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by paxy 8y ago
> decelerated every time you lifted your foot off the gas (electricity?) pedal This can be configured on Teslas (and maybe others)
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by paxy 8y ago
The main example they gave in this article, HHVM, is what all of Facebook's backend runs on, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
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by paxy 8y ago
Heroku is no doubt the easiest to set up and use. I find their free tier too restrictive, however, since (1) apps are put to sleep pretty aggressively and take time to wake up, resulting in failed requests and (2) they have a set quota for
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by paxy 8y ago
It isn't about can or cannot, they just have more motivation now.
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by paxy 8y ago
Yes, but from the perspective of the end user (me), the license guarantees that I can use the current version of the software for free forever without Google or anyone else forcing any changes. Plus, if I don't like any changes they ma
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by paxy 8y ago
> Also I guess about 70% of (pre-qualified) candidates would outright fail the question This is probably right. Companies still use these questions, though, because they do a good job failing candidates who are not technical enough for t
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by paxy 8y ago
Even if he does it on Google's time, all his contributions are still licensed under GNU GPL V2 so Google cannot claim any ownership over Git.
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by paxy 8y ago
Area = country most likely
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by paxy 8y ago
And then do them and retire them six months later.
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by paxy 8y ago
Simply because there's no one objective way to calculate that number. How do you define the total labor force? Do you count seasonal workers? Part-time workers? People who are unemployed but otherwise working age?
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by paxy 8y ago
The problem with that is that when you propose a hypothesis and someone pays you to prove it, anything other than a positive result is also considered wasted money. This is the reason why we have all the paid-for junk science out there toda
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by paxy 8y ago
Real costs per employee are 2-3x the salary anyways.
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by paxy 8y ago
WikiMedia more than Mozilla. Most of Mozilla's revenue comes from search/advertising deals struck with Google and others. WikiMedia relies on donations alone.
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by paxy 8y ago
Hosting is pretty far down in the list of operating costs for a business. Employee salary, benefits, marketing etc. is where most of the money goes.
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by paxy 8y ago
Median salary in India (WhatsApp's largest market) is $600-$1500 per year .
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by paxy 8y ago
In 2015, when WhatsApp had ~1B active users, Facebook said that the overall revenue from it was insignificant enough they they were just making it free. I'm pretty sure it wasn't charging the vast majority of users (which is how i
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by paxy 8y ago
There are always contracts and vesting periods.
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by paxy 8y ago
Was the business sustainable? They tried some form of paid apps or recurring subscriptions several times, but no one I know actually paid for WhatsApp ever. I imagine they were just burning through VC funds.
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by paxy 8y ago
Worth noting that the other founder, Brian Acton, already left Facebook last September (and in fact tweeted #DeleteFacebook recently), so it is pretty obvious that the relationship between the two groups has been less than perfect. I'm
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by paxy 8y ago
More and more theaters are doing assigned seating now, so not that easy anymore.
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by paxy 8y ago
I'm 100% certain the owner will be eager to just pretend it never happened.
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by paxy 9y ago
They also have native apps on most mobile platforms (including Windows Phone, Blackberry and even Nokia Series 40). It isn't as easy to update all of them as one would think.
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by paxy 9y ago
I highly recommend Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit... ) which goes into detail about the "debt trap" referred to in the article
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by paxy 9y ago
And deploy it...where? AWS, Azure, GCP and virtually all other providers have first class Docker and Kubernetes support. You can barely even host a Solaris VM anywhere today.
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by paxy 9y ago
The equivalent would be to start their own label and sign artists. It's hard, sure, but not impossible. They have the same advantage Netflix did - an intimate knowledge of people's musical tastes and habits. Plus they have already
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by paxy 9y ago
That still doesn't make sense. To prove they checked the form wrong, you have to prove the actual charge itself (e.g. they are a terrorist, by whatever definition). That itself is enough evidence for deportation.
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by paxy 9y ago
This is such a stupid explanation. Do people really think the government is going to go "You're a terrorist, but we can't deport you for that. But look here, you checked this form wrong.."
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by paxy 9y ago
Because any article about Tesla/Elon Musk is guaranteed to generate clicks.
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by paxy 9y ago
I mainly meant Office 365 & SharePoint, but there is a growing list of services above the infrastructure layer that Azure is leading in as well, like identity (Active Directory), hybrid cloud, Dynamics CRM and BI/data processing.
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by paxy 9y ago
Mainly because of their cloud business, which I feel is a fair evaluation. Azure is widening the gap between 2nd and 3rd place in cloud hosting, while also making huge gains in cloud services, which is something AWS doesn't have.

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