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by user5994461 9y ago
Ads are a super intensive workload with super low margin. It'd be more correct to say that google built a very efficient platform that can run anything. Well, anything easier than ad, so almost anything.
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by user5994461 9y ago
>>> I'm a bit surprised by the replies talking about serving millions of requests a second, or needing ultra-consistent packet latency. Perhaps most of the HN demo is working for companies that operate at that scale. There is
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by user5994461 9y ago
>>> It doesnt drop 10% overnight unlike stocks. You can tell that to the people in Houston who lost their home overnight. Home ownership is not risk free. ;) I am not familiar with the entirety of the US territory. If you look at p
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by user5994461 9y ago
It can't increase rent. Rent are capped by what tenants can pay, they are specifically set to "as much as the tenants can afford" because everyone needs a roof. Taxing the landlord doesn't give more moneys to the tenant.
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by user5994461 9y ago
He's not insulting anyone. Google doesn't have an option to change the search language. They had one years ago and they removed it. It's a major hassle when the default language guessed by google is wrong, it constantly is fo
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by user5994461 9y ago
And it all started with Google and their "why are manhole cover rounds?". Tip: They are only round in north America.
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by user5994461 9y ago
Pardon me but the solution you claim is already in place, well understood and totally ineffective. Income is already taxable, including rental income. On top of that there are various taxes for owning/occupying a property. It varies wi
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by user5994461 9y ago
The workloads vary by time and domain. Amazon has huge volume, huge peaks, and everything is an individual item. The work environment has to be crazy to keep up to the goal. I think the closest I have seen is the office supply chain. When y
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by user5994461 9y ago
Bullshit. It takes crazy amount of labor to ship in one day instead of the usual 2-3 days. It requires employees on shift every night to handle any package immediately. It requires employees to work on Saturday and Sunday to cover week end
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by user5994461 9y ago
Costco doesn't deliver millions of package a day for free to the door of their customers, does it?
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by user5994461 9y ago
Treating their employees well is how Google/Microsoft/Facebook are built. It's easy for them, it's office workers who bring super high margins. The business is more valuable by treating people well. Businesses based on g
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by user5994461 9y ago
Warehouses were always terrible, borderline cruel at some places. Amazon didn't invent them.
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by user5994461 9y ago
>>> Does anyone here know why these modems even care about TCP/IP or ICMP or any other protocol higher than the network and physical layers? IP is the network layer. Can't route packets without it.
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by user5994461 9y ago
It makes no sense. Reservations have to be paid by cards, the money is already laundered if it's sitting behind a card in a bank account.
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by user5994461 9y ago
The short version is no. The long version is that it is unclear whether it's possible or not and it will vary depending on what integrates with what and how. GPL is a nightmare. Note there is a strong and justified barrage against GPL
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by user5994461 9y ago
Developers would rather die than spend a dollar on any product, no matter how better it is or how bad they will suffer. That's only half the lesson though, because some of the alternatives are free or free up to N users. The other half
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by user5994461 9y ago
The main offices are usually in NYC, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore. I don't think that Shanghai is an option.
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by user5994461 9y ago
The friends I know who tried to get into either say it's as hard to join HK as London. They are both super competitive.
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by user5994461 9y ago
Not to mention that china probably has internal differences than any other places. The biggest expensive cities are in league with NYC/SF/London, but there is still a large countryside that is "modest" and vast unpopulat
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by user5994461 9y ago
People can remember only 4 things. The few who can remember more are the exception. That would be a much better goal for product design. You don't want designers to pack things by 7 or 9. It's too many.
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by user5994461 9y ago
Actually, that's how an explosion is defined in the dictionaries, it's a rapid expansion of air.
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by user5994461 9y ago
Obviously, the list doesn't make sense unless you know the products mentioned and their competitors, preferably with a bit the history over the last decade(s). The only thing all the products mentioned have in common is that they are f
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by user5994461 9y ago
Forgot to say. I am familiar with Riak. Worked at one of the competitors of the company who acquired them. I really hope that the Entreprise version will be open sourced and will be happy to add it to the list of multi cloud options. At the
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by user5994461 9y ago
Maybe I should have said "guaranteed employment for life" instead of just work. Irrelevant of the salary, most medium cities will only have a handful of tech roles available, at best. It's super hard to find and hold a job.
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by user5994461 9y ago
Most of the time. Take a look at developer tools for instance: jenkins,nagios,graphite,jmeter,mysql,postgresql,puppet,vagrant,virtualbox,mongodb,npm,docker,openvpn. What all these software have in common. They are the most popular despite b
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by user5994461 9y ago
They can export in an open format for publication, probably pdf. It shouldn't matter what's the format for edition.
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by user5994461 9y ago
Linux is a lot harder to maintain and it's usually for servers (read: important), companies pays for the experience. Any dude who can administer Linux should rebrand himself to devops and double his rate. Windows is easier to maintain
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by user5994461 9y ago
Then the distro has noone to maintain it, none of the software is supported on it and it lacks the most basic drivers. Rolling their own distro was a terrible idea.
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by user5994461 9y ago
Amateur mistake! Bitcoin cannot crash because you cannot sell and cash out in timely manner.
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by user5994461 9y ago
There is no verification on the volume. They could say any number they like. That's how it usually play out. Source: I ran exchanges before. That's one of the first trick you learn.

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