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I see it more as scratching an itch.
Is the trade off worth it? Is removing the pain of building with Cgo worth giving up the dependability and support of C based SQLite?
I don't see how but I'm curious to what others think.
They could be but if network connection was a prime cause Microsoft would have highlighted that fact. Have they shown that is in fact the primary issue?
> They do, in fact, appear to have the money.
$5.4 billion is indeed a huge number but gives no information as to the availability of the $1.5 million. Without knowing what the cost is of what they must accomplish with the $5.4 billion no conclusions can be drawn.
I've had some experience dealing with the Weather Service when trying to develop a weather app using
https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api#. It was a frustrating experience and my initial impulse was to vent about that. But I'm choosing not to do that mainly because it seemed at the time that every person that I dealt with at NWS was trying to do the best they could.
The situation that NWS is facing is basically that massive tax cuts coupled with growth in defense and social programs has left most other areas of the federal government hollowed out. The amount of money needed to fix the problem being discussed here is minimal but after decades of budget cuts across non-defense and non social-welfare programs there is simply little left to invest in improving services.
Over the years the problem hasn't been a shortage of revenue, its been runaway costs. Adding further revenue is just wasting more money. Cut the costs of an inefficient bureaucracy (the MTA) and bloated labor structure (the transit workers union) if you want to solve the problem.
It's also why I don't trust sales figures on individual products from companies with a portfolio. Sales tend to get credited to products that the company wants to show as gaining traction while really the favored product was an add-on to a bundle of established products that had their license renewed.
That looks very interesting. Thank you.
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forgotAgain on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @02:50PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I'm looking for something that is self contained with GUI drawing tools, graph generator, a database, and an easy way to call server API's. I'd like to not have to depend on a web or database server.The programs developed are not meant to be distributed as professional solutions or run unattended. It's more along the lines of exploring data, scraping/crawling web pages and consuming internet...
This highlights the commoditization of parts that will be part of EV market changes as well as the plug and play nature of EV assemblies. Massive changes to the current ways we build and maintain vehicles.
The idea of trusting any institution whose naked reason for existing is making money is absurdHow ironic that the idea that businesses only exists to make money for their owners came from the same institution as the article.
Original source has a question mark at the end of the title.
The only thing saving Google from an antitrust decree is the lack of an antitrust enforcement will in the US government.
Google is taking advantage of it's monopoly position in browsers to help another business area: advertising.
Consider the breath of human knowledge before and after the invention of the printing press.
I think that they are trying to make the point that there are no laws regulating the use of facial recognition.
My experience is that most Americans think their privacy is protected; that deploying facial recognition software on them would be illegal. It's not. They're stating it so to overcome the public misconception.
SSDD: Windows isn't done until Lotus doesn't work
Posted by
forgotAgain on Thursday April 11, 2019 @09:36AM
from the self-post dept.
VentingI signed up for YouTube.TV less than a month ago. I selected them because it was a lean package that offered sports and live TV at a good price.Yesterday was announced a 25% price increase. The increase was justified by adding unwanted stations.The situation is similar to one I had with GE about 15 years ago. At a time when GE Leasing was trying to get me to lease business equipment from...
Given the push back against social media these days, Google could get a lot of good karma by resurrecting Reader.
I wish it was Curly. We could then make jokes with Moe and Larry.
So say you're a procrastinator. Do you?
a)read the article so you don't have to do xyz
b)not read the article because learning how to stop procrastinating feels like self sabotage
c)start the article but don't finish it because you have ADD from surfing the internet as a means of procrastinating
d)something else.
edit: e)skim the article and write an HN comment about it.
Given the attitude displayed in the message I think its more than likely that they will be screwed out of their stock.
I've read that the sense of smell is the strongest sense for bringing back memories. When I read the title of the OP I could smell what the inside of the building was like from having spent many hours in similar environments.
Why preserve it? Because its better for our spirit to preserve some memories of the past rather than tearing them down for another handful of forgettable multi-million dollar condos.
Ironic to read all the negativity here when on the day after the OP Microsoft will announce quarterly earnings which will undoubtedly be driven by continued "Enterprise buy in to Microsoft Cloud Solutions".
Posted by
forgotAgain on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @12:04PM
from the nytimes.com dept.
RSS did not decline due to technical differences. By the time Google Reader was killed, RSS readers had advanced to the point where wide public usage was possible because the readers dealt with the incompatibility problems outlined in the article.
RSS declined because major tech companies convinced large media companies that they had a better future publishing to their walled gardens and not directly to the public.
The walled gardens only benefited the garden owners, not independent publishers. Now that that is recognized there is again a chance for independent publishers both big and small.
Hmm,
Fall behind in search, spend billions on Bing.
Fall behind in mobile, spend billions on Nokia.
Fall behind in social media, spend billions on LinkedIn.
Hmm, so what was that definition of insanity again?
PR trying to recover from the fake 5G fiasco.