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traskjdon I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something

Don’t forget the genius move of: right click, personalize. Same link on the right about desktop icons that when clicked... ...does a Bing search for where to go to change your desktop icons.

Literally both are links on the right, both behave wildly differently.

Every. Single. Time. I get the bing link first.

traskjdon Microsoft admits being 'on the wrong side of history' with regard to open source

Likewise for Google. Until that search engine is open source, it's like they've done nothing for open source. /s

traskjdon Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon

There’s two CEOs below him. Andy Jassy for AWS and Jeff Wilkie for Amazon Retail.

traskjdon Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules in place

"This like every day is Black Friday for Amazon."

So, a pretty big deal then: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17577654/amazon-prime-day...

traskjdon Amazon: Staff told to work overtime as virus spikes demand

“FedEx, ups, and USPS aren't beholden to Amazon”

You might have missed the memo there.

traskjdon A Peek Into Graviton2

RISC is good.

traskjdon 64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review

Appreciate the correction. Late night posting :)

traskjdon 64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review

It was good. Love Linus.

This was his video on the 3990X recently for those interested: https://youtu.be/1LaKH5etJoE

traskjdon 64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review

https://twitter.com/withinrafael/status/1227505393439346688?...

Sounds like it’s coming.

traskjdon 64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review

Given the yet-unreleased new kernel only starts to add support for Zen3, I’m not sure this is entirely true.

traskjdon 64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review

This is actually something I find Microsoft does poorly for enthusiasts (both the crowd buying these types of chips, but also who care about a scheduler). They have VERY low visibility into these types of improvements.

I can find a billion blog posts about notepad supporting Linux and Windows line returns. I struggle to find anything about improvements for new hardware.

I wish there was a blog (albeit unfashionable these days) or similar which told these stories. I often feel the lack of their existence is a taint on data driven decisions: these customers are likely insignificant, but their influence on others is significant (even if their advice isn’t “buy a 64 core CPU”, it will be “Windows 10 is great, use that!”).

I’ve largely been a MSFT fanboy since a young age, and I kind of get being mainstream, but tossing a bone to the enthusiastic supporters would be nice.

traskjdon Mozilla lays off 70

We see this at Raygun with our Crash Reporting and Real User Monitoring products (measuring errors, and end user experience in general). Nearly all power users are more likely to be in product, or very senior/executive developers.

Very low engagement out of QA. I'm not sure if they just have a way they like to work, or they think that if they exist then no bugs make it to prod (don't laugh, plenty of our twitter adverts get comments from folks thinking you don't need any monitoring if you have a tester on the team or if a dev writes unit tests).

Understand how the end user experiences your software. That's the actual source of the truth.

traskjdon Jarvis, an Alfred Alternative for Windows

No commits for about a year, with a readme saying it’s early in dev suggests this project is largely dead. Am I misreading something here?

traskjdon JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised

I think you mean 'started with an RSS reader' - omea reader was ace :)

traskjdon Operations for Effective CEOs

It’s a great post, but I suspect could have been about 5 posts. Detail and tactic rich :)

traskjdon Facebook is using the iPhone’s camera as users scroll their feed

They're so user hostile that they don't even allow you to copy and paste pictures. You MUST save them, giving them access.

Honestly, I have no idea how one company can be so horrible. It's like they read the site about Dark Patterns and asked themselves: What if we combined them ALL?

traskjdon CircleCI Security Incident

Valid point, thanks :)

traskjdon CircleCI Security Incident

I didn't see it, but "who is the third party vendor?" is my key question, since this could be impacting anyone working with that vendor.

traskjdon Microsoft Screws Azure Customers and Its Own Advocates Alike

Is Microsoft a monopoly on Server operating systems? I’d say no, and not by a long shot. Even on Azure, Linux is more than 50% of their workloads.

traskjdon Fast and flexible observability with canonical log lines

There's some vague stuff. For example, GDPR requires you only keep data for a "reasonable" period of time. So many many years would likely not be reasonable in most logging scenarios.

I suspect as a payment processor though, being able to look back far when investigating breeches etc would be important.

traskjdon The side of Paul Allen I wish more people knew about

Bill has been giving away billions. He's just also been earning like crazy too.

I forget where I read it, but when Jeff overtook Bill, there were various articles highlighting that Bill would still have been a lot richer if you accounted for how much he'd now put through the foundation.

So just because his market net worth hasn't gone down (in fact it's gone up a bit), it's not from him not yet giving money away.

traskjdon Wfirst, the Space Telescope with the Power of 100 Hubbles

Quietly hoping you’re about 64 years old.

traskjdon An Apology and an Update

Reading between the lines, I think that's what they're suggesting.

traskjdon Apple resumes iPhone X production due to weak XS sales, report claims

Came here to say this. Every. Single. Time. They launch a new phone, out comes the stories of production cuts, missed targets etc.

And then the sun comes out at the next earnings announcement.

Sure, one day we'll all be wrong, but this narrative has played out for about the last 5 launches. It's about as common as FB announcing record DAU at earnings then releasing a note about shutting down millions of bots a couple of weeks later.

traskjdon Wired Interviews Bill Gates (1996) [video]

It was considered more than something close to a giant. If anything, it was considered scarier than anything we have now.

Back then there was nobody else. We've gone from a monopoly to an oligopoly (ish) which in some ways feels less scary.

It's hard to overestimate Microsoft dominance in the 90s. If there was a wiff of them entering a category, the players in that space would be in trouble (similar to Amazon today, though Microsoft followed through more in decimating their rivals).

traskjdon Sales results from getting 3M views on YouTube

> Each only averaged 166 views, for a grand total of 2826 views.

Given it would be close to impossible to notice a lift from that viewership, I'd suggest this 'test' failed more from being too small.

Edit: removed redundant word.

traskjdon From Google to the world: the Kubernetes origin story

You say red flag, others might say 'how the world really works'. There's a lot more luck and talking to the right person than we'd like to admit in this world.

traskjdon What I Learned Working for Steve Ballmer

My opinion, fwiw:

Financially, no.

Optically, yes.

(and, in fairness to the latter, in a manner which was diminishing longer term value creation also. However he totally does not deserve the reputation he generally has with developers. Like a lot of things, folks love to view them in black in white, when in reality it's a rainbow).

traskjdon Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions of Followers

Kudos to twitter on this. This is one of those moves that harms them in the eyes of short term investors, but is The Right Thing To Do.

I've always been astounded that nobody seems to notice that Facebook continually announces record users, record MAUs and then usually a week or two after their quarterly numbers announces that they have removing millions of fake accounts. Always after they've 'beaten' on those metrics.

Facebook these days, for me, is 90% dealing with fake friend requests from people that are either clones of real profiles, or just complete garbage. It's part of my dislike of their platform, but they're more afraid of bad metrics than genuinely delighting their customer base.

It becomes a negative feedback loop too. We used to spend significantly on Facebook for several businesses I'm involved in, but now that most clicks are garbage/fake, we don't.

I know twitter gets a bunch of hate for not doing more, but realistically they are actually leading the way. I'm impressed with how they're operating more and more.

traskjdon Fathom – Simple, trustworthy website analytics

Apologies it was directed, I did mean it more as a generalization and it didn't come across that way sorry. Off for the morning coffee now :)