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Sriram Krishnan
Personal blog · sriramkrishnan.com/blogprogrammingcareer
Sriram Krishnan's personal blog at sriramkrishnan.com covers programming and career. Since 2007, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Stuff I've learned at Microsoft”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Stuff I've learned at Microsoft3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-12-12
- Amazon SimpleDB - Technical Overview2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2007-12-14
What Hacker News says?
I'm surprised noone pointed out this post from Sriram Krishnan, a product manager at Microsoft: Stuff I've Learned at Microsoft http://www.sriramkrishnan.com/blog/2009/12/stuff-ive-learned... "Ask for forgiveness, not for permission ... Any sufficiently large institution has something to lose...Corporate systems are optimized for saying no. Maintain the status quo. No risk of failure and a spectacular blowout...This…
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on “Why you should never ask permission to clean up code.”Submitted Stuff I've learned at Microsoft as a story · 167 points
HN discussionI can only imagine this is taking advantage of the fact that Windows task scheduling gives higher priority to threads which are currently receiving user interaction. In certain cases, doing this would allow the process to handle returning data faster, especially if it was having to communicate with Excel a great deal and there was a lot of context-switching/waiting between the processes and you wanted to favor Excel…
Comment linking /blog/2006/08/tale-of-two-schedulers-win_115489794858863433.html
on “"If you move your mouse pointer continuously... the query may not fail."”Submitted Lisp is Sin (2006) as a story · 26 points
HN discussionIt works just like on Windows. The rule of thumb is if something can run on Windows (well, in specific Windows Server but that doesn't really matter), it'll run on Windows Azure. The book has a chapter on how to do this with PHP examples. I recently did a talk on how to do RoR on Azure http://www.sriramkrishnan.com/books_talks.html . Folks have run Python, Erlang, Clojure, etc on Azure without any issues. The thing…
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on “My book 'Programming Windows Azure' from O'Reilly is available”Submitted Stuff I've learned at Microsoft as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI wrote up an overview post at http://www.sriramkrishnan.com/blog/2007/12/amazon-simpledb-t... The eventual consistency part is going to be interesting to watch.
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on “Amazon SimpleDB Goes Beta”Submitted The state of the publishing world (and how it is similar to tech) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The need for distributed programming tools as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Amazon SimpleDB - Technical Overview as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leaving Microsoft and moving to SF Bay Area as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nskein - a Skein implementation in .NET as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I love StackOverflow Podcast as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sriram Krishnan re: Browser wars as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting automated user feedback - overview of crash data sending, A/B testing, analytics, etc as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dave Cutler and the Bill Gates award as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python wrapper for Windows Azure storage as a story · 1 points
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