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Oracle directors give blessing to shareholder lawsuit against Larry Ellison(techcrunch.com)
191 points by wstrange 7y ago|123 comments
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by wstrange 7y ago
If you are that concerned about privacy, why would you click on the ad?
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by wstrange 7y ago
A lot of CIOs would dearly love to move away from Oracle. The cost of rewriting software that was not designed to be portable is immense. Oracle knows this, and keeps the pain just below the threshold where porting to postgres or mysql is c
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by wstrange 7y ago
AFAIK, firearms are not allowed in Banff National Park.
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by wstrange 7y ago
It seems unlikely that Google will drop Flutter. It is picking up a ton of momentum, and I think they are smart enough to know they have a winner on their hands. They are putting serious resources into the developer experience; Flutter for
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by wstrange 7y ago
I have no love for Oracle, but I do question the wisdom of awarding such a massive contract to a single supplier. We have one branch of government that pursues companies for anti-trust, while another branch helps those companies cement thei
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by wstrange 7y ago
This issue is a good comparison of the two approaches: https://github.com/cuelang/cue/issues/33
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by wstrange 7y ago
Keep is part of GSuite now - so it has a deprecation policy. It is also very easy to save your notes as a google doc. I don't think there is a lot of risk...
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by wstrange 7y ago
The article specifically calls out competitors such as Yelp, TripAdvisor and Oracle. I don't think these are Google's customers or users.
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by wstrange 7y ago
The procedure to get around the locked bootloader is documented. For the vast majority of users, a secure by default laptop is a win.
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by wstrange 7y ago
Web development with DOM, CSS, etc. is a morass of complexity. I'm really excited about a fresh approach to UI development. If they can pull it off, it is going to be very compelling. It is going to take an enormous amount of investmen
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by wstrange 7y ago
Flutter apps can now target the chrome browser (preview at this point). So a chromebook can run Flutter apps via the browser OR via an Android Flutter app.
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Bringing Flutter to the Web(medium.com)
4 points by wstrange 7y ago|0 comments
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by wstrange 7y ago
The JVM doesn´t run in a browser or on iOS. Both of these are targets for Flutter.
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by wstrange 7y ago
An oppressive government doesn't need Facebook or Google to figure out your religious leanings.
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by wstrange 8y ago
I really wish Amazon would have contributed resources to istio instead of rolling their own mesh...
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by wstrange 8y ago
They do not scan the contents of mail for advertising purposes (consumer as of 2? years ago, and for paid gsuite I don't recall them ever doing this).
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by wstrange 8y ago
This makes a ton of sense for Cloud Foundry: Let others do the heavy lifting on infrastructure, and go up the stack. Next stop: istio for routing?
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Run Cloud Foundry Applications in Kubernetes(cloudfoundry.org)
4 points by wstrange 8y ago|2 comments
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by wstrange 8y ago
Given that 3rd party apps can scrape sensitive data, I'm glad the barrier to entry is high..
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by wstrange 8y ago
Without Android, Apple would likely have the vast majority of market share on mobile. Apple would be charging Google even more than they do already (billions) to be the default search engine on safari.
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by wstrange 8y ago
That logic assumes ISPs would be interested in helping out smaller players. That seems suspect to me...
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by wstrange 8y ago
Amazon ended music uploads [0] But - yea, no HN outrage... [0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
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Trapped in a hoax: survivors of conspiracy theories speak out(theguardian.com)
7 points by wstrange 8y ago|1 comments
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by wstrange 8y ago
Not the GP, and I don't have any conclusions in this matter - but I don't think we can outright dismiss the role of livestock in maintaining a healthy environment. For example: https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/rev
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by wstrange 8y ago
It will be interesting to watch. My hunch is that after looking at the shit storm that is happening around Facebook, Google may be having second thoughts about being in the social networking business (youtube excluded).
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by wstrange 8y ago
Really nice work! Question: How are snapshots implemented? Are you using k8s native snapshots (which I think are alpha?) or other? EDIT: Looks like snapshots are per db feature: https://github.com/kubedb/project/is
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by wstrange 8y ago
Amazon made a pretty big deal of how they finally migrated off of Oracle to get away from their repressive licensing. Being locked in sucks when the vendor can extract monopoly rents. Maintaining a second source is a good business strategy.
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by wstrange 8y ago
My biggest fear is accidentally losing or deleting all my family photos. I don't trust myself to run proper backups and archival. I think the average consumer is in the same boat. They want someone else to take care of this problem.
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by wstrange 8y ago
Yes. Google photos recognizes landscape features as well as people.

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