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Four cloud startup predictions for 2012(blog.sriramk.com)
3 points by sriramk 15y ago|0 comments
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by sriramk 15y ago
Set up weekly 1:1 meetings. Never miss them. And whenever possible, do the meetings outside, even if it is just taking a walk.
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by sriramk 15y ago
Happy that all the static code analysis tools from MSR ( which form the basis of /analyze) are getting good PR. Microsoft is great with code analysis tools but rarely gets recognized for it.
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by sriramk 15y ago
I don't think Schmidt is saying that. I think he's saying there's a specific section of tech where there are different economic conditions at play - he seems perfectly well aware of how the rest of the world is. And I agree with him. Talk t
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by sriramk 15y ago
This post inspired me to write a reply which I made into it's separate post at http://tumblr.sriramk.com/post/14419136146/on-carmack-and-cu... Copy-pasted below "John Carmack is one of my heroes in the tech world. Not because of his techn
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by sriramk 15y ago
This might be silly but I was thrilled that Jobs couldn't nail the monkey banana brain teaser. I was asked that at my first MSFT interview 6 years ago and struggled with it (I hated those brain teasers they did)
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by sriramk 15y ago
One thing that all these ridiculous conspiracy theories miss is that Elop spent a very short time at MSFT - around 2 years. He seems to switch companies often, except for one long stint in Macromedia.
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by sriramk 15y ago
Happens to be this gentleman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zbikowski . Though I never worked with 'Zibbo' directly, I heard several legends of him - a lot of him centering around how he is one of the nicest people around. Which is unus
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by sriramk 15y ago
this is exactly how I feel after spending the last 60 minutes reading through his site.
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VC Decries Airbnb’s Recent Funding for Founder Control and Cashout(allthingsd.com)
296 points by sriramk 15y ago|151 comments
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by sriramk 15y ago
I can tell you that Microsoft (and I'm sure the same holds true for Google and others) paid everyone the same, regardless of their visa process. Your financial package negotiation process was completely separate from your immigration status
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A replacement for email(blog.sriramk.com)
7 points by sriramk 15y ago|10 comments
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by sriramk 15y ago
I have interacted with both Scott and Brandon a bit in my time at MSFT. I found the bit on Brandon particularly jarring - Brandon runs developer marketing and is doing a really good job of getting developers onto a phone that people aren't
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by sriramk 15y ago
This is probably because he quit before he got fired ( according to reports). There was nothing else to say
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by sriramk 15y ago
If you think something of this scale was put together in a month, you don't understand how large companies work. This has to be in the works for atleast 4-5 months. The press likes to construct these action->reaction narratives (Foo lau
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by sriramk 15y ago
I don't because in the past, I found it trips proxies and content filters people have ( surprising but true)
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by sriramk 15y ago
You articulated this better than I did
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by sriramk 15y ago
That's nice. That's actually a better analogy than the one I used in my post :)
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by sriramk 15y ago
Apologies, I actually didn't know that Steve Blank was the source. Will update post.
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by sriramk 15y ago
Actually, it's the other way around. Strategy isn't some dirty word that people in suits like to toss around - it is just about deciding what you're going to do. Large companies can afford to dink around with unsuccessful, random projects.
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by sriramk 15y ago
Post author here. This is very true. This post was me trying to figure out where the 'right way' to do things lie. Here's the problem. On one hand, you have the lessons from Google being too random and them winding up at 'more wood, fewer a
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by sriramk 15y ago
Post author here. Google is on the other end of the spectrum ( or used to be). Elsewhere in this thread, someone made a good point of trying to find a balance.
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by sriramk 15y ago
For those who may not know Philip. I worked with Philip shortly back at MSFT. He was one of my favorite people and had all the right core values one would ever want. Someone who got stuff done and cared about it. I thought losing him to FB
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by sriramk 15y ago
Nope, this is not public. Traffic server ( and the stuff it lead to) is built by a peer group under the same VP I report to.
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by sriramk 15y ago
I just joined Yahoo a few months ago. Would love to chat with you and give you a perspective (see my other comment on this post)
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by sriramk 15y ago
Nope. But we have our own constructs for a lot of the semantics Erlang provides written from the ground up in C/C++. Sorry, can't talk about it more except in broad strokes :)
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by sriramk 15y ago
Honestly, I find this article ridiculous and borderline offensive. I would love if the author would come talk to a few of us and maybe take a tour of the place and see what makes this place work. I work at Yahoo, joined a few months ago, ru
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by sriramk 15y ago
As someone who worked for MSFT for so long, this bit really makes me happy - mostly since no one would have given this much odds of happening. "With the introduction of OS X Lion, Apple gave us a glimpse at what a post-PC operating system m
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by sriramk 15y ago
I really like I see so far (in the tools demo currently). - The Metro tile UI is fundamentally different from any other tablet UI out there. The lock screen password gestures to unlock, the live tiles, etc are all pretty new and different.
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by sriramk 15y ago
As an ex-MSFT person, this doc sounds like a Microsoft doc more than something you would see from Google. And I'm amazed at sentences like these - can you imagine MSFT saying this and getting away with it? "The goal of the Dash effort is ul

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