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by pavs 8y ago
The problem with peering is that cross country peering can cost a lot of money. So if netflix does not have any caching server in your country, they will have to pull bandwidth from the closest location and your isp might have limited peeri
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by pavs 8y ago
They are talking about future revenue generation. Kickstarted is being used as a fundraiser. They are probably trying something similar to ghost blogging platform. Whether they are successful or not is to be seen, but I am not enjoying how
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by pavs 8y ago
From their website: >In partnership with FoundersPledge, we'll be giving 30% of our revenue towards projects for education, sanitization, climate change prevention and more.
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by pavs 8y ago
No that doesn't make sense at all. You don't seem to understand the difference. https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-differences-between-AOSP-... https://www.quora.com/Will-Android-phones-work-well-i
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by pavs 8y ago
I am not an apple fanboy, you can read my comment history. People can have different opinions without being a fanboy.
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by pavs 8y ago
Failed in what sense. The project is on, they reduced headcount. Maybe they don't need the same amount of people they initially they needed or they changed the goal of the project. I would hardly call it failed. Other companies have be
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by pavs 8y ago
Just having a point is not good enough. It needs to make some sense. China Hing Kong and China Mainland was always a separate entity. China Hong Kong Google site still remains blocked in China mainland (last I checked), because Google refus
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by pavs 8y ago
This is not some mom & pop shop, when multibillionaire companies sign billions of dollars of MOU, it has to be worth something. You could argue MOU is jack shit in general, but saying MOU is jack in China but China is great to do busine
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by pavs 8y ago
but they are champion of privacy or something like that. And google who walked out of China because they refused to bend to their rules are the bad guys.
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by pavs 8y ago
You do realize China is the second largest consumer market in the world? If MOU were jack shit, people wouldn't be doing business there. Many companies intentionally share their IP in order to do business in China.
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by pavs 8y ago
Doesn't Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, AMD already do that?
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by pavs 8y ago
Most Netflix content is delivered through local Netflix Open Connect box through their ISP, not through the internet as a whole. I am not sure how they measure this bandwidth. Peering cost is too high for someone sitting in Asia to enjoy qu
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by pavs 8y ago
VPN connections are relatively easier to block.
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by pavs 8y ago
It's strange, but I completely missed the last part about backup from your comment. I have no idea how I missed it. Had I seen it would make my comment redundant and I would have never replied at all. I only saw that part of the commen
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by pavs 8y ago
While true. I was specifically referring to this part: > What if the card holder is on leave and is unreachable for three days? We would have lost everything — years of work — millions of dollars in lost revenue. The comment suggests the
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by pavs 8y ago
About ~6 years ago, I was involved in a project where data would increase by 100gb per day and the database would also significantly change every day. I vaguely remember having some kind of cron bash script with mysqldump and rsync that wou
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by pavs 8y ago
People usually end up using backup or move infrastructure on short notice in catastrophic situations, which is presumably rare. Days worth of work to bring back your business in catastrophic downtime - doesn't seem like a bad thing at
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by pavs 8y ago
It might be too expensive for some people. But really there is no other solution other than full backup of everything. Relying on a single point of failure, even on an infrastructure with a stellar record, is just a dead man walking.
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by pavs 8y ago
Sorry, I stand corrected.
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by pavs 8y ago
Non-technical owners making faulty assumptions is not the fault of "Cloud" providers. It's probably common (I faced it myself personally, in a non-cloud situation), but there is nothing the providers can do about unprepared u
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by pavs 8y ago
Agreed. I mentioned the money angle because I felt the person I replied to implied that 100s of terabytes of data are too expensive to backup. If you are making money or if the data is important for you to lose than you should have a backup
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by pavs 8y ago
Backup is a thing. If your company is making millions of dollars off your business you should have a redundant backup of everything including (especially) your data.
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by pavs 8y ago
That's a very anthropocentric view. We have a single point of failure. It's not likely to drastically change in any reasonable time-frame.
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by pavs 8y ago
If Pokemon Go was mismanagement or failure (though you didn't say it), I don't know what a success is. No one, including Niantic, could have predicted how massively popular it would be in such a short time, so they had scaling pro
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by pavs 8y ago
I feel that we have such a high standard for google search result quality that we can get frustrated by such highly specific search result edge cases. Google search is not perfect, but its the best search engine out there by a long margin f
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by pavs 8y ago
This might be true for a small subset or early or techie users, but from my experience watching some of my less tech-inclined friends and family using google search. I find it fascinating how much trouble they go through by typing a complet
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by pavs 8y ago
Things they can't do without 5bn/year. Sometimes you can think about fixing problems, only when you have the resources to do it. Alternatively, its also possible the administration can go corrupt when there is so much money flying
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by pavs 8y ago
Would you say they should go as far as appending license that would prevent companies from using their software if they have a history of hostility towards them? Or only when it comes to receiving donations?
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by pavs 8y ago
I don't understand the angst, are you saying they should not accept any donation for those companies?
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by pavs 8y ago
Name a search engine that's better than Google. Nobody type "I'd like to know what the best way is to braise pork with white wine", doesn't mean Google can't give you good search result if you typed like that,

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