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For a $25 price tag, this has the potential to appeal to a lot of Indians in the rural areas and being a potential rival to other in house android brands like Micromax et al.

Even if they support the basic subset of functionality exposed by Android, it should be more then enough for it do well. Looking forward to more updates on the launch.

I beg to disagree on this atleast in NYC. UberX is 2x-3x more expensive here.

Out of curiosity any such examples ?

@ author, I had a trivial query , How is it different from Anaconda ?

I won't mind it if the original author also has a comment signifying what unicode character the variable refers to. This will reduce some pain though not all of it.

I certainly did not like the lousy words written above which explains the down-votes. But certainly the team at Xamarin can look upon his request and try if they can lower the license fee for students.

Well $910m is not a small fortune too to say the least. So , I am afraid to say it's not a small trivial amount too.

And I don't think Surface is a toy project. A $B business can't be a toy project even how cash rich you are.

I am curious to know though as to if you did end up comparing the Xbox One with a PS4 before buying it and if yes what factors influenced your decision ?

PS I want to upgrade too from my old Xbox 360

Awesome Read.

Picking out a line:

"For simplicity, let me say that people like me are "geeks," and that geeks comprise about 2% of the world's population."

Isn't their stack based on Erlang or am I missing something ?

Fb would be a notable exception to this theory though.

May be we both live in a different world of sorts. Are there others like you who seem to be facing issues with instant video recently because for me it works quite well. Also , how long back did you try it ?

That might be true for niche fields like designing. For other customary roles like software engineering at Google X. I don't think this is the norm.

Source: My co-worker sitting besides me used to work at X as an engineer.

I am still slightly bewildered by reading this news. To me it sounded like a great fake news article at first. ( may be still is one )

I still wonder how critical outages will be handled in the tech world. E.g. Google/FB Fr faces operational issues or even worse will they shut down their nuclear plants too @ 6 ?

I wonder why the down-votes ?

Is anyone else having issues seeking across the video i.e. moving to a particular time in it ?

"In fact, to this day I’m not sure what the product will be used for—but we dropped everything else we were working on and scrambled to get the demo done in time"

I wanted to know how other developers deal with this phenomenon when you effectively don't know what your end product is or what it will be used for ?

Also Amazon's Gdrive competing equivalent is cloud drive.

It's pretty interesting that there have been no update to the Glacier prices as of yet. I wonder what could a fair point price be ~ 1 cent per TB ?

Oh Boy ! This is quite a steep decrease.. So if I am reading it reading right, this makes S3 ~300 percent more expensive ( 2.6 vs 8.5 ).

Sounded more like a April 1 hoax ad to me at first ( too good to be true ). It will be also interesting to see how much this drives down S3 prices.

It's quite ironic that most of the world knows him for LaTeX and not for the zillion fundamental contributions he has made to Distributed Systems.

Truly well deserved. #Respect

I don't particularly agree with the reasons mentioned by you. Most of the existing systems are JVM based due to the excellent tooling/supporting libraries around Java and its ease of use. This enables you to focus more on building the system rather then focus on micro-optimizations around C++.

Yes, Kinesis can be thought as a non-hosted version of Kafka. To me , using either of them is a cost versus benefits trade-off i.e. if you are willing to pay the cost of using Kinesis to get a hosted solution where-in the operational burden is greatly reduced or vice-versa.

No offence meant but that is like saying "Kia is also a car, does the same work. Why the hell even BMW exists"

May be BMW is doing things on the back that make it a better choice. Same is the difference between twitter and its thousand clones.

I can certainly say with confidence that 9 of the top 10 companies do hire undergraduates readily. ( Not sure about Exxon ).

Happy Apping :)

I don't think so. Most of them give a separate housing stipend in addition to this.

I understand the analogy here. But how will it gurantee shipping at a speed equal to a prime member. Do they have a pool of free prime accounts that they will use to order your items or they have tie-ups with FedEx/UPS ?

Certainly not the case for me. Facebook shows up as the top result.

Well , I did have to pay once. Your watsapp just stops syncing until you pay via Play.

Today , I feel I am really bad at maths counting return percentages. Sigh $8m -> $16b.