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by GVIrish 8y ago
The problem with this article is that it makes a huge logical leap from saying a short person is highly unlikely to become one of the best 400 basketball players on earth, to then say resources shouldn't be wasted on kids that are perc
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I think there are people who went with NoSQL because it fit their specific needs better than a regular RDBMS, and people who went NoSQL because they found it easier to work with than a RDBMS (at first). The latter group often didn't wa
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> This may be a mean thing to say, but basically I think SPA's are massively overused, because developers want to demonstrate that they can do them. Unfortunately this is another side effect of the broken hiring process in IT. Recr
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Sure, you don't want to design a system that lays benefits on so thick that it creates a strong disincentive to work. But any worthwhile safety net is going to have some level of abuse, which is a tradeoff that has to be managed with
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> Whether or not the rules in the App Store are "capricious" is widely debated, but it's probably safe to say that they're coming out looking pretty good vis a vis malware and end-user experience as a result. Apple&#x
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I don't know if that really makes sense. By that logic, the more miserable we make life for poor people, the more motivation they will have to get out of that life. A good social safety net means that poor people are not so busy tryin
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Apple's brand of 'evil' was the capricious rules of the App Store walled garden and Apple's rent seeking on iPhone/iPad accessories. Then there was the whole wage suppression thing. At least with Apple, they never
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It's always greed. I can guarantee you that if the FDA was defanged in the United States you'd see a massive spike in food and drug safety failures and counterfeiting. If a company can profit significantly from cutting corners i
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Whether or not a company is taking full advantage of Outlook, Flow, Sharepoint Online, etc doesn't really matter in terms of revenue. If a company is paying for cloud products, that counts towards Microsoft's cloud revenue. Even
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If the claim is that Azure is generating more revenue than AWS, then yes I would say that is misleading. If the claim is that Microsoft's cloud revenue is bigger than Amazon's, I would assume that includes Office365. Office365 is
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Why shouldn't Office365 be counted in cloud revenue? "Cloud Revenue" doesn't exclusive mean IaaS or PaaS.
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I'd be curious to see what job descriptions made up the survey. There's easily more than $100k difference between the something like a junior help desk analyst vs a senior sw engineer, and that's not even getting into FAANG
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> Its telling that none of the media even once asked themselves WHY someone would want to attack embassy staff in such a bizarre way. Simple answer: intelligence officers work out of embassies. We do it, our adversaries do it, our allie
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Here's the thing, you don't always necessarily know. But your mind is always doing that extra calculation to figure out what is going on. "Is this person questioning my credentials because they question everyone's crede
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That's a fair point. Apple still delights a lot of their customers but there are still a lot of maddening UI/UX problems in a number of their products. And iCloud is pretty far behind Google on consumer cloud services. And reall
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When you're sitting on as much cash as Apple, they can find a way. It's just a question of whether they are willing to adapt their habits and philosophy to serve the enterprise market correctly. I think you hit on a key point, w
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Couldn't have written it better. Before the synergy was there because of the way Microsoft bundled licenses of their products. But you still had the hurdle of deployment and support of the on-prem products, which meant you had to eit
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HN may be down on Amazon but whether or not a company is 'thriving' is not always tied to whether the company is doing the right thing, or even heading for disaster. Amazon is probably not going to fall apart over night, but it do
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> Apple makes almost twice as much money as Microsoft does, but their valuations are similar. Thus the "market" believes that Microsoft's revenue is going to grow much faster than Apple's will. The market for tablets
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Exactly. Everyone reads "Office 365" and think that it only means Word/Excel/Powerpoint, when it actually includes Sharepoint and Exchange as well as OneDrive. The cost and support savings for enterprises going from on-
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My school district actually offers public Montessori classrooms. It's a lottery to to get in but it is available. The reason people get up in arms about the whole "school choice" thing is that it is often used as a way to di
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Yes sometimes legitimate concerns about the effects of immigration can sometimes be miscast as xenophobia. However, there can be no denying that Japan taken in aggregate, is xenophobic. They have made it difficult to emmigrate for even ski
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Yes if you want to get into detail, one should compare environmental cost per calorie. Even then, beef still is worse than chicken and most vegetables. I recognize that some vegetables are far more resource intensive than others, which is
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The energy, land, and water required to produce 1 lb of beef is several times greater than the resources required to produce 1 lb of chicken, which in turn is several times greater than the resources required to produce 1 lb of the average
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> You've gotten me wondering: Why AREN'T certain games subject to the same regulations as slot machines? Probably because the problem is not perceived as bad enough to get regulated yet. The industry was getting dangerously cl
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Just because Bill Gates did it, doesn't make it right. The problem is the power imbalance. Yeah sometimes that situation turns into a long-lasting relationship, but sometimes it doesn't and sometimes the subordinate feels coerce
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> The vast majority of people just don't change the language frequently, and wouldn't do it even if it had a dedicated rotary switch on the side. The vast majority of users in some countries may never change language, but there
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Whether they viewed them as a threat or food, modern humans (i.e. humans with fully developed hunting skills and weapons) who encountered megafauna that weren't afraid of them frequently slaughtered them to the point of extinction.
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> That's true, but I've given this a lot of thought, and I've come to the conclusion that it's simply impractical and inhumane to forbid romantic/sexual interest in a professional setting. Let's face it, mos
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> I'm sorry - I don't approve of sexual harassment, but with all the hysteria, I am still not sure how often women simply consider sexual interest to be harassment. Here's the thing, business interactions are not the appro

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