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811.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Google's corporate culture relies on a high profit margin. The perks, the ability to invest in large bets, all hinge on a high profit margin. If their profit margin shrinks you'll end up loosing the culture. Without the culture, G
812.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Google Cloud != GCP. Google Cloud also includes Maps Enterprise and Google Workspaces.
813.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Also the announced 50-200% price increase to Youtube Premium for most current customers.
814.
by bushbaba 4y ago
It's fair when profit margin is lower than pre-covid.
815.
by bushbaba 4y ago
In the US they'd call this co-employment. You could sue and likely win. https://www.mbopartners.com/blog/misclassification-complianc... (I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice)
816.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Python is easier to use if you come from a C/C++ style coding background.
817.
by bushbaba 4y ago
The issue is that AWS has double exposure. Startups and B2B company's selling to startups (e.g. datadog). However, AWS will be fine. Their growth rate is what 30% YoY. I highly doubt the reduction in spend to comprise 30%+ of their rev
818.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Bluesky is funded by twitter. Twitter has no equity in the company. I don’t see musk finding this post acquisition. Assuming the acquisition continues.
819.
by bushbaba 4y ago
The US should use the current market decline to split up Google. Splitting it up would allow for more competition and overall improve the tech sector. Ideally you'd see the government force a split up Youtube, Cloud, Search, and their
820.
by bushbaba 4y ago
What! A 2nd tier school still has strong peers which you can surround yourself in. If you're at the top of a 2nd tier school you can push yourself to be near the PHD researchers and graduate students giving you similar academic peer ri
821.
by bushbaba 4y ago
You get 1000 resumes for a job. How do you drop 95% of the applicants. One easy way is to look at the University and GPA as a quick snuff test. After running that cheap low-pass filter you now only have 50 Resumes. You now spend ~3mins on e
822.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Test prep is not overblown. Prior to test-prep I got a 630 on my math section. Post test prep I got an 800. Why? Prior to test prep I was solving the problems as I was taught in calculus. Deriving equations. The test prep re-inforced memori
823.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Yet again Google proving it shouldn't be used in the Enterprise. Not that far fetched to see a future event where a Google ML algorithm decided a corporation's fiscal earnings document didn't meet the ML model's communit
824.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Checkout curiosity stream. I know I will.
825.
by bushbaba 4y ago
There's underlying capacity as well. Would you rather pay a bit more to get 100 r6g.4xl OR pay a bit less to have 90 r6g.4xl + 10 r6gd.4xl. Many workloads do not have deployment configuration supporting a non-homogenous fleet of instan
826.
by bushbaba 4y ago
A married couple with no kids can buy 40k. 10k each. And 10k as gifts to each other. However each person can only redeem/cash out 1/4th each year. So it’ll take 2 years to cash it out.
827.
by bushbaba 4y ago
If EU Rev is measured in USD, it being down could be currency differences.
828.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Eh disagree. It’s been invaluable for keeping up with former colleagues. And finding contacts to assist with business.
829.
by bushbaba 4y ago
This is more SaaS costs are in a bubble, not core-infra (Compute & Storage) offered by Azure/Amazon/GCP. Some of the cloud provider compute (VMs) and storage (disk/object store) has very low margin. With it highly unlikel
830.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Now that CloudFront has greatly improved its performance, what's the pitch for using CloudFlare over it?
831.
by bushbaba 4y ago
One way to prevent is to make the cost of churning domains expensive. E.g. requiring registration with a $250 one time fee
832.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Offline contracts could require support to be applied across all spend.
833.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Eh. Id wager 81%+ of teams also directed to cut headcount, fun budgets, travel budgets etc.
834.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Probably the 1000ms!!! it takes for the GraphQL on tweets to respond. Ooph.
835.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Also easy for landlords to take advantage of. With over time cost of living increasing to take advantage of the higher price-floor.
836.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Unless his primary residence is in Florida which the homestead act prevents the courts taking. He could then shift all his funds to Crypto and use Crypto ATMs that don't require KYC to withdraw a few thousand (per wallet) at a time. OJ
837.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Oof. That's painful for moral. Much better to do a single deep cut, with a shift back to growth.
838.
by bushbaba 4y ago
1500$/employee is cheaper than flying them to an offsite. Heck you could buy 100 of these and ship them to employees temporarily for their offsite.
839.
by bushbaba 4y ago
The first format also makes it easy to do counts of # of entries within November 2020. The Second makes life considerably more difficult (not impossible though).
840.
by bushbaba 4y ago
Iceberg doesn’t use the directory structure to represent what objects belong to which table. The change allows objects to have significant entropy in the object keys prefix. This avoids hot spotting s3 and allows for greater bursts to s3 QP

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