wiredd

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   by wiredd 15y ago

   Bob Galvin deserves a lot of credit for pioneering the mobile phone industry, and for propelling Motorola to be one of the most successful tech companies of its day. He was also a major philanthropist, and along with Bob Pritzker was a maj
2. 32.▲
   by wiredd 16y ago

   I like that someone is trying to come up with a better SQL syntax, and agree that many existing OO wrappers (and NoSql query syntaxes) end up making it more difficult to write queries. But this proposal seems to make things a little too br
3. 33.▲
   by wiredd 16y ago

   It looks like for many businesses (including mine), the fee difference between PayPal and a merchant account is fairly small. Given that, what I really want is a service with: 1. a good API 2. good customer service neither of which PayPal
4. 34.▲
   by wiredd 16y ago

   True, but you can rent something like a state-of-the-art supercomputer from Amazon for fairly reasonable hourly rate. Watson has 90 8-core servers and 16Tb of RAM - to rent 100 Quadruple Extra Large instances (1600 cores, but "only" ~2.3Tb