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- — In Meetings, Raise Hands Before Reading
I spent five and a half years at AWS before moving (back) to Microsoft, where I work today. At Amazon, many meetings began with silent reading. Instead of presenting a document,...
- — Why One Giant Source Control Repository Is Bad for You (and Facebook)
Facebook’s GIT repository is a single 54GB animal that builds Facebook. It’s not that big - they haven’t seen the MS Windows one! Actually, I take that back - anecdotal evidence...
- — Why You Should Leave Microsoft, Too
I read Bertrand’s post on “Tales from the Evil Empire” about him leaving Microsoft this morning. Congratulations. We have never met, but your blog was in my RSS feed for a very ...
- — Migrating from CodePlex SVN to Github
If you’re like me, trying to Migrate SVN projects on CodePlex to Github, the automatic import will timeout. This is not some kind of conspiracy. This is because CodePlex SVN is ...
- — Autoconf: Maybe the First Example of Microsoft Pushing Features into the OS to Kill a Competitor
Update, September 2026: I found the original 1991 SVM article, identified and contacted its author, rebuilt both the original and later versions, and reconstructed Autoconf’s hi...
- — Why Microsoft Should Open-Source Skype
- — Visual Studio 2008 Crashes: doesn't always mean Microsoft sucks