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achille2on Amazon QuickSight – Business Intelligence by AWS

Is this just Amiato? Did they acquire them?

Edit: Yep, looks like it. Congrats to the Amiato team.

achille2on Organizational debt is like technical debt, but worse

Curious to know how you found out, and why you don't bring it up with your manager.

This is why Spolksy has his tiered plans where everyone gets paid the same (hiring someone at a higher payrate means raising everyones pay)

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090401/how-hard-could-it-be-em...

achille2on A Giant, Fake City in the Middle of the Desert

It's hard to find a universally recognized small town of that size. Could you name one?

achille2on Tea with strangers

Why do you think grubwithus failed?

achille2on How Coursera Competes for the Best Talent

I'd be curious to see the specific numbers on that spreadsheet as well. Where is the data sourced from? Is it one engineer that conducted multiple interviews or do they pertain to statistical averages.

achille2on Single-shot compressed photography at one hundred billion frames per second

It's 10^11 frames per second actually -- light travels 3 millimeters between each frame.

achille2on Uber.gov – It’s Time to Let the Government Drive

"He said a lot of the drivers pocket the cash for themselves which is why they demand cash."

Uh. No. Where else would the money go? Cabbies pay everything upfront. They keep all earnings.

The problem here is that both cabbies and customers are in a bad deal. The bulk of the profits go to taxi medallion holders which are typically investors.

achille2on McGill will double your password if you don’t do it first

Looking at a (failed) login flow, it looks like they are using Oracle SSO

    Markers:  
    * Cookie named site2pstoretoken
    * Http header: Oracle-Application-Server-10g/10.1.2.3.0 Oracle-HTTP-Server
    * Layouts are still done via <tables>

achille2on Bringing SSD Performance to the DIMM form factor

Does this mean you won't have traditional memory available at all (outside of L1-3 cache)? Or is it able to mix and match between real DDR3 memory and SSD?

achille2on You See Sneakers, These Guys See Hundreds of Millions in Resale Profit

Tim Cook is a Nike board member.

achille2on iPhone 6 Screens Demystified

I still don't understand how the iphone6 can run existing apps while having the same dpi as the iphone5 but with a larger screen.

achille2on Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system

Can someone with access to the original paper kindly lookup specifically how long each fast lasted and how often?

The article is a bit vague: periods of no food for two to four days at a time over the course of six months

achille2on Obesity research confirms long-term weight loss almost impossible

There's no hocus pocus in Intermittent Fasting. Eating less === less calories ingested.

The difference that keeps IF sustainable long term is the freedom to eat, and on fasting days there's the hope for tomorrow.

There are lots of health benefits to IF as well: Dietary restriction has been shown to have several health beneﬁts including increased insulin sensitivity, stress resistance, reduced morbidity, and increased life span

> http://www.pnas.org/content/100/10/6216.full.pdf

achille2on Obesity research confirms long-term weight loss almost impossible

I must say that I've been the 5-2 diet (intermittent fasting) for nearly two years and It has worked for me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5:2_diet

achille2on Can I drop a pacemaker 0day?

Of course you can. Executing this type of attack would be more technically complex then executing a plain old murder, with say a simple gun.

achille2on Comcast and Netflix now have a direct adjacency

I always thought that Netflix served everything from AWS. How can they they have their own AS number and peering locations?

achille2on Happy Guys Finish Last: The Impact of Emotion Expressions on Sexual Attraction

In BC? Yes it is.

achille2on Hard drive hack provides root access, even after reinstall

The knee jerk reaction to secure boot-anything from the technical community has been generally "No!", "It's a trap" etc.

achille2on “When all your engines stop, the flight is over”

Note that they did periodic backups, which would have scrubbed the same sectors as a full resync, so that's not the case.

achille2on How Google is Killing Organic Search

I see lots of comments bashing Google, ads are evil, all that. But honestly how many people search for "italian food" on the web expecting global results to be relevant locally? Google is providing exactly what people are looking for when they google for Italian.

achille2on College Degree Required by Increasing Number of Companies

Just curious what do you consider 'stupid amount of money'?

achille2on Petition to remove DA Ortiz reaches 25,000 signatures

Can we continue on to the man actually pulling the strings on this case: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-...

achille2on Larry Ellison reveals shared Oracle database

This is the right direction for Oracle. Kudos to Larry for doing a Jobs-esque 180.

achille2on Ask HN: I need a title for my talk

Intro to Python for mere humans.

achille2on Use Zsh

I can't provide source right now, but Microsoft pretty much said the same thing when they updated handwriting recognition for Windows Tablet PC Edition.

In the past they'd go through a procedure where they would learn how you write.

But later on, they decided it was most effective for you to learn to write in a way that the handwriting recognition software would understand.

achille2on Google Spanner's Most Surprising Revelation: NoSQL is Out and NewSQL is In

His employer doesn't matter. It doesn't add anything productive to the discussion. If one of Bing's developers had laughed off articles about Microsoft's architecture as "look at the adorable little journalists running around throwing big words around", I would not expect it to rise to top comment.

achille2on The iPhone 5's A6 SoC: Not A15 or A9, a Custom Apple Core Instead

Oracle. In addition they make their own Storage, Servers, virtualization, OS, Compilers, Database, Middleware and Applications.

- Storage: Storagetek

- Virtualization: LDOM, Xen (OracleVM), VirtualBox

- OS: Solaris, EOL Linux, and also Jrockit (Java running on top of Xen)

- Compilers: Java, Pl/SQL (Compiles to ADA bytecode), C

- Database: Oracle, MySQL, BerkeleyDB

- Middleware: SOA Suite

- Applications: Fusion Apps (EBS, PeopleSoft JDEdwards)

In Addition, Oracle has their own Appliances: Exalogix, Exadata, etc.

achille2on Apple iPhone 5 US Carrier Comparison Chart

This is cool but if you could, please add prepaid? Specifically add the following?