Thanks for providing. Both the .webm and .mp4:
"No video with supported format and MIME type found."
Not a great UX, but certainly not worth anyone getting upset about, given FOSDEM is seemingly volunteer driven.
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"No video with supported format and MIME type found."
Not a great UX, but certainly not worth anyone getting upset about, given FOSDEM is seemingly volunteer driven.
Any idea why those projects (Scribe and LogDevice) were mothballed? Did Facebook simply lose interest in maintaining or did other OSS projects enter the mix that proved to be a better fit? Thanks again for sharing.
Thanks for sharing the use case. Super clever solution.
Some intellectual honesty would go a long way here.
From Gamestop's latest 10-Q filing on December 8, 2021, page 15 [1]:
> BUSINESS PRIORITIES
> GameStop has two long-term goals: delighting customers and delivering value for stockholders. We are evolving from a video game retailer to a technology company that connects customers with games, entertainment and a wide assortment of products. We are focused on offering vast product selection, competitive pricing and fast shipping – supported by high-touch customer service and a frictionless e-commerce and in-store experience. Accordingly, we prioritize long-term revenue growth and market leadership over short-term margins. We are taking steps that include: 1) Increasing the size of our addressable market by growing our product catalog across consumer electronics, PC gaming, collectibles, toys and other categories that represent natural extensions of our business; 2) Expanding fulfillment operations to improve speed of delivery and service to our customers; 3) Building a superior customer experience, including by establishing a U.S.-based customer care operation, and; 4) Strengthening technology capabilities, including by investing in new systems, modernized e-commerce assets and an expanded, experienced talent base. The Company will continue to invest in growth initiatives, while continuing to prioritize maintaining a strong balance sheet.
Pages 15 and 16:
Net sales and gross profits are up YoY.
From Page 17:
> 2021 Debt Payments
> On March 15, 2021, we repaid at maturity $73.2 million outstanding principal amount of our 2021 Senior Notes. On April 30, 2021, we completed the voluntary early redemption of $216.4 million outstanding principal amount of our 10.00% Senior Notes due 2023 ("2023 Senior Notes"). This voluntary early redemption covered the entire amount of then outstanding 2023 Senior Notes, which represented all of our long-term debt. In connection with the voluntary early redemption of our 2023 Senior Notes, we paid approximately $219.1 million in aggregate consideration, including accrued and unpaid interest. In connection with the voluntary early redemption of our 2023 Senior Notes, we paid a $17.8 million make-whole premium which is recognized in interest expense in our Consolidated Statements of Operations. Additionally, we accelerated amortization of $0.4 million deferred financing costs associated with our 2023 Senior Notes.
From Page 18:
> Our principal sources of liquidity are cash from operations, cash on hand, and borrowings from the capital markets, which include our revolving credit facilities. As of October 30, 2021, we had total unrestricted cash on hand of $1.4 billion and an additional $202.4 million of available borrowing capacity under our revolving credit facilities. On March 15, 2021, we repaid our outstanding borrowings of $25.0 million under our asset-based revolving credit facility due November 2022 ("Revolver").
Nothing has changed in Gamestop's strategy? Really?
That being said, I'd welcome Arathorn's thoughts and perspective.
From the Reuters article [linked in TFA]:
> In its quarterly financial disclosures, Google groups Play app revenue with that of other services and accounts for the store's ad revenue as part of another broader category.
Wishful thinking perhaps, but now that the cat is out of the bag, it would be nice to have Play revenue details in future financial disclosures. Retail investors are absolutely clamoring for more transparency in all SEC filings, and it shouldn't require complex acts of jurisprudence to get more data into everyone's hands.
In fact, I'd like to see this behavior [releasing higher resolution business details] apply to all of FAANGM [heck, the entire market], given that when it comes to 10-{Q,K}s, they all seem to be playing the same dastardly, opaque game.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-play-app-store-rev...
In fact, you're out of bounds:
> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. [1]
I have a strong distaste for hyperbole and {mis,dis}information. That doesn't make me pro-Google. At best, I'd characterize myself as all-FAANG-ambivalent.
> Epic alleges Google considered [a] coordinated, multinational, hostile takeover attempt [of their business]
... given legal proceedings seem to be on-going?
Also, from TFA:
> In a statement, a Google spokesperson said, "As we have stated previously, Epic's lawsuit is baseless and mischaracterizes our business conversations. Android provides more choices in mobile devices for developers and consumers."
(@dang, not urgent, but thoughts?)
> Democratizing the Tools
> We love that corporations are doing all this work, but we don’t love the fact that the opportunity to share information is asymmetric,” Lungren says. “If they amass data but then lock it down, they will be the only ones who can innovate, which would shut out the important contributions by computer scientists and clinicians around the world. That’s not a position we want to be in.”
Uh huh.
Let's scrutinize the "Stanford University School of Medicine MURA: MSK Xrays Dataset Research User Agreement":
> By registering for downloads [...] you are agreeing to this Research Use Agreement [...]
Hiding downloads behind a registration. We're off to a FANTASTIC start. /s
> YOU MAY NOT DISTRIBUTE, PUBLISH, OR REPRODUCE A COPY of any portion or all of the MURA: MSK Xrays Dataset to others without specific prior written permission from the School of Medicine.
> YOU MAY NOT SHARE THE DOWNLOAD LINK to the MURA: MSK Xrays dataset to others.
You know what? I'm going to stop there. The agreement becomes increasingly more hostile.
Someone please inform Stanford on what "Democratizing" actually means.
It's a hard pass from me.
As a user, I'm annoyed my browser will now be subject to a flawed implementation for however much longer it now takes to revert the reversion (de-facto standard or not). I most certainly can't be alone in this stance. While I empathize a subset of developers may have been caught off guard by changes, my empathy has limits: their inconvenience is not worth my browser safety. Why must users suffer at the hand of a few chest-thumping devs?
A little deference for history I think would also go a long way here: time and again Google has to kick the industry hard in it's complacency [2][3]. How quickly the industry seems to have forgotten that not all that long ago, developers [and administrators] had to be dragged kicking and screaming like toddlers, to support HTTPS adoption (and corresponding changes to the chrome UI). Was that change difficult then? You bet. Was it a net-good change in the long run? Hell yes.
As Bruce Wayne said to Alfred after laying waste to League of Shadow's headquarters in Nolan's Batman Begins:
"People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy [...]"
Chrome Security team, if you're reading this, keep on trucking.
- [1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=106508...
- [2] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=106508...
- [3] https://security.googleblog.com/2018/02/a-secure-web-is-here...
"Teleperformance experiences significant attrition due to hostile surveillance of WFH personnel; struggles to hire replacements."
Has GSB helped users, more than it has hurt them?
The anti-Google rhetoric [on HN] is becoming more tiresome as of late. Personally, I welcome the notifications in my browsers that a domain is unsafe. I can't possibly be the only one.
> Working through the book requires advanced knowledge in JavaScript and in Node.js.
Do you have any recommendations on various Javascript / Node.js education or training resources that would make good precursors to your book?
Furthermore, any general advice for the uninitiated?
If they are in fact similar, I can't help but be left wondering why ACG didn't devote at least a sentence or two to comparisons that already exist in the industry.
Asked a different way: If I were a lead of IT, director-level executive, CTO, etc. how and why should I begin to evaluate the QuestDB service / solution?
Thank you for sharing, bluestreak and team, very interesting and exciting work!
I'm curious, how does this compare to Chartify [1]? Note, I am not affiliated with Spotify or the Chartify team.
Some personal favorites:
> You actually don't need to be open-minded about Oracle. You are wasting the openness of your mind.
> What you think of Oracle, is even truer than you think it is. There has been no entity in human history with less complexity or nuance to it than Oracle.
> You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think "oh, the lawnmower hates me". The lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, the lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle. [...] The lawnmower can't have empathy.
A mere infrastructure issue, that occurs with all providers from time to time, would hardly constitute a service "wind-down". Based on a very cursory review, GCP's official deprecation policy [1] doesn't seem all that dissimilar from everyone else.
In short, to answer your question: No.
Transcript from Alphabet Q1 2019 Earnings Call; April 29, 2019 [1]
> Sundar Pichai, CEO Google:
> We are also deeply committed to becoming the most customer-centric cloud provider for enterprise customers, and making it easier for companies to do business with us thanks to new contracting, pricing, and more. Today, 9 of the world's 10 largest media companies, 7 of the 10 largest retailers, and more than half of the 10 largest companies in manufacturing, financial services, communications, and software use Google Cloud.
> Some of the companies that we announced at Next included: The American Cancer Society and McKesson in Healthcare; Media and Entertainment companies like USA Today and Viacom; Consumer Packaged Goods brands like Unilever; Manufacturing and Industrial companies like Samsung and UPS; and Public Sector organizations like Australia Post.
> Finally, to support our customers' growth, we also announced the addition of two new Cloud regions in Seoul and Salt Lake City, which we plan to open in 2020. These new Cloud regions will build on our current footprint of 19 Cloud regions and 58 data centers around the world.
This doesn't seem like just a hobby to Google.
[1] https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2019_Q1_Earnings_Transcr...