TheTaO

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by TheTaO 3y ago
That headline is half truth. Price of a cloud database depends on so many things. what is the I/O, what is the storage utilization, cross-region traffic, etc. Picking one scenario and claiming the cost to be half is too simplistic and
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by TheTaO 3y ago
In the world of high interest rates, companies like Snap that have not figured out a business model in the 10 yeas of their existence are not likely to survive. Not surprising. Unfortunately there will be more of these from Snap and the lik
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by TheTaO 3y ago
A key idea at the end of the article - Somebody should start a company called Transition Teams. This would be a firm that helps people organize into cohorts during life’s crucial transitions—after college, after divorce, after a professiona
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The New Old Age(theatlantic.com)
3 points by TheTaO 3y ago|1 comments
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by TheTaO 3y ago
Why would anyone use this as opposed to using Postgres? The value prop of run-anywhere applies to Postgres as well. I see column store and index advisor as the two features but if I don't need these, is there any reason?
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by TheTaO 11y ago
However exciting this is, I wonder how the support and future development will be accounted for. Porting an application is probably easy but the moment android adds a feature that is not supported by the Microsoft abstraction, you are eithe
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by TheTaO 11y ago
Not phrased that way but phrasedmore like: why can't I run skype on this? Or why can't I use this while on plane and so on
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by TheTaO 11y ago
Exactly. The ability to just tap some buttons on your phone and have an item show up doorstep is magical. The dash button is just another step in that direction. Its ultimate in convenience for people who want it.
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by TheTaO 11y ago
> This is a colossal, market-moving play from Google. Is it that or is it just an effort to stay relevant? If you can get a laptop/tablet that can do the same thing that this Chromebook does and has a full OS for a few bucks more, w
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by TheTaO 11y ago
That was the case for the old keyboard covers. The new ones are much better though.
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by TheTaO 12y ago
They say if a butterfly flaps in Tibet, it changes the wind in Seattle. We say THAT'S TOO LONG TO WAIT. And that's why we go out and buy a fan, so we don't have to wait on some stupid butterfly to wake up and flap. We alter t
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by TheTaO 12y ago
When we say virtual reality, there is this implicit expectation (at least in my mind) that its an always ON experience. The Video here did show some of that too but I think scoping it to specific tasks at least initially would be very power
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by TheTaO 12y ago
Yes I think people often mistake that the goal of G+ was to compete or replace FB in people's daily lives. I think it was to make sure that Google has enough data to provide socially relevant targeting that FB claimed only they could p
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by TheTaO 12y ago
TV watching is only one way to consume video. What about YouTube, Netflix, Hulu? They log all of what the author is talking about. That hasn't deterred people from spending millions of hours on it each day. You just don't expect a
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by TheTaO 12y ago
Gets five hours with GPS.
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by TheTaO 12y ago
Not surprising given how things have come together under Sundar in recent months.
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by TheTaO 12y ago
Great point. The round shape itself is very skeumorphic because that's very conducive to the hand movement of an analog watch. A true digital watch has no business being round. I think iWatch, Fitbit Surge and Microsoft Band get it.
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by TheTaO 12y ago
The Microsoft Band at least seems to be more targeted towards health focused users although it can do all of the smart things that these smart watches do. http://www.microsoft.com/Microsoft-Band
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by TheTaO 12y ago
In the early day of these smart watches they are going to be a bit larger as the technology matures. Even the iWatch is going to look bigger and the newly announced Microsoft Band.
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by TheTaO 12y ago
yes exactly what I was thinking. For reading anything on this it will help to have it worn with screen inside which is more natural for me.
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by TheTaO 12y ago
I guess that is a concern about pretty much every service and device out there including a phone.
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by TheTaO 12y ago
> but still it's clearly not as powerful as what Android Wear and probably Apple Watch can do. What do you mean? What is it that they do that this will not do? I think Microsoft should have just marketed it as a watch. To me it see
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by TheTaO 12y ago
... and that too binary 10 not even decimal 10.
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by TheTaO 12y ago
What part of it was cringe-worthy particularly?
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by TheTaO 12y ago
Samsung wasn't a big laptop or PC seller anyways. I think they are more interested in selling (relatively) high margin devices that they can control and market (like phones and wearables). It's not that PC market is in decline, as