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by gundmc 7y ago
> Contrast that to Google News — which is predicated on collecting information and showing ads Google News doesn't show ads.
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by gundmc 7y ago
They basically did this with diapers.com a decade ago. https://slate.com/technology/2013/10/amazon-book-how-jeff-be...
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by gundmc 7y ago
If you're talking about the story I think you are, this was debunked/refuted. https://old.reddit.com/r/google/comments/8l231x/google_banne...
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by gundmc 7y ago
I don't disagree, but it's hard to point to the current mandated social distancing as empirical evidence. It's not like the people increasing their internet consumption could hang out at a cafe instead.
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by gundmc 7y ago
My understanding of the proposal was that no third party including Google and Apple could access any real information from this. It honestly seemed like privacy was the primary consideration in the design. I realize that's a losing per
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by gundmc 7y ago
Home Depot uses GCP.
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by gundmc 7y ago
Traditional retailers buy their inventory from manufacturers to place on the shelf and in turn sell to customers. There may be some agreements on buying back unsold inventory, but generally the retailer takes on risk for the inventory they
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by gundmc 7y ago
This was very clearly written, thank you.
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by gundmc 7y ago
This tweet is from February, is unrelated to this story and was heavily discussed at the time.
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by gundmc 7y ago
Without detailed prior knowledge in the domain, it seems to make sense. I'm a proponent of privacy-aware advertising online and think the free services supported by advertising are a net positive. That being said, I don't see how
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by gundmc 7y ago
> In terms of ad spend reduction, How would this compare to regular media advertising spend (TV etc.) ? TV as deals are often worked out O(months) in advance. I expect they've seen drops in bookings, but you won't see as agile
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by gundmc 7y ago
I can see the merit of this, but as an anecdotal counterpoint my first programming class was Fortran 77 using gedit (in the late 2000s). The delayed feedback of whitespace and syntax errors at compile time was painful, slowed down my learni
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by gundmc 7y ago
Dart has gotten better, but agreed that the overall developer experience with TypeScript is far ahead - especially with vscode.
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by gundmc 7y ago
For Yelp it seems like it's more of a failure to innovate and grow beyond their initial review site concept. The idea was good, but easily challengrd by others who bring additional utility to the table like OpenTable and Google Maps.
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by gundmc 7y ago
What makes you think Dart and Go have been unsuccessful? Both are relatively young languages with rapidly growing adoption. Dart was on a downward trend but has seen a rejuvenation in the last few years thanks to flutter.
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by gundmc 7y ago
And more people know what the internet is than Google.
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by gundmc 7y ago
I'm surprised this isn't a bigger story if it can be substantiated. Can someone explain what the security trails site shows and how this confirms the allegations?
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by gundmc 7y ago
It's odd to describe Vint Cerf as Google's Chief Internet Evangelist, a largely honorary and emeritus position, as opposed to co-creator of TCP/IP for which is is famous. It makes the headline and framing feel very click-bait
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by gundmc 7y ago
Historically it wasn't uncommon to switch, but there was also not much continuity between generations. You would keep your account and friends list, but would be restarting your library from scratch on a new console. Both Microsoft and
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by gundmc 7y ago
Now's the part where we all act outraged and link the "Killed by Google" website despite never hearing of let alone using this Beta app before.
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by gundmc 7y ago
I really recommend clicking through and watching the referenced embedded video that forms the basis for this article. It's very well done and much more substantive than this summary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax7f
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by gundmc 7y ago
Why would Microsoft be disproportionately affected by this? Are we expecting similar decrees from AWS and GCP? Or was Microsoft operating with less runway before this began?
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by gundmc 7y ago
Alternatively, we are dealing with a worldwide crisis requiring close collaboration and cooperation between nations across numerous fields and disciplines. As a world power and the first country to encounter the virus, China's help is
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by gundmc 7y ago
Most evaluations from 3p sources like Gartner put Amazon a nose ahead in a virtual tie with Google regarding uptime and reliability with Azure pretty far behind. The latest numbers I saw were for 2018: AWS - 99.9987 GCP - 99.9982 Azure - 99
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by gundmc 7y ago
I'm not sure it would actually save them any money at all. They are still transcoding into the higher quality, so you don't save compute resources. The videos themselves are served from edge CDN nodes. Through peering agreements I
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by gundmc 7y ago
Slay the Spire is fantastic. The day they release their Android port is the day my productivity hits an all time low.
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by gundmc 7y ago
Good to see even NASA makes use of percussive maintenance with their equipment.
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by gundmc 7y ago
That may have been the case initially, but is clearly no longer true if you click through to the statement I linked. I'm not sure if Google was planning this prior to Trump's announcement or if it's reactionary, but the relev
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by gundmc 7y ago
But Google themselves have said it exists: https://twitter.com/Google_Comms/status/1238989460127338497
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by gundmc 7y ago
Sam's conversation with Amesh was terrific. It's eerie to think of this extraordinarily disruptive event as a "dress rehearsal" for a similarly transmissible contagion with a much higher fatality rate.

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