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Umm, it was explained well in the story. Hooli was supposedly a major customer of all cloud providers and Gavin had pressured them to not sell VMs to Pied Piper
by skrebbel 10y ago
Umm, it was explained well in the story. Hooli was supposedly a major customer of all cloud providers and Gavin had pressured them to not sell VMs to Pied Piper. So they had no other option.
The only hole in that story is that there's always too many hosting providers, you can't pressure all of them. But hey, it's a TV show.
- eanzenberg 10y agoAlso.. why would you place your proprietary "winning" algorithm on a machine owned by your biggest competitor?
- j_s 10y agoThis is a real concern for FPGA programmers considering Amazon EC2 F1.