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luuioon As 0days get meaner, Google defenses increasingly outpace Microsoft

Not disagreeing with what you said, just want to point out that Microsoft needs to deal with even more driver from proprietary manufacturers :-)

luuioon MSN Messenger to end after 15 years

no group chat.

luuioon DocumentDB

The .NET & JS repos are empty, too. I think they just have not published the code. It's still in Preview after all.

https://github.com/Azure/azure-documentdb-net

luuioon DocumentDB

A quick comparison between DocumentDB vs MongoDB: http://daprlabs.com/blog/blog/2014/08/22/azure-documentdb/

luuioon DocumentDB

how? you're just doing the same thing with MongoDB in their own json-like syntax instead of the T-SQL that everyone knows

luuioon DocumentDB

This allows you to use SQL queries, and built in index support

luuioon Ask HN: Choosing between Microsoft and everything else

Career wise, I'd say don't even worry about what stack you choose. Ignore all those posts about ".NET will land you corporate jobs." Companies should not worry about what languages you have experience with. They should care for how much programming (not languages) experience you have and how fast you can learn new concepts and new languages. Know your algorithms, and data structures etc. you wouldn't wan to work for companies (especially startups) tht require "3 years of Ruby." That's just shallow. That's why Google Apple amazon MSFT hire the best folks. They don care what langs you know. They care if you can code and solve problems

luuioon Ask HN: Choosing between Microsoft and everything else

None of my DBs have exceede 1GB so far. For larger things I throw them on Azure Blob/Table -- which is dirty cheap (7cents/GB). I still use my MacBook running OSX, only used for travel and browsing the internet on the couch (thinking of replacing it with a surface). Most of my coding happens on my own desk with a desktop running windows. I treat time outside my desk as brainstorm/thinking time. In desperate times, I occasionally remote into the desktop from Mac.

luuioon Ask HN: Choosing between Microsoft and everything else

you serious?

luuioon Ask HN: Choosing between Microsoft and everything else

I was in your boat a while back.

I had always done development on the Microsoft stack (.NET, SQL Server, etc.). I had always played around with nix stuff but never anything serious. During college, I got a Macbook to do iPhone apps, and decided I wanted to do development exclusively on nix.

What I ended up spending 2 years of my side project time is switching between languages and stacks: from Python to Ruby to Java to Scala to Mono to Erlang back to Ruby to Node back to Java -- I was trying to find that perfect productive replacement for C#/.NET ecosystem.

Finally I switched back to .NET on Windows, and things felt so right. I've been happily productive on the .NET platform for the past year and a half.

About VM/licensing fee, it really isn't that much of a difference if you think about it. I'm averaging about $90/month for the VMs and DBs I'm using on Azure. Compare the price between "SQL Azure" and "MongoLab," the diff ain't that big.

Don't take this the wrong way, but it is most likely that side projects aren't big enough to really make the pricing difference more than $50ish a month -- this really is not much especially after when you have a job.

Edit: most of my (probably yours) projects fitted nicely in the free zone of Azure (with or without MSDNAA) and AppHarbor. Also keep in mind that even the FREE VS Express is better than most Open Source editors/IDE out there.

luuioon Ask HN: What project would you work on if you had half a year of free time?

welcome to Microsoft OneDrive

luuioon Yammer Co-Founder David Sacks Leaves Microsoft

MSFT does not have cubicles by the way. They try to give each employee an office.

luuioon Seriously Oracle? Who employs you guys?

string comparison lol

luuioon Bootcamp, an open-source enterprise social network

do you pipe all the data to /dev/null? I don't see any databases mentioned in the technology stack

luuioon Write JSON Schema in Markdown (MSON proposal)

umm, yaml?

luuioon Microsoft breaks into leaker employee's Hotmail without warrant

"Courts do not issue orders authorizing someone to search themselves, since obviously no such order is needed. So even when we believe we have probable cause, it’s not feasible to ask a court to order us to search ourselves. However, even we should not conduct a search of our own e-mail and other customer services unless the circumstances would justify a court order, if one were available."

luuioon Introducing our smart contact lens project (for diabetics)

Nothing new under the Sun: January 5, 2012 - http://www.gizmag.com/microsoft-electronic-diabetic-contact-...

luuioon Rust is surprisingly expressive

What kind of people still get excited over a language's ability to do this?

* Category functions in Objective-C

* .NET extension methods

luuioon Guide to Leaving your Mac

> my new ThinkPad is twice as thick as my MBP

how much did you pay for the thinkpad and how much did you pay for MBP? i doubt that your MBP is thiner than the Lenovo Carbon X1

luuioon Is iOS7 jailbroken yet?

because the consideration was "oh, everybody has and is familiar with iOS devices, we'll waste less time training them and they won't make as much mistake poking around."