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by noen 4mo ago
Really well written article, thank you!
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by noen 1y ago
This article reminds me of my early days at Microsoft. I spent 8 years in the Developer Division (DevDiv). Microsoft had three personas for software engineers that were eventually retired for a much more complex persona framework called peo
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by noen 1y ago
Microsoft rarely did or does anything first. They are typically second or third to the post and VC is no different. Most people don’t know or realize that Git is where it is because of Microsoft. About 1/2 of the TFS core team spun o
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by noen 1y ago
Basically all XR devices put the focal plane at between 0.5 and 1m away. It’s a very very complicated reason why, but this is unlikely to change for a very long time.
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by noen 2y ago
A team in my org worked with Jet for 2+ years to help y’all scale. It was interesting seeing the biweekly status updates, they basically all started with “This is how Jet.com broke Azure core services this week”. As much as it sucks, this w
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by noen 2y ago
It has been on life support for a long time AFAIK. I designed Visual Studio Online (the first launch of AzDO) - and every engineer, PM, and executive I worked with is either in leadership at GitHub or retired.
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by noen 2y ago
Thin client - no big deal. $30-300 per month per device? LOL. Dead on arrival.
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by noen 2y ago
Similar story here. 20+ years experience in leading dev, pm, and UX teams. Launched multiple 0-1 market leading products, worked with dozens of Fortune 500s. Applied to more than a hundred positions - one phone screen and one interview. T
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by noen 2y ago
He didn’t keep the lights on while waiting for new development to take off. He actively lost 40+ billion dollars on horrible acquisitions, and actively stifled internal innovation to ensure existing product lines weren’t threatened. On the
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by noen 2y ago
Yeah the team running the platform internally was amazing to work with and did incredible work with just a handful of resources. The efficiency for scale of mediawiki is hard to beat.
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by noen 2y ago
Nice!! Made my day. Not sure how they can move off of it, partly because there’s no alternative that has a fraction of the capability
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by noen 2y ago
This is so true. I adopted mediawiki to run a knowledge base for my organization at Microsoft ( https://microsoft.github.io/code-with-engineering-playbook/I... ). As I was exploring self-host options that would scale t
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by noen 2y ago
This is why McDonalds literally spends tens of millions of dollars per quarter giving away free food to attempt to get more people to just use the app. Their plan longterm is exactly this - have a robot box with a window that only accepts o
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by noen 2y ago
Yes, but not in the ways you think. Humans can do about as good a job as a computer in understanding poor audio quality in context, but the compute needed for the latter, in realtime, is pretty substantial. As the commenter says below, a h
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by noen 2y ago
Edge compute requires field IT for servicing. You can hire 3-4 employees for the price of a single field service specialist. Servicing industrial edge compute is insanely expensive for B&M businesses. This is a big part of why so many
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by noen 2y ago
At the airport yesterday - only two items on the $1/2/3 menu - $3.99 4 piece nuggets and $5.19 McChicken sandwich. It’s comical how bad the gouge customers and franchises alike.
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by noen 2y ago
I worked on this project at my former employer for nearly 8 months. We worked as a good faith partner with McDonald’s, only to find out eight months in that McDonald’s had never had any intention of working with us and we’re only using us a
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by noen 2y ago
Slightly tangential but I want to throw out the blog of my previous team/organization at Microsoft- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/ise/ I happened to be one of the engineers that designed and help launch this blog
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by noen 3y ago
That was my thought as well. I only have MyQ for Amazon Key. Fortunately Amazon also supports the Aladdin Connect - which works with all garage doors. And is fully supported in Home Assistant. I have one on order and will be swapping out,
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by noen 3y ago
About 7 years ago I was in a meeting with a former Windows core graphics engineer. My team was attempting to figure out some extremely obtuse workflows with MediaFountain and DirectX. We had a meeting with this guy and a couple of the other
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by noen 3y ago
Shared accountability is no accountability. Shared responsibility is called collaboration.
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by noen 4y ago
I had the same reaction. Why not improve on a platform with immense adoption and data history rather than starting over again. Microsoft has already proven this model with their investment in Git - git works today in large part because MS
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by noen 5y ago
This was written by the organization I used to work for in Microsoft. It was developed over the last 6 years by the Commercial Software Engineering organization through hundreds of real, production ready, engineering engagements with Micro
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by noen 5y ago
No. I tried. For weeks. Filecoin is the mechanism for this. And they do everything humanly possible to both technically keep the ecosystem open, while at the same time making it practically impossible for any non-data center vendor to t
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by noen 5y ago
No it didn’t. I worked at Microsoft for 14 years. I know exactly how Windows 8 UX design was designed and built. There was almost zero HF research, and the brunt of UX research done was trying to justify and fix fundamental issues with an
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by noen 5y ago
It’s yet another effort by Microsoft to make Windows relevant to touch form factors at the expense of productivity, desktop, and keyboard/mouse/touchpad. It’s astonishing how little (close to zero) human factors research is done,
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by noen 5y ago
Through my childhood I would agree with you. By the time I was in high school this was no longer the case. Had many black friends, and once we all pass puberty and got cars, the world changed. The first time I was with a black friend who g
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by noen 5y ago
WebRTC is much, much faster. 21ms round trip “glass to glass and back” is the lower limit we demonstrated in practice from data center to headset with 3dstreamingtoolkit. There are a lot of reasons that you gain latency in large scale vide
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by noen 5y ago
It remains a major issue without end because there are no punitive consequences. Facebook could out, shame, and be a significant aid to prosecution of the individuals who post illegal and obscene content. But there are no regulations compel
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by noen 5y ago
It doesn't, really. Hibernation and even the levels of "sleep" mode have and still have issues in Windows. I have a brand new Dell Precision workstation that still can't properly come back from sleep mode every time.

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