curiousDog

13 ms·

91.
by curiousDog 8y ago
What will you do the day AWS decides to jack up their prices 50% and there are no competitors?
92.
by curiousDog 8y ago
Or you know a better option would be to use a competitors product.
93.
by curiousDog 8y ago
They did it for a reason -- to sell ads. If they truly wanted it so people could afford it, they'd not be making billions of profits each year. They give you things for free at the cost of your privacy. Apple otoh is upfront about it
94.
by curiousDog 8y ago
This is like Microsoft and IE all over again.
95.
by curiousDog 8y ago
What do you mean? I have a gmail account but don't want Google to have my browsing history. How is that so hard to understand?
96.
by curiousDog 8y ago
This is just a grab at getting more user data. Where are all the Google employees who jump on any mention of Google to defend it with disclosures?
97.
by curiousDog 8y ago
Ah, looks like you're right! I got confused by its mention in the article.
98.
by curiousDog 8y ago
Apparently this is a turbo sail and not the same as the Flettner rotor. The Wikipedia article you linked to mentions the same. Ones powered by electricity and one by air? Both seem to take advantage of the Magnus effect though
99.
by curiousDog 8y ago
Well their huge valuation hinges upon them eventually going into self-driving cars. It'd otherwise be hard to justify a $120billion IPO without rapid growth targets. They've already reached saturation points in most of the importa
100.
by curiousDog 8y ago
$891 million*. Incorrect title
101.
by curiousDog 8y ago
I wouldn't put Zuckerberg amongst the others. He didn't invent anything and neither did he make an immense _positive_ impact on civilization like the other guys did.
102.
by curiousDog 8y ago
Bing really is a pile of garbage though (perhaps a little better these days but no where near as good as Google). I'm surprised he wasn't fired sooner. Was he friends with Ballmer?
103.
by curiousDog 8y ago
Brendan Burns is the lead engineer on AKS AFAIK
104.
by curiousDog 8y ago
This is sad. From what I hear, one of the founders of k8s works on AKS. Only a matter of time before GCP becomes the #1/2 cloud provider.
105.
by curiousDog 8y ago
AWS's UX is better than GCP in most aspects. You should be transparent about the fact that you work for Google. They did not "give away" Map/Reduce, they simply published a paper but that paradigm had already been in use
106.
by curiousDog 8y ago
Umm, read further through his comments. Most of them are blatant lies about Apple/Microsoft/Amazon. He’s the closest to a paid Google shill that I’ve seen on HN
107.
by curiousDog 8y ago
Each and every one of your comments is praising Google and bashing competitors. Do you do this for a living?
108.
by curiousDog 8y ago
I've experienced this in terms of general problem solving abilities as well. A car accident has me suffering from TOS (Thoracic Outlet Syndrome) which triggers severe pain down my left arm after sitting at a desk for 20minutes. Once th
109.
by curiousDog 8y ago
Unpopular opinion, but the best way to prepare for DP problems is to solve the well known ones and memorize them and their recurrences. Only 2-3 companies like FB and Goog ask them (well they’re the only ones worth studying DP for anyway).
110.
by curiousDog 8y ago
No offense, but your reply sounds like you’re part of some sort of cult. Also doesn’t Google have like 80k employees now? :)
111.
by curiousDog 8y ago
I guess they’re starting their IPO roadshow by trying to stay in the news as much as possible.
112.
by curiousDog 8y ago
Check out Azure Databricks
113.
by curiousDog 9y ago
UberRocket for Mars, UberGalactic for interstellar space travel. All coming by 2020.
114.
by curiousDog 9y ago
Wow, they have a complete disregard for safety and just care about their stupid valuation. This isn’t even a case of “hacking” for innovation. The company seems to be rotten to th core with everyone just salivating to profit from the IPO.
115.
by curiousDog 9y ago
As someone who suffers from neck issues, a VR/AR setup that’ll let me code without straining my neck while looking at a monitor would be a godsend. Is anyone aware of such a setup that exists today?
116.
by curiousDog 9y ago
Fascinating read. I think we've all worked with a Sergey in our careers so far. And most of us end up doing what Ethan did.
117.
by curiousDog 9y ago
I wouldn't say they're broken, they're bloated. When you build something that has to fit the multitude of Fortune 500 requirements, localize to 200 countries, you'll end up with a lot of complexity that is unnecessary to
118.
by curiousDog 9y ago
I doubt that's ever going to happen. Too much money at stake here. And despite all this, they'll have a blockbuster IPO
119.
by curiousDog 9y ago
Wow this looks like an exact copy of Azure Container Instances.
120.
by curiousDog 9y ago
Sounds like they're using the idea described in this Jim Gray, Lamport paper: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.159... Azure SQL DB has had the same HA coordinator built in for a couple of y

More ›