sriramk

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by sriramk 15y ago
Ballmer was back in the company then. People outside MSFT underestimate the technical know how of SteveB - he ran release management for the first version of Windows. He understands software. He might be doing a terrible job the last dec
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by sriramk 15y ago
Look past that. This is super useful - high scale services often have loosely coupled services which pass data from one stage to the other and act on it based on various decision factors. Almost everyone I know invents their own mechanism f
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by sriramk 15y ago
I just turned 28 and I was about to post the same thing as the parent comment. It does make you question your life choices a little bit, though I do feel much better prepared now than I would have been at 25. And I don't think I could have
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by sriramk 15y ago
I agree with everything except revealing your identity. Often seen sellers hike prices when they know you can afford it/ you need it badly/ etc. when we were looking at domains to buy in Microsoft, we were told to never access it from the c
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by sriramk 15y ago
Anybody know what that Gilt mash up to analyze competitor revenue was? I have a few theories but I'm curious to see what they built.
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by sriramk 15y ago
Disclaimer: ex-MSFT, have several patents pending from during my time there. His blog post reminds me why I get so mad at Microsoft using patents against Android OEMs. During all my years at MSFT, employees were always told that patents wer
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by sriramk 15y ago
Tangential anecdote - I worked with Mike at Microsoft where he did some stellar work putting together all the conferences Microsoft did over the years. He was one of the few who 'got' it. Fantastic to see him get some well-deserved recognit
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by sriramk 15y ago
Disclaimer: I used to work for Microsoft I think Microsoft needs to take a ton of heat for this one. a) They outsource something running on a Microsoft domain, with the Microsoft logo, etc to an external entity, something customers wouldn't
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by sriramk 15y ago
Somewhere in building 50 on Redmond campus, the IE team is wondering why nobody ever said this in their defence when the exact same scenario was playing out with IE (dominant browser, not available on all platforms, glacial standards bodies
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by sriramk 15y ago
The hashing won't let them do partial name matches and other 'fuzzy' matching where there isn't an exact text match but strong signals to indicate a match.
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by sriramk 15y ago
[disclaimer: see my profile for my involvement with Yahoo, I have no connection with this particular incident/Flickr/etc] This and the TC post annoy me because Snapjoy (or perhaps the tech press) is trying to spin this into some underdog vs
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by sriramk 15y ago
I feel like all of us owe a big thanks to Jeff. It's hard to imagine writing any code these days without Stackoverflow. It definitely made the web better for me, and I suspect, any other developer out there.
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by sriramk 15y ago
As someone who knows Raymond personally and his body of work at Microsoft, I can attest to the genius part. His exploits in the Win95 days ( as one example), is part of MSFT mythology.
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by sriramk 15y ago
For someone worth close to $30b, compromising on things like flying and security seems silly. Amazed they aren't spending more.
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by sriramk 15y ago
donkey.net is a demo meant to show off VB features when VS 2003 (or 2005) was released. If I remember, primarily used to show off Managed DirectX. Not a valid comparison.
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by sriramk 15y ago
I think Paul Carr is trying to make the point that the anger in the Curebit case is hypocritical since we (the big 'we') defend similar behavior when done to Hollywood or the music behavior.
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Angry Nerds: Copyright Theft Is Bad, When It Happens To People We Like(pandodaily.com)
14 points by sriramk 15y ago|2 comments
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by sriramk 15y ago
DHH just tweeted that they actually serve some of the assets from the Highrise site. That's bad http://yfrog.com/mm5icqhj
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by sriramk 15y ago
Movies aren't the latest evolution in entertainment, they're the latest evolution in storytelling , something which is as old as humanity itself. Hollwyood is the descendant of ancient man telling stories of adventure around a fire at nigh
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Dave Cutler, father of Windows NT, leaves Windows Azure to work on Xbox(zdnet.com)
5 points by sriramk 15y ago|0 comments
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by sriramk 15y ago
There are a lot of political issues that could ruin the internet forever. The example I've been throwing out in this thread - nuclear weapons. Could destroy all of humanity. Does Wikipedia step in to get all countries to destroy nuclear wea
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by sriramk 15y ago
That's a question of semantics. When you have a policy on not taking a stand on any issue which you stick to, you are not taking a stand.
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by sriramk 15y ago
Sad to see my original comment getting downvoted. If your job depends on you being neutral, you don't get a choice. For example, the International Red Cross needs to stay neutral otherwise they won't get access to areas where they are sorel
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by sriramk 15y ago
If you're implying that some issues encompass everyone and everything and suck people in, it is going to be hard to justify that SOPA meets that bar but something like, say, nuclear disarmament doesn't.
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by sriramk 15y ago
I'm against SOPA as much as the next person here on HN but I disagree with shutting down Wikipedia. Paul Carr wrote a piece today that argues this case well -> see http://pandodaily.com/2012/01/16/dick-costolo-is-right-wikip... Basica
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by sriramk 15y ago
Slightly tangential - I didn't realize that this was Hal Berenson's blog. This is an individual who carried serious clout within MSFT. All his other posts are great reading too for an insider perspective on lots of things Microsoft.
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by sriramk 15y ago
Completely agree. To use a different analogy, this is like writing ObjC code using XCode and talking about how hard it is to compile outside the Apple world of tools (perhaps using GNUStep). It is no less open source.
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by sriramk 15y ago
Why? Seems like a fair-enough term.
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by sriramk 15y ago
Though Evan's post made me write this, I'm actually talking about different aspects to testing than he is. But to respond to you - neither do a lot of others (need high quality software i.e). Agility->quality is a continuum. On one end,
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On testers and testing(sriramk.com)
23 points by sriramk 15y ago|20 comments

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