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by jspaur 14y ago
Any info on Sql Azure being down a whole day? We didn't see anything. This issue on the other hand, a real bummer.
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by jspaur 14y ago
But less than 4k in profit....wow those are some thin margins overall. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28Amazon+profit%2F+%28...
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by jspaur 14y ago
This would be a fun one to work through. If 100 hours of working out reduced your heart rate by 1bpm (I have no idea if this is true, just sounds plausible), but during workouts you increased your BPM by 20%, where is the equilibrium?
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by jspaur 14y ago
MSFT has stated multiple times that their goal is over the lifespan of the hardware to break even on it. (So 1mil units at -200 and 10mil units with at +20) How this works with devices such as Kinect though I'm not sure. It's about attachme
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by jspaur 14y ago
The guy was flashing his phone and ran into issues. Kinda cool to see it using that much of the Windows code base (kernel and bootmanager atleast)
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by jspaur 14y ago
More suprising to me is Canon @ #3 and MSFT @ #6. Is there really that much going on in the optics space right now? And MSFT with 2600+ patents, I'd have to imagine a lot of it is software (with some hardware maybe around Kinect and out of
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by jspaur 14y ago
Can you imagine the poor accountant who has to figure out the taxes?
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by jspaur 14y ago
I give you 50% of my company which only owns 50% of the parent? ;) (just incase it isn't obvious....i'm not actually planning on taking this up just joking around a little)
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by jspaur 14y ago
So I pitch the idea to the original offer (5037694) and get buy in. Then give you the 5k. I give you 50% of my 50% and I get 25% of the resulting company for acting as the idea broker. Hmmm ;) (just attempting to 'hack' this trend)
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by jspaur 14y ago
I imagine these correspond to highways. I did a similar thing a while back with postal codes and their density. I don't know why I was so blown away, but I was. Take the West Coast for example: http://i.imgur.com/WBzWG.png
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by jspaur 14y ago
I'd second this. I've found that VM's (especially Windows) run even more reliably than what I had on EC2 (sometimes the machines just got soooo slow on EC2 for no apparent reason)
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by jspaur 14y ago
I've got several services (both consumer and commerical) running on Azure and right now I just see some issues with storage in the south. Web/Worker, VMs, Sql, etc. are running just fine it appears. Any pointers on where I should be looking
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by jspaur 14y ago
Suggested Title: Revenue alone won't get you VC
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by jspaur 14y ago
Even more so it's just electrons pulsing through copper or light through glass.
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by jspaur 14y ago
This is pretty cool. For some reason I want to click and drag/rotate the 3D model that is onscreen already. I'd also love to see a picture of what the real thing looks like :) edit: btw, the font rendering is a little odd on Chrome 23 with
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by jspaur 14y ago
MILLIONS (3+ in California alone [1]) of retail workers make nothing more than minimum wage (with hours cut strategically short by 1-2 of the company benefit plan requirements). Walk into any Gap, Walmart, Gamestop, mall, etc. and most of t
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by jspaur 14y ago
So you guys handle all states and all localities (and the corresponding tax table updates, etc?) For instance, I have an employee in Florida so I have a UCT-6 for SUI, and also a couple employees in PA (so local taxes galore) How do you han
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by jspaur 14y ago
I'm really curious how they're doing things such as unemployment insurance filing, local taxes, garnishments, etc. This is a world that is RIPE for the taking if you can do it right, but for $154/month @ 99 employees, they should be aware t
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by jspaur 14y ago
OneNote actually has a touch centric app in the Windows store @ http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-us/app/onenote/f022389f-...
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by jspaur 14y ago
An upside to giving demos is that if your viewer doesn't know you're a dev on the project (thinks you're just a business/sales person), they're a lot more honest with feedback. I've learned to never position myself as the guy who knows ever
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by jspaur 14y ago
Agreed (and as mentioned below), a bit of a rally the troops when it comes to re-selling partners and field sales.
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by jspaur 14y ago
So 2004...that experience was probably running a mix of Windows Server 2000/NT. OS's that would be teenagers/in college now. It really is a different world in the server OS space (especially in the enterprise datacenter space) now.
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by jspaur 14y ago
As a former 'softie, I view it as a 'rally the troops' tone. Us against them with an undcurrent of 'they're scared'. Definitely a different tone than what MSFT normally has, but they're confident, and in a world of 7 figure license deals, i
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by jspaur 14y ago
It is crummy that you can't read other peoples perf numbers, that being said, evaluation versions exist for a reason. No need to rely on other peoples generic benchmarks. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/hh670538.aspx
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by jspaur 14y ago
I've had some issues with it being a little slow to display..but usually no more than a few seconds. My bigger gripe with the store is that it shows N updates on the live tile but N-M (with M<N) actual updates available. Otherwise, I've
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by jspaur 14y ago
anyone else able to get the seconds to work in the time picker? if not, why even show these?
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by jspaur 14y ago
I've used this, and oddly enough, I've seen issues that only happen in IE7 on XP...IE7 on Vista/7 worked just fine. YMMV.
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by jspaur 14y ago
I've spent some time at MSFT (including a transfer) and know a few recent hires across the lake and NONE of them (including myself) have had any of these sort of questions. A few data structures and algorithms type questions, but never the
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by jspaur 14y ago
We have a high corporate tax rate if you have terrible accountants. Almost EVERYTHING you do as a business drops your effective tax rate. Then there is the whole S corp, I'm going to tax 3million in revenue at the 80k rate thing.... it isn'
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by jspaur 14y ago
we're launching a slightly more transactional (and document) driven version of this at http://www.trypaper.com . feel free to message me if you have interest or questions :)

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