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by travem 12y ago
Perhaps, perhaps not, but body language across different cultures is not universal.
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by travem 12y ago
StackLead isn't providing job-finding/head-huntiong services though, from my reading of their site they are more suited to sales lead management. A quick search of USPTO shows plenty of other companies using stack in their registe
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by travem 12y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, I didn't catch the precise scope of the problem you were calling out in my initial reading.
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by travem 12y ago
Because they used the word Stack in their name? StackLead and StackOverflow seem sufficiently different to me to not be confusing. The use of the word stack is fairly common in other companies and projects like saltstack, openstack, stackme
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by travem 12y ago
I'm not sure I follow, could you elaborate? Are there specific things that you think are harder with Virtual Machines?
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by travem 12y ago
> We should need neither VMs nor Containers. The process isolation and environment virtualization provided by the OS should be sufficient, that's what it is there for. This is of course assuming that there is a common OS that suppor
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by travem 13y ago
It's not strictly rational but when you are giving extrinsic rewards, like a gift card, they are not perceived as an added reward but as a replacement. What did they replace? The intrinsic motivation/justification that prompted th
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by travem 13y ago
I used to use Plex for network playback with my earlier roku's but with my Roku 3 I can play videos, mp3s, photos etc. natively directly from my NAS.
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by travem 13y ago
Amazon markets the story that they operate on thin margins (which no doubt they do in retail) but in AWS the margins are probably fairly attractive. They don't break this out in their SEC filings because (a) they don't have to, an
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by travem 13y ago
I think there is a market there. VMware and Google have already announced a partnership on VMware's DaaS and Chromebooks - http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2014/02/vmware-to-bring... VMware's DaaS ha
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by travem 13y ago
> Regarding pandora, the form post is over HTTPS: Sure, but for the purpose of being explicit to other readers that is still not secure. If the form collecting the sensitive data is served using HTTP only then a malicious actor could a
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by travem 13y ago
Agreed. When I first saw it in the app store all I could read was "Paper - stories from…"[1]. You don't even see the word Facebook until you click through. [1] http://pic.twitter.com/MoYtlFfxFv
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by travem 13y ago
Zynga are actually "well known" for having a hybrid model and running the steady state games on their private cloud - http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Zynga_Cloud_Case_Study:_The_journe...
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by travem 13y ago
I don't think Netflix would have any special insight as to streaming live action such as sports. Streaming and caching content from a movie or TV episode enables additional options compared to live content.
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by travem 13y ago
You mean advertising?
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by travem 13y ago
I wouldn't be so sure, I am positive Amazon still bombards me with Kindle Ads despite owning a couple already :)
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Destruction is not Profit - The Parable of the Broken Window(bastiat.org)
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by travem 13y ago
> On the upside, due to the $8M contract, lots of people were able to work and earn a living. Yes but you have to also consider the opportunity cost of that $8M. Were the incidental benefits gained worth the cost?
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by travem 13y ago
The main use case is doing maintenance on the host machine without incurring planned downtime. E.g. You may have multiple VMs running applications like sharepoint, exchange, zimbra, or whatever, all on a host. You want to perform some plann
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by travem 13y ago
Welcome to the joys of a market based approach to healthcare when there is inelastic demand.
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by travem 13y ago
Speaking from the perspective of an interviewer (so assuming you pass the HR filter) it wouldn't be an issue as long as: 1) you had a good story why it was not a fit for you, and 2) why moving to my company, in contrast, is a good fit
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by travem 13y ago
It looks like the forum thread has been updated with the following comment from Luke@AWS > I just looked into your instance a bit further, it does appear this was due to an issue with the underlying host on which your instance resided up
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by travem 13y ago
Live migration doesn't have to require this. VMware vSphere for example includes storage vMotion capabilities which remove the need for shared storage.
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by travem 13y ago
> The one problem they have is that the majority of their instances include local storage, which would make migration impossible True for AWS. Using VMware vSphere then this could be done with a shared nothing migration which moves compu
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by travem 13y ago
> Perhaps the home screen should be tags (user created) rather than App icons. Selecting a tag moving into a group of icons that have that tag. It would probably work well for me if it existed. How would this differ from the ability to c
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by travem 13y ago
Server Core? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh84...
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by travem 13y ago
There are Oracle licensing options to do this per CPU rather than per instance. That is what many people do who run Oracle farms on vSphere do to take advantage of the consolidation to reduce overall license costs.
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Introducing vCloud Hybrid Service(blogs.vmware.com)
2 points by travem 13y ago|0 comments
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by travem 14y ago
I was impressed by Paddy Ashdown's comments on her - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/08/what-did... "I opposed almost everything she did (but found myself following many of them when I tried to get the Bosnian economy goi
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How to present your results from user experience research(nadynerichmond.com)
1 points by travem 14y ago|0 comments

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