Daniel Sada Caraveo | Developer Productivity & Culture

I was reading Marianne Bellotti’s Kill It with Fire when I found a description of COBOL that sounded strangely familiar: COBOL was a language built for people who did not want to understand how the computer worked; they just wanted to get the job done.

Eight years ago, I started with a challenge called “100 Days of Algorithms”.

»> go to watolls «< I live in Washington State.

Once upon a time, I got a PR from a coworker, I’ll call him Mike.

Recently, a study made the Hacker News’ front page mentioning that 50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don’t own a record player.

Do you remember MapReduce?

Back in the day, I was on a team that was allergic to change.

When you join Microsoft, you hear stories about people who’ve been there for 20 years, who grew up with the company, who never had to worry about sudden changes (maybe except for 2008).

After going in deep in product, I found myself drawn to a different challenge: making other developers more productive.

The In-Between: From Founder to Employee After I got my full time offer in Microsoft, I sold my company and moved to work full-time on Microsoft OneNote.

“When they say ‘be your own boss’ what they don’t tell you is that you’re trading one boss for dozens.

“There I was, sitting in a Project Management class, watching my professor demonstrate Microsoft Project; the same software I had just spent my summer adding features to.

Little elephant company — 7 people working out of a random house — 2013 I know we haven’t paid you for 30 days, but would you be willing to float another month?

There I was, a kid giving the speech for my committee in Berkeley University.

You know when you are on a hike, and there is a point where you are exactly midway through it?

I was born and raised in Mexico City, and I often get the question of what are my favorite places or plans to visit in Mexico City I enjoy that are compatible with foreigners and shine a light on some of the things Mexico has to offer.

While I was working in OneNote, one of the things the organization wanted to improve was developer productivty.

Hello!

I’m writing here to list some of the mexican candy I’ve given, as well as allergens and a little bit of context about em.

Five years ago (how time flies) I made a blog post about programs that have saved me 100+ hours, after uploading my article to HackerNews Thread 1 Thread 2 a lot of people responded with their favorite programs that have saved them 100+ hours.

In memoriam, avus magni.

“Comprar una computadora es igual que comprar un automóvil, es muy dificil escoger el correcto y salir de la tienda sabiendo que fue la mejor opción” - Carlos Cerdeira Muchos de mis amigos invierten una cantidad considerable de su dinero para comprar una…

Soy un usuario promedio: ¿Que app debería usar?

I recently graduated, and in order to get my official graduation title I needed to get my private and public key from the government.

Hey everyone, here’s a .aftemplate file for you to download that includes all of the Display Google Ads templates.

Ahora que vivimos en una sociedad global, hacer tu curriculum vitae es mucho más dificil, debido a que los regionalismos que tenemos en cada una de las partes del mundo para aplicar a los trabajos, no son adecuados (e incluso ofensivos) para ciertas compa…

Over my work in different scales of services, I’ve noticed that there is a common pattern in some of these services that makes them easier to approach and cause less headaches to the engineers that handle them.

Cynicism, distrust, skepticism, doubt, disbelief; an inclination to question whether something will happen or whether it is worthwhile; pessimism.

No suelo quejarme mucho, sin embargo, varias cosas me han irritado en cómo los bancos que proclaman ser tan conocedores en ciberseguridad tienden a ser los que más caen en falsedades que solo aparentan seguridad.

After 3 internships In Microsoft, (and becoming a senior intern in the process) I’ve decided to write a blog post about what I’ve learned in three summers here.

Have you ever had a hard drive which runs out of space while there is still space remaining?

Sometimes when we are making backups on our files, and specially if you are a Node.js developer, you’ll suffer whilst copying your repositories to another place for making a backup.

In my InfoSec class, we were asked to show a preliminary attempt at google hacking.

As tradition follows, we usually get screenings of interesting movies in class, today we got a screening of Moon Machines [1] a documentary by the science channel about the Apollo Guidance system and their corresponding code.This documentary was about the…

Since I wrote this, there has been two HN threads on this blog, they contain super useful links and programs, go see them!

I found this quote interesting, it was made by reddit user /u/Bytewave, he is a Senior Engineer in a well positioned Telco in Canada.

Being my dream to work for one of the Big 4, since an early age I stated to learn the skill-set I’d need in order to be interviewed in Microsoft.

When you work in the software industry, indubitably you will find the (now very famous)BOFH, and Clients from Hell material, where a technical person complains about a client.

With all the new technologies emerging for cloud migration, there is a wide acceptance that cloud services are the cheapest, and best way to manage some kinds of infrastructures.