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“Amazon web services: 3x the price, 0.5x the reliability, and lower scalability than DYI. Buy only for the low capex and lead time.” – don’t buy this, personally, because it doesn’t factor in the cost of maintenance. i.e. my time vs Amazon’s time.
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though for larger datasets the economics are worth looking at
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“The strategy is to provide Web-style innovation and rapid development on the cell phone, which we think is still in prehistoric times.” – whether or not you agree that Android is the solution for this, it’s difficult to disagree with the sentiment
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“Perhaps the biggest news is that we hired Codeweavers to make Photoshop CS and CS2 work better under Wine. Photoshop is one of those applications that Desktop linux users are constantly clamoring for, and we’re happy to say they work pretty well now.”
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focusing on the features that get used is a much better play than feature parity, which is neverending and a fool’s errand
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how timely. this is exactly what i experienced. well, sans fish.
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“Yahoo! recently launched what we believe is the worlds largest Apache Hadoop production application. The Yahoo! Search Webmap is a Hadoop application that runs on a more than 10,000 core Linux cluster”
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an interesting perspective on the Microsoft Office file format complexity question
tecosystems
links for 2008-02-20
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