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MS_Buys_Upvotes··on Biography of Christopher “moot” Poole: The Hacker Known as “4chan”
Did he ever explain why he was banned from Something Awful? Surprised it never came up.

The Old Internet remembers.

MS_Buys_Upvotes··on The largest Git repo
Wow the majority of posts here are from Microsoft employees.
MS_Buys_Upvotes··on An internal Google email shows how the company cracks down on leaks
You're right - it doesn't apply to culture.

The "corporate person" is being a sociopath as usual and rather than saying "it harms our company" they attempt to spin it into something that hurts the individuals that work at the company. It doesn't. It hurts the "corporate person", but they can't come out and say that.

MS_Buys_Upvotes··on The FCC voted to start the process of eliminating net neutrality rules
Man you really destroyed that guy

Wonder if he's gutsy enough to change his mind.

MS_Buys_Upvotes··on Basic Income in a Just Society
Nothin like a good old economics circle jerk.

I think it's time HN applied the 'no politics' rule to economics too. Nobody is right, nobody is wrong, and nobody ever changes their mind.

MS_Buys_Upvotes··on Amazon to Build a Permanent Mary's Place Family Shelter Within Its Headquarters
Unfortunately corporate "people" act like sociopaths 99.99% of the time.

This is certainly a Good Thing, but I don't blame people for knee-jerk skepticism.

MS_Buys_Upvotes··on Azure Stack – Azure On-Premises
Microsoft's social voting brigade is out in force today because of Microsoft's annual convention thing.

Today HN is a safe space for Microsoft supporters.

MS_Buys_Upvotes··on Azure Stack – Azure On-Premises
Regardless of my username, I really like this product. Microsoft is the first to do it and (I assume) it works seamlessly with Azure.

Microsoft is certainly ahead of the pack with this product.

MS_Buys_Upvotes··on Citi lists Netflix, Tesla as potential takeover targets for Apple
> Citigroup analyst Jim Suva said in a note to clients.

One bozo sends out an e-mail and it's news?

MS_Buys_Upvotes··on Telling Photos from the Mark Zuckerberg Presidential Campaign Trail
Corporate CEO goes on cross-country tour to show "regular folk" how relatable he is.

Barf. What shit "news".

MS_Buys_Upvotes··on Infosys plans to hire 10,000 American workers, open four U.S. tech centers
PR bullshit to counter-act visa abuse.
MS_Buys_Upvotes··on Business cancels Yelp advertising contract, negative reviews start pouring in
I'm surprised that you're foolish enough to fall under the assumption that people here are somehow smarter or better. They are not. This is simply a web site with zero barrier to entry.

I don't trust Yelp either. There have been too many stories like this over years - and even some in the comments section of this HN story!

MS_Buys_Upvotes··on We need to fill 'new collar' jobs that employers demand: IBM's Rometty
IBM will offshore 8 out of 10 positions by 2017 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/07/ibm_offshoring/

Have fun with your "new collar" - don't let it choke you too much.

MS_Buys_Upvotes··on Dropbox Reaches Key Profit Milestone
Yeah, I don't know why HN doesn't change this story to it's proper, correct title.

Current title makes it look like Wall Street it saying it. The real title makes it clear that the CEO is saying it, which, as a result, makes it useless PR drivel.

MS_Buys_Upvotes··on The FCC plan to undo its net neutrality rules
It's not.

Not to get too political but there are two groups: "the people" and "business". Watch every decision the current administration makes. It's helpful for "business" and hurts "the people". This is the opposite of what most people think it should be.

MS_Buys_Upvotes··on Google Cloud’s Diane Greene thinks it has “a pretty good shot” of overtaking AWS
Downvote any article that mentions Diane Greene. Her job is literally "Google Cloud Hype-woman". There is nothing of substance here or in any interview with her.

Nothing more than hot air and marketing bullshit.

MS_Buys_Upvotes··on H-1B visa debate: India says it’s a trade and services issue
I would post this in it's own thread but I'm sure it will get buried

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/66kb3c/95_engi...

MS_Buys_Upvotes··on Microsoft: You need to fix your Skype and Microsoft account issues, this is insane
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/5jg8y6/fyi_crimin...

Reddit discusses hackers using weak Skype credentials to access other MS accounts and bypass 2FA

MS_Buys_Upvotes··on User-Made Patch Lets Owners of Next-Gen CPUs Install Updates on Windows 7 and 8.1
Can you expand on this and provide some technical details or links?
MS_Buys_Upvotes··on User-Made Patch Lets Owners of Next-Gen CPUs Install Updates on Windows 7 and 8.1
What is the technical reason for Microsoft's actions?

I've used Windows for decades and don't recall anything like this happening in the past.

MS_Buys_Upvotes··on Tech companies should create ‘farm teams’ to close the talent deficit
I love tech: Take something old (apprenticeships), re-package it as something new (a farm team) and bam: Instant, free, PR for zero innovation.
MS_Buys_Upvotes··on How the Airlines Became Cartels
I love watching the evolution of HN sometimes.

Outrage of the Week (TM) story, nothing to do with hacking or technology - 62 points in under an hour. Mind bending.

Let the circle jerk begin.

MS_Buys_Upvotes··on Saving Millions by Dumping Java Serialization
Thanks! You and the others are right: I didn't know JSON was serialized.

I can see why something in binary would be faster than structured text (think assembler vs Python).

Thanks again.

MS_Buys_Upvotes··on Saving Millions by Dumping Java Serialization
Can someone explain to an amateur why serialization is faster than say passing raw JSON?

It seems like parsing JSON would be faster than the serialize -> deserialize process but with the popularity of things like Protobuff it's clear that JSON is slower.

MS_Buys_Upvotes··on Amazon's Sick New Sick Policy
The bonus pool is finite. Teams should use their germs to make other teams sick so they get a larger slice of the bonus pool.
MS_Buys_Upvotes··on Ops in the serverless world: monitoring, logging, config management
> Wouldn't you know up front when you're choosing a stack whether they meet your compliance demands?

No, not always. Good luck with the refactor (complete rebuild?) when the time comes.

MS_Buys_Upvotes··on Google accused of extreme gender pay discrimination by Department of Labor
I love it when real news like this gets 40 upvotes but stuff that's blatant PR gets hundreds.

HN is now a place to discuss corporate press releases and little more.

MS_Buys_Upvotes··on Marc Andreessen: “Take the Ego Out of Ideas”
100% agree. People fight their own little personal battles (unrelated to the article) in the name of pride and internet points.

The comments sections are almost impossible to read because the signal to noise ratio is getting so large.

MS_Buys_Upvotes··on U.S. FCC chairman plans fast-track repeal of net neutrality: sources
It had nothing to do with money. Pai is a former Verizon lawyer. He did exactly as he was expected to do.
MS_Buys_Upvotes··on Microsoft opens up on Windows telemetry, tells us most of what data it collects
What about the other subsystems that silently collect data?