kalininalex

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by kalininalex 13y ago
Amazon has been operating at near breakeven point for a long time. Most of the years the make some money, sometimes they lose a bit. Their stock holds up because they increase their revenue, and market share, at a huge speed. This is reason
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by kalininalex 13y ago
The threat from Android to iPhone probably looks bigger than it actually is. Per study that just came out [1], iPhone users are much more loyal than Android users: 24% of Android users plan to switch vs. 9% of iPhone users. If this persists
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by kalininalex 13y ago
We've built a complete continuous deployment system with TeamCity/MSBuild that worked quite well for us. It probably took about two-three weeks to work out all the details, and now it's been running for over a year with almos
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Why higher education is so expensive(globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com)
3 points by kalininalex 13y ago|0 comments
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by kalininalex 13y ago
You can use profits-to-GDP metric, for example: http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/03/news/economy/record-corporat... . It's no guarantee profits won't go even higher, of course, but they are qui
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by kalininalex 13y ago
I think it reflects the general Microsoft philosophy of having APIs for everything. After all, they are an API company. It shows in the PowerShell design with it's object API approach. Also, with the API you should be able to configure
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by kalininalex 13y ago
It would be interesting to know what the median valuation is. Half the startups will be above it, and half below it. This would provide additional interesting details.
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by kalininalex 13y ago
One of them is Eric Lippert. If you use C# you'll enjoy his blog, http://ericlippert.com/ .
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by kalininalex 13y ago
Some businesses are fundamentally high-margin, and some are low-margin. It mostly depends on the amount of raw materials involved. For example, Microsoft (software) is a high-margin business. Their cost of raw materials is low, so 77% of re
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by kalininalex 13y ago
Most definitely. He may well be completely innocent per numerous laws, executive orders and/or the Constitution. An example of the relevant recent piece: "Executive Order 13526: Sec. 1.7. Classification Prohibitions and Limitatio
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by kalininalex 13y ago
I guess the question requires further qualification, "What has Microsoft done, in the last 12 years, to compete with the Sony rootkit?"
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by kalininalex 13y ago
OK, I guess the issue is with the "never in production". One size rarely fits all. I can have a lookup table with three rows in my database, for which Large Hadron Migrator is hardly an appropriate solution. ALTER will work just f
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by kalininalex 13y ago
Albania, Argentina, Belarus... am I looking at the right list? OK, some first-world countries are mixed in there too, but the entire list is hardly a source of inspiration. Many first world countries are absent from that list, as well as al
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by kalininalex 13y ago
Or you may have just cashed out your 1-year CD that paid you .86%. You had $2.3M there and received income of ... $20k. Disappointed by the depressed interest rates you went on a shopping spree, which included a Ferrary.
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by kalininalex 13y ago
"ALTER is in itself an odd command, useful only in development, never in production" How would you then ever modify an existing database?
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by kalininalex 13y ago
And why specifically do you dislike, say, SQL Server? (except for price; obviously Microsoft wants to make money off of it).
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by kalininalex 13y ago
"case-sensitive filesystem" What is the business use case for a user to treat documents "Annual Report.docx" and "Annual report.docx" as absolutely different and unrelated?
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by kalininalex 14y ago
200-300 "pieces" = $200,000-$300,000. One "piece" is 1,000, typically applied to money.
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by kalininalex 14y ago
That doesn't affect net profit either.
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by kalininalex 14y ago
But it may be increasingly assembled by the providers of virtual services from components, rather than purchased from Dell.
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by kalininalex 14y ago
"Starting Jan. 30, 2013, only Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government customers can set up new devices with Google Sync." Am I reading it correctly that only new setups will be disallowed while existing devices will continue to
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$822,000 Worker Shows California Leads U.S. Pay Giveaway(bloomberg.com)
11 points by kalininalex 14y ago|3 comments
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by kalininalex 14y ago
Hyper-threading doesn't mean you magically get extra 4 cores. It's a technology that works well for _some_ workloads, and for those it achieves up to 30% performance boost, per Intel claim ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading ). S
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How I Got Unbanned from Hacker News(andrewkkirk.com)
8 points by kalininalex 14y ago|3 comments
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by kalininalex 14y ago
But it displays fine on the iPhone (and probably on many other devices and browsers). So, for its purpose it functions reasonably well.
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Amazon Random Shopper(kottke.org)
1 points by kalininalex 14y ago|0 comments
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by kalininalex 14y ago
> If the employer didn't have to pay those 31% to the government, he would have paid them to you, and you would have been taxed on them. It's unlikely the employer would pay you more. You negotiated and expect 10,000 SEK. Yes, the emplo
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by kalininalex 14y ago
As far as I know air traffic control is part of FAA and it's covered by taxpayers (or perhaps, it's an extra charge in the ticket?). In any case, ground control will probably be a lot less expensive since it's just one team in one location,
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by kalininalex 14y ago
If we assume two things: the current cost of fuel is 1% of the total launch cost, and launching a reusable rocket is similar to operating an aircraft, then we can use numbers from commercial aviation: - the cost of fuel is 35% of the total
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by kalininalex 14y ago
They are mostly fuel and wages of (frequently unionized) employees. For example, numbers for Southwest for the last quarter, of the total $4.2 bil expense: Fuel: $1.5 bil Salaries: $1.2 bil Depreciation + Maintenance: $0.5 bil

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