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by p0rkbelly 9y ago
Keep in mind, you can bet your ass that prices would be drastically lower than the public prices posted. Large enterprises of any significance, and especially flagship/strategic customers, don't pay list prices. Every cloud provid
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by p0rkbelly 9y ago
My Echo is basically for music and weather as well. However, my less tech inclined -- not always attached to a laptop -- friends and family (e.g. my parents) love theirs and seem to do a whole lot more. I think HN is not necessarily the dem
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by p0rkbelly 9y ago
Microsoft's "Cloud" is growing at that rate. Not Azure specifically. It accounts for Office365 as well as other cloud usage/licenses, and all sorts of other Both companies are growing crazy fast. I don't get the p
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by p0rkbelly 10y ago
Why is that suspicious? There is an entire website just for jobs that require clearance. www.clearancejobs.com There is plenty of governmental work out there that mandates certain levels of clearance. Even big consulting firms like Booz Al
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by p0rkbelly 10y ago
There are public talks on Youtube from Amazon.com titled "Drinking our own Champagne" where they say the opposite.
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by p0rkbelly 10y ago
I don't disagree. But, Taviso is probably contractually prohibited from accepting money from CF as a Google employee. Many large companies have 'outside activity' clauses and Google seems to be paying him already for that. Ho
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by p0rkbelly 10y ago
To maintain 'perfect' (which I doubt is 100% perfect) you just have to make your payments on time. It is okay to carry a balance. In fact, I remember my credit went up higher after paying off a balance I was carrying when I typica
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by p0rkbelly 10y ago
Capacity planning is a pretty advanced mathematical science, I'm sure there are many Ph.Ds, who are experts in their field, who do this job across the industry.
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by p0rkbelly 10y ago
If you're a regulated financial institution, say performing complex risk valuations, you need the ECC ram. It's a consumer device vs an enterprise, professional device.
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by p0rkbelly 10y ago
Isn't that what AWS built with KMS which is super scalable and cheap? It is currently listed as pending approval/under review on NIST's 140-2 product list?
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by p0rkbelly 10y ago
Not to get into a technical discussion of the merits between the two. But, I don't get the excitement around Diane Greene? Wasn't she asleep at the wheel at VMWare when AWS/MS were building out their cloud offerings? Seems li
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by p0rkbelly 11y ago
Running one big cluster and using application level separation would make lots of customers apprehensive...