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Microsoft Cloud Strength and Hardware Progress Drive Record Q1 Revenue(microsoft.com)
98 points by theatraine 12y ago|24 comments
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by theatraine 12y ago
From their blog entry: "Sway’s built-in design engine takes the hassle out of formatting your content by putting all of it into a cohesive layout as you create. ... This is thanks to a lot of Microsoft Research technology we’ve brought
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by theatraine 12y ago
That's why you sign a lease. You can't raise rent for the duration of the lease. Your landlord should give you notice that the rent will be going up, thus giving you ample time to find a new place. If a tenant wants more stability
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by theatraine 12y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it happens, Microsoft has on-premise versions of several Azure offerings (i.e. WebSites, IaaS, Service Bus) which are released in Windows Azure Pack ( http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server
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by theatraine 12y ago
Seattle is the fastest growing large American city, according to estimates from the Census bureau: http://blogs.seattletimes.com/fyi-guy/2014/05/22/census-seat... Seattle seems to have much better planni
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Microsoft Cloud Growth Drives Strong Fourth-Quarter Results(microsoft.com)
77 points by theatraine 12y ago|30 comments
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by theatraine 12y ago
From the previously linked AmA: "This was actually one of the interview questions, don't know why they didn't use the answer. I work as a software developer and a bit of a system administrator. I work in a company that does p
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by theatraine 12y ago
Isn't that only in-state tuition? If you don't already live in the same state as the school that you'd like to go to, then you're going to have to pay much more. Edit: some students are starting to do it: http:/&#x
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by theatraine 12y ago
As a Canadian, this seems ridiculous to me. I paid $8,500/year in tuition for my undergraduate degree (Mathematics and Computer Engineering, Queen's University) and $7,000/year in tuition for my MASc (Computer Engineering, Un
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by theatraine 12y ago
I'm surprised that the author didn't mention or try to draft. As Mythbusters showed, drafting can save quite a bit of fuel, might have been a better idea than trying to pass the trucks. "drafting behind an 18-wheeler truck wa
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by theatraine 13y ago
"As explained in Alsup's opinion, the whole dispute stemmed from an errant check placed on a form filled out by FBI agent Kevin Kelly" This sounds very similar to what happened in the movie Brazil, where an errant fly resulte
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by theatraine 13y ago
I used this tuner to test it: http://www.audionotch.com/app/tune/ (and this chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_key_frequencies ) Seems to work well! Good work.
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by theatraine 13y ago
Does this represent an arbitrage opportunity? (it appears not, since MtGox is limiting transactions due to a bug in their implementation of the protocol.) Also, I wonder if anyone has used bots to perform HFT using bitcoin in the same manne
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by theatraine 13y ago
Google clickthroughs aren't blocked: https://www.google.com/search?q=+Nokia+Releasing+First+Andro...
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by theatraine 13y ago
This article gives a good overview in the USA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_cities_in_the_United_St...
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by theatraine 13y ago
http://www.nextmicrosoftceo.com/ presents some good candidates. However, I doubt that the first contender, Gabe Newell would leave Valve, and that the second-place contender, RMS, would be a good business decision.
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by theatraine 13y ago
Operates in slow motion on Metro IE11, interestingly, desktop IE11 performs well although it starts off slow. It flies in FF and Chrome though. I suppose the Metro IE11 is missing some WebGL optimizations. Very cool!
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by theatraine 13y ago
Right, from the revenue report: "Commercial cloud revenue grew 103%". This appears to be the largest section of growth reported, so it looks like Microsoft is doing pretty well in the cloud space.
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by theatraine 13y ago
There's no compression. It's expansion, since null bytes were added to increase the digit length of the resulting prime, making it long enough to publish. For an arbitrary binary, the original (most likely non-prime) zipped repres
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by theatraine 13y ago
Sure, you could pre-calculate your filter coefficients and use a bandpass for each frequency band then do the math in Javascript however it's slower, and more involved. Also, unless you're going to be using WAVs, there's goin
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by theatraine 13y ago
Right, the EQ controls the volume of each of the 10 (each one corresponds to a slider) sounds. (Every sound has been previously decomposed into its frequency components.) The Web Audio API is used for browsers that have it present, else HTM
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by theatraine 13y ago
I wonder how Microsoft's Drawbridge OS ( http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/drawbridge/ ) will compare to LXC, and the Docker APIs? Currently Drawbridge looks like it's lacking adoption, and
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Wiretap Report 2012(uscourts.gov)
1 points by theatraine 13y ago|0 comments
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by theatraine 13y ago
The Onion's parody on Facebook's CIA ownership is now sounding eerily accurate. For those who haven't seen it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0
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by theatraine 13y ago
Even if you don't have an American degree, it helps for immigration purposes. For example, I have a Canadian MS, allowing me to apply for a green card under the EB2 category. The EB2 category has an expected wait time of about a year as opp
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by theatraine 14y ago
Bear in mind that Azure storage includes "Blobs, Disks/Drives, Tables, and Queues" however S3 is only blobs (other services like Amazon's DynamoDB would be analogous to table storage). Hence, it's not an apples-to-apples comparison.
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by theatraine 14y ago
I would be interested to see the Summly summarization of this article! I think it would read something like this: Yahoo bought Summly, a startup with an app that not many people used, made no money, and employed no technical geniuses (since
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by theatraine 14y ago
This seems like a violation of the first amendment’s freedom of speech protections. It's offensive regardless of any alignment with animal protection groups.
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by theatraine 14y ago
I haven't used the checkout button yet, but here's what I learned from rolling my own: the form comes in with a token which you then charge with the stripe Python API, and on successful payment, you receive a callback at your webhooks url (
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by theatraine 14y ago
Windows Azure Websites ( http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/home/scenarios/web-sites/ ) is similar to what you're describing, you can install a variety of popular platforms in one click (ie Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, DotNetNuke,...) and get

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