sriramk

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   by sriramk 16y ago

   If I leave MSFT, this is the one person I'll sorely miss. An admin at a large company is a life saver for so many reasons.
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   by sriramk 16y ago

   Interesting. Does the import feature screen scrape then (fill in credentials, act 'as' the user'? Doesnt sound very scalable.
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   by sriramk 16y ago

   True but what are the API endpoints? How does one actually get data out of someone?
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   Ask HN:APIs for banks/financial institutions?

   13 points by sriramk 16y ago|5 comments
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   by sriramk 17y ago

   Wow. I'm an engineer at Microsoft. I don't know what this particular site is about (from poking around, it seems to be targeted at education) but I can assure you that career paths and employee reviews at Microsoft have nothing to do with h
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   by sriramk 17y ago

   I was chatting with someone about the language used in a lot of these apologies. This has come up in a lot of issues - like in the Justin.tv suicide case. I think companies fear legal repercussions. If you use certain words, you might be ta
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   Docs.com - Microsoft Office + Facebook (from Microsoft FUSE Labs)(docs.com)

   12 points by sriramk 17y ago|1 comments
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   by sriramk 17y ago

   I dont see what the source can get you. In fact, given that Google reuses a lot of open source, the source code is probably out in public already. I think for Google, their data would be far more valuable. For their password systems, I gu
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   by sriramk 17y ago

   I think a lot of that is what companies want to do with AD. I doubt MSFT is in the business of deciding what people's password policies should be (apart from picking a sane default). I do think passwords today fail basic usability tests.
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    Ask HN:Harvard Business Review Case studies worth reading

    5 points by sriramk 17y ago|1 comments
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    by sriramk 17y ago

    You do know of OpsWare, right? :)
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    by sriramk 17y ago

    SO did successfully create a community. I think they ran into the problem that SO itself was successful because of the 'personal brand' of Jeff Atwood and Joel and this didn't extend easily to other communities. Or maybe it is because the c
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    by sriramk 17y ago

    I'm a low level minion ( :-) ) and I have exactly the same number of layers between me and SteveB right now that Joel had between him and Bill back then.
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    by sriramk 17y ago

    Sometimes, big companies like the one I work for (Microsoft) or Google or Yahoo get beaten up for having 'obvious' bugs or failures. People say that given the scale of our resources, we should do better and perhaps they're right. In this ca
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    by sriramk 17y ago

    This is exactly the same experience I had while getting a driver's license in 2 places - Chennai and Hyderabad. I remember thinking how much of a joke it was.
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    by sriramk 17y ago

    Windows ships with the .NET framework which has the C# and VB compilers (and may have others - I'm not sure). This is not counting things like Powershell, Javascript, VBScript (all command line versions). For developer tools, VS Express ha
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    by sriramk 17y ago

    'M$'? Seriously? :)
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    by sriramk 17y ago

    I think #1 is a lot more complex than just basic clarifying questions. The key is to understand the context . Where is this code going to be running? Who is going to call it? In what scenarios will it be called? Things like that. I remembe
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    by sriramk 17y ago

    Bruce and danah are arguing from completely different perspectives. I think danah's talk needs to be read in its entirety - it fits in also with some of her other work around the demographic and ethnographic issues around social networks h
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    by sriramk 17y ago

    For asynchronous, web hooks may not be the answer if clients can be behind a firewall. It's too much work to set up an externally accessible resource just for this. Polling or some sort of "job" resource works great too. When we designed th
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    by sriramk 17y ago

    I'm getting a bit tired of all this revisionist history from several years ago (this anecdote seems to be 13 years old). Especially on places which don't understand how the inside of MSFT works (and has evolved over time). Also, I'm willing
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    by sriramk 17y ago

    Sounds like a great way to drown the team in process. I don't mean to sound snarky but you often need to find the right balance between process and making sure the team can write code and ship features without having to spin up a ton of pap
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    by sriramk 17y ago

    I remember hearing a rumor once that Yodlee had any army of employees whose primary job was to update the screen scraping scripts. Make no mistake - getting this data out is very messy. but given a choice between messy and not having it at
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    by sriramk 17y ago

    Everyone has a vested interest in every standard they participate in :-).
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    by sriramk 17y ago

    A better report of what Craig Mundie proposed is at http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2010/01/30/drivers-l... . Disclaimer- I work for MSFT but I really no nothing more than what is in these articles
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    by sriramk 17y ago

    I'm ashamed to admit that I actually learnt something new from this (the @tailcall thing)
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    Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Annual Letter 2010 [pdf](gatesfoundation.org)

    3 points by sriramk 17y ago|0 comments
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    by sriramk 17y ago

    American Express is the worst offender. They don't accept my usually long passwords/passphrases so I had to conjure up a shorter password just for their system.
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    by sriramk 17y ago

    There was some speculation internally on this too (I work at MSFT). One theory is that Ashley Tisdale is involved in charity work too and Bill might know her personally. No idea as to how true that is though :)
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    by sriramk 17y ago

    How is this possible in IE?