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New comment by stiglitz in "The quiet resurgence of RF engineering"

stiglitz — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:16:24 +0000

As someone with a EE degree followed by 12 years of SWE work, that pivot is quite daunting. A degree is just a piece of paper to get you an entry level job to do some real learning IMO

New comment by stiglitz in "Should QA exist?"

stiglitz — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:20:54 +0000

In the Windows team (back before the test org was decimated) I saw the described "class divide". Anybody who was good enough would switch from SDET to SDE [disclaimer: obviously there were some isolated exceptions]. The test team produced reams of crappy test frameworks, each of which seemed like a "proving project" for its creators to show they could be competent SDEs. After the Great Decimation my dev team took ownership of many such frameworks and it was a total boondoggle; we wasted years trying (and mostly failing) to sort through the crappy test code.

This was all unfortunate, and I agree in principle with having a separate test org, but in Windows the culture unfortunately seemed to be built around testers as second-class software developers.

New comment by stiglitz in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

stiglitz — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:17:43 +0000

I’ve always been bothered by instances of your first example, and I mostly use “XD” instead of “:)” to sidestep the issue in my own writing.

New comment by stiglitz in "Terence Tao focused on fundraising after federal funding to UCLA was suspended"

stiglitz — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:01:54 +0000

That doesn’t seem like an accurate synopsis of the article at all.

New comment by stiglitz in "Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI"

stiglitz — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 02:23:45 +0000

As a Windows driver developer: LOL

New comment by stiglitz in "AI-generated “workslop” is destroying productivity?"

stiglitz — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 23:10:02 +0000

Another possibility: your teams are working less now.

New comment by stiglitz in "Dull Men’s Club"

stiglitz — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 05:22:54 +0000

Speaking of paying close attention to the mundane, it’s an escalator.

New comment by stiglitz in "Quantum mechanics provide truly random numbers on demand"

stiglitz — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:41:17 +0000

I don’t think I’ll ever be convinced that there’s some kind of fundamental “randomness” (as in one that isn’t a measure of ignorance) in the world. Claiming its existence sounds like claiming to know what we don’t know.

New comment by stiglitz in "I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud"

stiglitz — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 22:57:48 +0000

Why make it work with a mobile app at all? How is that even a convenience? This is an appliance you need to be physically present at to load and unload.

New comment by stiglitz in "Why TCP needs 3 handshakes"

stiglitz — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 13:07:04 +0000

TCP Fast Open does you one better:

A: If you can hear me, what time is it?

B: Yeah I can hear you; it’s 5.

New comment by stiglitz in "Optimizing global message transit latency: a journey through TCP configuration"

stiglitz — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 23:49:38 +0000

FYI quic is compatible with bbr, and at least the google and msft quic implementations have bbr (albeit not by default afaik).

New comment by stiglitz in "Reflection for C++26"

stiglitz — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 23:36:31 +0000

By ”stagnation” do you mean “not getting new features”?

New comment by stiglitz in "Reining in America's $3.3T tax-exempt economy"

stiglitz — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 17:02:13 +0000

> The median operating margins for hospitals is around 0% or some times negative

I found this page that seems to agree- https://www.definitivehc.com/resources/healthcare-insights/h...

That shows a negative median operating margin for the last 5 years. How can an industry carry on losing money like this? This must be only part of the story, right?

New comment by stiglitz in "Procrastination is connected to perfectionism"

stiglitz — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 13:41:58 +0000

>I've turned in so many things I'm not happy with and gotten a "this is great"

Great if this feedback is from users; not great if it's from somebody who's just been waiting for you to finish it so that they can sell it. Unfortunately in a big-company environment like the one I work in, the initial and dominant feedback is usually from the latter.

New comment by stiglitz in "The Rise and Fall of the 'IBM Way'"

stiglitz — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 03:08:47 +0000

Sorry for the tangent but I have to know if it’s really “picadillos” you meant to type.

New comment by stiglitz in "I moved states just before the return-to-office order at Amazon, so I quit"

stiglitz — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:22:30 +0000

The campus reconstruction isn’t finished yet. I’m certainly curious what will happen when it is.

New comment by stiglitz in "Let maintainers be maintainers"

stiglitz — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 15:24:11 +0000

Unfortunately missing in the article is any plan for this to actually happen: for stability and quality to be valued by the CEMBI when their boss demands proof of “impact”.

New comment by stiglitz in "Leo Tolstoy on why people drink (2014)"

stiglitz — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 05:24:43 +0000

I enjoy drinking alone.

New comment by stiglitz in "Programming culture in the late aughts (2022)"

stiglitz — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 03:22:47 +0000

"12 years ago everyone was wondering how we'd program on multicore CPUs" is either laughable or enlightening to read as an OS developer.

Microsoft won't raise salaries for full-time employees this year

stiglitz — Wed, 10 May 2023 15:56:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-wont-raise-salaries-for-full-time-employees-this-year-2023-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35889203

Points: 9

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