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by skj 12y ago
You heard wrong.
782.
by skj 12y ago
Maybe they'd all get a bit smarter as a result?
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by skj 12y ago
Larger businesses don't ask for discounts... before they purchase the product. They ask for discounts when it's actually time to pay up and they've started using the service.
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by skj 12y ago
If you range on a string, you get runes. http://play.golang.org/p/CqLnT4m4GI
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by skj 12y ago
> Personally I daily have about 12 tsp of sugar (in coffee) and a coke. I'm shredded, btw. That's what I was like too, before I turned 25. That's just how it goes, independent of your diet (within reason).
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by skj 12y ago
I want to go to space in a shrink-wrapped spacesuit.
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by skj 12y ago
While I agree that one shouldn't abuse these people, the corporations deliberately set it up so that they're the only agents that can be communicated with. There is literally no one else who will bother listening to you, and the o
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by skj 12y ago
He's not saying that not applying causes not succeeding, but that the reasons you give for not applying cause not succeeding. That is, correlation, not causation.
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by skj 12y ago
> I doubt they are getting swarmed by emails HAH! > and wouldn't mind hearing from you. Probably not :)
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by skj 12y ago
I don't believe there are any services other than GAE with free tiers. Edit: someone mentioned bigquery, which I haven't verified but seems plausible.
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by skj 12y ago
If someone actually spends all 100k of the credit, there is no doubt that the electricity involved cost more than 5k. There are certainly margins, but if the margin was 95%, then as Bezos says, "Your margin is my opportunity."
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by skj 12y ago
I don't know anything about the legal issues. I only know what our policies are. If you don't take my word for things, I won't be offended. Regarding the business case, Google has a LOT of compute power. The cost of that comp
793.
by skj 12y ago
So, the post you're replying to was sort of a worthless no-true-scotsman statement, but more of the same doesn't make it better!
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by skj 12y ago
Sounds like 150k in free bitcoins to whomever wants to jump on that deal, to me.
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by skj 12y ago
Just to reinforce this... (I am a Google Cloud Platform engineer) Google's internal data, which is mined (and audited), and the Cloud datacenters/data, are hosted entirely separately (though that's as much to protect us from
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by skj 12y ago
Yes, I think it's clear that this is not charity, but spending <=$100,000 on EXTREMELY well-targeted advertising.
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by skj 12y ago
Aha, thanks :)
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by skj 12y ago
> This condition is known as cerebellar agenesis. To tease you a little bit, I read this as > This condition is known as being born without a cerebellum. I don't know why we need a latin name for everything!
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by skj 12y ago
> "Beginning of the (20th) century there were 2,000 apple varieties, today you can find at the grocery store only max. 20 varieties." Not that I disagree with the point, but I take issue with statements like this one, which can
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by skj 12y ago
> I wouldn't be able to afford my own house right now. Sounds like a good time to sell!
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by skj 12y ago
> Do you get how huge this infrastructure is ? Its a massive engineering effort to manage that kind of information flow. Which is why it could never happen without it being well known inside Google.
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by skj 12y ago
That appears to be several things: 1) True. 2) Consistent with statements made by Google. 3) Quickly mitigated by Google when it began encrypting traffic between data centers.
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by skj 12y ago
Google responds to legal requests for information. The whole PRISM scandal was indicating that the NSA had some kind of direct link into the databases themselves. This assertion is what Google denied, and still denies. There's been a b
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by skj 12y ago
What is the actual lie?
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by skj 12y ago
What statement did Google make, regarding PRISM, that was a lie? And what evidence caused them to get caught?
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by skj 12y ago
It's not universal, on my team of 8 there is a ~60, ~65, ~70. I use ~ because I have never actually asked, and that's unlikely to change.
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by skj 12y ago
Only 14 more tons since C++98, which, of course, had 98 tons since C.
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by skj 12y ago
> Plus, construction booms typically lead to more widespread economic bubbles. If there is actually a causal relationship there, I would have thought it was the other way around.
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by skj 12y ago
Apparently that is not so cut and dry. According to wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_gi... ), the letter with this statement was written at a time when they were on good terms.
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by skj 12y ago
If only they had won the world cup, this whole mess might have been avoided.

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