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by amf12 8y ago
> namely when you need fully up-to-date information on every query, no matter what So you basically want full consistency (vs eventual consistency) in a distributed environment. You can set up you noSQL that way. I don't see how rel
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by amf12 8y ago
> The current state of affairs is that AWS still dominates. Nobody is saying otherwise. > Your claim of 45% shows that you are simply repeating what some myopic analyst has written. Talk to industry experts, and you'll see why I&
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by amf12 8y ago
The numbers are NOT misleading precisely because they compare the cloud revenue. Google includes GSuite revenue in their cloud revenue. So does Amazon which includes Work Docs. Using their "cloud" revenue to figure out which is a
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by amf12 8y ago
> To me cloud provider in this context means a vendor that provides cloud platform for others to develop on top of. RDS counts, Office doesn't. I completely agree with you on this one. However all the cloud providers include their S
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by amf12 8y ago
> But there are unbundled DBs that people run. PostgreSQL, mongo, MySQL And people can still buy standalone Office installations. > For example, I don’t know if the word Azure is even mentioned when I go to buy an O365 license. How do
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by amf12 8y ago
Because the term has been coined by Jim Cramer to denote the best performing tech stocks at that point in time. It does not take into account anything other than stock growth.
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by amf12 8y ago
> I think the problem is that people don't understand how to use passwords. They do understand it. They just trade security for laziness.
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by amf12 8y ago
> They could start by being not evil/truly friendly This is super vague. When would their decisions stop being token gestures and into not-evil territory? I doubt any for-profit enterprise will be "truly friendly". After a
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by amf12 8y ago
> Forcibly upgraded as many Windows 7 and 8 machines to Windows 10. This was a terrible decision, I agree. > to have any motivations other than "whatever makes us the most money as possible". Well they are a corporation. Tha
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by amf12 8y ago
> I tried Azure lately – it felt like I booted into Windows 98. I couldn't stand it. Care to elaborate?
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by amf12 8y ago
> Two possibilities: Left hand doesn't know (or can't know) what the right hand is doing at Apple. Top secret? I am sure the CEO must know both the hands, if the hands don't know each other. Also that Apple is going to rel
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by amf12 8y ago
Surfacebook. Absolutely. Its as good as my old MBP if not better. Laptop, not so much, but that's understandable since its not a real attached trackpad.
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by amf12 8y ago
This looks promising! Thanks, I'll check it out.
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by amf12 8y ago
TOS/Contract. Something like Dropbox. You do believe you own the data on Dropbox right? This is something Microsoft can do as an Azure service to counter Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant maybe.
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by amf12 8y ago
Alarm apps don't need tracking. Asking Google Assistant to set an alarm needs tracking. I wish there was a SaaS application which provided assistant capabilities by a monthly subscription. You can see all the data stored, you own the d
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by amf12 8y ago
>you upload pictures, you like stuff, you spend more time on someone's profile >Google doesn't have that graph Google has that information from the contacts of all Android phones, Google Photos, etc. Granted they don't
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by amf12 8y ago
That's a good question. However, its easier said than done. Say whatever you want about Google and the likes and hate them, but for a dev, it's still one of the best places to learn, grow and get paid well. At that point most peop
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by amf12 8y ago
> http://210.212.23.57/online/OnlineApply/Notice.aspx HTTP. FFS.
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by amf12 8y ago
> Time and Time again Aadhar's privacy data have been compromised. I hate the implementation of Aadhar as much as any person, and believe the architecture is terrible that a patch can allow authentication to be bypassed. And that th
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by amf12 8y ago
> There are three people across three different parts of the world who corroborate the report - CTO of a global technology group, a security based analyst and a professor of Computer Science. I wonder how this is "sensationalist&quo
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by amf12 8y ago
> On a full flight there's really no need to check at all. If too many people board you'll catch it when the spurious passenger tries to take a paid passenger's seat. Well, but that's an assumption and an edge case.
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by amf12 8y ago
> made more people vulnerable to many kinds of attacks, including phone number hijacking, draining people’s bank accounts, etc. To say that it’s been an unmitigated disaster would be an understatement. The problem is not really with Aadh
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by amf12 8y ago
Aadhar is not meant to be private. It should not be treated a s a private key when you need to give a copy of your card everywhere like your bank, getting a new cell phone sim card, employment, etc. The problem with Aadhar (among other thin
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by amf12 8y ago
> yep, and wouldn't it be a paradise for a malicious person to install software on that authentication machine which sniffs off the biometrics and sends that to his server? Sure. But, using that data to impersonate someone by creati
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by amf12 8y ago
I agree with you that this is not the best system, but I think its still better than any that was currently available. Earlier everything was linked to your drivers license, ration card, passport, etc which was also equally easy to fake and
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by amf12 8y ago
This is just wrong. They found that out using Google search and social engineering. A lot of his details like his phone number were available online and were available with a Google search. Amazon, being stupid, uses a copy of Aadhar as an
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by amf12 8y ago
Are you a US Citizen? That might be the reason. I visited US multiple times in the last few years, mostly on the east coast or Chicago, and the CBP agents were okay. The last time I landed at SEA, the agent there was unbelievably rude, all
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by amf12 8y ago
The universe is 13.8 Billion years old, so we can only observe the universe 13 Billion light years away. However the universe is practically infinite and much larger than the observable universe. It's not possible for us to detect a ga
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by amf12 8y ago
But we are talking about the marketing aspect of it here and not the utility of the product.
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by amf12 8y ago
To be fair, all the toys/consoles have been similarly marketed to a bunch of kids (for example during after school hours) for a long time without anyone getting pissed off. It's just marketing. This doesn't really seem like a

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