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IE9 - evolving the blue 'e' logo(blogs.msdn.com)
9 points by sriramk 16y ago|8 comments
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by sriramk 16y ago
Not much (the real-time Twitter results is one such piece). You have to remember that Bing predates Azure by many years. There is a lot of code/idea sharing though.
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by sriramk 16y ago
Maybe I'm betraying my corporate institutionalization here but I was reading through the list and going "Hey, that isn't so bad, is it?". Are terms like boilerplate, 'at the end of the day' so bad? :)
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by sriramk 16y ago
Wow, why did this get posted after so many years? It's a bit embarrassing to see my writing from back then. Its amateurish, a bit tacky and I sorely needed to edit it. As for my opinions now, I think classic Lisp is forever doomed to be a n
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by sriramk 16y ago
I have more sympathy. The guy has worked on this for a few years. I'd stick to my guns too (for a while atleast) :)
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by sriramk 16y ago
I'd love to hear more about what you don't like about the site (email address on my profile page). Btw, I ran the feature team that built the APIs that powershell and Visual Studio use. So if you don't like those, that's probably my fault.
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by sriramk 16y ago
Thats so true. When I wrote my book, most of my battles with O'Reilly was over 'toning down' of my content. O'Reilly was great to work with but they were a bit worried about offending people. When the book released, it worked out great - p
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by sriramk 16y ago
<plug> My book 'Programming Windows Azure' :) </plug>
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by sriramk 16y ago
This is an interesting concept since my fiancee and I have been working on our invitation for our upcoming wedding. Its a hard task but it is actually kind of fun. Our design discussions revolve a lot around what Jobs/Ive would do if he had
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by sriramk 16y ago
In the cloud. A lot of apps run on single core VMs
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by sriramk 16y ago
That's a great reply. Thanks
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by sriramk 16y ago
I'm thinking of switching to waf ( http://code.google.com/p/waf/ ) for future projects. Node.js and a few other projects use it currently. Does anyone have any good/bad reviews? It seems to be a fork of SCons but stripped to the bare minimu
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by sriramk 16y ago
Actually, I thought the article winds up making the opposite argument from what it thinks it is making. To be clear, the blame for this situation for this lands on Sun. It isn't Oracle's fault that Sun withered away to the point where it ne
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by sriramk 16y ago
First of all, this isn't the same as being asked out by someone. This is one email among thousands of others, code review requests, bug reports and what else. Sure it has a bit of a higher priority since Jobs wanted you to look at it but it
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by sriramk 16y ago
Because he isn't lying. Stuff comes up all the time. He was being polite and I'm betting he genuinely wanted to get to it. I'm sympathetic because I've done this often - told someone I'll get back to them and then been absolutely drowned in
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by sriramk 16y ago
I actually thought the Apple engineer, Patrick Gates, was super polite - a lot of people wouldn't even have bothered to respond. And I don't think anyone ever wanted to acquire anything.
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by sriramk 16y ago
Actually, this goes for any series of meetings. At work, I actively 'defrag' my calendar and make sure meetings happen together so that I can pull through a long stretch of meetings and be done with it all. Having fragmented meeting time (3
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by sriramk 16y ago
I did a double take when I saw this thread - I finish 5 years at Microsoft to the day today :)
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by sriramk 16y ago
J was one of the people behind DHCP. His name is on the RFC http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2131.html
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by sriramk 16y ago
I contacted a lot of publishers including MS Press and O'Reilly was the first to respond. Besides, I really like O'Reilly books and thought it would be great to be a published O'Reilly writer. They've been amazing to work with.
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by sriramk 16y ago
Well, I don't have too much control over the cover design - O'Reilly does that. I did pick the animal. The animal is a 'dhole' which is popularly called a 'red dog'. 'Red Dog' happens to the original secret code name for the Windows Azure p
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by sriramk 16y ago
Nope. Windows VMs only currently. Of course, you could run Cygwin or the like on top if you want to
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by sriramk 16y ago
Thanks! Do let me know if you need any help. I do work on the Windows Azure team and we're always interested in what people are doing with our stuff.
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by sriramk 16y ago
It works just like on Windows. The rule of thumb is if something can run on Windows (well, in specific Windows Server but that doesn't really matter), it'll run on Windows Azure. The book has a chapter on how to do this with PHP examples. I
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by sriramk 16y ago
Azure has a local simulation environment that ships with the SDK - you could try that out if you want to play with it. On the cloud, programs like Bizspark get you there at lower cost. If you have a MSDN subscription, you get a ton of free
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by sriramk 16y ago
I felt bad about a plug for my book but felt that it was justified given that it has taken every night/weekend for over a year :) I've tried to write a book that I would like to read. This means humor (find all the hidden Trek, BSG referenc
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My book 'Programming Windows Azure' from O'Reilly is available(amazon.com)
55 points by sriramk 16y ago|24 comments
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by sriramk 16y ago
My book 'Programming Windows Azure' just came out today. :) I feel bad about plugging it here but hey, I put heart & soul into it for the last one year so I feel justified :). Obligatory O'Reilly and Amazon links http://oreilly.com/cat
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by sriramk 16y ago
the real issue here is everyone assuming social security numbers are meant to be 'secret'. It is a terrible way to authenticate someone. There have been recent studies to show how non-random someone's number actually is. Someone recently su
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by sriramk 16y ago
If Oracle winds up making more money with Sun's assets than Sun did, would that necessarily be a bad thing? I'm not saying losing the likes of Tim Bray and Gosling is good but having them didn't help Sun much either.

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