Most of the bugs I reported to Microsoft were flaws in their Fortran and MASM (assembly language) offerings, back in olden days of yore (otherwise known as the 1990s).
With the added complexity of modern Microsoft dev tools, though, I'm sure bugs never make it into production nowadays.
Not quite sure what you mean there. Closed source gets more code review than opensource apparently.
Speaking as someone who, in a past job, reported a number of brain-dead flaws in their products to Microsoft - I'm curious what experience has led you to draw that conclusion.
Given all the open-source SSL/TLS security flaws (OpenSSL, gnutls, Apple SSL) that have come out these past few months - mostly thanks to renewed interest in hunting flaws, thanks to the Snowden revelations, I suspect - I hope that companies like Microsoft are also seeing this as a wake-up call driving them to do code reviews on their closed-source SSL/TLS code.
A new theory that will require an even more massive supercollider to prove or disprove!
This "Star within a star" thing has been a phenomenon commonly known in Hollywood since the days Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.
Sweet little Mary Pickford would NEVER do such a thing!
Unreachable with current technology perhaps, but who knows about the future?
The future, Conan?
... Would you like a recommendation for a neurologist and anti-seizure medication?"
Response: GAAHHHHERRRGGGHHHHHHHH........
Runs just fine except for the GUI looking like a complete piece of shit.
But it does so equally across all platforms!
that isn't true. under the new examiner count system allowances are weighed less. besides, you can easily get at least one continuation out of every application. so that's a count for the FAOM, the RCE, the subsequent FA and then maybe an allowance. hell, sometimes you can get 2 or more continuations on a case and something like 80+% of your counting is rejection-related.
DDT didn't get banned in malaria countries, dummy.
Well they did keep all the patents after they discarded Motorola - it was likely the plan all along.
I'd really like to know what the real business plan is. Are they really after the part of the world's population that is currently unreachable, or is it a parallel effort to Google Fiber where they're hoping to get access to a greater percentage of the first world's internet traffic so they can monetize it?
My money's on the latter.
Maybe he couldn't read clearly because of all the smoke between his eyes and the computer screen.
You said "Google's own stats", but then supported it with a subjective anecdotal statement from Google.
I live in Washington state, and I think we're to blame - at least in part. All those Oregon programmers kept coming north to smoke weed here. I was a bit surprised Oregon didn't have plenty of its own already, given its reputation; but no, you'd see those guys all over the place asking "where can I find the good stuff, man. The GOOD stuff! I need a hookup, man!"
Our own health insurance exchange did well after the first week - that's when we fired all the stoners and hired every Mormon coder we could find.
If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. -- Stanley Garn
