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811.
by skj 12y ago
GCE is a more generic/flexible backend service. Run whatever you want on there.
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by skj 12y ago
If we want to make the analogy apt, it would be like the mobile service saying "To make a phone call, please first call the kill-yourself company and tell them where you are so they can kill you." Google does not sell the informat
813.
by skj 12y ago
When information, a license, or a service is sold, the buyer now has information, a license (or general right to do something), or has benefited from some service. Google sells clicks on ads. Once a click is bought, the buyers now has eyeba
814.
by skj 12y ago
Firstly, comparing ad views to drone strikes is absurd in any context, and the only purpose can be some terrible appeal to emotion. Even if we were to go with this analogy, the person purchasing the drone strike still doesn't have the
815.
by skj 12y ago
Starting off with an admission that I'm a Google fanboy and employee... I hate this sentiment. It's silly. Google does not sell any information to anyone. Google just shows people targeted ads. If you can show a way to infer per
816.
by skj 12y ago
To be fair, we do that to avoid GC slowdown issues. If the GC improves to the point where that's no longer an issue, we don't have to do that anymore :)
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by skj 12y ago
Carpet may cost $40/m^2 to lay down (actually a bit less than that), but it costs significantly less to maintain. Yes, there'd be an up-front investment, but you just need to keep your maintenance down.
818.
by skj 12y ago
The difference between "artificial intelligence" and "automated problem solving" is how much the algorithm designers understand what's going on. Computers will certainly be able to understand jokes or innuendo. At l
819.
by skj 12y ago
There was a place to write code. In this example, obviously, none was written. But interfaces leave no opportunity.
820.
by skj 12y ago
> “Security Princess” is Parisa Tabriz’s official title at Google. Seriously. Well, sure, but at the same time my official title at Google is "Engine Ear". It just takes manager approval.
821.
by skj 12y ago
ksh allows you to define and return types - their declarations are very close to those of C++.
822.
by skj 12y ago
Surely that depends on more than just the number of columns and the number of pixels.
823.
by skj 12y ago
The stuff you mix in has code. Interfaces do not.
824.
by skj 12y ago
The tendency is for things like lpsolve to be written single-process, because typically when you need to do it once, you need to do it one thousand times, and then your distribution is using each core available to you for a single lpsolve i
825.
by skj 12y ago
Bam!
826.
by skj 12y ago
Go makes it straightforward to have one program efficiently communicating with many different servers and clients. It does this by having all network IO be event-based in such a way that it's effectively tied directly into the schedule
827.
by skj 12y ago
Given the theme of comments so far, it seems to be a presentation and communication issue rather than the reader being "strange".
828.
by skj 12y ago
Google Compute Engine has live migration between datacenters. http://www.rightscale.com/blog/cloud-industry-insights/googl...
829.
by skj 12y ago
Does RPGMaker have an onerous cost associated with using it? Or has it fallen stale and become unmaintained? I've never fooled around with it, so I can't personally say. I'm all for writing open-source tools, but the real con
830.
by skj 12y ago
yes, and?
831.
by skj 12y ago
Ideally, yes.
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by skj 12y ago
It's almost like, if they already know you're not a bot, they don't have to try very hard to re-prove it, or something. Think of it in a Bayesian sense. If 10% of anonymous users end up being bots (the prior), and the "h
833.
by skj 12y ago
I go even a bit further: don't bring me solutions, just tell me what makes your life difficult. As a tools developer, I observe that user-provided solutions almost never address anything outside their specific problem, which is potenti
834.
by skj 12y ago
The fact that java was included in the list is actually just an indication that the author is a java programmer, and he wishes that he were in the guild O:-)
835.
by skj 12y ago
Nothing fancy, just a start-to-finish tutorial.
836.
by skj 12y ago
Regarding the bean counters, keeping promos down doesn't help their budgets as much as you might think. The bonus you get for "exceeds expectations" brings you approximately to the "meets expectations" total compens
837.
by skj 12y ago
I believe the GP was equating "British values" as a dogwhistle for racists, in the same way claiming you're a "real American" is in the US.
838.
by skj 12y ago
Yes, I am totally confident in Comcast's ability to properly ensure the security of their system, and don't think someone who connects to the guest SSID would ever be able to root it.
839.
by skj 12y ago
It's called the internet. Dell's feelings weren't hurt.
840.
by skj 12y ago
That's the GGP's point, I think. The word 'poaching' is used because the humans are treated as game, and continuing to use that word continues to bring up that connotation.

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