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>And I wouldn't bet on that since Microsoft surely sent a big team of their brightest cookies to make a valuation of the company.

Yeah, I'm sure they did the same with Yammer too.
They're also likely going to try and move LinkedIn to Azure, which they'll use as documentation on how to move large shops to Azure, using it as their Netflix.
Absolutely, if you mean the Frontline documentary from 2004. Poignant more so today than when it 1st aired. I'll double check "Hidden Persuaders", though.

Problem is, everyone seems to be emulating the advertizers, selling what they deem to be the best X. These social networks are conditioning people to be salespeople, IMO. I am guilty, too.
Forests (aka the largest connected land-based photosensor arrays on Earth?) and whole ecosystems likely use the visible night sky as a shared clock/synchronization mechanism.

Can't begin to imagine the potential consequences of it "going bright".
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The hacker news/imgur/9gag/reddit demographic is relatively young. Some of us definitely suffer a confirmation bias from the misrepresentation of ages, especially given the significant population of boomers.
That is basically steps 1 & 2.

Step 3 is you get an email (marketing or sales) because Dynamics notified assigned a task to a sales rep or started a job in marketing automation.

Then, based on you opening/ replying/ not opening the email, a whole new series of tasks are created.

If MSFT / Dynamics do this right, they will have a very strong Salesforce competitor.
I bet the wire transfer gets held up for being potentially fraudulent because it's so big. I'd love to be the call centre worker who picks up that call.
Maybe its too big a company? "Around a few years" sounds like they have a sizeable staff. So a CTO position there would be very different from a CTO at a new startup. Pretty much like you describe it. A management position, heavy on the 'officer' and lighter on the 'technical'. Managing a team of technologists make you responsible for making the right decision. Too many folks think CTO means you 'get to' make technical decisions. No, you're actually responsible for making sure the right ones get made. Which means listening to your competent team, understanding what they tell you, and reconciling that with the business.
I've spent time in the Australian Outback and I don't recall a night going by when I didn't appreciate it, it's a marvellous spectacle and a real shame it's hard for most people to enjoy!
I have to agree. In my experience some of the best managers have been the ones who shielded their employees from bullshit, taking the brunt, making sure we can keep moving quickly towards completing the goals.
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If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good "Show HN". Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
LinkedIn is very big in enterprise sales, for example - gathering intel on the org.
I've always assumed that was part of the embrace-extend-extinguish - "look at this shitty OS, Skype doesn't even work on there; you should use Win X".
> And I wouldn't bet on that since Microsoft surely sent a big team of their brightest cookies to make a valuation of the company.

The same people who valued Nokia ($7.6 billion writedown) and aQuantive ($6 billion writedown)?
> if Theranos goes under, they can't indemnify much.

Insurance!
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> The idea that stock exchanges provide disincentives for long term strategic planning at public companies

Is this really true? Quite many public companies seem to innovate in long-term. In fact, to me it feels that private companies are often more short-term, because they don't have access to the liquidity the stock market provides, and therefore they have to generate more revenues short-term.
Read carefully: I said only rewrite if the code structure is bad. If the code structure is good, then re-architecting can amount to restructuring only the top-level parts.

It can give OP a better feel for how the code is designed, and give them more opportunity to change things in a more structured way in the long term by repeating the process (rather than just fighting fires every time).
You don't need neurons for Turing completeness. Very simple cellular automata can compute any computable function. In fact, even in a 1D universe of cells Turing complete computation is possible:

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By and large, you are describing people management. It is quite about dealing with crap. I don't mean that as a complaint, merely a fact.

Good managers take crap so others don't have to.

Ideally, we get good enough to prevent the crap from happening in the first place. But it is most certainly the job. It's entirely understandable if you find it's not for you.
Any time Microsoft is criticized for making the most boring tech out there, and looking like an uninspired company, there's always one person to hit back at Apple (and more often than not, the iPhone/iOS)
Over the years; I have found very few valid business reasons to re-write a code base that is still supporting the relevant business.

As a CTO, there is a good chance the poster would not be materially involved in such an effort.

From a business perspective; something that works is more important than something that is well architected.
top of frontpage already! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11893153
Yup and Rapportive too.
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My dad isn't in the 'tech community' but he'll certainly remember the windows 10 upgrade as it broke his computer.
This kinda makes sense from an enterprise social network perspective. This could tie really well and augment their messaging products (Skype for Business (was Lync)). Most professionals may not have Skype or may not wish to expose their Skype ids but maybe ok with LinkedIn as that has always been their professional front. So basically every LinkedIn account has Skype integration. I can see the marketing angle from a group meeting, and eventually collaboration perspective.
Facebook for employees; not just recruiting, but sales and B2B generally.
And Lynda to developer and productivity tools.
A CTO's role should be technical leadership. If a major part of your role is dealing with everyone's crap and putting out fires, I wouldn't necessarily consider that technical leadership.

I've been in a similar situation, and for me, the right solution was having the right people under me that I could trust to fight the fires.

You should be deciding how the fires are fought, but your team should fight them. At least some part of your day should be available for steering your team/organization/product.

(But code, not so much. :)
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This is huge.

As an ex-Microsoft, I really don't understand that move. It doesn't make any sense. If the goal is to compete with the like of Facebook, I don't think it'll work as Linkedin is a business network. It makes me want to sell my stocks (-3.63% pre-market).

If I were MS I would have bought slack to replace both Sharepoint and Yammer.
At least it does work. Which of course Skype for Business completely doesn't, even in browsers (on Linux). Even then buying a Skype for Business account on Windows it's the most confusing mess as they assume that you're buying the full Office 365 suite and want to take over your email sending. Which contains this massive admin section that's basically empty and doesn't make much sense. So then you end up with some terrible user@blah.microsoftonline.com account which unless you pay for more than the basic package isn't an email address at all. So people still have to manually send you the link for any meeting that you are a part of. Then you have to do a real hunt to find the download for Skype for Business - cause they all assume you just bought the whole Office 365.

I also can't connect to any Skype for Business account via Skype on Linux - just for messaging. That does work for some people for my Skype account on Windows to connect to Skype for Business but half the people don't get my contact requests or they are never shown online.

Of course then there's Slack. Slack works everywhere. On top of that Slack (non-video) calls work almost everywhere except for the Firefox and Desktop apps on Linux.
Red Hat pulled back how?

As for buttering any Linux distribution, I think Microsoft has focused traditionally on SUSE (even announced an "alliance" back in '11).
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With a $-166 million Net Income.
Indeed. And even on the "buy a social network rather than build one", this is a great choice. Whether they like it or not, pretty much everyone already has LinkedIn.
That expanding table is around four grand.
On windows GPU memory is already virtualized.

You can pull assets from RAM somewhat transparently already (if you want to do it well you need to optimize it further, but to some extent NVIDIA and AMD do quite a bit of optimization in the driver too), shared page table between the CPU and GPU is also already in place under WDDM.

So adding a disk based page file to this won't be so hard, it could more or less work the same way as the page file currently works.

I'm still not sure if this is actually needed, GPU's already come with stupid amount of RAM today, i have 24GB of GDDR5 in my system, and even mid range cards today will not come with less than 6GB of RAM.
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Correct me if I am wrong. But it sounds to me you are still struggling between a coding job and a full time management job.
And to be fair, i think this is what you would be expecting for most of management position in lots of the companies.

You mentioned you have done some small management as senior/lead. Then think back, which part do you enjoy when you were there.
I wonder if this hasn't always been true. From the first community fires lit at night, to the days of gaslights and now electric street lights, much of the population has been in cities away from clear skies. Only a lucky few have ever lived alone away from towns.
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The challenge of leadership is that of leading people, not of writing code. Dealing with people can be messy, frustrating, and depressing, but it's what needs to be done.

As a CTO, I code about 30% of the time, but I expect that to go down as our company grows. Much of the time I deal with people who were offended that so-and-so shot down their new design, or they think their career is being harmed because they can't rewrite the entire product in Clojure, or senior management is freaking out because of one minor bug that hits an important customer.

If you can see a path to where you want your company and team to be in a few years, then stay and try to move down that path. It is very rewarding to see tangible progress in your product and your team. If you want to be coding all day, find another job.
Those interested in the philosophy of door handles will enjoy Don Norman's classic:

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I went to a store once, and their cash registers were down because a Windows update was forced on them. One was working, 2 weren't. A store manager was on the phone with some tech support guy and was not happy.
Its not about money, its about options and a closed ecosystem obviously designed to make you dependent on their system. Its just to blatant to be ignored.

With android I have the option to get sd card to backup my pics.

With android I have options to easily map the OS as a hdd on my PC or linux and not be forced to used there crappy software to backup files ,music,videos etc in their proprietor format.

I understand its not only crApple that is pushing for the golden egg cloud monthly subscriptions but atleast with android I still have other easy options to choose from.

They even lock you into their ecosystem as a developer. I have to purchase a mac if I want to develop iOS apps. You can't even legally use virtualization as they force you to buy both their hardware and and software license.

I just don't like their lack of confidence on their products that their marketing efforts is based on locking you into buying their products and services vs you wanting to buy them because of their awesomeness.
That's a very safe and sure bet. Why it would go any other way would be really puzzling.
> trying to fight fires

Your leadership should help people avoid that fire fighting.

> I haven't even written a line of code in months.

That's a good sign for a CTO.
Why is having a social network always just about competing with Facebook? Microsoft is very much in the business space, this is a business focused social network. Not a bad place to work on your business brand.

The word is they almost bought Slack, but decided to heavily invest into Lync instead, turning it into Skype for Business and such.
It doesn't really matter that it takes almost no time - it's that it is an interruption[1]. You're working along on something, getting in the groove, then Outlook dings at you , so you've got to page out the real work that you're doing, recall the silly scrum answers you're supposed to give, get up, walk over, wait for everybody to show up, blather on about things that you don't care about and already know because you've read the digests from source control checkins and ticketing, say your piece, and escape. Half an hour or more is blown away, plus another half hour to get ramped up to where you were before this all started. Oh, and by the way, somebody surprise-scheduled a customer demo or {InsertOtherMeetingWithNoDefinedAgenda} for you in an hour. Might as well just get coffee and browse the internet, and accept that normal working hours are for looking like you are working, so you can actually get something done later when everybody has gone home.

[1] http://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt-...
"Sent your resignation letter" seems like the more appropriate action.
Fortune 500 companies are replacing their entire physical phone systems with Skype.
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Skype could definitely use some more love from the Product Dept. Perhaps we'll see an integration with LinkedIn? I mean most of my interviews from LinkedIn end up in Skype anyways.
I used to have a normal Skype in Linux. Then migrated to live: type of account (AKA Outlook). Now I cannot even access my Skype anymore because the outlook/skype don't sync properly.

I'm slowly migrating away from any Microsoft product. Luckily I closed my Linkedin account a while back. This is my new Linkedin: http://francisco.io/ (my own website).
I use Notepad2 as a Notepad replacement (no tabs, etc), and it handles LF only just fine.
LinkedIn is becoming this internet monster.

Where is the ethic alternative that is for everybody? (e.g.: AngelList is only for tech startups stuff and not for waiter kind of stuff).
Might make people wake up and look at alternatives finally (can hope). I'm definitely thinking Win 7 is my last Windows OS.
Doesn't it look like it? The light is really wonky; either photoshop or an HDR photo (which would be a really weird choice here).

and the composition is just bizarre.

so strange to see for a multibillion dollar company acquiring another one.
yeah same, have no idea wtf Microsoft do these days
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I believe the new Doom still uses virtual textures to an extent, but they seem to have given up on the idea of using it to apply unique texture assets to every surface in the game as they did in Rage.

Without globally unique textures Megatexture goes from a paradigm shift to just an implementation detail, unfortunately.
Straight from the privacy policy: "If there is a change in control or sale of all or part of LinkedIn, we may share your information with a third party, who will have the right to use that information in line with this Privacy Policy." So not Microsoft specifically but they did agree LinkedIn could transfer their data to any buyer.
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Current market share price is of 132$ then why did Microsoft pay 90$ high? Any reason?
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Noob question: how can Microsoft buy LinkedIn given that large parts of it are owned buy random investors who might not want to sell?

What happens to someone who, lets say, bought $10k worth of LinkedIn stock two years ago and has no intention to sell. Will that person be forced to sell his stock?
I haven't observed that myself, but I suppose we all have different experiences in different environments.
The rise of spreadsheets (and more focused, purpose built, accounting automation) replacing manual calculation in accounting isn't a change of the last ten years.
I feel like I should cancel my LinkedIn account now. Hrm..
>Living in a trailer isn't noteworthy

It isn't cool. That's the problem. I listen to a podcast about a week ago (sorry forget all the details) on the general topic of how do you sell mobile home materials and economics and lifestyle to people who don't think mobile homes are "cool" especially not for "the cool people". Well, change the name, call it a tiny house or tiny apartment, all done.

There is an interesting economic side issue. Because bubbles are bubbles we can assume real estate will go up 5% per year into infinity, right? That solves the classic problem with RV / mobile home trailer parks where the materials are not built to last more than a couple years... wait for real estate bubble appreciation to build up for five years, cash out refinance, then gut and remodel. Doesn't matter if nothing in there will last more than 10 years if the business model is to gut and remodel every 5... Of course if the financial situation changes and prices can't go up 5% annually in perpetuity, then imagine what the place will look like in 20, 30 years.
The other direction. Fans of K-pop shouldn't start getting Taylor Swift recommendations when a K-pop single goes viral.

And people that like lots of viral songs should get Gangnam Style recommended.
Per LinkedIn's Form 8-K [1], LinkedIn has agreed to pay Microsoft a $725 million break-up fee if (a) LinkedIn's Board of Directors withdraws its recommendation of the merger, (b) LinkedIn accepts a superior offer, or (c) LinkedIn's stockholders turn the merger down. Note that LinkedIn may terminate the merger without paying the break-up fee if it avoids announcing an acquisition within one year of so terminating [2].

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1271024/000110465916...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1271024/000110465916...
> it is a corporate social network

I'd go further and say it is a global corporate social network (unlike, say Yammer, which is a local corporate social network).

I agree that this is a fantastic play by MS. When I am researching both job candidates and employers, LinkedIn is one of the two resources I use (Google being the other).
I feel ya!
So my experience is not exactly the same, but I really get where you're coming from...
About a decade ago was the last time that I touched any code as part of my dayjob. I was a web developer for 6 years, and I've been either a project manager or product manager for almost 10 years...and funny enough, for the latter couple of years as a dev. I yearned to move to a position where I sat between the "tech" teams and the "business" teams. I thought this was a natural progression up. I was told that I had a knack for explaining complex and technical things in easy-to-digest way for non-techies. So I tried the non-dev route. Fast-forward some time, and I've changed companies a couple of times since then, and without looking almost a decade has passed. My current and last job has led me to the most disappointing moments of my professional career. I won't say depression but feels pretty close to it. In my case i think it feels like nowadays I'm not building anything. The feeling that I used to get as a developer was that I was building something. I totally get that building something means different things between someone who sits at a desk and churns out code vs. people who build essential things such as wells and irrigation systems for some struggling third world country...nevertheless, at the end of my days as a "coder" i still felt like I introduced something into this world; I had such a sense of accomplishment, even if my salary didn't express that. In the last decade, I'm lucky enough to have had something to take my mind off things: in essence, my family. If it wasn't for my wife and daughter to fill my days with joy (and yes the usual family ups-and-downs, but hey, its still a distraction!)...if it wasn't for my family, surely I would have slipped into a deep depression. What makes things tough - now - is that after almost a decade of not touching code, its that much harder to "go back into codding", at least as a dayjob. Ok, I'm stopping now because this is mere blathering (and i should just post on my own).

...Suffice it to state: YOU ARE NOT ALONE with the remorse you feel with direction of your professional career! The only tiny bit of advice I can provide to you: find a healthy mix of non-work-related distractions in your life AND jump around to different companies. The fact that you have such great experience is something some relevant company will find useful; you simply need to tell them your goals, and hope things align.

Good luck!
Hmm, I find TLA+ to be very user-friendly. It's one of its major strengths (it was very important to Lamport to observe engineers as they learn and apply it). It is certainly easier than learning Haskell, or even OCaml or Rust. I think it's a bit like Lisp: it's a minimal language with very few concepts, that may be unfamiliar at first and take a bit to fully wrap your head around, but once you do, you have unlimited power. I think that you can become seriously productive in it after about two weeks. All the tricky concepts (the TLA part of TLA+) are explained in this very short text[1] (I haven't seen the operator introduced in the Assumption/Guarantee section used in a spec). When you get those, you know TLA+ well, the "+" bit is very easy; a little like Clojure, only simpler.

It's not only easy to learn, it's extremely powerful, mostly due to refinements (an advanced concept, better left for week 3 :)), which are absolutely necessary for large systems/algorithms.

There are also two breakthroughs in TLA, which you may come to appreciate: the expression of the program and the program's properties in the same minimal language, and the demonstration that simple, high-school math, plus one or two new concepts, is all it takes to specify and verify programs.

And yeah, code extraction from specification is an open research question, but I don't even consider this to be a top-ten desired feature, considering the amount of time spent specing and verifying vs. translating to the implementation language.

[1]: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/SRC-TN-1994-001...
Honestly, this just sounds like a good reason to not be logged into LinkedIn ever, if I needed an additional one. Name and job title sent to random websites? No thanks.
One can only assume that they want to dig their heels into entreprise. LinkedIn is massive when it comes to professional connections & Hiring, even company PR. LinkedIn has a bunch of products that can connect well into MS’s ecosystems and add value there.
Regarding the picture at the top of the article, it looks like it's been photoshopped.

The lighting is inconsistent with the background. I think the tree on the left has been added with the same lighting to try make the lighting of Satya and the two others unnoticed.

Without the tree, this picture would be blatantly laughable. At the same level as http://goo.gl/S6y3Qx