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One thing that LR does well is leverage Adobe Camera Raw and its great support for many raw formats.

>negligible attack surface of a simple-plain HTTP… …unless you use a general-purpose web server with its own set of challenges as far as policies and configuration. I’ll leave it t…

Because neither C nor C++ creates friction. The whole memory safety chapter is a human problem first and foremost. Some humans haven’t written a memory-safety bug in decades, but i…

on average :)

There is no formal training (like bootcamp or classes) but the larger org has extensive documentation (osgwiki) and you are expected to learn and ramp-up by yourself. I don’t think…

Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

VM management does not run on the FPGA; it’s regular Win32 software on Windows, with aspirations to run some equivalent, someday, on the SoC next to the FPGA on the NIC. The progra…

“customary” referred to the path through the Secretary, as opposed to writing directly to members. Besides that, depending on the nature of the communication, if everything fails, …

“customary” referred to the path through the Secretary , as opposed to writing to individual members. I added a clarification at the bottom of the page.

There is a video floating where he demoed Excel, and his title was Technical Marketing Manager. Maybe he pivoted to PM later? https://youtu.be/ddHDclRfzxM Base education, he’s an E…

Hint: there is a small distance, almost zero, between your product being unreliable and losing your most flagship customer and the trust of the DoD. Factor that there are limits to…

Nah ;)

The timeline and facts were quite different. Debating an org-wide quality issue on a 100+ member team's alias is not whistleblowing.

The thing with cockroaches is that if even a single one is seen in the dining room and someone calls environmental health, regardless of the restaurant's prestige, they close it wi…

Well, what you describe is plausible, but it would not be a good long-term strategy and is certain to backfire badly at some point. Then imagine your systems are key support system…

Maybe they didn’t have sufficient visibility at the ground level to make proper decisions.

You have all the right words but some are in the wrong order.

Life works in mysterious ways. Whoever you are, bring it on and prove any of my points wrong.

The answer is “intricate politics and misplaced personal interests.”

I never said I didn’t. It was a multi-year escalation and I shared my concerns widely along with concrete options. The thing is in corporate environments people avoid admitting any…

It came from the top of Azure and for Azure only. Specifically the mandate was for all new code that cannot use a GC i.e. no more new C or C++ specifically. I think the CTO was ver…

It’s org-dependent. On Windows, SAL and OACR are kings, plus any contraption MSR comes up with that they run on checked-in code and files bugs on you out of the blue :) Different s…

The hardware only understand addresses and offsets, aka pointers :)