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Microsoft Interview Questions

Posted Saturday, September 25, 2004 10:25 PM by CyrusN
It's quite interesting how suprised people were here when I was talking to them at the engineering career fair. Apperantly everyone was under the impression that there would be brain teasers, tough mathematical questions, or tons of questions on linked Read More...
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Legend of Zelda 2

Posted Saturday, September 25, 2004 10:03 PM by CyrusN
I love coming back to college. After spending a great day with friends I'm not watching one of my former Freshmen playing (and about to beat) LoZ2. I was just playing the music for this a while back (when i was playing the Castlevania music) and now I Read More...
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Cyrus@UPenn

Posted Tuesday, September 21, 2004 3:46 PM by CyrusN
Just checked into my hotel here. I'm going to be here for the rest of the week recruiting the best and the brightest. Well... not actually the best and brightest, I mean I need some form of job security. If you're here and want to chat I'll be at the Read More...
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Tabs vs Spaces

Posted Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:19 AM by CyrusN
As I see it there are three camps, each with a decreasing level of wrongness. First camp: Only tabs. This is about as wrong as you can get. Start with: class MyPen { <tab>public void Method1(int i, <tab><tab><tab><tab><tab>string Read More...
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Symphony of the Night

Posted Tuesday, September 14, 2004 9:39 AM by CyrusN
I'm sitting here at the company meeting. Slightly bored. MS MS MS, yadda yadda yadda. So I'm playing through video games that I loved in my head. I was on to castlevania when I realized how much I wanted to hear the soundtrack to that game again. Searching... Read More...
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I love what they've done to blogs.msdn.com

Posted Sunday, September 12, 2004 1:33 PM by CyrusN
Actually, i really don't. However, if you do like it please let me know. Seriously, if there is anything good about it tell me so I can get a balanced view of the pros/cons of this. Thanks! Read More...
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I hate what they've done to blogs.msdn.com

Posted Sunday, September 12, 2004 12:53 PM by CyrusN
I have the summaries, the lack of formatting, no pictures, having to visit each page in the browser (thus negating the use of an rss reader), etc. If you do/don't like the new format let me know and I'll send off the quotes to those in charge to see if Read More...
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Quick! Think fast

Posted Sunday, September 12, 2004 12:46 PM by CyrusN
I have an urgent question that i need someone from the greater Seattle area to answer. I'm looking to find some really excellent buffalo wings that can be delivered or are to go. By excellent, i really mean excellent. Meaty, tasty, *HOT*. I want names Read More...
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Extract method to class (part 2)

Posted Saturday, September 11, 2004 1:00 PM by CyrusN
Check out the previous post for some context on this. Let’s start with a simple example and walk step by step through the refactorings we’d have to provide to make this easy. Rather than one uber step it would be nice to have a lot of little baby steps Read More...
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Extract method to class (part 1)

Posted Saturday, September 11, 2004 12:12 PM by CyrusN
I've been working on a refactoring i like to call "extract method to class". It's a refactoring I like to do whenever i notice the following smells: You have a method that is seriously far too large for its own good. You need to change the logic in the Read More...
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Where are you?!!??!

Posted Thursday, September 09, 2004 10:32 PM by CyrusN
There's a memory leak here but for the life of me I can't figure out where. None of my changes look like they should have caused this but that always seems to be the case. Nothing like watching time go bye while you wish you were working on other things Read More...
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Run Silent, Run Deep

Posted Wednesday, September 08, 2004 12:38 AM by CyrusN
Some people have commented about the paucity of blog posts recently. It's largely due to the fact that I went on vacation, my parents came to visit me and we're now in serious crunch mode trying to shut down C# for VS2005. Most of us devs have moved into Read More...
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Some times you have to hurt him to save him

Posted Tuesday, September 07, 2004 3:39 PM by CyrusN
Just spent a fair amount smacking myself in the head for the following bug: //first check if it's in our cache. CGenericMemberDataPtr spSynthesizedMember; if ( ! m_memberCache.Lookup(iMember, spSynthesizedMember)) { //wasn't in the cache, have to create Read More...
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Did you get the memo?

Posted Monday, September 06, 2004 11:04 AM by CyrusN
Apperantly I didn't. I'm guessing there was some memo that went around saying something similar: Hey, heads up, fyi, attention, achtung: Labor day (contrary to its name) is not a day of labor, but is in fact a day of vacation. Enjoy yourselves and don't Read More...
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More thoughts on error tolerance.

Posted Monday, September 06, 2004 12:53 AM by CyrusN
I've posted before about error tolerance and how I consider that a very important part of VC#. This time I want to talk about some of the difficulties that arise when you go down that route. I'm going to start with a bug we recently discovered and how Read More...
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Matchmaker

Posted Sunday, September 05, 2004 12:31 AM by CyrusN
God I love Persion weddings. Great food, great dancing, great fun. Of course, this was no ordinary wedding. This was a Korean/Persian wedding. We sprinkled sugar on the pair, they pummeled them with dates and chestnuts. There was much rejoicing with wine Read More...
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