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by sah2ed 9y ago
Are you also circumnavigating Africa like HN user @grecy ?
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Is the time zone a hard requirement or you are flexible?
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Good points but the thing that will prevent adoption of your approach is the element of variability. Businesses don't handle processes that produce variable outcomes very well since it opens them up to risk. Or stated another way, busi
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> I think the way you measure teamwork is at the team level by having a consisitent set of team-level metrics the entire team is judged against. This means individual personality and career path variations don’t matter as much. Interesti
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Why not shorten the lead time by biding higher for freshly built XFMRs from other countries of the desired capacity?
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> If an ad can be targeted to that level it can be used to address a single individual. Alec Brownstein did exactly that by ad targeting his favorite creative directors' names some years back in order to land a job. It worked. http
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by sah2ed 9y ago
From reviewing the thread's discussion, it looks like businesses turn to cloud-based infrastructure for a number of reasons: 1. To outsource non-core activities to experts and reduce risk, for firms that see IT as a cost center. A cost
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Contrary to what you think, they activately encourage this style of usage. AWS has a product called Direct Connect [0] to reduce bandwidth costs between AWS and your infrastructure. [0] https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect&#
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> More importantly, OPEX comes from next years profits yielding a business I can loan against. CAPEX comes from last years profits, increasing the amount of loans I need to get it together. That's a very illuminating way to highligh
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> ... just a sense of direction and distance OK, how does a first time visitor with a rental car get a sense of direction and distance without a map or driving directions from a local? How do you reliably solve the beginner's mind p
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I think it's much more subtle. It might be better to separate the two use cases as: "data at rest" and "data in use" like Amazon does with S3 where they charge separately for storage and transfer costs. If you do no
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Mind sharing how you currently use Amazon KMS in practice?
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I think it is a reasonable expectation to require a certain baseline of expertise, considering the first thing the poster admitted to was: "I'm a data engineer for a startup that's trying to hire its first data scientist.&q
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Archive link in case the content in the original link gets retracted: http://archive.is/cRB57
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> This community is hugely biased towards an american, transhumanist point of view. I used to think this too, but after thinking about it a little more, I've come to the conclusion that the perception of bias towards a certain viewp
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by sah2ed 9y ago
I know this doesn't really add to the discussion but thanks for the reference.
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Some links on Jonathan Bulkeley's time at B&N: Joined: https://www.cnet.com/news/short-take-barnes-noble-names-new-... IPO: https://nypost.com/1999/05/26/not-one-for-the-books-bn
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Occam's razor applies. I think there is a much simpler explanation of why your examples are able to "disrupt" the industries you cite -- those founders felt "with the advances made by mankind, this kind of business idea
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How is Amazon harming society? I don't see how they harm consumers since either way, consumers are the biggest winners of those low prices. If you are referring to self-published authors distributing ebooks being forced to take 35% on
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> I go to a store when I need staff to tell me what I want. Or eventually, you and everyone will skip the store trip by asking Alexa on the Amazon Echo in your smart home.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Your link doesn't disprove my point. Did the LG Prada run Windows Mobile/Phone, Palm webOS or any mainstream OS for smartphones?
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Looks like people are completely ignoring the context of my response. The context in the grandparent was Alexa (i.e. voice search at home) which is much much narrower than voice search in general. Here's an excerpt of Jeff Bezos'
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Do you have links to back up your claim? Palm's first touch screen smartphone effort was released in 2009 [0]. Not that it matters considering the original discussion was Google vs Apple. Anyway, PDAs were a different device category
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by sah2ed 9y ago
On that bit of history, I stand corrected. Thanks for pointing it out.
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Right, but were their efforts successful? That's the main difference here, bringing a new product to market successfully . Long before voice assistants/search became a thing with smart phones there was Google 411 ... which no one
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by sah2ed 9y ago
That's a bit revisionist. Google saw a tiny but steady rise in mobile searches and realized they needed to become mobile focused. They acquired a startup called Danger Inc. which brought in Andy Rubin who helped birth their Android eff
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> Amazon as a threat to Google in this area. LOL. That is like saying Apple (iPhones) are a threat to Google (Android) when it was Apple that first brought touch-based smartphones to market. You probably meant: "Google is a threat t
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> Uber value is based on adopting SDC. Not sure what you were trying to say?
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by sah2ed 9y ago
This flight profile clearly shows they were scheduled to travel and land together. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/960915618865274880
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by sah2ed 9y ago
You might be eminently qualified to do the work but in reality no one works in isolation (unless you are Joe Hewitt [0]). So unless you can mind read, no one can say for sure if you will fit in with the existing culture to get the job done,

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