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I've worked in Windows for many many years, no idea who this guy is. He is randomly name dropping. He wants attention.

What a buzzkill and a super negative comment.

Can you give some concrete examples of “cheap young” contract workers being hired to work on product features? You seem to know a lot of things so maybe some concrete examples will…

Rest in peace, Rainer. Your updates to C++ core guidelines and blogs help many across the world.

In what world is AWS great? A world where they don’t have a clean way to group resources and clean them up? Their own twisted identity products in AWS that doesn’t integrate outsid…

This is certainly a troll post. I use all three cloud providers. GCP is the worst of all, just try their simple text to speech UI. It doesn’t work most of the times. Don’t even get…

This might be dumbing this down very very much but it all boils down to having some sort of a special lookup table and you give it a "query" and a bunch of "keys" and the "value" i…

I’m pretty sure bad outcomes out number good ones. Were there bad outcomes because of an incompetent provider or a test with high false positives? I’m pretty sure it’s the former.

I call bullshit on this. I had a very rare heart condition that was discovered during one of my yearly check ups. Chasing the root cause led us to even more scarier findings.

You lost me there in calling Sankrit the mother language. Telugu has a different lineage and Sankrit is alien to Indian Sub-continent. Please stop using HN to subtly push your agen…

Windows NT

"Everyone" who told you that you are late to start again are idiots. Don't listen to them. You are going to do great. It takes a great amount of resolve to step out of your comfort…

We solve a different set of problems. But people here have different skillsets. Cadence of release is also faster. I enjoyed my time in the Windows team the most.

I used to work in the Windows team before I moved onto a team in Azure. I’ve contributed to both user and kernel mode components. You’ll work with very smart people and they will b…

Let’s also not forget to call our how APIs have to be “fork” aware. I’m surprised fork is still widely in used given all of these downsides

Unpopular opinion: Windows Phone?