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by tybris 15y ago
Overall I'm impressed by the translation, but by translating "Kamer" (Lower House) to "Court" in the abstract the meaning of the piece changes.
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by tybris 15y ago
You're thinking in legal terms. This is about money. Amazon is one of the largest music sellers in the world. Google is has enough money to buy the whole industry. Pick your fight.
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by tybris 15y ago
Really?
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by tybris 15y ago
This is the first thing from Google I/O that has me truly excited.
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by tybris 15y ago
Only 5 years, 1 month, and 28 days after Amazon made S3 available to developers.
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by tybris 15y ago
I'm confused http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Telstra-l...
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by tybris 15y ago
Cool, I'll just upload all my music, turn on my car radio, and ... hey wait a minute.
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by tybris 15y ago
No it's not. MSFT is just a sane stock priced my normal investors who want a balanced portfolio and don't believe in fairy tales.
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by tybris 15y ago
Personally, I don't know any alternative to Skype and I don't want to bother to find out. The only other video conferencing software I've used is NetMeeting.
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by tybris 15y ago
> Did anyone have a reasonable-looking website in 2001? How is that an American phenomenon? Yes. European websites at the time were reasonably modern. e.g., a web shop http://replay.web.archive.org/20010614234849/http://www.bol.... Am
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by tybris 15y ago
I had the opposite feeling. When I first went there 10 years ago no one had a GSM, the powergrid looked like Edison himself built it (without help), websites were of laughable quality, even mundane things like hotels had a primitive feel to
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by tybris 15y ago
Misses the main point: There is no proof that BitCoin or its implementations are correct.
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by tybris 15y ago
and for equalizing the Y-axes.
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by tybris 15y ago
1. People aren't dumb 2. Technology has created most of the jobs that exist today 3. Most jobs it makes obsolete were created by technology in the first place 4. Technology allows us to more with the same amount of people. 5. Human civiliza
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by tybris 15y ago
Openzoom version works better for me: http://media.skysurvey.org/openzoom.html
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by tybris 15y ago
Uploading an MP3 file gives me an error on the general Google documents, but not on Google Apps. On a free Google Apps account I get 1024MB per user. This might help explain why I got an e-mail from Google containing: "As of May 10, any org
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by tybris 15y ago
I would say the opposite is true. Amazon is a collection of largely independent product teams that make their own decisions and share very little code. Infrastructure services are used based on its merit. Stuff that works stays, things tha
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by tybris 15y ago
Simple: "Google made a 10% across-the-board salary increase, which is driving up expenses this year." "[Amazon] spent ferociously to build more fulfillment centers and expand its technology offerings."
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by tybris 15y ago
Ouch, if they don't learn science, how will they ever appreciate the enormous wealth and beauty that is right in their backyard?
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by tybris 15y ago
I think the situation is a lot different than in the cold war. The economies of the U.S. and China are so deeply connected that neither can afford to get into a major conflict with the other.
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by tybris 15y ago
They're working on it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocolonialism#Sino-African_rel...
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by tybris 15y ago
Humanity may be doomed if it keeps innovating, but it's most certainly doomed if it stops.
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by tybris 15y ago
Those people should be prosecuted for utter incompetence.
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by tybris 15y ago
Yup, any language I've worked with, including Java and C, can do that just fine. They just spread the verbosity differently. Organizing large projects is a pain in JavaScript, trivial in Java. Using anonymous functions is a pain in Java, tr
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by tybris 15y ago
Damn, I guess we can expect to see some pretty serious games in the browser.
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by tybris 15y ago
Not sure if I agree. Networked filesystems require a strong consistency model, which forces you to give up some reliability, as we can plainly see today. That doesn't mean to say that strong consistency models are bad. They're easier and c
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by tybris 15y ago
The difference is in the word "utility". In the 90s, hosting was a fixed quantity for a fixed price. In the 00/10s, hosting is whatever you need whenever you need it and pay for whatever you use. It's like going from chopped wood to an elec
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by tybris 15y ago
Probably, but it's not like they're immune to failure. http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2010/02/google-app-engine-... http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/02/google-app-engine-broken-fo...
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by tybris 15y ago
Nope. Even if it was, consider how much traffic the instances around yours are producing and how that is affecting you.
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by tybris 15y ago
All hosting services go down occasionally. If you want to stay up you need to build a fault-tolerant distributed system that spans multiple regions and potentially multiple providers. Also, Amazon should fix EBS.

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