Translated from 日本語 • View original This is Furuyama, a programmer. This time, as a bonus to our Super Azure engineer Mr. Hara, I was able to visit the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, so I will summarize the whole story. Actually, it was my first trip to the United States, so I think there may be expressions like "Uh-so", but I hope you will laugh and forgive me. No, really.
I wanted to go far.
When I was a fledgling engineer, a fair-skinned man from far away across the ocean told me.
"Why did you come to Japan?" "I just wanted to go far from where I was born." "Why?" "Why, that's all. Don't you think so?"
I see. I want to go far. If you look back at yourself as a carrier of genes, it may be a fundamental desire rooted in instinct. It carries the information that constitutes itself far away, and in a hurry, it becomes redundant. For that reason, I want to go far, just go far. I was deeply convinced, and I vaguely thought that I wanted to take myself farther.
It's been a long time since then, and I'm still in Japan. After all, I have never set foot in the hometown of an engineer who came from afar. After all, I think that is the kind of person I was.
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Today, I was hitting the keyboard I was used to today, and my reality was shaken that day, as I was fleeing far away in a virtual sense. Our handsome representative told me:
"Would you like to go to Seattle?"
I don't remember much about the exchange from there. In a daze, I just remember sitting on the ground with my wife, calling my mother from the countryside to take care of the children, and simply abandoning my work.
I clutched my ticket and passport and sat in an economy seat. Before I knew it, I was standing 8,000 kilometers away from where I was born. Finally, I set foot in his hometown. The fact that he was isolated alone in immigration and worried about his companions was a small thing compared to the fact that he arrived here.
Even so, I never thought it would take so long. Before I knew it, I had a spouse, four children, and I would grow old in this place, so I pretended to forget my passion at that time. But I managed to get to this place. Even if it was only for three days, it was the same event in my life as Captain Armstrong as landing on the moon for the first time. The first time in human history than in human history. Human beings cannot escape the cage of subjectivity. Thank God.
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I started my career as a general contractor SIer. I was tired of the political and physical strength priorities of the technology of these large companies, and I was attracted to the free atmosphere of OSS, and I was just attracted to the brightness of electric lights, and I was flickering around Apache, Tomcat, Java, and Linux, with a mechanical nature that attracted moths to the brightness of electric lights. Learning was always endless and endless. There was no politics, only the passion to move the world forward. To be honest, I couldn't make any direct contributions. I feel like the only time I helped someone on a question site who was trying to run Vine Linux on Vmware, was an indulgence for me to be here. In the end, I was such an otaku at the level of a script kiddy.
Even for me at that time, Microsoft was, to put it simply, an enemy. Because it's a company where things like this are on the market.
Halloween Document http://cruel.org/freeware/halloween.html
The destination this time is the head office, the headquarters of the enemy. Oh my moth. Force, be with me.
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Shuttle buses and cars run through in all directions. The place that was too standard for a company's site was Microsoft's headquarters. I don't have the sensibility to call this a campus. I don't know of a university that has a traffic light on campus. No matter how you look at it, this is the city. Under the gray sky, we were sucked into Microsoft's headquarters in an Uber-branded Prius.
The period of stay passed like a raging wave while being overwhelmed by everything. Looking back, everything was like a dream. I would like to write down only three things before they all overflow from the vessel of memory.
HoloLens THE AR
While watching a lot of videos on Youtube, I took a step back about three steps and imagined that it was a well-made image video, but I was able to experience it so much. This is great. It was an overwhelmingly amazing experience. Have you ever had the experience of moving the mouse cursor off the display? I don't. I never imagined it. It is very easy to do this. Yes, with HoloLens.
I'm dissatisfied with the display size of my smartphone. To be precise, it is a complaint about the fact that it is a fixed size. This is always too big or too small. I want it to be small when I carry it around, and I want it to expand my field of vision when watching movies. There must be many people who have such dissatisfaction. Therefore, there is a halfway market for tablets and other things. A barren dispute arises between the 7-inch and 8-inch factions. Another problem is that you can't place it in the right position unless you hold it with your hands. Since this is simply a window that displays information, I want it to be displayed in the right place and at the right size according to the situation at the time.
HoloLens smartly solves this problem. Information is displayed where it is needed and in the required size. Rather, it subtly overwrites reality to the point where you forget that it is just information. That's why this technology is called Augmented Reality.
HoloLens deals with light and sound. It only has information that appeals to the senses of sight and hearing, and has no touch or smell. But how many of these things exist in this world? No one touches the TV screen. At most, it's like a toddler in a tutorial on this world. The roofs of houses, the exterior walls of buildings, famous paintings, and big advertisements. And good-natured colleagues walking around the office. I don't think I'll touch it first. On the contrary, if you touch it, it can be a crime. There are far more things than you can imagine, and you don't need touch, smell, or taste.
In short, these are all AR defensive ranges.
The office can be fully virtualized, including colleagues. If you can accurately reproduce the sense of distance between each other, it is no different from working in the same place. There are also devices that display information. You don't have to carry a smartphone or PC. With just one AR device, you don't even need a TV. From portable to large-screen TVs, the size is as you want. In addition, the interior and exterior decoration of the house are no longer necessary. The makeover is also instantaneous. There are anime in Japan that predict such a future. Construction-related costs will drop dramatically. After all, it is enough to have one AR device for decoration. There may be an increase in rugged buildings that prioritize maintenance. Above all, it may be necessary for developing countries.
AR has a future. The only device that brings that future to your fingertips in a very understandable way is the HoloLens. At this point, there are still things that can be found if you look for roughness, such as narrow viewing angles or a little heavy judgment. But this experience is unique that only HoloLens can offer. I believe that there is a future in which Google Glass has given up. Time will surely solve the problem. Microsoft should be afraid.
Microsoft Loves Linux
Since Nadella started leading Microsoft, even my feed, which has been distancing itself from Windows, has been flooded with information that MS has changed and become cooler.
It seems that Windows 10 will support bash. In other words, Visual Studio Code's code assist seems to be quite fast. In other words, Xamarin seems to be super easy to use.
However, for me, who lives a life of going back and forth between IntelliJ and Vim, and sometimes Android Studio and Xcode, having a MacOS was enough.
Even if you put a lot of effort into OSS, it means that it complements Windows, right? There were colored glasses. However, it is. The Azure CLI is completely independent of Windows and even provides an image for Docker. For reference, the base is alpine. I have to say that it is thorough. This does not pollute the host OS and is easy to install. I thought it was cool. If you want to use the cloud for your work, the focus will definitely shift to CUI rather than GUI. This is because in order to script operations in the cloud, you have to rely on the CLI.
In any case, the existence of Windows is overwhelming. Even if the Mac is cool, the share of desktop OS is about 10%. Windows still holds a market share of more than 90%. In other words, if the CLI is made Windows-only, it shouldn't hurt or itch for Microsoft. In fact, it should even be done according to the strategy so far.
That's why I felt Microsoft's spirit here. It's a light blue air that is different from before. If there is one killer content that attracts them, many engineers may want to return to the world of Windows. To be honest, I can't help but want to try Windows Subsystem for Linux as well.
Microsoft is excited. Don't do it.
The Fellowship of the MS
The title is a rip-off of The Lord of the Rings. It depicts the adventures of Frodo the Hobbit until he destroys the ring with the help of his trusted friends, and it is a masterpiece among masterpieces that I don't need to explain. It can be called the Bible. This trip to Microsoft headquarters was a wonderful experience of strong escorts from Microsoft Japan and rivals who usually belong to different company organizations and work together. I was stimulated by the appearance of my friends on this trip, who expressed their hot opinions in Japanese and English as if they were eating Microsoft, and it would be a lie if I didn't accept it. There are a lot of hot and amazing people in this industry. Feeling this from the bottom of my heart may be the best harvest of this trip.
I was wondering if it would be okay for someone like me who didn't know Azure A to participate, but that kind of kodawari had melted away before I knew it. Because if you open your PC and hit the keyboard, you can communicate without an interpreter. Rather, I thought again when I saw that the interpreter was having trouble with the technical terms that were too niche for me.
We are a race that already has a common language before we say English or Japanese.
Engineers are the best. And Microsoft is the best because there are a lot of such engineers.
So, through this trip, I have been stimulated enough to give my wings. It flies without Redbull, really.
I myself am an engineer whose main battlefield is AWS and GCP, but I wanted to take this opportunity to gradually expand my territory to Azure as well.
This time, Mr. Hara who approached me, Mr. Nakamura who gave me a push, everyone in Team B who sent me off without complaining even though there was a pile of unprocessed tickets, everyone at Microsoft Japan who planned this project, everyone at Microsoft headquarters who generously shared information, and everyone who was with me on this trip. Thank you very much. I was grateful to him for saying that I would like to see him again next year, but since I am not an Azure engineer in the first place, and I have a 2-year-old child and twins, I may not have the opportunity to go through such selfishness again, but if allowed, I would love to see you again. Dreaming of that time, I will head to the keyboard today as well.
Yes. This is also a souvenir from a business trip to the United States. It seems to be a bellevue specialty.
