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I think you underestimate just how entrenched Oracle’s database offering is in the enterprise.

> Steve truly understood the virtue and value of that cultural component to not just attract but _retain_ that kind of world-class talent, and _that's_ what he attributes Pixar's success to.

Both Jobs and Pixar’s Ed Catmull believed this so strongly that they took illegal measures to protect it:

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/ed-catmull-on-wage-...

Unfortunately there was one in the Buffalo area in 2009:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colgan_Air_Flight_3407

Microsoft uses AKS for their production workloads, but only for “minor” projects like “Office 365” which only has a “few” (200 million) users.

https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1536483517282553...

Plug for Dave Plummer's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DavesGarage

Dave was an engineer on NT and creator of Task Manager and zip folders. Lots of interesting stories and anecdotes from that period on that channel.

The Zones of Thought series by Vernor Vinge, and A Deepness in the Sky in particular.

If you check the series out, and I highly recommend you do, read it in order. Which would mean starting with A Fire Upon the Deep, which is excellent.

For more information on the technique the parent describes in point #1, I recommend the book "Moonwalking With Einstein" by Joshua Foer.

While your concern is certainly very personal, and a deeply rooted preference over which you have little control, I have to point out that body shaming can have disastrous effects on the recipient[1].

Aging spares no one. Worth reflecting on.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_shaming

Canada is a net exporter of food and agriculture commodities.

https://www.fcc-fac.ca/en/knowledge/economics/canada-food-an...

> I fairly frequently post to provide a female point of view backed up by data and personal first-hand experience...

Please continue. It’s sorely needed here.

How about “wrote the Doom engine, then the Quake engine”. Good start?

Actually, this was implemented by Dave Taylor: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1189567625631883265...

> but the plane itself is salvageable.

You're probably right. From an engineering perspective.

Would you fly in a 737MAX post-fix? We have an engineering mindset here on HN and so I would expect many of us to answer "Yes". But ask this same question to the general public? How is Boeing going to repair the damage to both it's brand and this plane's reputation, and convince the general public to fly on this model?

Come on now. What other plausible reason, besides being someone's daughter, would a girl that young have for being on that island with these old men? It doesn't take an MIT-calibre mind to ask this question.

Why not petition Google to donate the Go project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, since many of the core technologies (including Kubernetes, Prometheus) that make up the cloud native space are written in Go?

Interesting idea.

How would ownership extend to metadata derived from your profile? For example, one of the claims made during the Cambridge Analytica hearings was that the data that they had in their possession could be used to derive political leanings, sexual orientation, purchasing habits etc.

I'm certain that this is where the value of the data is. No platform genuinely cares about cat pictures and birthday wishes - they care about how likely you are to purchase an advertiser's product. Or, cynically, they care about how many degrees of separation you are from a person under investigation.

This is not data that you've created directly or intentionally.

My prediction: they'll release yet-another-ITSM tool like ServiceNow, etc.

This happened to me. Several rounds of interviews with a well known colored-hat company, then... nothing. No response to follow-ups either.

What was especially frustrating to me was that up to that point, the tone of both the conversations and email exchanges was very positive and cordial. I would have expected a "Thanks, but no thanks" follow-up at least, especially considering I was an internal referral from a Sr. Mgr. But... nothing. Made my reconsider my view of that particular company.

Paging Scott Adams (or one of his sock puppets)...

Stretching in the evenings. Lower back pain is almost completely gone, range of motion in my neck is expanded.

> He wants everyone to magically develop on their spare time for free with copyleft licenses. This is craaaaaaazy. People gotta eat.

You are flat-out misrepresenting him. Read his definition of "non-free". His concern isn't with the commercial aspect of software. This is clearly stated by him, repeatedly. His concern is with closed source, walled gardens, restrictive licensing.

For Red Hat, you can check out "The Open Organization" which details the culture that Red Hat espouses:

https://www.redhat.com/en/explore/the-open-organization-book

Ken Silverman, the guy behind the Build engine which powered Duke Nukem 3D and number of other games from that era, would prototype everything in QBasic before converting to C for raw speed.

>You don't know anything at all about the design of your targeted system and networks.

>They must have spent years devising ways to get in, slowly gathering info about their target, figuring out a way to achieve the assigned goal of screwing things up without getting detected.

I'd speculate that given who the intended targets were (Iran, North Korea) and who would have an interest in disrupting their enrichment operations (Israel, US), and given the level of intelligence gathering activity that both of these nation can (and ostensibly do) engage in, that the team tasked with creating this virus had plenty of information to go on from the start.

Centrifuge models with firmware revision, network topologies, deployed server configuration, etc were likely known in advance.

Can you clarify? Assuming you are talking about Travis Kalanick, are you implying he was ousted by a 3rd party with an interest in surveillance/control?

In this case, with the connotations that the name "coach roach" is associated with, you'd be wrong:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/molly-reynolds/why-brand-name...

The connotations that the name "coach roach" stir up aren't positive. People are grossed out by coach roaches.

The good news is that DBs are a niche of their own and as such don't need to appeal to the masses, making the name choice somewhat less important. But I still think, as someone else already pointed out here, that selling an exec (or non-tech decision maker) on this will be just slightly more difficult because of the name, as irrational as that might seem.

Presumably Zuckerberg did not consent to this conversation being captured/recorded and shared.

Do you feel even the slightest bit of embarrassment at the irony and hypocrisy of using this content, that you acquired without consent, to further your argument against the trustworthiness of this guy?