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by techie128 7y ago
Yes Google did make search and mobile more accessible while helping itself to a big pile of money. Stop pretending that they did it out of the goodness of their hearts. Hate to break it to you but Google is just like any other business.
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by techie128 7y ago
I think their diversity initiatives failed miserable. They created a monoculture that is violently intolerant of diverse viewpoints.
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by techie128 7y ago
Microsoft and Apple employees might care. However, workplace is not an appropriate forum to fight over politics or other non-work related topics. More importantly, it is important to maintain professionalism and focus on the job you've
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by techie128 7y ago
The fine print to such management speak is, "...this is the final wave until our bottom line improves". If Uber's financial position doesn't improve, we are guaranteed to see more "waves". Given Uber's cur
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by techie128 7y ago
My consumer confidence in civil aviation is shaken. I think there should be a way to opt out of flying on aircrafts that I deem unsafe. Additionally, airline and travel websites should be required, by law, to display the safety record of th
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by techie128 7y ago
I respect Apple's style of releasing products. Rather than releasing half-baked crappy product (think Samsung Galaxy Fold), take your time and make a truly remarkable product. First mover advantage is worthless if your product crashes
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by techie128 7y ago
It probably should not invent its own language or if it does, it should take inspiration from XPath/JSONPath which is arguably simpler.
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by techie128 7y ago
Unfortunately, this is an opinion by a single analyst. Analysts are frequently wrong about their prediction. I would not put a whole lot of stock in it. Post Kurian, GCP has shown _some_ traction but it still has a long catch up game to pla
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by techie128 7y ago
I don't get it. You're hosting a service that allows users to store JSON for free? Why? Have you thought about what happens to your expenses when potentially hundreds or thousands of people use it?
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by techie128 7y ago
Lenovo seems to have gone down in quality. Their supply chain also doesn’t seem to be doing too well. Orders for a lot of their models are delayed by 6 weeks at least. Those who got deliveries are complaining about poor build quality, DOA a
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by techie128 7y ago
You can completely avoid this by using a package manager - Homebrew on macOS, apt on Debian/Ubuntu, yum on Redhat/CentOS. I don't use Windows but I am sure there should be something similar. You also don't need to use Or
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by techie128 7y ago
The ideas I have presented are not 'armchair science'. They're widely accepted in the field of evolutionary biology.
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by techie128 7y ago
I am sure the author means well. However, this makes little sense from an evolutionary standpoint. Although humans have evolved far more than most animals on this planet, the basic idea of evolutionary biology remains the same. In the wild,
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by techie128 7y ago
Not defending people who self-cite but here is an alternative explanation. There are many areas of science that have very few researchers working on the same or related problems. In addition papers tend to build on prior works of the same o
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by techie128 7y ago
Cassandra does not enforce any restrictions on the data format. You could store practically any blob.
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by techie128 7y ago
“Store unlimited data for free and pay only for what you analyse” - unlimited data for free? Not happening. I would really take that off before someone tries to find out limits of your “unlimited” offering.
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by techie128 7y ago
Having lived in the US for over a decade, I am disappointed with the system. I also notice that nobody in this thread, so far, has talked about liability and the overly litigious aspect of the American society. There are so many lawyers tha
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by techie128 7y ago
I am sure you have data to back up your claim that "standards of care, facility costs, and compensation for medical professionals is much lower." Care to post it?
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by techie128 7y ago
Do low wage, low education workers have poorer morals? They are fighting to make ends meet and could care less about your 1st world problems.
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by techie128 7y ago
Do you think Tiger population growth happens overnight? I think successive governments have invested in making sure Tiger population growth is healthy. Read this: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144540/chi
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by techie128 7y ago
Its called "ananas" in Marathi as well. Marathi is a regional language in India.
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by techie128 7y ago
You'll notice that this person (Usha Sagarwala) doesn't show up on LinkedIn or has any online presence. That is because most consultancies have a playbook for these H1B employees which includes falsifying their resume and work exp
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by techie128 7y ago
Interesting. Although it is on the lite side. For example, it doesn't talk about chaos testing, defining effective and comprehensive metrics (KPIs), alert noise or running services like databases in an active-active (hot-hot) mode.
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by techie128 7y ago
This is great news for employment based immigration. It makes the system FIFO and helps American workers by reducing the number of people waiting perpetually in line for a GC. This way people stuck in the backlog can move jobs easily and ac
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by techie128 7y ago
India has plenty of water. The problem plaguing South India, specifically Chennai, was anticipated. The central government was fixing it. However it lacked sufficient support from the state government.
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by techie128 7y ago
I was citing this as an example of India’s legal system diverging from US.
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by techie128 7y ago
I believe India has had a better track record than China as far as IP is concerned. The only concern I would have is India's patent laws are different from the US. Evergreening of drugs has been repeatedly rejected.
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by techie128 7y ago
While this is great news for India, it is sort of expected. Chinese mobile companies have been manufacturing in India and produce 80-90% of their phones locally. There are clear benefits for Apple here. China, as a manufacturing destination
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by techie128 7y ago
Agreed. What I said does not protect against BGP blackholing or ISP screw ups rendering services inaccessible. However, all I was pointing out that services could be built for higher uptime than what is currently being offered.
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by techie128 7y ago
If you have Cassandra (or Cassandra-like DB) running across multiple DCs, you can definitely mitigate node, rack and even a DC failure for a 100% up time. Just because a node or DC fails doesn't mean there is a user visible impact.

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