JSC is barely ever mentioned in the v8 team. They gave up wanting to be benchmark kings in the interest of having decent performance in Android markets (low-end and high). Comments around cheating are likely aimed at…
This was stupid comment, long day. Totally looking at this the wrong way.
In Singularity, the system gets to decide what happens at SIP boundaries (and the kernel ABI boundary). HIP is the full address space change, but any mitigation steps can be introduced in the IPC hand-off between SIPs…
Mark Aiken wrote a paper on Singularity with and and without Memory Protection: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/deconst... By design, Singularity didn't support dynamic code loading so untrusted…
Preliminary VarHandle support in Android start in P. The API is hidden, but it had to start ahead of the Java 9 libraries because it's a lot of work. All code needs to be capable of being interpreted as that's the…
Hey Joe, can't you just stop nagging users to use your browser and stop overriding the users choice of browser? No need to repackage anything, just move on.
Completely agree. My home network is built with Mikrotik kit which is priced where it's affordable to have spares. I have yet to encounter a failure, but could drop in a new router in a couple of minutes with the saved…
I love what DeepMind is doing, but find their publication choices bizarre. Sure Nature has the occasional ML / NN paper, but it's not a top journal for AI / ML / CS and it makes getting hold of papers awkward and it…
It doesn't take 10 minutes for a LaTeX or Word user to get frustrated with docs. What doesn't it do: 1. user defined style definitions 2. citations / bibliography 3. anchoring There are plugins that can help, but at…
The Linux Subsystem for Windows isn't a great example. Folks in MSR Cambridge had Linux running on Windows circa Y2K. The Linux Subsystem today comes from a second effort using Drawbridge.
Mikrotik wAP ac [1] positioned in center of home with a Mikrotik Hex POE [2] as the main router and DHCP server. There is TP-Link HomePlug [3,4] between router and WiFi base station. The wAP ac has a stronger and more…
That is the nature of the beast except for retropiling. Method handles may be a hard set of features to implement on that path.
Clickbait. No story until unveiling event.
Thanks for sharing. The documentation is well done, looking forward to checking out the code.
Could be that the recruiter left. My perception is that recruiters have greater churn in bi companies.
Windows also has the cool and little known CommonLogFileSystem if you need logging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Log_File_System https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb9...
I had the feeling several times at MSFT that sometimes projects go all the way to completion for the sanity of the team. Kin looks like an example of this. The Kin team were mostly from the SideKick acquisition and they…
AFAIK, VS uses the same implementation of the MSBuild engine but has some sleazy (buggy) performance optimizations. Add the property DISABLEFASTUPTODATECHECK=1 to get the same behavior. We found this allowed us to…
That's good news. I left MSFT last year and know some of the internal build toolsets have their own similar solution, but it's not integrated with Visual Studio.
IIRC MSBuild was the brain child of Alex Kipman, father of Kinect and HoloLens. As legend tells it he lashed up a demo version over a weekend and pitched it successfully in the corridor shortly thereafter. The rest is…
The open-sourcing is a sign that MSFT is in a tricky spot (BYOD, mobile, tablet, games) and desperately needs to improve relations with the outside world. Expect we'll also see MSFT using more open source in products to…
As an older self-taught engineer who went through interviews last year this is great advice. Other books I found particularly useful were: Algorithms by Dasgupta, Papadimitriou and Vazirani:…
You'd like to think there are places in the world that this would make a lot of sense - your phone and tablet could get updates that your PC woke up to download overnight, and all your devices avoid bottlenecking on a…
In a big company, this will have had nothing to do with engineers as they are not employed to do business deals. A business specialist will have made a deal with Superfish in the name of the company. In all likelihood…
This looks great. They also have the advantage that James Hamilton mentioned AMZ got from building their own hardware - the get to do a cleansheet s/w design and not have to support all the gazillion options that Cisco…
JSC is barely ever mentioned in the v8 team. They gave up wanting to be benchmark kings in the interest of having decent performance in Android markets (low-end and high). Comments around cheating are likely aimed at…
This was stupid comment, long day. Totally looking at this the wrong way.
In Singularity, the system gets to decide what happens at SIP boundaries (and the kernel ABI boundary). HIP is the full address space change, but any mitigation steps can be introduced in the IPC hand-off between SIPs…
Mark Aiken wrote a paper on Singularity with and and without Memory Protection: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/deconst... By design, Singularity didn't support dynamic code loading so untrusted…
Preliminary VarHandle support in Android start in P. The API is hidden, but it had to start ahead of the Java 9 libraries because it's a lot of work. All code needs to be capable of being interpreted as that's the…
Hey Joe, can't you just stop nagging users to use your browser and stop overriding the users choice of browser? No need to repackage anything, just move on.
Completely agree. My home network is built with Mikrotik kit which is priced where it's affordable to have spares. I have yet to encounter a failure, but could drop in a new router in a couple of minutes with the saved…
I love what DeepMind is doing, but find their publication choices bizarre. Sure Nature has the occasional ML / NN paper, but it's not a top journal for AI / ML / CS and it makes getting hold of papers awkward and it…
It doesn't take 10 minutes for a LaTeX or Word user to get frustrated with docs. What doesn't it do: 1. user defined style definitions 2. citations / bibliography 3. anchoring There are plugins that can help, but at…
The Linux Subsystem for Windows isn't a great example. Folks in MSR Cambridge had Linux running on Windows circa Y2K. The Linux Subsystem today comes from a second effort using Drawbridge.
Mikrotik wAP ac [1] positioned in center of home with a Mikrotik Hex POE [2] as the main router and DHCP server. There is TP-Link HomePlug [3,4] between router and WiFi base station. The wAP ac has a stronger and more…
That is the nature of the beast except for retropiling. Method handles may be a hard set of features to implement on that path.
Clickbait. No story until unveiling event.
Thanks for sharing. The documentation is well done, looking forward to checking out the code.
Could be that the recruiter left. My perception is that recruiters have greater churn in bi companies.
Windows also has the cool and little known CommonLogFileSystem if you need logging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Log_File_System https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb9...
I had the feeling several times at MSFT that sometimes projects go all the way to completion for the sanity of the team. Kin looks like an example of this. The Kin team were mostly from the SideKick acquisition and they…
AFAIK, VS uses the same implementation of the MSBuild engine but has some sleazy (buggy) performance optimizations. Add the property DISABLEFASTUPTODATECHECK=1 to get the same behavior. We found this allowed us to…
That's good news. I left MSFT last year and know some of the internal build toolsets have their own similar solution, but it's not integrated with Visual Studio.
IIRC MSBuild was the brain child of Alex Kipman, father of Kinect and HoloLens. As legend tells it he lashed up a demo version over a weekend and pitched it successfully in the corridor shortly thereafter. The rest is…
The open-sourcing is a sign that MSFT is in a tricky spot (BYOD, mobile, tablet, games) and desperately needs to improve relations with the outside world. Expect we'll also see MSFT using more open source in products to…
As an older self-taught engineer who went through interviews last year this is great advice. Other books I found particularly useful were: Algorithms by Dasgupta, Papadimitriou and Vazirani:…
You'd like to think there are places in the world that this would make a lot of sense - your phone and tablet could get updates that your PC woke up to download overnight, and all your devices avoid bottlenecking on a…
In a big company, this will have had nothing to do with engineers as they are not employed to do business deals. A business specialist will have made a deal with Superfish in the name of the company. In all likelihood…
This looks great. They also have the advantage that James Hamilton mentioned AMZ got from building their own hardware - the get to do a cleansheet s/w design and not have to support all the gazillion options that Cisco…