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by cwyers 8y ago
And you're side-stepping the point that many people are making here, which is that being an Alphabet subsidiary means that they're subsidized by Google's ad business. It's concerning that massive public health projects -
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by cwyers 8y ago
> The only thing they have are common ownership. Companies that are actually independent besides common ownership don't share a stock symbol and they don't comingle revenues.
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by cwyers 8y ago
Look, it's pretty simple. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/02/alphabet-business-units-reve... Google makes the bulk of its revenue from advertising. Google generates substantial profits. The non-Google parts
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by cwyers 8y ago
Alphabet is a company that still makes the bulk of its revenue from advertising, and invests that money in its other ventures. It's not misleading at all to suggest that this project is being funded by advertising revenue.
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by cwyers 8y ago
They could use some of this vaunted machine learning to figure it out.
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by cwyers 8y ago
Pretty much every popularized AI advancement of the past decade has been machine learning. EDIT: To be clear, I think you're right that the term AI is being used carelessly here, but that ship has sailed.
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by cwyers 8y ago
My concern about Dart wouldn't so much be language quality, it would be the ecosystem. I know if I go out there and do a project in JavaScript or C# (so RN/Xamarin) there's piles of libraries out there. There's documenta
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by cwyers 8y ago
The Surface line seems to have picked up the torch on magnets in the power connector and it is one of the little touches I love about my Surface Go.
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by cwyers 8y ago
Commercial development of codecs has put a lot of resources towards codec development, the ability to be compensated for that work enables continued investment, and the ability of standards to incorporate patents means that this work that c
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by cwyers 8y ago
I mean, this is "valid" if this is the software the author wants to run, I'm just surprised anyone would go to this kind of trouble to run Notepad++, which is something like my fifth-favorite text editor.
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by cwyers 8y ago
That seems like an awfully convoluted way to get a text editor for Linux.
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by cwyers 8y ago
Feather, based on the Apache Arrow format, is a lot faster than CSVs, and there's good support in both R and Python for it, maintained by Hadley Wickham (who has developed Almost Ever R Package You've Heard Of) and Wes McKinney (w
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by cwyers 8y ago
It hinders collaboration and the development of an ecosystem. One nice thing about ggplot2 is how there's a growing universe of things to support it -- packages to extend it or to add themes or what have you. Having more options means
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by cwyers 8y ago
The reason there's so many libraries is that none of them has emerged as a clear leader. If there was one really great library for the majority of use-cases, you'd see consolidation around it, like you mostly have with ggplot2 in
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by cwyers 8y ago
I feel like the suggested remedies are rather thin on details. It would be nice if the author provided some citations for further reading.
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by cwyers 8y ago
To take the blame, mostly, as far as the show is concerned. Hacker even says it in one episode, I think the one about the civil service pay rise (or maybe the one about civil service honors). Going from memory: Sir Humphrey: Civil servants
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by cwyers 8y ago
What's the use case for an 8 exabyte virtual file system?
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by cwyers 8y ago
> - Then why not directly make one of those experts actually the Minister? If you watch Yes, Minister (and Yes, Prime Minister), the show's thesis is that the system is mostly set up so that the civil service can run things regardle
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by cwyers 8y ago
The article showcases Postgres benchmarks and quotes the Postgres documentation, and references material put out by Oracle for their flagship database product. MySQL is never mentioned once. Your opening sentence is deeply misleading as to
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by cwyers 8y ago
The copy of Word and Excel on your laptop have cloud integration. You can do collaborative document editing a la Google Docs through the desktop copies or the web app versions.
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by cwyers 8y ago
That's a slice of the stack. It's not a replacement for Word/Excel -- Google has Docs for that. That said, I think that's evidence that this fits in the cloud revenue stream.
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by cwyers 8y ago
This is nearly a "no true Scotsman" definition of cloud revenue, where if Amazon doesn't have a product in a market segment it shouldn't count. Google and Microsoft both have offerings in the cloud SaaS office suite mark
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by cwyers 8y ago
I think there's a bug in this. If I answer "Will data records ever need to be updated or deleted once they are written?" with "No" it says "You Don't Need a Blockchain Blockchains do not allow for modifica
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by cwyers 8y ago
Can you uninstall Apple Music from iOS devices?
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by cwyers 8y ago
The market doesn't really seem to care all that much about it. Windows is practically clean on install compared to any Android phone I've owned. My favorite in terms of pointlessness was my Samsung phone that had both Chrome and a
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by cwyers 8y ago
Brian Wansink didn't get shot down quickly at all.
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by cwyers 8y ago
I don't know, it's actually more upsetting if it's just medical research? Otherwise I could've told myself it happens less when it really matters.
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by cwyers 8y ago
Scale provides, well, economies of scale. If you want to buy from a smaller outfit, then expect to not get economies of scale.
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by cwyers 8y ago
Duly noted! I can't edit the post anymore, but I appreciate the correction.
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by cwyers 8y ago
So, when my then-girlfriend and I moved in together a long time ago, she brought with her a bottle of vegan Worchestershire sauce. I tried it at one point, next to a bottle of Lea and Perrins, and I concluded that the only way you could pos

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