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by samspenc 7y ago
It's in one of the graphs in the parent OP article showing the 2018 annual revenue (estimated) for each of the cloud computing providers.
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by samspenc 7y ago
My biggest takeaway from this article was that while Google publicly reports its "cloud" revenue (including GSuite revenue) as $8 billion a year, its cloud computing revenue (the portion that competes with AWS and Azure) is at $1-
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by samspenc 7y ago
The article correctly calls out the long hours (and weekends) worked by many restaurant owners, many of whom prefer their offspring get well-paid office jobs and avoid the life the parents had to live to make the restaurant business work. H
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by samspenc 7y ago
I'm surprised to see Angular drop in ratings and rank so poorly compared to React. I personally prefer Angular myself because it's (a) opiniated and (b) has everything included (HTTP REST calls, Material UI, etc). Just curious why
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by samspenc 7y ago
I believe the 8 billion a year number includes its G-Suite products. My understanding is that GCP itself makes only around 1-2 billion a year (excluding G-Suite). That doesn't seem enough to cover the CapEx, OpEx and engineering cost
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by samspenc 7y ago
I know you said that in jest, but in all seriousness, I think search and ads will definitely be around since they are the #1 player and making boatloads of money from search and ads. Google seems to have a tendency to shut down products tha
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by samspenc 7y ago
This is likely trending because John Carmack's recent post saying he was moving to AI references Pascal's Mugging: https://www.facebook.com/100006735798590/posts/2547632585471... His Facebook post was al
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by samspenc 7y ago
For reference: 1 crore rupees ~= $160,000 USD . So 6 crores is roughly 1 million USD
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Villagers in Jewar, India, become millionaires overnight after govt buys land(hindustantimes.com)
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by samspenc 7y ago
India's GDP per capita = ~$2,000 . India is a $2.6 trillion economy with 1.3 billion people. In comparison: * US GDP per capita = $56,000 . US is a $18 trillion economy with 325 million people. * Mainland China GDP per capita = $8,000
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by samspenc 7y ago
Yeah, that surprised me too. I thought they would at least throw in a reference to CP/M at that point, but that was missing. The other interesting story that I thought went missing was when they talked about Bill and Paul working on th
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by samspenc 7y ago
My biggest concern with 5G is whether the standards and implementation are being done by [1] companies based in democratic countries, or [2] companies based in non-free (dictatorship-run) countries where the companies have close ties with t
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Ask HN: Companies That Recently IPO'd (Uber, Lyft, Zoom, etc.)?
2 points by samspenc 7y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 7y ago
Seems to be a dupe of similar post that is also "trending" on HN at the moment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20310938
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NASA headed towards giant asteroid that could make everyone a billionaire(foxnews.com)
1 points by samspenc 7y ago|4 comments
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India’s Water Crisis Is Man-Made(bloomberg.com)
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Chinese bike share startup, once valued at $2B, unable to pay debts(qz.com)
1 points by samspenc 7y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 7y ago
TL;DR (hopefully I'm getting this right): the issue was that Vue.js creates scoped styles, and because the Sass styles were imported into every VueJS component, it rendered (and duplicated) the CSS in every component at runtime.
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by samspenc 7y ago
Countries have emerged out of poverty even with strong democracies. I'm not sure why the world thinks that a strongman regime like the CCP is needed for economic growth. In that sense, China is (IMHO) actually an outlier, an exception
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Hubble Measurements Confirm Something Weird About How Universe Is Expanding(gizmodo.com)
2 points by samspenc 8y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 8y ago
Kinda wish they'd gone with "bird mode". In addition to being cool, it looks like it would have been more accurate as well :)
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by samspenc 8y ago
I really wish they would name the 'sophisticated state actor', I don't understand why they don't make that part public. I'm guessing it's either Russia or China, but I still wish they would name the state actor
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Letter from NY Governor about Amazon tax breaks (2018)(governor.ny.gov)
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by samspenc 8y ago
Wouldn't a Chromebook be a better option for non-technical users who only need to use the Internet and websites?
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by samspenc 8y ago
Wow, Apple's services business (consumer focused) is $10 billion a quarter now. To put that in perspective, Amazon's entire AWS cloud business, which is enterprise focused, is at around $7 billion a quarter.
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by samspenc 8y ago
> More specifically, why does the cook only make $24 per hour while the waiting staff gets $42-48? That was my takeaway from the article as well. Does anyone know if this par for the restaurant industry? Does FOH make more than the line
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by samspenc 8y ago
The problem is that in order to emigrate from where they are (third-world / developing) to another country (likely first-world / developed), they would need to move on one of these visas: (a) student (b) worker (c) family member o
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by samspenc 8y ago
Thanks, this was really confusing me for a while since their donation link points to Mozilla, but they have this text right on their application launch page: "Thunderbird is no longer funded by Mozilla."
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China's Online Lending Crackdown May See 70% of Businesses Close(bloomberg.com)
2 points by samspenc 8y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 8y ago
The humble session cookie is what I've been using all these years, but now suddenly everyone is saying "JWT". Any advice on the pros and cons of JWT vs session cookies?

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