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Re:SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @06:35PM (#47855561)
Is this Cursor the product? Or AnySphere the company?
Re:RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @03:53PM (#47328000)
RFC9999 obviously should be to propose RFCs having 5 digits
Tack!
Can you name drop some examples?
Re:Ask HN: Has autocorect ever landed in an HR meeting? on Thursday May 11, 2023 @09:34AM (#35901786)
*autocorrect
Re:macOS Ventura on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @04:28AM (#33327755)
Re:USB Drives on Amazon Are a Scam on Saturday October 08, 2022 @01:23AM (#33129983)
Attorneys General
Re:Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @11:56AM (#30260886)
Basis points
Re:AWS Region Coming to New Zealand on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:24PM (#28624591)
You don’t explain why but, can we all assume it’s cost?
Re:DRM says no water for you on Friday July 30, 2021 @05:20AM (#28006068)
Pretty much standard in the US. Even at sit down restaurants, free refills of soda is normal.
Re:Microsoft exec: “Summary of meeting with Steve Jobs" on Thursday July 15, 2021 @02:39AM (#27842009)
People searching for something is reflective of what people search for, in some cases for products it's reflective of popularity but, I would argue in this case there's a good chance people are searching for Excel more for tips/troubleshooting/how to, than purchase intention.

If you look at a range of wide range business functions, opening and editing text documents is more prevalent than using spreadsheets.

Re:Microsoft exec: “Summary of meeting with Steve Jobs" on Thursday July 15, 2021 @01:37AM (#27841741)
Excel may be globally more important of a product but, Word is certainly more popular.

Now it depends on how you calculate value.

Re:LG dryer sending 1GB+ daily traffic on Friday April 09, 2021 @04:05AM (#26747864)
Push notifications for when a cycle is complete is the prime feature
Re:Petabyte tape cartridges are coming on Friday February 05, 2021 @12:09PM (#26038528)
Google: "tape library robot"
Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat on Monday August 03, 2020 @01:52AM (#24034590)
I’ve always been curious about the “on-ramp” here

How does a legit company purchase $4.5M of BitCoin in 24 hours?

I would assume using a “K&R” style broker but, without one of those how would you do it?

Re:Ask HN: How can I quickly trim my AWS bill? on Saturday July 11, 2020 @03:42AM (#23800344)
Using large data stored in S3?

Make sure you are fetching it via a S3 endpoint in your VPC instead of via public HTTP. You are paying for an (expensive) egress cost you don’t need to be paying for.

Re:Why expat Americans are giving up their passports on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @08:13AM (#11072472)
You have to fail FACTA regardless if you hold an overseas account. If you hold less than $10k USD than it's a few check boxes and takes less than 10 minutes
Re:Google loses data as lightning strikes on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @12:24PM (#10086601)
The real clouds are getting angry at companies misappropriating their name
Where is my car in this parking lot?

"Hey look, I can beep my horn from my phone!"

Ask HN: API as a service

I'm working in a group that has a homegrown ecosystem of in house developed applications and vendor apps. The interconnects between this system have been developed over a decade with different teams, technologies and methodologies (some API, some report passing, some cross application direct DB access).This obviously has become a tangled web of systems which are so tightly intertwined all of...

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Re:A Look at Backblaze’s Toshiba Hard Drives on Thursday May 14, 2015 @07:05AM (#9544364)
Well, technically a NAS isn't connected to your computer. It's connected to your network, which your computer is connected to.
Re:Google Moves Its Corporate Applications to the Internet on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @11:24AM (#9539604)
The probably falls in the general category of a Good Thing™ for employees and people developing B2B applications since internal systems are more easily accessible but, this will be a gut check/squeaky bum time for traditional on-premises B2B vendors like PeopleSoft/SAP/IBM and the like. The corporate firewall has always been a bastion of security they have been able to hide their applications behind. As the concept of a corporate firewall begins to fade their security risk increases and previously non-worrisome attack vectors become serious problems for them.
Re:Go crypto: bridging the performance gap on Thursday May 07, 2015 @09:06AM (#9504725)
Off-topic but, they probably shouldn't be using a Southeast train image in this blog post as they are notoriously bad for delays and slow service in the UK[1] :)

[1]http://www.which.co.uk/home-and-garden/leisure/reviews-ns/be...

Re:Warren Buffett Just Wrote His Best Annual Letter on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @08:23AM (#9224910)
One makes him money, the other's are expenses.
Re:A Richter scale for outages on Monday March 16, 2015 @01:05PM (#9212696)
An example that sprung to mind while reading was the arson/suicide attack on Chicago's air traffic control facility late last year

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Air_Route_Traffic_Contr...

Re:Dozens arrested in cybercrime 'strike week' on Friday March 06, 2015 @01:03PM (#9158447)
How have "cyber-specialists" not heard of a 'Mouse Jiggler'?

http://www.amazon.com/Wiebetech-Mouse-Jiggler-Slow-Version/d...

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