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becarefulyoon Windows 10 0day exploit goes wild, and so do Microsoft marketers

Disclosure: I work at MS but not on the kernel or anything related to this security bug. Opinions are my own.

I've seen one-line bug fixes introduce many other bugs.

Adding a null check is always suspicious. Is the system in an invalid state? Should it fail fast instead of swallowing the error?

Maybe the code wasn't touched in several years. Maybe the person that wrote it no longer works there. Maybe the code in question doesn't have good test coverage or documentation. There are so many variables to consider when assessing risk of code changes.

becarefulyoon Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System

Because of the productivity benefits of using public tools instead of internal ones. Devs are more familiar with them, more documentation and examples, morale benefit because skills are transferable to other jobs, etc.

becarefulyoon Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System

It works fine. We have really good code search tools.

The numbers include test code, utilities, two entire web browsers, UI frameworks, etc.

becarefulyoon The woes of Windows 10

Apple uses grayscale font rendering too, not even pixel aligned. It looks nice because all of their devices are high DPI.

becarefulyoon The woes of Windows 10

I think you're right, looks like it was only fixed for Edge.

Discussion of technical challenge is here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150129-00/?p=...

becarefulyoon The woes of Windows 10

Font rendering was improved in the Anniversary update. It should use ClearType in most cases on landscape monitors with 100% DPI.

becarefulyoon The woes of Windows 10

http://www.windowscentral.com/new-design-language-windows-10...

Design language is getting an update.

becarefulyoon The .NET Language Strategy

Opens instantly for me.

becarefulyoon The .NET Language Strategy

Many of the built-in Windows 10 apps are written in C#.

becarefulyoon Welcome, ACLU

I don't understand why it's even controversial to call this a Muslim ban. It's a ban on people from Muslim majority countries, except for religious minorities in those countries.

becarefulyoon Welcome, ACLU

This is not the only issue people are protesting.

becarefulyoon Trump Fires Acting Attorney General

Debating with sophomores is about as fruitful as debating with holocaust deniers.

becarefulyoon Welcome, ACLU

So your argument is that if you didn't do what was right before, you shouldn't do what's right now?

becarefulyoon Trump Fires Acting Attorney General

By any reasonable human being's standard.

becarefulyoon Trump Fires Acting Attorney General

The electoral college was created in part to prevent unqualified candidates from becoming president. It failed spectacularly.

becarefulyoon Toxic fluorinated compounds found in drinking water of 33 states

And by cutting 2/3 of the EPA workforce

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/30/...

And by removing two regulations for every new regulation :(

becarefulyoon Hollywood as We Know It Is Over

> When they are available it is usually 5$ for a "rental". Is that a joke? I used to pay that at Blockbuster, and they had a physical location and employees!

We're never going to get anywhere until people understand that cost+ pricing is not a thing.

becarefulyoon Study Finds Uber Doesn’t Put Taxi Drivers Out of Work But Does Drive Down Pay

They should require larger vehicles. Cramming three people into the back of a compact sucks.

becarefulyoon White House discussing asking foreign visitors for social media and phone contacts

Is there an official blacklist of disapproved websites? If so, isn't that a form of censorship?

becarefulyoon White House discussing asking foreign visitors for social media and phone contacts

Classic alt-er redirection. It doesn't matter if Obama started it, what matters is what we're going to do to stop it.

becarefulyoon Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester

Nazism should be swiftly kicked in the ass whenever it rears itself.

This is naked white supremacism. For as much bullshit as we've heard about political correctness, why not just come out and say this is straight up religious and racial discrimination?

becarefulyoon Time to Take a Stand

Basic human rights are not up for debate. Women and children fleeing a war should not be turned away. In the US, we believe everyone deserves life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

becarefulyoon Time to Take a Stand

Empirically, it wasn't 50/50, not even among the percentage of the population that actually voted.

becarefulyoon Time to Take a Stand

Irrelevant troll.

becarefulyoon Time to Take a Stand

So what? Don't be outraged because we weren't outraged enough before?

becarefulyoon Ask HN: YC please talk about Immigration Order

So he believes in racial segregation but is not racist?

becarefulyoon Refugees Detained at U.S. Airports, Prompting Legal Challenges

Spot on. In his ABC interview, he cited San Bernardino and 9/11 as reasons for this ban. The attackers in San Bernardino were a US citizen and Pakastani and the 9/11 attackers were from Saudi Arabia. Neither covered by this ban.

becarefulyoon Refugees Detained at U.S. Airports, Prompting Legal Challenges

Not me.

You're right though, the biggest problem is all the people cheering this on. I read "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" and this seems to be escalating even faster.

becarefulyoon Refugees Detained at U.S. Airports, Prompting Legal Challenges

This is absolutely ridiculous. Nationalism needs to be nipped at the bud before it spirals out of control.

These orders should not be followed. Nuremberg defense doesn't hold up.

becarefulyoon Calling Windows 10 APIs from a WinForms or WPF application

You can use Windows Runtime Library (WRL) instead of C++/Cx.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh438466.aspx