sriramk

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   by sriramk 16y ago

   The OP is completely correct. I designed a bunch of the Windows Azure APIs - we spent a lot of time making sure they were RESTful. Looking back now, I think it was a big waste of time. Almost everyone uses the API through some custom librar
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   Techflash interview about my new browser app for Windows Phone(techflash.com)

   6 points by sriramk 16y ago|0 comments
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   by sriramk 16y ago

   I'll send this to the Live Mesh team
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   by sriramk 16y ago

   Yodlee's a big screenscraping shop (I remember rumors of having large teams dedicated to just keeping the scripts updated). I don't see how any delegated credentials could work in that case. Mint has switched to Intuit's backend (there was
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   by sriramk 16y ago

   I'm a MSFT employee but you guys have to take my word that this is a purely unbiased review. :) I just played the Kinect all evening for the first time. And I'm still in shock - that thing is magical, like the first time I played with the W
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   by sriramk 16y ago

   My first reaction is that this sounds similar to SQL Server Stream Insight (in terms of processing continuous streams of data)
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   by sriramk 16y ago

   I actually think this is one of the places Microsoft has done very well in over the years. I don't think used to be the case a decade ago though but the IC career path is as lucrative/supported now as the management path. One can choose to
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   by sriramk 16y ago

   That's interesting. I'm guessing these are Microsoft employees who quit before the perf review system here at Microsoft was basically changed from scratch 3 years ago?
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   by sriramk 16y ago

   That's very surprising. I was pretty sure we had stopped asking those questions a long time.
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    by sriramk 16y ago

    If you rename this 'If Sheldon Cooper applied for a job at Microsoft' this works beautifully :)
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    by sriramk 16y ago

    Very good advice. Back in college, I turned to coding groups for other forms of social support and wound up meeting a lot of interesting people. Most of all, I met my wife through one of those groups so it worked out very well for me indeed
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    by sriramk 16y ago

    Reading this, this is something I could have posted from my UG college days in India if HN had existed back then. Just trust me - things will better. Mail me (you can find my email address easily) if you want to talk to someone about how te
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    by sriramk 16y ago

    There's a talk by Anders Hejlsberg going on right now at http://player.microsoftpdc.com/Session/1b127a7d-300e-4385-af... Eric Lipper has a good post at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2010/10/28/async... This is particularly
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    Asynchrony in C# 5 (msdn.microsoft.com)

    39 points by sriramk 16y ago|9 comments
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    by sriramk 16y ago

    Happy you like. Ping me offline (sriramk [at] microsoft.com] if you'd like any help with anything. Apart from the features, I'm happy about the fact we got to talk about Pixar's Renderman on Azure. I was so excited when I first heard about
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    by sriramk 16y ago

    This is an interesting use of .NET ClickOnce. It is probably the largest Clickonce app I've ever used.
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    by sriramk 16y ago

    I'm shaking my head right now. Literally 5 seconds before checking out the HN home page right now, I just finished the checkout process for yet another sideproject domain :)
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    by sriramk 16y ago

    Let's not forget the startups and other companies building on top of RapLeaf. Rapportive is one that probably couldn't do their core features without Rapleaf (they would have to look up people based on email address themselves then)
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    by sriramk 16y ago

    I think there is a pattern across both UberCan and AirBnb where both are facing opposition from existing, regulated industries (taxi services and hotels respectively). Among all the posturing essentially meant to protect their existing busi
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    by sriramk 16y ago

    Some quick links - Back in June, we announced 10K paying customers (6 months post launch)[1]. If you're looking for some 'big names', eBay, Dell, Fujitsu and HP are going to be using the Azure Appliance [2]. This is of course apart from int
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    by sriramk 16y ago

    As someone who works on Windows Azure, this got under my skin a bit :). In particular, I thought this was slightly lazy writing (W.r.t Azure) "I suspect it’s not performing well" and "Put simply, it’s hard to imagine that Microsoft is aggre
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    by sriramk 16y ago

    I worked with Philip a bit last year. He's (well, was) probably one of my favorite MSFT employees - I don't think I've seen anyone else with such energy. Big loss for MSFT, great win for FB.
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    by sriramk 16y ago

    I know RMS is a special case but it annoys me when people say/act as if they're too busy to properly respond. One of my favorite people in Microsoft is Ray Ozzie. Every single time I've mailed him, I've gotten a long, thoughtful reply. He i
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    by sriramk 16y ago

    None of them are 'large' enterprise companies - think Oracle, MSFT, IBM, etc.
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    by sriramk 16y ago

    I dont think it is about the technology at all. It is more about social factors. Enterprises often shy away from being on the leading edge of anything. There is very limited upside and big downside. I'm willing to bet that once the NoSQL sp
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    by sriramk 16y ago

    I have done several customer engagements in past teams from conferences to very private executive engagements where I've been the 'technical guy'. Since most questions flying at me are factual, it is easy to respond with factual responses.
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    by sriramk 16y ago

    Disclaimer as usual: I dont speak for MSFT, yada, yada. I rarely get into one of these 'defend-MSFT' threads but I couldn't let one more of these 'MSFT engineers are great but marketing is not' threads go by. I think your characterization o
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    by sriramk 16y ago

    I played with this a bit (the Microsoft network has some fledgling activity). I think its a good start and the founder behind it seems impressive. However, I'm a tad disappointed by how similar to Quora it is not just in terms of functional
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    by sriramk 16y ago

    Most 1:1s shouldn't be meetings. Think of them as 'bonding' time. This is where you get a pulse of each other. In the manager's case, find out whether your report is happy or on the verge of burning out. One recommendation I would do is to
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    by sriramk 16y ago

    If folks want to mail SteveB, just mail steveb@microsoft.com. He has given out his email address on multiple occasions (like http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/steve/2005/06-06Tech... ). I can attest that he reads all his emails and o