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Yes. Most teams are using git repos in Azure DevOps. Anything in GitHub is supposed to be made public pretty quickly.
Re:Tools you’d miss if you left a company on Sunday February 09, 2020 @09:24AM (#22282227)
Yeh, you’re right. I was thinking more of this and remember all the alerting and incident management stuff. Then I realized that I hate those tools and would happily leave them behind :)
Re:Tools you’d miss if you left a company on Sunday February 09, 2020 @02:01AM (#22280814)
This topic is one of the primary reasons I enjoy working at MS these days.

The tech stack is full of OSS or industry standard tools, not a bunch of internal NIH things.

My current stack is: React, Node, Kubernetes, Linux (for dev and deploy), Git for sc, GitHub, vs code.

I can’t even think of some internal tool that I depend on at the moment.

Chrome literally did something like this. When the user searched the web from the Windows search box, it used to open their default browser to bing.com. Chrome started to inspect the url and redirect to Google.com. So Microsoft changed it to open Edge to block this bs.
Kind of a big difference between being fired for trimming to organize (which is protected by law) and being fired by pushing pseudo science to marginalize a certain group of colleagues.
Re:Most software companies ignore user behavior on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @04:45PM (#20823801)
Parent is clearly a PM in Excel looking for ideas
Re:If you must run Windows 10 on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @01:12AM (#20816937)
Holy hell did you just compare telemetry to rape?
Re:Native lazy loading has landed in Chrome on Monday August 26, 2019 @10:39AM (#20800235)
Lazy loading doesn’t have to mean waiting for user input to load a resource, or waiting for the viewport. It just gives the developer a way to break up their bundles and control over when they get loaded a fetched.

A well designed web app would have a small start up bundle so the user can get something useful quickly, and then it would start prefetching and loading the rest of the bundles.

Re:Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection on Saturday August 24, 2019 @02:00AM (#20785524)
So you are saying that this was a totally fine way to write? But it sounds very awkward and sloppy to me. Maybe, it’s just me.
On top of the generally absurd claims made in the official Google post, that writing was just terrible. Comma splices all over the place, sentences starting with So and But, very strange tone and wording in some things. Did anyone edit this?

Oh and I love the “thank you in advance for your help” lol what?

Re:How Men’s Bodies Change When They Become Fathers on Thursday August 22, 2019 @01:05AM (#20764809)
The only difference I noticed was that my brain didn’t work as well due to barely sleeping for months.
Yeh it seems weird to mix clients and services together. Apple’s numbers are almost entirely for a mail client, while google and yahoo are all a service. Who knows what they mean by Microsoft but it seems like their are counting outlook.com service numbers but not Outlook client numbers.
They’ll only stop when they get to Planck time resolution price discovery
Re:Use plaintext email on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @12:22PM (#20516778)
For the life of me I can’t remember the syntax for a particular thing I do in the JavaScript console at work. Someone showed me the trick in an email about seven years ago and about once a month I need to do this thing so I search my inbox for the email so I can remember the syntax.
even irl, it’s part of the introduction “hi I’m so and so I work at google doing a <<super normal thing that I think is important or interesting but really isn’t to anyone else>>”
I can always count on someone who works at Google to announce the fact that they work at Google.
Re:Give Firefox a chance on Sunday June 23, 2019 @12:07PM (#20256487)
Regular edge, not chromium Edge. So that’s three different rendering engines that can do it right, and one that doesn’t.
Re:Give Firefox a chance on Sunday June 23, 2019 @11:53AM (#20256377)
Yes. Font weights are all messed up, and colors too. I’ve seen fonts that are barely readable on FF because the contrast ratio between the font color and background color is tiny, however it looks correct on all other browsers.
Re:Give Firefox a chance on Sunday June 23, 2019 @11:52AM (#20256365)
It’s also really rough for me on Windows too. I try it every months a new release comes out and I don’t last a day.

Sites render badly (names colors and fonts look wrong on Firefox but look the same on Edge Chrome and Safari (macOS))

It hangs multiple times a day

Some heavy JS sites are much slower in FF than Chromium

It takes dev tools minutes to become responsive on the site I work on, while in Chromium they load up very quickly.

Re:Give Firefox a chance on Sunday June 23, 2019 @11:48AM (#20256326)
Why?
Re:Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @11:17AM (#20214032)
Don’t host your own email. Unless you don’t want anyone to be able receive your emails.
Re:Map of Proposed US Time Zone Changes on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @01:56AM (#19846975)
This is pretty dumb. In what world should Boston and New York City be in different time zones? And Long Island in a different time zone than Connecticut.
Re:Apple Q2 Results on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @12:01AM (#19794441)
After all these years, it’s still Apple and Microsoft at the top. Crazy.
Bing isn’t the only service Microsoft has. Update, office, Xbox, Windows itself, etc
This whole Twitter thread and blog post gave me real pause for ever wanting to work at Discourse.
Re:Apple makes billions from Google Search each year on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @04:14PM (#19147561)
Interesting. That’s like more than the entire yearly revenue of Bing.