning is mostly over my head). On one hand it makes a lot of sense to have the compilers being doing the transforms to achieve safe parralellism, as opposed to what
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
>any manager who leaves a company without being escorted out in handcuffs is going to be "leaving for great things" according to all concerned. That may be true, and would perhaps be applicable to this case, if Eric were a manager. He i
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
You're definitely high-profile amongst the engineer grunts and on various internal mailing lists. I don't know if that wins you any private soirées with Soma or not, but it's something :)
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
This. It is unbelievable the number of times where people will say something like "I understand why you feel that way..." (if I am say arguing in favor of some MS product/decision) as if, because I work for Microsoft, I must be some non-t
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
My personal read: there are lots of people that didn't "fit in" as a teen/young adult. Instead of learning that excluding people for being different is ignorant they learned that one day they would be the one doing the maltreatment, at wh
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
As someone who's also been in a long-term, committed relationship (12 years) and is not married it is weird to me that people seem to view marriage as the inevitable outcome of coupling. I have similar views as the OP explains below and wou
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
>Either what you say is right – Microsoft is fine – or what you say is wrong and Microsoft has a bleak future. And either of these could have to do with Sinofsky, or not. Honestly the whole speculation about what this portends for Micro
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
In addition to what is talked about below, using value semantics (with mutable or immutable objects) can be helpful. Lots of types can be given value semantics and end up more efficient (most people think copying == less efficient, always
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
For simple lexing/parsing it likely is overkill, that said for more complex things it can be nice. I have a lexer for Erlang written with Boost.Spirit on my Github. I found debugging no worse than the general Chutulu-horror that are C++ tem
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
Yes, I just wanted to make it crystal clear for people that had never used it, and thus would be even less aware of the "split" (or perhaps misunderstanding it). If people dislike Windows 8 that is fine, I am kind of lukewarm on it myself,
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
Metro apps, or whatever they are calling them nowadays, do take over the entire screen, desktop apps are as they have always been and can be opened as many as you like, and arranged as you like given your screen real-estate. I routinely hav
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
I see conditional breakpoints, where are the tracing variety? EDIT: Oh, I see, from your comment you are just leveraging the conditional breakpoint to ad-hoc them. That works but is a bit uglier than truly supported tracing breakpoints, and
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
Yes, it is true that working from home is not some panacea, there are simply different issues. Like all engineering, there are no solutions, only trade-offs. That said, for someone like me, who has no kids (just 2 dogs) and a g/f that works
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
Does it have conditional breakpoints and tracing breakpoints? I find the latter mostly entirely eliminate the need to sprinkle printf-equivalents to follow complex flows. For full disclosure I work on VS, but not the debugger or in Javascri
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
The fact that working from home is still, relatively, rare in 2012 is baffling to me. When I think how many useful team interactions I have in a day vs. the amount of waste on meetings that either aren't necessary at all or could be more ea
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
In general not everyone has access to all code. Microsoft has over 90k employees not counting contractors. To get access to various projects/depts source depots you have to request access. Some access is auto-approved, for instance I am aut
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
So your experience in OSD translates across a company of 90k+ people? Seems legit. I have met some PMs that probably couldn't write a line of shipping code too, I have also met some highly competent ones. I guess, like all things involving
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by ryanmolden 14y ago
>It seems like successful people would be able to recognize their faults and mistakes. Based on what evidence do you say this? Not trolling, really curious. I seem to recall (but don't have references on hand, so fell free to discard th

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