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by xx_alpha_xx 6y ago
I just have to say, I would have completely forgotten about 3-2-1 Contact until reading the reference in this article. I "learned" BASIC exactly the same way. Excellent :)
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by xx_alpha_xx 6y ago
Easier with friends than family. I have found it very dismaying to see the garbage shared by my extended family (both left and right). In this sense FB has definitely not brought the family together.
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by xx_alpha_xx 6y ago
GFN has been a bear, very hit or miss. Current generation of hardware is either 1080 or 2060. If they start adding 30xx (which they have hinted at in this past) that would be great.
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by xx_alpha_xx 6y ago
we had our house neutral chewed through by mice in the electric meter - caused really bad problems :(
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by xx_alpha_xx 7y ago
Just for the record, mockery has been a significant part of the Internet since the days of Usenet, so don't take it personally :)
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by xx_alpha_xx 7y ago
+1 for this, almost as bad as ZeroTurnaround several years ago.
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by xx_alpha_xx 7y ago
I don't think this is really news, or surprising. At some point any cloud-based service supporting public sharing of user-generated content will be used, either obviously or non-obviously, for malicious purposes - content hosting, C&am
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by xx_alpha_xx 7y ago
But the important different IMHO is that a knob / buttons don't require you to take your eyes off the road. In that 1 second you look down, you could cause an accident due to inattention.
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by xx_alpha_xx 8y ago
Not sure that's a culture that only exists at Google... pretty much true at the higher levels of almost any big company that I've worked at.
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by xx_alpha_xx 8y ago
We are an early GCP enterprise customer and Diane has met us numerous times. A class act.
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by xx_alpha_xx 8y ago
I'm sure IBM's marketing department would love you to believe that ;-)
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by xx_alpha_xx 8y ago
That's great of you, I often do this as well and have never received any acknowledgement or thank you :(
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by xx_alpha_xx 8y ago
Actually this is exactly what major investment managers do with cash. There are services provided by major banks (e.g. State Street) to the IM industry that do automated sweeps into multiple bank accounts (hundreds or thousands of accounts
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by xx_alpha_xx 8y ago
Yes, they offer their dataset to companies as a paid service. Source: my prior company paid for their entire data set and I personally used in a data science project.
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by xx_alpha_xx 8y ago
Yes, it was actually a lot more in depth than my day job. But I chose to write a deep technical book rather than a shallow "cookbook". Unfortunately most readers today are more interested in the latter than the former.
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by xx_alpha_xx 8y ago
Author here of a technical book published with Packt several years ago. I had the first mover advantage as the only book of significance covering a Java library that was (and is) very widely used. Total page count was ~350-400. It took me a