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Here, I will present a behind-the-scenes look at Microsoft and its developer technologies—then and now–as told by some of the people who have experienced it—are still experiencing it—first hand. "They're the people that you meet each day"
Just in case you want to know who to blame
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Three pretty women and some dude. Good enough.
Oh, and Kasey...give me a call.
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Yeah, right. That's the facebook/marketing version.
This[^] is probably closer to reality.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That's more women on one product than I've met in my entire professional career.
I guess that's why I'm having trouble understanding Visual Studio
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imho, Thurrott has spent much more time being a MicroSoft talking-head gad-fly, cranking out reams of prose-de-jour, (now a shill ?) than he has being a developer.
It strikes me as odd that the people he interviews in this piece, while all (of course) wonderful, and good field-commanders for Redmond's micro-serf hordes ...
... are not the technical principals who contributed their experience and genius to the key ideas and implementation of the .NET eco-system: FrameWork and CLR, Platforms, Languages, and the Visual Studio IDE.
Hypothesis: Thurrott did not interview Mads, Anders, Scott, Eric, Miguel, etc., or Chris Maunder, or Jeff Atwood, because the likes of them don't have time for the likes of him.
I hope my comments have offended any of you with tender feelings
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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For the first time ever, the price of one bitcoin has surpassed the price of one ounce of gold. Don't try getting a ring made out of that bitcoin though, it won't be appreciated
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Best Bitcoin[^] explanation. You'll totally understand how it could inflate!
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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Researchers, cyber-security experts and policy wonks ask themselves: What could possibly go wrong? When asked to comment, one researcher replied, "Mwahahaha"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What could possibly go wrong? The answer would be shorter if they ask: What is being / going to be good?
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I should be on that panel. I'm good at disasters.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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According to new Georgia Institute of Technology research, uninitialized variables - largely overlooked bugs mostly regarded as insignificant memory errors—are actually a critical attack vector that can be reliably exploited by hackers to launch privilege escalation attacks in the Linux kernel. What? They don't run a static checker on it?
And elsewhere, presumably.
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Not possible. Linux is flawless and Linus is a genius. We know, because he told us so.
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NASA has just published its 2017-2018 software catalog, which lists the many apps, code libraries and tools that pretty much anyone can download and use. In case you're a rocket scientist
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Robots dressed in human flesh would benefit people who need tissue transplants, Oxford University researchers have said this week. "Underneath, it's a hyperalloy combat chassis, microprocessor-controlled."
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In a blog post, the company said that one of its employees was debugging an issue with the billing system and accidentally took more servers offline than intended. "It can only be attributable to human error."
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Now he works at MacDonald down the road filliping burgers..
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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virang_21 wrote: filliping burgers burgers made from filipinos? WTF?
*grin*
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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You fire an employee right after he learned a lesson that cost you millions?
What a waste of investment!
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Management has to look like they are in control...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "It can only be attributable to human error,"
said Skynet when the systems came back online.
Sudden Sun Death Syndrome (SSDS) is a very real concern which we should be raising awareness of. 156 billion suns die every year before they're just 1 billion years old.
While the military are doing their part, it simply isn't enough to make the amount of nukes needed to save those poor stars. - TWI2T3D (Reddit)
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David O'Neil wrote: said Skynet HAL 9000[^] when the systems came back online.
FTFY.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yup debugging on the production server, always the fastest way to find a problem.
Can you even create/afford a development environment for this type of system?
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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"The cloud", epitome of decentralization. So much centralized that a single mistake brough it down. Let's speak clearly: it's only a buzzword.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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