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I just started reading this book, maybe half way through, it's very interesting! Some of the technical analogies are a little weak, but all the quotes and anecdotes are great.

Redex runs at compile time, not at install time.

25-30% is a pretty solid improvement.

I just skimmed through some of those Glassdoor reviews. They were all quite positive, but I find it interesting that the vast majority were posted Feb-Mar 2016.

Yea that's fair. I was actually thinking of timer coalescing on the server OS for improved power efficiency/performance -- I'm sure IIS, MSSQL, etc. all opt-in to coalescing respon…

As others are saying, Microsoft is a very large company with a great deal of variance in the quality and maturity of teams. I wouldn't consider this description representative. Azu…

That was my first thought too -- Windows has had timer coalescing since at least 2008, if not longer.

This looks like the kind of product that will do well in San Francisco -- SF is where the venn diagram of "dog owners" and "gadget owners" overlap.

At first I thought was going in a bad direction, but it actually ended up pretty cute. Basically they asked women if they thought they were beautiful, and if they said "Yes!" they …

I like reading these analyses, although I'm afraid headlines like this oversimplify things and give off the wrong impression. There isn't anything inherently wrong with NUMA, it ju…

I agree for this one integer, they obviously should have been using 64-bit. I just take issue with the implication that Blizzard is somehow at fault or unusual for (presumably) not…

At the time the original code was written, it wasn't possible for a 32-bit integer to overflow, which is presumably why they didn't use 64-bit. That possibility was only introduced…

A x64 CPU will take a single instruction to operate on a both a 64-bit and 32-bit integer, and the CPU registers are all 64-bit, so in that context you are right that it doesn't ma…

Depends on the situation. I assume this was probably a server side bug, since all the accounting would never be trusted to the client side. If you are writing highly-performant ser…

I don't find it that odd. 32-bit applications are still very common, if not the standard. Most processes don't need more than 4GB. More importantly, blindly increasing all of your …

I can say from personal experience that the customers are probably a bit of both. Engineers walk through looking for parts for their prototypes, and then once the prototypes are co…

Selling debt to buy back their stock looks like a pretty safe bet. Most of the debt is starting off below ~2.5% interest -- using that to buyback the stock paying ~3% dividends is …

I'd agree, most of these numbers are "fuzzy" and based on analyst estimates; I'd almost be more surprised if they DID perfectly add up to 100%. :-)

It seems pretty reasonable to me. If Msft makes $1 billion on 20% of the market, and Amzn makes $3.8 billion (high-end analyst estimate) with 71% of the market, the math roughly ma…

That looks pretty significant. Amazon Web Services are somewhere between $2 and $3.8 billion (depending on which analyst you believe), so Microsoft is potentially within striking d…