cjarrett

In general the vast majority of folks that make these comments are exactly from that viewpoint. It was a valid concern a decade ago--right now it just makes them uninformed.

The downgrade to touch is fine for basically everyone. People clutching pearls are simply mostly uninformed or specifically worried about deep edge cases from some stupid mountain of stupid superiority.

Was saying this about Chrome and Android a decade ago.

The funny thing was they could have done the adaptation--instead of doing it they just presumed devs would transition.

They were also done with the android-apps-on-windowsphone project but dumped it because PC marketplace managers got mad at it because then devs wouldn't use their sdk. Luckily we still got the first version of WSL because of that project's partnership with that linux team.

zero moats for these fuckers as it should be.

Definitely not the same OS as Desktop windows 10. It might run all the same apps, however.

Anyone with a cursory knowledge of warren knows her lengthy history with advocating for consumer rights. I mean, you seem to be trolling and engaging in bad faith. A look at a Wikipedia page would suggest your initial comment was ludicrous.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy...

Last time you used a service backed by a service run likely by oracle? Multitudes of times this week.

I’m gonna trust the multitudes if studies than someone telling the rest of his peers to be better.

What about a Goto within a switch statement that's within another switch statement in a function that's 3000 lines long?

Win+Tab opens up an overlay that allows you add a desktop as well.

That's a bingo.

I arrived at work at msft nearly every day by 730 for the first five years. By the end of year six I was puking in the garage thrice weekly at 9 am due to years of chronic stress, lack of sleep, and caffeine use. It’s taken me about a year, lots of medication, and CBT to get back to being able to sleep regularly for over 6 hours.

If you do care, you get filtered out.

I mostly view this as the turn from SDET to Quality. SDET used to do both telemetry and quality testing, coordinating with devs frequently. Now Quality mostly coordinates with PMs. Satya as Azure head had success via this method, so it's copied throughout the entire company

my mother's 401k at the time, they were forced to buy company stock. Her company was also in the process of merging with Enron. Luckily, my father had a better plan so they ended up mostly investing in his and what was left over they invested in hers.

Wand is great. Thought their latest album was from a different band because it's so different than the random freebie I got from my local record store (their Golem record, it was bent)

certainly in Azure; I've also seen very big efforts towards privacy as the direct result of GDPR. Windows, I'm much less confident.

I believe so, but again I'm just one person and not privy to all data.

Agreed wholeheartedly.

They erased the Software Developer in Test role, and moved to a 'Quality' role.

The 'Quality' role implements Telemetry for the working product which turns into metrics that PMs/Dev Managers look at to determine shipping.

I used to be an SDET, and re-interviewed in order to be a Dev after the big switch. I could have rolled right into 'Quality', but I didn't find that as interesting. As a result, the automated Testing that used to be done by the SDET team is moved to be the responsibility of the Dev teams. Most dev teams knew little to nothing about the automated tests that were being run every day against their code (Upgrade tests, BVTs, integration tests).

SDETs also created tools and internal frameworks which were created to reduce cost; for example, I implemented a Code-Coverage based test-pass to reduce the 24 hour automated test suite that was running every day on Windows Phone main branch.

The previous SDET role's responsbility has moved 100% to Dev Teams, none of which had to ever think about that facet of development before. As a result, you get me implementing automated test suites for 5 different teams in 3 years (WSL, Ink, Text, Touch input, kernel sec) because I know the frameworks more than 25 year veterans of Windows internal development. Some of these teams had 10-15 years of built in collatoral that is now attempting to be revived because management realizes that they've dropped the ball quite a bit.

biggest negative I would say is getting rid of the SDET role and moving them into Telemetry.

It moved the onus of testing on Devs who've never done it before as part of their job and thusly very lacking. The bungled W10 recent releases can be directly tied back to this model. As PMs and Devs don't account for testing like they used to before shipping to customers.

This may be fine and dandy short-term, but if you're biggest customers rely on stability for code bases over 25 years old--getting rid of focused testing and reliability is a big no-no.

Additionally, this was the biggest selling point of Windows Phone. It died, and so did the Security/privacy mindset.

Most of the initiatives Satya has gotten credit for were started under Ballmer. Some of the worst moves I've seen regarding current MSFT internal culture were direct results of Satya

Source: Me, at MSFT before Ballmer left and still there now.

That doesn't mean Satya's not had a good effect overall. Part of the investor postives were due to PR differences that Satya made (which are very good), and his ability to talk about the future of the company is far superior to Ballmer.

Starcraft on my dial-up!

Correct. I live in Renton, which is very far and terrible drive to redmond 6:15-10 am and from redmond 2pm-6:30pm.

They might have a marketing area, but I haven't seen it in the downtown area.

Agreed. I wish I could have spent more time with my parents when they were younger. At least they were able to retire early and we're making up for it in adventures nowadays.

Unfortunately, yes.

For very recent news...(sry for mobile link: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/...)

Title: Man who worked as top 'conversion therapist' comes out as gay

[David Matheson is the man, in case you were aware of these groups during his time as an advocate]

It's a 'simple mistake' in his long line of ignoring well established SEC rules.

Additionally, Melville's "Confidence-Man" might best describe the past couple of years... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Confidence-Man