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Really well written article, thank you!

This article reminds me of my early days at Microsoft. I spent 8 years in the Developer Division (DevDiv). Microsoft had three personas for software engineers that were eventually …

Microsoft rarely did or does anything first. They are typically second or third to the post and VC is no different. Most people don’t know or realize that Git is where it is becaus…

Basically all XR devices put the focal plane at between 0.5 and 1m away. It’s a very very complicated reason why, but this is unlikely to change for a very long time.

A team in my org worked with Jet for 2+ years to help y’all scale. It was interesting seeing the biweekly status updates, they basically all started with “This is how Jet.com broke…

It has been on life support for a long time AFAIK. I designed Visual Studio Online (the first launch of AzDO) - and every engineer, PM, and executive I worked with is either in lea…

Thin client - no big deal. $30-300 per month per device? LOL. Dead on arrival.

Similar story here. 20+ years experience in leading dev, pm, and UX teams. Launched multiple 0-1 market leading products, worked with dozens of Fortune 500s. Applied to more than a…

He didn’t keep the lights on while waiting for new development to take off. He actively lost 40+ billion dollars on horrible acquisitions, and actively stifled internal innovation …

Yeah the team running the platform internally was amazing to work with and did incredible work with just a handful of resources. The efficiency for scale of mediawiki is hard to be…

Nice!! Made my day. Not sure how they can move off of it, partly because there’s no alternative that has a fraction of the capability

This is so true. I adopted mediawiki to run a knowledge base for my organization at Microsoft ( https://microsoft.github.io/code-with-engineering-playbook/I... ). As I was explorin…

This is why McDonalds literally spends tens of millions of dollars per quarter giving away free food to attempt to get more people to just use the app. Their plan longterm is exact…

Yes, but not in the ways you think. Humans can do about as good a job as a computer in understanding poor audio quality in context, but the compute needed for the latter, in realti…

Edge compute requires field IT for servicing. You can hire 3-4 employees for the price of a single field service specialist. Servicing industrial edge compute is insanely expensive…

At the airport yesterday - only two items on the $1/2/3 menu - $3.99 4 piece nuggets and $5.19 McChicken sandwich. It’s comical how bad the gouge customers and franchises alike.

I worked on this project at my former employer for nearly 8 months. We worked as a good faith partner with McDonald’s, only to find out eight months in that McDonald’s had never ha…

Slightly tangential but I want to throw out the blog of my previous team/organization at Microsoft- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/ise/ I happened to be one of the engineers that d…

That was my thought as well. I only have MyQ for Amazon Key. Fortunately Amazon also supports the Aladdin Connect - which works with all garage doors. And is fully supported in Hom…

About 7 years ago I was in a meeting with a former Windows core graphics engineer. My team was attempting to figure out some extremely obtuse workflows with MediaFountain and Direc…

Shared accountability is no accountability. Shared responsibility is called collaboration.

I had the same reaction. Why not improve on a platform with immense adoption and data history rather than starting over again. Microsoft has already proven this model with their in…

This was written by the organization I used to work for in Microsoft. It was developed over the last 6 years by the Commercial Software Engineering organization through hundreds of…

No. I tried. For weeks. Filecoin is the mechanism for this. And they do everything humanly possible to both technically keep the ecosystem open, while at the same time making it pr…

No it didn’t. I worked at Microsoft for 14 years. I know exactly how Windows 8 UX design was designed and built. There was almost zero HF research, and the brunt of UX research don…