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I am not sure about that. SQL is a tool just like many others and has its pros and cons. I prefer raw SQL when it comes to troubleshooting stuff or running adhoc queries. Nothing is faster/efficient for me than opening up an editor and firing that SQL query, dumping out the csv and emailing it back to my user.

If your work involves lot of troubleshooting, adhoc querying etc, SQL is a life saver when it comes to relational databases. I don't want to spend time writing a python code with ORM to do these kinds of queries.
Stack ranking seems, to me, to be an incredibly bad idea for Microsoft as a whole. Do you know if they are considering moving away from it?

I think Stack Ranking can work in some situations, like mechanical (ie. non-heuristic) work, but for Engineers? I've never understood why they even considered that it would work.
Interesting that the guy that said, "Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers", didn't mention where the developer tools end up in the re-org...
$600 telephones might be ridiculous. $600 cutting-edge computers that fit in your pocket? Seems totally justifiable.
I think it falls into the category of "Marketing speak" which is a sub heading here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_jargon

It's not surprising coming from the salesman/CEO who thinks that a loud voice and throwing chairs makes sense. While CEO's with real vision innovate, Ballmer thinks rearranging the furniture is the answer.
Why would Snowden steal four laptops from the US government if not for the data on them? Is the theory that he took them for his own personal usage, rather than taking a personal laptop he already had with him? If so, why four?

Also the idea that a hashtag on twitter can "debunk the silly rumors" itself seems rather silly, as the entire argument rests on the word of Snowden/Wikileaks/Greenwald/etc. There is no verifiable way - on either side of the argument - to know what is going on inside the special transit section of the Moscow airport he is holed up in.
Depending on where you live, and what the incident is, yes. Since fire fighters usually serve paramedic roles, a fire truck will often be dispatched to a serious car accident. If you're lucky your car insurance will cover some or all of the bill.

What you don't want is the $10,000 bill if they send a helicopter out.
It misses the fact that work is fulfilling for (most) people.

I've heard talk of the government being the employer of last resort, which has its own problems. But just paying people to breath has problems as well.
No, my intention is not to make it as easy as possible for someone to legally use my code. I definitely consider it a matter of principle, and I think it's a shame when programmers choose a permissive license instead, purely out of expedience. I do not agree that the merits of a principled act depends on how effectively it is conveyed to others.
Playing the devil's advocate:

Shareholders want reasoning behind such large changes. It's really nothing more than describing where MSoft has been and what its strengths are

We will do this by leveraging our strengths. We have powered devices for many years through Windows PCs and Xbox. We have delivered high-value experiences through Office and other apps. And, we have enabled enterprise value through products like Windows Server and Exchange. The form of delivery shifts to a broader set of devices and services versus packaged software. The frontier of high-value scenarios we enable will march outward, but we have strengths and proven capabilities on which we will draw.

and what it recognizes as it's weaknesses

It is also clear to me and our leadership that we must do an extraordinary job to succeed in this modern world. We have delivered many great products and had much success in market, but we all want more. That means better execution from product conceptualization and innovation right through to marketing and sales. It also means operational excellence in cloud services, datacenter operations, and manufacturing and supply chain that are essential in a devices and services world. To advance our strategy and execute more quickly, more efficiently, and with greater excellence we need to transform how we organize, how we plan and how we work.

It then proposes the solution: the reorg. It gives benefits as to what it sees are possible with such a realignment.

Vagueness is related to the wide-reaching scope of the business, and high-level, long-term goals that they don't want to give metrics for, because they'll be held to them. It's also the description of the vision people see in the future when they think of MSoft (and in turn, how valuable shares will be).

I get that there's a lot of negative feelings towards corporations around the startup scene, but if they just said "Hey guys, we're completely restructuring so our teams can focus more", people (people important to Microsoft, i.e. shareholders) would want to know why the decision was made, how they see it playing out, when it will happen, and what the potential impacts could be in the future.

TL; DR: It's a press release, not a white paper.
"bigger walled garden than Android" I would agree with.
I was about to comment on this as well but I saw the \subsection{headers} and thought perhaps it was a conversion gone wrong. At least, I hope so.
See for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_management. Basically there's a solid line to your primary manager but a dotted line for secondary relationships.
Doesn't everyone do this with sessions in iTerm? Right-click on the dock icon and then pick your server...
> I do wonder why the 1 second buttons exist

Ever tried to soften a small piece of cold butter? 10 seconds is way too long for that
I'm not sure I understand your point - can you please elaborate?
>Wiretapping was possible even before MS has re-engineered Skype.

Wrong. Skype was bullet proof, completely end-to-end encrypted, before the MS takeover.
That is very naive. Rails takes care of model persistence. But what happens when you need to join a ton of data... Sure you can fetch all the records and transform on the web server, or you can ask your database to do it in a fraction of a fraction of the time it would take ruby to do this.

Example:

Select all users who have an entry in their shopping cart with an order greater than $200 and tally up how many users there are by state.

Databases can usually do this with a few index lookups and give you results in seconds from hundreds of millions of records. There are no objects to map, just data and math. Then boom you get like 50 rows returned with a state and a tally. Try selecting all those tables building orm objects and transforming that data on your rails app.

And that's always been my take at it.
The hot new technology in Big Data is decades old: SQL
The idea if freaking great, and beautifully executed, I will try to use it myself and share it as much as possible, that said, I have two problems before I start using it.

I don't think I will be able to do so for my work without the ability to export... (Just as an idea, when exporting to a pdf, for example, the embedded youtube videos should be turned into links instead).

Finally, I would need an option for the guides to be private/shareable, otherwise we would be limited in the things we could use it for, maybe that could be a premium paid service, that could be a reasonable monetizing strategy (github like).

But again, I'm excited about this tool and think it has great potential. Thanks for this!
> Wishy washy colours, constant over exposure and distortion due to the pissy little lens.

With the exception of maybe the distortion I'd chalk that up to crappy dynamic nonlinear exposure heuristics trying to boost dynamic range. For an example, take a look at the "HDR mode" in this guy's datasheet: http://www.aptina.com/products/image_sensors/mt9v034c12stc/
No, the TL;DR is that they are currently organized into (almost) self-sufficient business units by product category, but now they are going to switch to being organized into interdependent departments by job function category.

This is a huge shift for MS.
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Awesome job! This goes above and beyond for a 'hack'. You should have it upload cooking data to Xively so you can keep track of what you cooked over time.
Tower Defense is already a genre, where you build towers to prevent enemies from reaching a goal, so unfortunately this name won't work.
If you're not planning on marketing this, please share your process. I'd love to give this a try (if I can get my wife's permission... crosses fingers)!
I like how the name "Shuttle" implies that this is going to make your SSHing experience "take off", but anyone with an SSH config file is like:

"You mean you weren't doing this years ago? Why do I need a UI to get to a shell command? I'm already in the shell!"
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There is lots of potential there. I wish they had some API so one could create a shopping front and get everything handled by pre-screened fiverr providers. But I guess there are already many doing similar arbitrage businesses via virtual assistants that just coordinate fiverr orders all day long.
Tell me one thing you do with a $600 computer that fits in your pocket that you cant do with a $200 computer that fits in your pocket.
it would be nice to have some standard method to delete the content.
Why is nobody using SSL client certificates?
Listening to music legally is easier
How do you ensure that performance is rewarded fairly and consistently across an organization with tens of thousands of engineers? I'm not wild about the concept of stack ranking but I don't see any alternatives that don't have serious drawbacks of their own.
> which runs out: hands-on pilot skills, or cheap petroleum to fuel commercial aviation

Are you kidding? Have you seen the numbers for fracking and methane hydrates? The age of cheap hydrocarbon fuel seems to be beginning, not ending.

What that means for the environment I don't know, but the numbers, if they bear out (and they certainly are for fracking) are stunning.
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Turn-by-turn audio driven GPS is not scary.

But taking your eyes off the road to read a 3.5" screen just sounds risky. I guess if you are on an empty highway in Texas, it would be safe.
> The author compares PD with MIT/BSD type licences, but does not explain why he/she wants to give everyone the relatively full set of rights that these alternatives represent.

For me, I don't believe I (or anyone) have any rights over information. Therefore, I use a license that assumes the smallest amount of rights possible (subject to legal interpretations).
I think you're missing the fact that wage labour isn't the only legitimate kind of work. Volunteering is also fulfilling for people. So is parenting and caretaking. So are any number of other activities which are hard work, very rewarding, beneficial to society -- and yet are uncompensated by a wage labour system. Under a UBI, those become more viable activities, so that wage labour no longer becomes the ONLY monetarily viable way of finding fulfilling work.
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If you missed the sessions today there will be also tomorrow: http://rampconf.com/
um because it is zero in most cases.
depends on location (US vs there)...re cost of living...salaries usually pretty good by comparison...also depends on size of firm...Euroland is in recession and Germany will be effected sooner rather than later...
http://taffywilliams.blogspot.com/2011/07/write-3-letters-yo...

A new CEO was hired to replace an outgoing CEO. The outgoing CEO met with the incoming CEO for an exit interview. During the discussion, the departing CEO stated he had placed 3 very important letters in his drawer just as his predecessor had done for him. He explained that the new CEO would find opening the letters in order most useful when a serious event took place. He also stated the letters left for him had really helped him over his tenure.

Several months passed before a major event came up. The new CEO now remembered the letters and noticed they were numbered 1, 2, and 3. The former CEO had instructed they be opened in order for maximal benefit. The new CEO opened letter #1 and the paper inside had the words “blame it on your predecessor.” The new CEO did as the letter stated and amazingly he was able to avert serious problems and keep his job.

Several months passed before the next serious event took place. This one was growing in magnitude and things were starting to get ugly at the company. There were even calls for the CEO to step down. In desperation, the CEO opened the drawer and pulled out letter #2. With great fear he, opened it carefully to read the word “reorganize.” He followed the instructions and just as before he was saved. The whole company quieted down and went back to business as usual.

After about a year, a third serious event took place and it was much worse than the rest. The CEO knew how to get out of the mess because he had a third letter left to open. With a smile he reached for the letter #3 and opened it to read “write 3 letters.”
Great project! I would have suggested FoodEssential's API for preparation instructions (ran into them at SXSW, seem really cool), but they don't have prep, only ingredients and nutritional data.
http://developer.foodessentials.com/
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Aargh. Only works in 10.8.x - I like new tech but I see no need to upgrade beyond 10.6.8 at the mo' :(
Neat use case.
This is true in theory, but in my experience, every big company asks for all the licenses of the software they use, and if it's GPL, that's a non-starter. Maybe I've only worked for the good ones.

Obviously there will be some that violate the license, as there is with any license. But the point is that you do have _some_ sort of legal recourse if they do, and also, you make your intent clear as an author: this is supposed to be Free forever.

If your anti-argument is "people will just ignore the license," then using a permissive license isn't an argument either. After all, people will just ignore it.
Yep -- too hard to setup.

A really good browser enhancement would be 1-click client side certificate setup.
If you're not pushing for equity, why are you doing a startup?
I'm talking about an earlier-stage startup where there isn't a lot of money for salaries (i.e., you are getting below-market rates regardless).
Number of time desktop/workstation is used in the memo - 0, number of times PC - 4 , 3 of them about the past. Number of times devices is used 20+, experience - 10+ - microsoft from today officialy desires to be looked as a device/experience company when dealing with end users.

That is full steam ahead to appleland for me. And it will be closed and walled future. WP8 and W8 demonstrated the MS attitude good enough.

The borg came from the one goal, one vision, one direction etc.
I must wonder just how large and self-evident must the mass or movement be before you'd deem it worth joining?

Have a little peek at how much public domain software is already being produced daily on GitHub:

https://github.com/search?q=%22public+domain%22&type=Code&s=...

Consider also that the majority of repositories on GitHub contain no license declaration at all, which should be a clear enough indicator of where these trends are going:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/18/github_licensing_stu...

Further, as explained in another comment, when even the most prominent and harshest former critics of public domain software (cf. Larry Rosen) have recently changed their mind and, if not exactly pushing the public domain as yet, at least see no problem with it, how much more could you want?
What phone do you use? And whats it typically used for?
I admit that when you dont know what your talking about, you can get really frustrated.
It depends on what kind of license it is: if it's an end-user license, then yes, you do (in theory) have to abide by it.

You're right that if it's just a copyright on the source code, then it's probably a restriction on redistribution, which means you couldn't _use_ that code for evil and then share it with others. But using it for evil for yourself: totally fine.
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In terms of privacy I see two categories of data on a network: (1) data that leaked/has been copied to other people and (2) data that hasn't yet leaked.

The thing is you can never know with certainly when a piece of data has changed from "not leaked" to "leaked", so effectively you have to act as if all data is leaked in all circumstances as soon as you put it on the network.
Its a fair point, but i suspect that moving 100k of infrastructure from AWS to a colo is going to add at least 1 dev-ops / sys-admin (or sucks in 1 developers time). I'm skeptical that the cost benefit comes in until well above 100k / yr.
As an example, amongst the buttons on our old microwave:

* a picture of a whole chicken

* one ice cube

* two ice cubes

* something that might have been a burger or a slice of bread

* 3 x straight lines

* 3 x wavy lines

Never being sure, I ignored all of those buttons. But even the basic 'set a time, a power and go' method was awful.

* Choose a power. There was no default. You had to do this before you'd set the time, or the time would reset back to 0.

* Turn a wheel which increases the time. The first two minutes increment 1 second. After that they increment in 10 seconds. So to get to 5 minutes, you had to spend ages turning it.

* Press 'Go'.

Next to the 'Go' button there was a 'Cook' button, which reset everything.

There was a defrost mode, which seemed to heat the contents for 2 minutes and 10 seconds (couldn't change the time). The results were identical to just heating it on full power.
Squarespace comes close, you basically have to pick a theme and start typing, but it also doesn't offer a free version. I think no one is in this space because there's no legitimate way to make it happen profitably that users or readers will accept. A domain name is not free so that's already a non-starter for many. If Facebook or Twitter cost $10 a year, they might have 2% of their current user base.
Hey, thanks for the input! As I've said before, export and offline access are both on our TODO.

Your comments on private vs public guides are great. It's something we discussed and we will put a lot of thought into getting this part right.
Hardly "now" - there are ongoing complaints re other JITs, eg LuaJIT, not to mention Javascript...

But on the other hand, non executable heap is a reasonably valid defence against some attack types. And Apple don't care about your convenience...
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If you're not adjusting for inflation, spending on nearly everything is at an all-time high. (And when you're arguing that budgets are too high, it's rarely in your interest to adjust for inflation).
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Are MIT or BSD licenses any better in this regard? I mean, I'm sure the american boilerplate written by american lawyers would hold up in an american court - but if I'm not under the American legal system, how do I know I don't need different boilerplate?

For all I know the MIT license might be (say) invalid in France, because it's written in the wrong language, or invalid in Russia because the the first paragraph isn't written in ALL CAPS, or invalid in Taiwan because it doesn't expressly waive moral rights to the integrity of the work.
I'm not under any illusion that I am going to make any "meaningful change", and I'm not "organizing" anything. I'm a dude writing obscure software on the internet. Acts of principle, by definition, are ends in themselves, not pragmatic attempts to achieve some other goal. I lost this battle before I was even born.
I'm not trying to be jerk but, why?
Eh Declan... eh
If anyone needs something similar for Windows, use https://gist.github.com/arnehormann/5975783 and put all shortcuts with a folder into the quickstart part of the taskbar. The hta file I link to is html with visual basic instead of JS - executable on click, pretty compact, shows a dialog. Don't know if this breaks in later Win versions though, I wrote this some years ago and it worked fine in Vista...
wget won't do what you think it does; simplest fix is to use curl.
This could be important. If the security community continues to publicly hold these agencies at arms length, working for them may acquire a stigma. If the effect were strong enough, the agencies might feel a need to change their stance in order to be able to hire.
It's easy to miss specific units when they enumerated so many of the organizations of such a large company. We haven't really moved:

> Cloud and Enterprise Engineering Group. Satya Nadella will lead development of our back-end technologies like datacenter, database and our specific technologies for enterprise IT scenarios and development tools...

(Emphasis mine)
I had some personal cards made up last year.

Prominent:
Name and a one-liner describing what I do.

Below:
Email, google voice number specific to the cards, link for people who want to know more.

I kept the card quite plain.

I've seen thousands of cards over the years. I'm sure some of them used novel materials or designs, but I'd be hard pressed to remember any of them, much less the people they represent.

I don't think a nice design hurts unless it makes the card harder to read/scan or less usable in some way.

That said, I think a "designed" card should be professionally done. Do it yourself if you have the skills, contract someone if not.

Also:

* I think the back should be left blank and white or something approaching that (it's for notes).

* I'd stay away from cute titles. I've seen them make a negative impression more often than not.

* Half height or unusually shaped cards are a pain in the ass and destined for the trash.

* If your info changes, make new cards. A card covered in corrections looks incredibly unprofessional.

* Professional printing please. Using perforated or hand cut homemade cards is surely one of the worst a businessperson could hope to save money.
First of all, obviously, this is personal choice.

Secondly, a mass of people _creating_ public domain software isn't the issue: the mass would be of people _breaking the laws of the jurisdiction in which they live by using public domain software as public domain even though it's not recognized_.

Personally, I currently BSD/MIT all of my code, but am considering AGPLing it all from now on. I don't think that the negligible difference between BSD/MIT and public domain is worth _any_ headache at all; they're effectively the same from my viewpoint.
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For a similar set-up for Linux, see [1]. Here we use dmenu to displays hosts defined in .ssh/config, and open a connection to the selected host in a new window. See [2] for the relevant script.

[1]: http://www.asayers.org/blog/ssh.html

[2]: https://gist.github.com/asayers/5975856
Microburst only happens at low altitudes ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microburst ), and is the kind of wind shear that´s more dangerous for commercial planes.

There is also fast wind changes at cruise altitude, jet streams bends usually have. But you only notice them as turbulence, when they are very severe you may even loose several thousand feet. It´s not pretty and may result in some nasty injuries to the people that doesn´t have the seat bealt. But is not as big an issue as the low altitude wind shear. Also clear air turbulence is not predictable and is little that you may do beyond recovering the plane control as soon as you suffer it (as opposed to thunderstorms, where you have radar echos to avoid).
That is a great idea. Thanks!
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Either you have a need, and upgrade. Or you don't have a need and don't need shuttle.

Targetting the latest release make life easier for devs.
...which cooks up some real Mega-Bites.