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by theatraine 8y ago
I'm curious if anyone has examples where diversity led to better product creation, or counterexamples where companies were hurt by since the designers overlooked certain groups. One notable example was Google photos racist blunder: ht
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by theatraine 9y ago
Pot seems like a natural fit for cryptocurrency. There's several currencies which are designed specifically for this space (e.g. HempCoin - http://www.hempcoin.org/ - THC). As far as I can tell the weed cryptos seem to
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by theatraine 9y ago
I wonder what the health benefits are for different caffeine metabolizers (i.e. for different CYP1A2 genotypes). The source article only mentions that slow metabolizers have a higher risk of hypertension, but is that outweighed by the other
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Microsoft Cloud Continues to Grow, Powers First Quarter Results(microsoft.com)
6 points by theatraine 9y ago|0 comments
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by theatraine 9y ago
With long-term use Stevens–Johnson syndrome is a risk.
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by theatraine 9y ago
I'm a data scientist at Microsoft and use the precursor to Azure Data Lake (internally called Cosmos) daily. It's a remarkably powerful and well-designed system.
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by theatraine 9y ago
The consensus among my University classmates was that moderate drinking was drinking until you are moderately drunk (say around 6 drinks). It seems like they were poorly informed.
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Microsoft offers 4 weeks paid family caregiver leave to employees(blogs.microsoft.com)
2 points by theatraine 9y ago|0 comments
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by theatraine 9y ago
Batch processing: Azure Data Lake( https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/data-lake/ ) Stream processing: Azure Stream Analytics ( https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/stream
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Microsoft Cloud Strength Highlights Second Quarter Results(microsoft.com)
3 points by theatraine 10y ago|0 comments
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by theatraine 10y ago
I went to Burning Man with a good friend of mine, who also had mainstream tastes, and his experience is well summed up by this comic: https://i.redd.it/d003u7o3ivnx.png
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by theatraine 10y ago
To quote DevOps Borat: "Pair programming is good concept but is involve too many programmer." https://twitter.com/devops_borat/status/300037586523676672
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Microsoft Cloud Strength Highlights Third Quarter Results(microsoft.com)
2 points by theatraine 10y ago|0 comments
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by theatraine 11y ago
I'm curious to see what people have used genetic algorithms for in practice. Personally I've used them for feature selection when I was trying to reduce a high amount of features to smaller amount for a classification problem. Of
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by theatraine 11y ago
The new Azure portal uses TypeScript heavily.
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Microsoft Cloud Strength Highlights Second Quarter Results(microsoft.com)
105 points by theatraine 11y ago|37 comments
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by theatraine 11y ago
I wonder how this will compare with TitanDB? http://thinkaurelius.github.io/titan/
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Strong Execution Drives Microsoft First Quarter Results(microsoft.com)
2 points by theatraine 11y ago|0 comments
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by theatraine 11y ago
The benefits: - Extending parental leave to 12 weeks for new fathers, and 20 weeks for new mothers. - 2 additional paid holidays (Martin Luther King Day and Presidents Day). - Increased 401(k) match from 50 percent of the first 6 percent th
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The employee experience at Microsoft: Aligning benefits to our culture(blogs.microsoft.com)
6 points by theatraine 11y ago|1 comments
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by theatraine 11y ago
Azure App Service ( https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/ ) is Azure's Heroku competitor. It's quite close in features and ease-of-use. Disclosure: I work for this team.
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I switched to a standing desk, now you should too(newyorker.com)
2 points by theatraine 11y ago|0 comments
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by theatraine 11y ago
"scientists found that every hour that overweight adults spent watching television, which is a handy way to measure sitting time at home, increased their risk of becoming diabetic by 3.4 percent" I think that should be every hou
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Strength in Microsoft Cloud Highlights Q3 Results(microsoft.com)
6 points by theatraine 11y ago|0 comments
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Amazon Home Services(amazon.com)
341 points by theatraine 12y ago|238 comments
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by theatraine 12y ago
Most recently I can think of HoloLens ( http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us ) and the Surface Hub ( http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-surface-hub/en-us ). Kinect was also a research pro
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by theatraine 12y ago
I meant that Fiddler switches the original certificates with certificates that it generates. It's not a big deal if you trust them (on Windows Chrome and IE work automatically since it adds them to the trusted root store) and for Firef
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by theatraine 12y ago
This is handy, but you can very easily do this automatically with fiddler. It automatically swaps out all of the certs though.
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by theatraine 12y ago
There's limited political incentive to improve the lives of a non-voting group. Legally, a large amount of prisoners or former convicts can't vote since they're disenfranchised ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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Microsoft Cloud and Devices Momentum Highlights Second Quarter Results(microsoft.com)
1 points by theatraine 12y ago|0 comments

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