Hacker News: cjarrett

New comment by cjarrett in "Our position on open-weights models"

cjarrett — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:45:58 +0000

zero moats for these fuckers as it should be.

New comment by cjarrett in "Microsoft introduces Windows 10 X for dual-screen devices"

cjarrett — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 18:32:18 +0000

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

New comment by cjarrett in "Zuckerberg Hates Warren’s Plan to Break Up Facebook. She Doesn’t Care"

cjarrett — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 18:42:23 +0000

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...

New comment by cjarrett in "Oracle’s Larry Ellison Calls Uber and WeWork ‘Almost Worthless’"

cjarrett — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 19:53:08 +0000

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

New comment by cjarrett in "Oracle’s Larry Ellison Calls Uber and WeWork ‘Almost Worthless’"

cjarrett — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 19:51:54 +0000

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

New comment by cjarrett in "Windows File Manager re-released"

cjarrett — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:43:33 +0000

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

New comment by cjarrett in "Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager"

cjarrett — Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:28:02 +0000

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

New comment by cjarrett in "Windows X86-64 System Call Table"

cjarrett — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 17:41:49 +0000

That's a bingo.

New comment by cjarrett in "Burnout is real – how to avoid it"

cjarrett — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 21:26:43 +0000

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.

New comment by cjarrett in "Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server"

cjarrett — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 19:42:21 +0000

If you do care, you get filtered out.

New comment by cjarrett in "Microsoft Is Killing ePub Support in Edge Classic"

cjarrett — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:18:07 +0000

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

New comment by cjarrett in "Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos calls GE a ‘bigger fraud than Enron’"

cjarrett — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 17:12:37 +0000

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.

New comment by cjarrett in "Being Bored Is Good"

cjarrett — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 09:12:15 +0000

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)

New comment by cjarrett in "Microsoft, currently the most valuable company, is having a Nadellaissance"

cjarrett — Fri, 03 May 2019 00:29:55 +0000

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

New comment by cjarrett in "Microsoft, currently the most valuable company, is having a Nadellaissance"

cjarrett — Fri, 03 May 2019 00:25:51 +0000

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

New comment by cjarrett in "Microsoft, currently the most valuable company, is having a Nadellaissance"

cjarrett — Thu, 02 May 2019 17:49:48 +0000

Agreed wholeheartedly.

New comment by cjarrett in "Microsoft, currently the most valuable company, is having a Nadellaissance"

cjarrett — Thu, 02 May 2019 17:48:00 +0000

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.

New comment by cjarrett in "Microsoft, currently the most valuable company, is having a Nadellaissance"

cjarrett — Thu, 02 May 2019 17:06:07 +0000

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.

New comment by cjarrett in "Microsoft, currently the most valuable company, is having a Nadellaissance"

cjarrett — Thu, 02 May 2019 17:03:25 +0000

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

New comment by cjarrett in "Microsoft, currently the most valuable company, is having a Nadellaissance"

cjarrett — Thu, 02 May 2019 17:01:48 +0000

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.