shawnb576

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by shawnb576 8y ago
I was one of the main engineers on Windows Forms circa 1998-2005. This blows my mind in so many ways.
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by shawnb576 8y ago
I'm on this train too, I cut ties with my mother last fall. she loves me but it comes out in toxic ways that she doesn't seem to have insight into. as i've grown in life, things have gotten harder and harder with her as we c
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by shawnb576 8y ago
I tried this experiment last year. Bought a DELL XPS 13 at Costco, put Ubuntu 18.04 on it and dove in. I've been a Mac guy for ~10y just like the author. Worked at MS prior to that, so lots of Windows. My experience is that it's
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by shawnb576 8y ago
Yes that’s roughly what needs to happen, and it’s a policy issue. It’s great to ride a bike to work, eat less meat, and switch to LEDs but it won’t make a dent. It requires scale which requires policy which requires political action which
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by shawnb576 8y ago
This is a hopeful direction but it sounds like the jury is out of this can really scale to anywhere the amount we need. But it’s cheap and it helps with the oceans so seems like it’s part of a solution matrix. Also seems lower risk than s
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by shawnb576 8y ago
Sigh. Whether coke or Pepsi is better have “arguments on both sides”. What is the credible, data-backed argument against human-caused warming?
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by shawnb576 9y ago
Measuring outcomes is a pretty standard flow and is aggregate. What rich people do is irrelevant as most people are not rich.
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by shawnb576 9y ago
It's a compelling idea, for sure, but it tends to delay a bunch of bigger costs. It _feels_ super productive to use "the right tool for the job", but at scale this ends up being really expensive. You end up with an organizat
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by shawnb576 10y ago
yes, 4% is huge.
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by shawnb576 10y ago
You can't separate the currency from the ecosystem for anything but academic purposes. The ecosystem is a mess. A commonly cited benefit of crypto-currencies is that they'll eliminate friction and fees in the system, and I think
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by shawnb576 11y ago
Basically if you consider the delta between what you would do if you only had to care about your product and its customers, and what you have to do to align with some broader strategy - sell Windows, drive search eyeballs, get more clicks,
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by shawnb576 11y ago
Not true. I've had ligament damage that recovered. I've got two herniated discs that no longer give me much trouble (and I'm very active). No surgery, but careful management and activity choice.
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by shawnb576 11y ago
Yeah, maybe your N=1 causation hypothesis isn't all that well reasoned. This concept is absolutely false. With a proper setup, you should be able to ride all you want without anything "wearing out". Bodies don't "
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by shawnb576 11y ago
Event Hubs == AWS Kinesis Neither of those have any built in rule functionality. You have to set up machines to pull messages and process them. This offering is quite different in that it builds in declarative rule support for filtering&#x
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by shawnb576 11y ago
How much of this is the $$$ and how much is the effort? IOW, if this thing was to generate $500/month, would you keep bothering to operate it? I happily pay $24/year for NewsBlur. I would happily pay/donate at that rate for
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by shawnb576 11y ago
Yeah, I ran a team like this. I was able to attract the best of the best and built a solid team, but the incentive was to hire some people that weren't as good so they could give you somewhere to throw the 10%'s. It's awful
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by shawnb576 11y ago
Yeah - this is where Anders shines. Generics were brought in primarily to avoid boxing/unboxing costs of value types, but really are incredibly powerful when used properly. And I'll say that generics in C#/.NET are done ver
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by shawnb576 11y ago
The basic system - no. As of 2012 when I left, comp was about what your management was interested in. Maybe "take care of existing users" is on your review commitments, but what's really on there if you want to get ahead is
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by shawnb576 11y ago
The idea was that a converged, single, multi-language runtime and framework was the way to go. This is the way the culture works in Redmond - that's considered "strategic thinking", which is only exists in that bubble. It w
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by shawnb576 11y ago
I worked with Anders for years (he was on my interview loop, still no idea how I got in), and no, he's not the father of the CLR. That project (Project 42, COM+, NGWS, among other names) I think even pre-dated his arrival at MS. Ande
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by shawnb576 12y ago
I also note that this idea that people care about animals and not the other way around is hard to respect given which direction the killing typically goes. For the most part animals ignore people. For the most part people kill animals.
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by shawnb576 12y ago
A lot of dogs could absolutely kill you, but they don't. My cat could be 100 lbs and she'd still be more interested in kibble and pillows than mauling me. So, no not all animals are sociapathic (I'm not sure that's the
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by shawnb576 12y ago
By your argument the cost of food/goods are going up because we're becoming less efficient at producing it. This is not how inflation works, and that's not how deflation works. Maybe go bone up on your basic economics?
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by shawnb576 12y ago
I find this argument very uncompelling. This product sounds like it never exited mvp if sql server free was to be good enough. I'll agree that at small scale there are lots of potential technologies. But it also makes me wonder what
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by shawnb576 12y ago
nFaithInHumanity--
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by shawnb576 12y ago
I'd like to know if these sounds are learned, instinctual, or a mix of both. IOW, if you placed a monkey raised elsewhere into this environment would it know and/or adopt these sounds. Isn't assigning meaning to otherwise-ar
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by shawnb576 12y ago
Yep, you've got it. So my point was directed against pre/chosen specialization for more junior engineers. I should say that some level of specialization over time is natural. At some point you'll likely work on one thing fo
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by shawnb576 12y ago
I don't believe this is the question you should be asking. Your worth as an engineer, over time, will be measured by breadth, not depth. I know engineers that have be come industry-class experts on font rendering or compiler optimizat
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by shawnb576 12y ago
In short: no. Today's programmable Internet is an existence proof of this answer. In the 90s and early-2000s there were a lot of attempts to codify machine-discoverable protocols: WSDL, SOAP, etc. There are still a lot of people that
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by shawnb576 12y ago
I did a fair amount of experimentation with phone gap/Cordova a couple of years ago. What really killed me wasn't so much perf as places where you want or need native UI. For example, if you want a nice mapping experience, JS ba

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