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PCHs give a sour taste in my mouth after working on a project which very liberally added commonly imported headers to a huge one. In practice, it meant each TU was indirectly inclu…

A company using React Native recently used bounties to solicit bug-fixes to RN issues their app was hitting. A lot of positives came out of it, and it did improve framework quality…

Beyond the other grains of salt, it seems awfully inorganic that the same user advertises this database 6 times as their only submission history.

Worth pointing out, there has been quite a bit of contention around this change, both technical, and some accusations of plagiarism/miscrediting here. https://github.com/ggerganov/…

It's a good question well above my pay grade :). Changing culture isn't an easy problem. I suspect the way Microsoft does interviewing and performance management (very local to the…

I previously worked at Microsoft in an unrelated area, but had a friend who worked on CosmosDB, and later a different part of Azure. There are some Microsoft products I genuinely l…

I'm surprised there were not compiler errors for unreachable code, in the cases where the code was returning directly before a goto. Edit: Looks like GCC removed the warning becaus…

Code signing makes that pretty tricky. System DLLs will have integrity checks against msft certs.

How did Qualcomm get on the "naughty companies list"?

I haven't touched Ruby in a while, but are there any common multithreaded use cases? It seemed like the direction was to go multi-process for web workloads (E.g. with Unicorn).

Microsoft internally uses something pretty similar to Bazel. I'm not familiar enough with the two to fully understand motivations for the divergence. It supposedly initially ran po…

I until very recently worked on Microsoft Word. The whole problem gets even more complicated when you add support for richer content like formatting, images, comments, etcetera. Sp…

Another benefit of deterministic builds is that build output caching becomes more reliable. Microsoft has a system used for this that is heavily used internally that was recently o…

I work on Office and am glad someone brought up this point. Writing a C++ business logic layer is probably too much for a simple CRUD style app, but the equation changes once the v…

I’m a bit surprised Chrome developers went the route of an in memory filesystem instead of trying to sandbox and clear real disk access. Silently using up to 120MB without realizin…

Radiolab did a story related to this a while ago called "The Future of Fake News". It's worth a listen. https://futureoffakenews.com

I've been in Seattle for around a month and can completely agree with this. One time half of an order went to a wrong apartment, and the other half came the next day. UPS and relat…

I've worked on Office. There's a ridiculous amount of effort put into file format backwards compatibility. Someone I know had to consider Office 2007 compatibility when working on …

I find it alarming, and somewhat ironic, this article was removed from HN temporarily for it being repeatedly flagged. I don't fully agree with the article, but using a mechanism t…

I interned at MSFT working on Word. Engineers and PMs in Office see a lot of opportunity in AI. PowerPoint Designer and the newer ML based proofing in Word are good examples of thi…

This is really cool but I'm curious why Bloomberg would need this. Ie, what special needs does Bloomberg have that would lead to a primarily non-engineering company investing the r…

I can confirm that he does. He is a full time lecturer for 3 or 4 classes a semester and produces a staggering amount of material. He is careful to never repeat assignments and eac…

I've been a TA for a couple CS classes at Iowa State University. Cheating here at least is pretty rampant. I would guess 1/3 or more of the students cheat in some capacity. Some of…