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It's a bigger problem then that. Laws are not exactly straight white strings which you know everything about when you set foot on some country to begin operations. If some country takes you to task on some ridiculous convoluted third world laws ( may be I am exaggerating here ) , a company has every right to present its views in court rather then just suck it up for the sake of abiding by the law. Also, once you have set up operation in a country it is very hard to move out since it risks putting your millions of users off who have got used to your product.

Well I can't speak about Motorola but the stock price of ADBE of late suggests pretty strongly otherwise for a dying company.

"We reached out to Facebook about the confusion their app was creating, and they apologized for not contacting us sooner."

Yep , And to add more salt to wounds, I hate such diplomatic "Oh Shit! Did you guys existed too ? We just did not know answers".

Well a quick multiplier of 1.35 means $135k in USD yearly for a 6 figure salary. Well that's a rarity even for software developers here in US unless you are pretty darn good. BTW, how much is the average salary paid by american companies in Europe ?

If $100k ( per quarter ) is what most employees earn at Zynga by your flawed analysis, I am all game for becoming one ;)

Well it isn't that easy too if you bring in ethics to the table. This happened with my friend and it was done by a well known "online retail" company. So this guy got an offer from another "search engine" company. He went to his manager in the best interests of his present employer to tell them that he might be leaving in a few weeks and to hire a probable replacement for him. The next thing what this * company does is pass on a request for his H1B to be cancelled immediately. Thankfully , it all worked out for him in the end since his LCA luckily had already been filed by then. But this does bring into the question of how H1B is readily exploited by most employers.

Some people on the Wall Street did take it up a bit seriously perhaps going by the price movement today.

May be it's only me but back when I used to work in Seattle, if I found someone with a windows mobile/surface the first thing I brought up to start a conversation was, How are things at Microsoft ? Like it up there and I was only wrong one instead of ~ 15-20 times I brought this up.

But the strong sales numbers almost every quarter seems to suggest otherwise. Good going MS.

Well, on a hilarious note, I too had this issue with Gmail. In fact my offer letter too went into the spam folder. :|

Well , Amazon does make a profit on every purchase. It's just that they think it is wise for the time-being to invest it in opportunities which will yield better value in the foreseeable future and I find nothing wrong with that.

I don't quite agree with the much lighter tag with the new retina macbook pro. May be this argument held well for the old MBP. The new Retina MBP is 1.60 kgs compared to Air which is 1.35 kgs. I personally moved from Air to MBP just because of the extra power and I did not notice much on the difference in weight.

Yeah, it is. Infact my school had the same assignment during my ML course too.

If I were you , I will show the "guy" on the other side of the table some respect too after all he is a veteran and a champion since 2007.

Yep, Amazon's version of Kafka/Storm with pay as you go minus the headaches of maintaining the cluster.

Well , the new plethora of updates are centered on AWS since AWS:re-invent is going on at present. Historically, that is when Amazon likes to release new AWS services.

I am new to BitCoin. Can someone help me understand how the money was stolen ? I thought coins are stored in user wallets ?

It will be extremely kind if someone can explain the major differences or features that Presto offers that are different then Impala or other similar products.

He had pretty good reasons for bringing this up since in other phones like my Galaxy S3 , I was able to replace my broken screen for $80 instead of replacing the entire display which would have been pretty expensive.

After working with so many bright colleagues from Waterloo, I knew such an article was bound to come up one day considering they are known so less here in the valley.

Coming from a collegiate programming world, their ACM ICPC record is also pretty top-notch.

^^ We guys can spit out a few lines of code here and there too in addition to the above mentioned hard to find traits by you ;)

I am willing go give away everything for now and just have support for basic arithmetic operations, creation of sub matrix views ala numpy for the time being. I will be able to do the other operations via Eigen by creating a view over the native array. I hate the idea of creating an array of arrays though.

Thanks for the reply slavio.

- It seems that no expression template machinery is being used? Hence, it might be too slow for most basic operations for us due to creation of temporaries. - Does not have support for n-dimensional views. You can only get a view upon contiguous rows or columns. ( However, I might ignore this if the first point is settled ) - No vectorization support etc which you get with other libraries like Eigen/NT2 among others.

I might be wrong on some points though.