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by Oculus 13y ago
This has been an ongoing cycle for all of Android. First people complain about Android lagging behind iOS so Google starts moving their services to GSM so they can avoid having to send updates through manufacturers. Then people complain Goo
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by Oculus 13y ago
This isn't the first time the German government is doing something like this. Previously, they've established laws that dictate the way in which buttons must be presented on ecommerce websites[1]. 1: http://www.youtube.
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by Oculus 13y ago
Undoubtedly, people will soon scream 'Bubble!', but I believe this is part of the inevitable shift of technology becoming the driver of the world's economy.
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by Oculus 13y ago
I knew corruption surrounding the games was bad, but I didn't know it was this bad. What happens if they're not prepared? Do they just go "Sorry, no xyz sport because the venue isn't ready"?
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by Oculus 13y ago
How early did Google start doing "warehouse scale computing"? I was always under the impression they started doing that as a byproduct of their large size.
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by Oculus 13y ago
I meant the question more in the sense of starting off with AWS and moving to their own servers like it is popular for most startups to do nowadays. Though you make a good point about gaining the skills for a robust infrastructure early on
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by Oculus 13y ago
By small margins, do you mean at the time or currently?
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by Oculus 13y ago
Hypothetical: If AWS was available at the time Google was just starting, would it have made sense for them to go with AWS?
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by Oculus 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Toronto/Kitchener or Remote I'm a full stack web developer based in Toronto/Kitchener. Skills: AngularJS, Node.js, Express.js, Android, D3.js, jQuery, pure Javascript, Photoshop, PostgreSQL, Nginx Experience: I
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by Oculus 13y ago
Could the older members of the HN community pitch in and give a couple points of wisdom they acquired over the years (Would probably more useful than everyone just bashing the article)?
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by Oculus 13y ago
Now it would be great if there was a certain court in Texas that votes in favour of citizens for every Patriot/FISA Act court case, just like there is one for patent trolls.
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by Oculus 13y ago
Are there really tech giants that are totally ok with our current patent system? I was under the impression that no company was happy, just some (e.g. Intellectual Ventures backers) are making due with what they can.
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by Oculus 13y ago
Ok, not as bad as I originally calculated. If that money went to lobbying though, it'd be fair to argue that they'd be closer to solving the fundamental issues there are in patent laws vs. acquiring a portfolio of patents that are
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by Oculus 13y ago
That's cool, I never knew Stack Overflow was using Node in production.
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by Oculus 13y ago
Google lost about ~$9 billion on Motorola (~$12 Billion acquisition and now a ~$3 billion sale). This happened in the span of 2 years. You could throw $100 over your shoulder every second for those two years and that still wouldn't amo
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by Oculus 13y ago
Is it a Microsoft stack all the way down or are there parts of the codebase that are written in other languages? In my mind, when a company gets big enough you usually get different teams writing in different code bases if it fits into thei
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by Oculus 13y ago
Man that sucks, sorry to hear it. I guess on the bright side, you didn't have your entire online identity destroyed which was possible given the attacker had your email.
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by Oculus 13y ago
If the author is reading, did you end up getting back your @n username? If so, did you simply go to Twitter and explain to them the whole story?
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by Oculus 13y ago
The fact that mental illness is taboo exaggerate its effects. If talking to counsellors/professionals was common practice and generally accepted the same way going to the doctor to get a physical once a year is, we'd not only lose
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by Oculus 13y ago
I can here to make that exact comment. It always irks me that a lot of people don't realize 'quantum' == 'small'.
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by Oculus 13y ago
Imagine a world in which Google recruiters have a profile of you on their desk of likes, dislikes, likely life goals, and potential avenues to woo you into joining them. I imagine Facebook has a dataset that could be applied to make such a
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by Oculus 13y ago
Could 3 people be worth that much? This ranks as one of the ten most expensive acquisitions by Google[1]. 1: http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/14/where-nest-ranks-among-goo...
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by Oculus 13y ago
This has seriously piqued my curiosity. Do you think Google bought the product or the team? $400M is a big chunk of change for ~3 people. Edit: peaked --> piqued, thanks to spiderPig!
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by Oculus 13y ago
$400M for a company I've never heard before is quite surprising. Could someone who participates in the machine learning community share any insights or facts they have on the company? Other than the founders' histories, the articl
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by Oculus 13y ago
Is the main idea behind this scheme to get other participants to lower the price and since the orchestrators got their positions earlier they profit or do they simply need the volume of the masses to make their scheme profitable? If it&#x27
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by Oculus 13y ago
I've been thinking about this all day. How could we, as hackers, build tools that allow for such activist groups to organize online, but yet keep these plans safe from the government?
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by Oculus 13y ago
The real power Netflix has is they're at a point where they'll decide the entire future of an industry. TV-advertising will have to adapt to a world in which most people watch Netflix. In House of Cards they did quite a few produ
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by Oculus 13y ago
I'm surprised Shopify[1] isn't on the list seeing as they're a fairly well known Canadian startup. 1: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-busi...
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by Oculus 13y ago
The likely logic behind shutting down Picnik would have been to lessen the competition to Google+.
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by Oculus 13y ago
I'm currently working on an programming contest judge[1] written in Node, that uses Docker to run submitted programs in. 1: https://github.com/EmilS/OnlineJudge

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