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by tener 10y ago
China has spent billions on lots of different things, some of which made a spectacular flops. From the Fortune article quoted as a source: > The government is riding on the hope that entrepreneurship will help boost the market, but
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by tener 10y ago
I wonder how it translates to the money savings for Google and end users. A quick estimate based on prices quoted by Google Cloud Engine for Egress transfers ($0.08/GB) gives $183 million in yearly savings. Surely Google pays much less
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by tener 10y ago
According to https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/volume/24-hour/ the two biggest markets are Poloniex and Kraken. I can recommend Kraken - looks very well thought out and professional.
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by tener 10y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something, but to me the obvious way to serve multiple clients is to simply create multiple isolated deployments, including a separate database server for every client. Handling this on the application level feels l
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by tener 10y ago
Just Google for it? https://goo.gl/maps/UBXAndEsCUP2
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by tener 10y ago
Lazy evaluation is not important item here. It is merely the semantics is defined in a way that the order of declarations does not matter. Other languages have this property too - say, C# (not entirely true, but pretty close - at least if y
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by tener 10y ago
I guess someone calculated that given current rate of sequential assignment of MAC ranges, we won't get to 4 and 6 prefixes in a very long time. That reasoning was broken as it assumed sequential assignment is the only way to go.
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by tener 10y ago
For processing the legitimate transactions. Businesses with high fraud numbers will get axed by Visa.
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by tener 10y ago
Isn't Facebook blocking any plugins that interfere with the site contents? Perhaps it just got popular enough for them to notice?
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by tener 10y ago
Serious question: why on Earth would someone want to produce such compounds? Are there any actual applications of this work?
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by tener 10y ago
> But, for something like descried in the original article, there damn sure ought to be somebody to hold accountable. Yes. Currently you can sue the company that delivered the stuff. Stop blaming the wrong people please.
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by tener 10y ago
If you really care about it you can simply do "cultural screening": don't hire people that clearly don't match your attitude requirements. We are doing that. You can also discourage certain behaviors. If needed, fire off
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by tener 10y ago
> What is not to love? The complexity of that solution. By nature it is very fragile and leads to nasty bugs. But I can see certainly see the benefit of this approach - would be interesting to see this applied to some big frameworks&#x2F
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by tener 10y ago
I keep wondering how accurate is that. On one hand implementing that precisely surely must be difficult - if it wasn't, everyone would have it. On the other hand, Azure clearly have issues calculating the bills in real time. Heck, once
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by tener 10y ago
If you are going to put to jail a single developer, you may as well put to jail the entire company . That in turn wouldn't be practical or fair. It isn't the developer who has signed the contract to deliver the faulty piece of so
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by tener 10y ago
Perhaps not for the entire time, but bear in mind that the prices of cryptocurrencies fluctuate and you can spin up the VMs when it is profitable and shut them down when it isn't.
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by tener 10y ago
Pretty sure the AWS EULA makes you responsible for violating any IPs. I didn't read it, but if it doesn't say so already then their lawyers are crap.
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by tener 10y ago
You are missing the big picture here. The key phrase is: "risk management". Anything that your are doing (or NOT doing) have inherent risks. You should manage those risks. If risk realises you will be losing money (in various
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by tener 10y ago
Software projects that have significant impact on public safety/well being are a relatively rare kind. You can easily apply additional policies on them - and indeed this is what is being done (see airplane software, medical softwar
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by tener 10y ago
If the company culture is supporting this attitude, then sure - you will have developers saying that. But it isn't the developers that create that culture. This is something the management is responsible for.
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by tener 10y ago
Don't put the blame on the developers. Too frequently they are put under huge pressure and cannot say "no" to their managers. There are people which are responsible for delivery, testing and they are paid way more than the av
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by tener 10y ago
According to Google Trends, "cyber" overall slowly going out of use, but "cyber security" has a reverse trend. At the same time, Cyber Monday is winning it all. https://www.google.com/trends/explore?
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by tener 10y ago
Perhaps this campaign reflects the bubble the marketing team is in.
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by tener 10y ago
> On Atari the agent now achieves on average 9x human performance Very impressive. I guess the human limit has to do with humans being limited about number of things to track at once? I wonder if they can apply this to optimizing the tra
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by tener 10y ago
If you create an instance group of preemptible instances it will automatically try to fulfill your demand - no need to write a thing!
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by tener 10y ago
Probably sniffing the packets should work. But even if you do that properly there is always a high chance your router will be compromised and you won't be able to fix it. To be extra sure just treat it as such and put a firewall betwee
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by tener 10y ago
Are software patents a thing outside US? Surely plenty of hackers in EU could use such a library.
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by tener 10y ago
While FECs are useful, I really wish there was a free and good implementation of fountain codes [1]. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_code
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by tener 10y ago
Still an issue - tried to buy shoes from Deichmann, they requested my login credentials. WTF.
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by tener 10y ago
Comparing to Apple, Microsoft seems to be getting more attention to their news, which is a praiseworthy change.

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