ryanmolden

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by ryanmolden 13y ago
Far and away the biggest problem with the background/foreground issues is COM and its apartment models. A large part of some of the core pieces of Visual Studio are (still) written in native code and are STA bound objects (mostly when
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
There is, iirc, also a time limit between when an investigation begins and one an indictment is filed. The idea being to prevent the government from simply having someone under investigation in perpetuity. I suppose the ADAs COULD try and t
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
Grand juries sit for 18 months, so that would be one hell of a long game.
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
As someone that served on a federal grand jury, no. Well, at least not vocally, I presume people internally weren't basing their votes on pop culture but saying something else out loud. Then again the strength of most cases that make i
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
Yes, not to mention that it simply means people that don't fit their pedigree filter are available. I have met brilliant hackers from MIT/Berkeley/et al, I have also met average hackers from those schools, and brilliant hacke
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
have any links to the Connect issues in question? I am not doubting their existence, just trying to understand how they fell through the cracks. There are multiple levels of filters before they get to the product teams, mostly because of vo
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
Would you wear a lapel camera that recorded your entire day and uploaded it in real time to the police? Why not? Something to hide? More seriously, my objection would be that assuming everyone is guilty or needs to be monitored is a weird s
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
Because one can buy success? Like Google+? Or a lot of things Microsoft has tried recently? I realize, all else being equal, a threat of a major investment by a deep pocketed company shouldn't be taken lightly, but the idea that Google
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
I talked with someone internally that works on this, he said: I can type { and } on a Swiss keyboard which is a AltGr + ä and AltGr + $. What keyboard layout were you seeing issues with? Looking at Wikipedia it looks like it would be South
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
I'm sympathetic to this as I may know people who work at various DOD subsidiaries, and they are good people. That said, to deny there are no sociopathic power seekers in these organizations is just naive. Giving an absolute power that
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
It says can be audited. I suspect the number of times that has been done is vanishingly small, perhaps only on Snowden, after his revelations :) It smells to me like plausible deniability. Claim you have set up a system where things can
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
Best of the best that apply to Google . Or in other words, their hiring process is "Hire the best people that apply here", or, you know, the hiring policy of every company in the world. You could argue they uniquely attract smart
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
There is also some trickiness around when things get executed. If you return an IEnumerable<T> that is really a LINQ query, and the caller doesn't immediately enumerate it, they run the risk of getting exceptions when they do enu
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
Well, I wouldn't say it should be expected during builds. In the past the build architecture was somewhat questionable, i.e. they ran builds synchronously on the UI thread, which works fine if your build takes like 50 ms :) I don&#x2
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
Do you have specific examples? This is an area of interest for me. VS architecturally has a lot of things tied to the UI thread due to COM STA requirements (well, that and the fact that historically people created their STA objects on the U
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
The guy that wrote this used to work on my team and is a great dev. If you run into any issues I could certainly point him your way.
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
True, but when it comes in handy it can be immensely so. I was looking at a customer crash dump at work the other day and the callstack shown by two different debuggers didn't make any sense, it was showing calls sequences the code cle
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
Yeah, there are generally two things keeping society in order. Ethical beliefs about right and wrong and fear of punishment from the powers that be for breaking the law. My concern with the NSA is that there is a culture of "the curren
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SCOTUS rules genes aren't patentable(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
This. To paraphrase a favorite Daniel Dennett quote: don't mistake lack of imagination for insight into feasibility.
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
No, but do you imagine they would have discovered his name or have been aware if a strange accident had befallen him had he not put himself in the spotlight? To not imagine most of the character assassination occurring is related directly t
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
Yeah, I know nothing about this area (so this is just speculation, ignore it as such if you wish), but it seems getting a firehose feed of all traffic would be easier and less exposure prone, than getting every ISP to allow a MITM and havin
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
This is not my area, so excuse the ignorance, but this statement: A: "The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
Ahh, one variable I hadn't factored in. The mix-n-match option mish-mash of C++ is so fun :)
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
Ahh gotcha, I hadn't look at that angle. That is unfortunate.
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
You mean it only produces 32 bit code? This disagrees ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/x4d2c09s(v=vs.80).as... ) going back to at least 2005. The following list describes the various versions of cl.exe (the Visual C++ compiler): ..
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
I am a bit confused. That thread seems to claim that Microsoft isn't producing a 64 bit linker, my install seems to disagree with them (vc\bin\amd64). Then you claim that the linker won't produce 32 bit code, but /machine:x86 seems to disag
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
Heck, I would say the same for when you are driving, multi-ton pieces of steel in motion are unforgiving. I have never trusted people to, say, not blow a red light/stop sign, to turn, even if they have their blinkers on, to not try to cram
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
This. It amazes me the number of people that think "I work 8 hours a day (on average), so I should be world class in about 3.4 years". As you said it is concentrated, skill-adjusted practice, NOT just doing something over and over. The bigg
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by ryanmolden 13y ago
Freedom is power. Power need not be something wielded over others in some cartoony-villian way. In this case it is a kind of countervailing force to prevent others from coercing you into doing things you disagree with solely because they ar

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