sriramk

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by sriramk 14y ago
Garry - like most here, I really respect your opinion but you should consider whether you're letting your relationship with the team bias your view. I was with you until I saw the screenshots in the TC post. The first one with the same layo
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by sriramk 14y ago
Basically he intended 'type' as not 'datatype' as in 'dwSomething' (for double word) but the purpose of the variable. For example, if you're using an integer variable to store the length of some entity, you would name it something like 'len
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by sriramk 14y ago
DevDiv (which makes up both Visual Studio, .NET and a bunch of other stuff) had ~5K people when I left. So very definitely possible. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by the 'shell'. VS is a huge beast and has dozens of components, several o
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by sriramk 14y ago
The VS team is many orders of magnitude than what you see there. I suspect that those are just the release PMs.
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by sriramk 14y ago
I blame the early Windows team by mistaking what Simonyi meant with Hungarian notation by misunderstanding what 'type' means. Which is why Office uses his notation in a much cleaner fashion.
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by sriramk 14y ago
Actually, as someone who has designed/run a high scale REST API, I have a slightly blasphemous view on this - that the RESTful-ness of the API doesn't matter. You're better off trying to control how the various language bindings look like a
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by sriramk 14y ago
The scary bit (well, one of many) is how easy it is to get access to someone's Amazon account by just knowing their email address and billing address. That lets you buy anything, see their entire order history and probably gives you access
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by sriramk 14y ago
Over time, Yahoo seems to have hired more and more people doing 'meta-work' than actual work. Which leads to month long strategy sessions but very little products coming out and very little product building rhythm.
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by sriramk 14y ago
That is not a good statistic - I was at MSFT when every few months an exec would trot out and talk about how GOOG/APPL's entire revenue fit inside some small MSFT division's numbers. And then they had to stop. The only thing that matters is
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by sriramk 14y ago
I've spent six years experiencing all sides of the MSFT review system. I think the articles blaming the curve/stack ranking are wrong - the root problem is that MSFT doesn't have much momentum and the stock isn't doing well. When everyone i
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by sriramk 14y ago
Yes but this channels a lot of what other people told me and some of them have spent over a decade there.
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by sriramk 14y ago
I'm pretty sure there was a vesting period - it wasn't for one year.
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by sriramk 14y ago
I know of a 25 year old who got a 7-digit counter offer from Google when a friend tried to recruit him so I was hoping the 23 year old example wasn't too much hyperbole. Plus, the idea is to pay a big premium over what everyone else pays an
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by sriramk 14y ago
What's 'right' for the company is often not what looks best for you when performance review time comes around. That's sad reality in most big companies.
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by sriramk 14y ago
Specifically on the architect issue, I think the system and the incentives are setting them up to fail. If you're a senior guy, measured on fluffy terms like 'influence', you're not going to get a promotion by saying you designed the simple
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by sriramk 14y ago
Yup. I'm hoping by hiring the best engineers/designers/etc and putting together great product teams, you implicitly get people who care about users.
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by sriramk 14y ago
Jeff Atwood already tweeted that I should be made CEO so I'm not particularly inclined to demote myself. ;)
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by sriramk 14y ago
OP here. My issue with that phrase is that it means both nothing and everything. You can justify any product saying that it fits in with the vision of being the 'premium digital media' company. I once made the point internally that pretty m
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by sriramk 14y ago
You have no idea how many flame wars I had with all levels of IT and security folks.
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Advice for Marissa Mayer from an ex-Yahoo(sriramk.com)
474 points by sriramk 14y ago|253 comments
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by sriramk 14y ago
I'm the OP. It could be possible that someone knew how to get into her account and had just done a self disable/enable. Far fetched though.
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by sriramk 14y ago
Nope, her account got temporarily disabled within a short time of her posting that comment, got unlocked after a day or two (I'm not sure how long it took to become available). Sure, some friend could theoretically have found a way to get i
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by sriramk 14y ago
Even more reason to listen to him.
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by sriramk 14y ago
This actually tripped up a friend of mine a couple of years ago. She left a comment on a photo of someone holding a toy gun saying "You look like <insert-name-of-well-known-terrorist>" followed by a smiley. Within hours, she got a m
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by sriramk 14y ago
Lived there for 5 years before moving to SF last year. Love Seattle and summers are beautiful. But even I'll admit that that line isn't far off from the truth :).
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by sriramk 14y ago
But wasn't having you guys around at MSFT been a conflict of interest? Would have muddied the waters with other agencies, even if there was a Chinese wall between Razorfish and AdCenter.
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AWS blog post on events of last week - no mention of outage(aws.typepad.com)
1 points by sriramk 14y ago|0 comments
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by sriramk 14y ago
I have a reasonably popular app and I was stunned to see how much Yahoo and Hotmail addresses dominate. Very different from my friends circles.
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by sriramk 14y ago
From the rumors I heard, that acquisition was mostly about getting Ray Ozzie on board.
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The Wire as a case study of failed corporate strategy(sriramk.com)
2 points by sriramk 14y ago|0 comments

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