oculusthrift

Are there actually people dumb enough to think microsoft employees will be browsing their private repos?

the stock price just went over 100. i think the shareholders are fine

Just depends on the product. Microsoft decided to create Teams in house instead of acquiring slack.

feel like if any of the other companies made this acquisition less people would care. It’s just trendy and good for your hacker creds to oppose microsoft as people did in the 90s. No one is crying about AWS hosting all applications.

I wonder as well. If linkedin is any indication, Microsoft hasn’t affected their engineering culture really at all yet. In fact linkedin still routinely poaches Microsoft engineers and used slack and google drive and bluejeans instead of skype. If anything linkedin has gone on a massive hiring spree on Microsoft’s dime.

Microsoft can monetize the data in a way that github themselves couldn’t. It can also afford to lose money for strategic reasons.

yeah but frankly 10x of a small number is still a small number. we still have to see what the real numbers are.

doesn’t matter what you do. there will always be a competitor that takes the money and kills you. If not, the big companies themselves will fund their own projects with 100x your budget

" Any affordable maths private tuition around here?"

1. Doesn't sound like proper english

2. Is this targeted towards indians or something? Everything I am seeing seems to indicate that. Such as " ayurvedic chemist " and "salwar"

just so you know, i know quite a few people at both linkedin and microsoft and for the most part they are still very seperate entities. linkedin is still using google docs and slack for instance. most of the influence microsoft has had on linkedin in smaller isolated integrations. so anything youve seen go downhill in linkedn consumer app is very much due to independent choices/acts by linkedin itself.

I’m a real person and I read the book and I enjoyed it. I will say any “self-help” style book like his just has quotes like that and you can never tell if they are legit.

If you’ve read the “hard thing about hard things”, i found it pretty similar. It’s a mix of an autobiography as well as listing out his main life principles. It gets repetitive sometimes and I wish he’d get more specific in the details but overall I recommend it. Especially if you are in some sort of leadership or management position

I think most people really don’t understand the wide breadth and the real market of Microsoft as compared to other companies. Just look at these charts of income sources of each company:

http://ritholtz.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/cotd52602.png

Google is literally just Ads whereas Microsoft is very evenly spread. If it lost one area itd be fine in the others.

I think people have an exposure bias where they can only comprehend fo the consumer market. When in reality a lot of the consumer market is free and Microsoft is making a killing selling to businesses.

Look at this chart and you’ll see what he means:

http://ritholtz.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/cotd52602.png

you really can’t compare them to microsoft

the truth is students and small companies just use google because it’s free for them. this dijesng apply to mega corps

I agree with your comment but as it stands the business market is MUCH larger than the education market. Most schools don’t use either or don’t pay much. Schools are seen as essentially a small vertical in the extremely large market. Just think of all the companies who pay for 20,000 microsoft licenses. A lot of the market you describe is free.

sometimes i think people can’t comprehend of products that aren’t in the consumer sphere.

why not audiobooks?

devils advocate reasons to avoid older tech job seekers:

1. they are less pliable. they have experience st other companies and typically want to keep doing stuff the way they did at their previous company. it’s a lot more work to make someone unlearn bad habits than teach them good ones

2. If you have 20+ years of experience you should really be at the management or architect level. if you’re still a typical engineer (even senior) it may indicate a defect.

3. Our company wants people to work insane hours and maybe your family prevents that

how would they know you’re 39 versus 40 in the interview process?

lol this is a pretty lame argument. radio stations would love more young listeners. it’s a little differnt than intentionally filtering out some of your audience

yeah but you’re comparing 20 year olds with no money saved to 70 year olds who are retiring and have a house. The greatest inequality is actually between age but it’s obvious why.

they can always sell the house and take the loss. just like a stock bought on a loan. don’t get why it’s preferable that someone can’t afford a house rather than someone who already has a house no longer being able to afford it. that’s like saying no matter how big of a mortgage i take it’s immoral for something to happen where i can’t afford it anymore

still doesn’t fix old releases in the wild

whether you like it or not the world still revolves around the west. even if it is less so than in the past, militarily and economically the world is led by the west.

Well the entire media coverage of the event was on Gawkers side because the media wants to be able to print anything. Therefore if you hadn’t investigated further i could see why you would take Gawkers side.

the article says:

Users may have more peace of mind knowing that OnStar, On Call, and other services can restrict unlocking to only one part of the car (like the trunk), limiting the access that a courier has

Don’t really get people who defend mega corporations. They played the game and they lost. They should’ve known that the rules can change, especially if someone is cheating or gaming the system.

lmao. it’s like space invaders. title make it sounds like doom. I think this is actually harmless despite disliking theranos.

yeah but most people would be too stupid to save enough throughout the year to pay their taxes in april

Uh, i think society deserves to know that man abused an animal and is potentially dangerous/mentally unstable. If you’re a young woman about to go on a date with someone i’m sure you’d want to know about that incident