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You're absolutely right - this is not X, but Y. ---- I'm absolutely tired at work on how many people are writing with em-dashes with obvious AI prose. I feel a little bit insulted …

I'm not sure how to prove otherwise, but this actually happened to me. I don't understand this kind of comments saying "FAKE" for views or blog-posting. This is something that happ…

It really demotivated me when this happened, I just kept seeing the PR open, but then I saw the changes applied before the PR was merged, which made me very confused. I then had an…

I think people can be in hard conditions, needing a job, under pressure, burnt out and feel like this is their only way to keep their job. At least that's how it felt with Mike. At…

I mean, there are some exceptions on when 1600 PRs are acceptable (Refactorings, etc) but otherwise agree. What really bugs me is that today, it is easier than ever to do this (eve…

Thanks! Fixed.

Right, I think there is always a balance between being strict on code reviews, and just letting people ship stuff. I've also seen the other end of the stick in which a senior emplo…

To be honest I'm not a native english speaker, so I might be using words wrong.

Thanks for sharing!

Comparatively to other companies, (amazon meta) I feel like Microsoft is "nicer"

Same experience for me, I still remember at IC1 getting 7k stocks over 5 years as my "stock bonus" for the year. which meant getting 1 or 2 MSFT stock every 4 months :D

Right, but there is even an implicit pact, you get lower-than-market compensation but you get better benefits and long-term stability. At least that's the mental math you did when …

Yeah, I was afraid of generalizing throughout the company. I think compared to other companies it seems to have a benefit of being more "nice". Maybe it's mostly targeted towards t…

I mean yeah, in theory. I just found it really hard to work on multiple changes at a time vs git branches. Back in SD i used to have 2 or 3 machines + multiple VMs to be able to wo…

Shallow clone of all of office, not onenote.

You’d be surprised at the amount of people at Microsoft that their entire career have been at Microsoft (pre-git-creation) that never used Git. Git is relatively new (2005) but sou…

How did you program the WIFI driver? How do you even start creating a WIFI driver from BASIC? (Is it in basic?)