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Far and away the biggest problem with the background/foreground issues is COM and its apartment models. A large part of some of the core pieces of Visual Studio are (still) written…

There is, iirc, also a time limit between when an investigation begins and one an indictment is filed. The idea being to prevent the government from simply having someone under inv…

Grand juries sit for 18 months, so that would be one hell of a long game.

As someone that served on a federal grand jury, no. Well, at least not vocally, I presume people internally weren't basing their votes on pop culture but saying something else out …

Yes, not to mention that it simply means people that don't fit their pedigree filter are available. I have met brilliant hackers from MIT/Berkeley/et al, I have also met average ha…

have any links to the Connect issues in question? I am not doubting their existence, just trying to understand how they fell through the cracks. There are multiple levels of filter…

Would you wear a lapel camera that recorded your entire day and uploaded it in real time to the police? Why not? Something to hide? More seriously, my objection would be that assum…

Because one can buy success? Like Google+? Or a lot of things Microsoft has tried recently? I realize, all else being equal, a threat of a major investment by a deep pocketed compa…

I talked with someone internally that works on this, he said: I can type { and } on a Swiss keyboard which is a AltGr + ä and AltGr + $. What keyboard layout were you seeing issues…

I'm sympathetic to this as I may know people who work at various DOD subsidiaries, and they are good people. That said, to deny there are no sociopathic power seekers in these orga…

It says can be audited. I suspect the number of times that has been done is vanishingly small, perhaps only on Snowden, after his revelations :) It smells to me like plausible deni…

Best of the best that apply to Google . Or in other words, their hiring process is "Hire the best people that apply here", or, you know, the hiring policy of every company in the w…

There is also some trickiness around when things get executed. If you return an IEnumerable that is really a LINQ query, and the caller doesn't immediately enumerate it, they run t…

Well, I wouldn't say it should be expected during builds. In the past the build architecture was somewhat questionable, i.e. they ran builds synchronously on the UI thread, which w…

Do you have specific examples? This is an area of interest for me. VS architecturally has a lot of things tied to the UI thread due to COM STA requirements (well, that and the fact…

The guy that wrote this used to work on my team and is a great dev. If you run into any issues I could certainly point him your way.

True, but when it comes in handy it can be immensely so. I was looking at a customer crash dump at work the other day and the callstack shown by two different debuggers didn't make…

Yeah, there are generally two things keeping society in order. Ethical beliefs about right and wrong and fear of punishment from the powers that be for breaking the law. My concern…

This. To paraphrase a favorite Daniel Dennett quote: don't mistake lack of imagination for insight into feasibility.

No, but do you imagine they would have discovered his name or have been aware if a strange accident had befallen him had he not put himself in the spotlight? To not imagine most of…

Yeah, I know nothing about this area (so this is just speculation, ignore it as such if you wish), but it seems getting a firehose feed of all traffic would be easier and less expo…

This is not my area, so excuse the ignorance, but this statement: A: "The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the v…

Ahh, one variable I hadn't factored in. The mix-n-match option mish-mash of C++ is so fun :)

Ahh gotcha, I hadn't look at that angle. That is unfortunate.