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by peterb 12y ago
I would love it if they could optimize it for specific use cases, such as removing the advertising on the ice & boards from a televised hockey game.
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Design and the Datacenter(medium.com)
3 points by peterb 12y ago|0 comments
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by peterb 12y ago
My advice is to apply his engineering skills to the job hunt itself. Send out CV's every day, network, hunt, analyze data, look for patterns, etc. As he is discovering, job hunting is a full time job. In Canada, there are organizatio
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by peterb 12y ago
They only axed Silicon Valley research. Microsoft Research is still strong, but in Redmond, Israel and other locations. The Microsoft executive team fully recognizes that research is key to their future success.
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by peterb 12y ago
Why? This is not a troll, I'm very interested in your reasons.
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by peterb 12y ago
Yes, plus the executives involved should be personally punished through financial loss and imprisonment.
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by peterb 12y ago
Agreed. Even 3 decimal places wouldn't do justice to what they have done to us. Fuck those greedy bastards. If we were smart we would unionize ... err, sorry, I mean form a professional association to represent our interests. Like doct
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by peterb 12y ago
But I can blame companies for conspiring to hire the best trained people to do a given job at the lowest possible price . H-1B visas, offshoring, anti-compete clauses and non-poaching agreements are their key tactics.
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by peterb 12y ago
More like "S3 ain't shipping until dropbox files are missing" or "EC2 doesn't go until Netflix is slow".
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by peterb 12y ago
sp332 got it. They also used "knife the baby" internally to kill any project that could impact Windows/Office.
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by peterb 12y ago
Jeff Bezos is using Bill Gates' playbook from the 1990's: build alternatives to the most popular apps on your platform; bundle them; and improve app quality over time. This business strategy is very hard for a company like dropbox
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective Jenkins Users (2014 edition)(slideshare.net)
1 points by peterb 12y ago|0 comments
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The Only Way To Get Girls into STEM (Boys Too)(spydergrrl.com)
46 points by peterb 12y ago|71 comments
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Docker: Containers for the Masses – Ansible and Docker(patg.net)
1 points by peterb 12y ago|0 comments
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Index Tweets in Elasticsearch with Logstash(blog.florian-hopf.de)
1 points by peterb 12y ago|0 comments
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We Analyzed 2000 Angel Investors. Here are the Top 1%.(cbinsights.com)
5 points by peterb 12y ago|0 comments
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4 reasons why Docker's libcontainer is a big deal(infoworld.com)
2 points by peterb 12y ago|0 comments
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Is Snowden Obliged to Accept Punishment? By Michael J. Glennon(justsecurity.org)
9 points by peterb 12y ago|2 comments
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by peterb 12y ago
I tried to get my son into Scratch, but he didn't like it. He loves hacking on Lua code in the Roblox game.
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On civil disagreement and why Prop 8 is different(medium.com)
3 points by peterb 13y ago|4 comments
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Microsoft provides legal Vagrant box for Windows Server 2012 R2 Data Center(vagrantbox.msopentech.com)
17 points by peterb 13y ago|2 comments
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by peterb 13y ago
OneNote has been available for many years, it is one of the hidden gems in the office suite. Now they are going head-to-head with Evernote and making it available everywhere: OSX, iOS, Android, Windows, Windows Phone, etc.
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by peterb 13y ago
There are three sides to every story. In this case there is her side, github's side and the truth. It is not that someone is lying, it is that people perceive things differently and it takes time to detangle perceptions to reach the tr
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Bob Marshall: What is Value?(flowchainsensei.wordpress.com)
1 points by peterb 13y ago|0 comments
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The Case for Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble(thoughtworks.com)
1 points by peterb 13y ago|0 comments
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Linksys Worm "TheMoon" Summary: What we know so far(isc.sans.edu)
2 points by peterb 13y ago|0 comments
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by peterb 13y ago
The wage-theft stuff lowers the curve for everyone, not just the top tier. It lowers the entire wage curve.
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Netty: Network - Application development the easy way(normanmaurer.me)
2 points by peterb 13y ago|0 comments
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Memcached: The Real Reason ARM Will Menace Intel in the Data Center(wired.com)
1 points by peterb 13y ago|0 comments
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Application Resilience Engineering and Operations at Netflix with HystrixOSS(speakerdeck.com)
4 points by peterb 13y ago|0 comments

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