It seems, new Microsoft is sharply focused on consumer part (aimed at Apple and Google) and enterprise part(aimed at Amazon cloud and others). Article conveys the same.
I won't be surprised if bing is handed over to yahoo completely.
Readit Newsq2 commented on Microsoft Shakes Up Its Leadership and Internal Structure techcrunch.com/2015/06/17... · Posted by u/rbanffy
q2 commented on WikiLeaks publishes 30,000 leaked Sony documents wikileaks.org/sony... · Posted by u/ryan_j_naughton
That's fine but you can't force openness (because it aligns with your beliefs) through theft. Society has been becoming more open (as people tweet and blog publicly) but forcing the changes you want through illegal means, especially when there is no consensus that that is what society as a whole would like, is wrong.
No one is forcing openness here. You are not in "follow it or else" situation. You can just ignore as if nothing has happened. Where is force applied? It is imaginary.
In many cases, people act without consensus based on their decisions. Did you take consensus before posting above message? Just like you did what you thought as right, some one else make other decisions w.r.t wikileaks. Always, there will be initiative and later on consensus comes into picture.
q2 commented on WikiLeaks publishes 30,000 leaked Sony documents wikileaks.org/sony... · Posted by u/ryan_j_naughton
>> "This is freedom and complete transparency. What is wrong with that?"
It's stolen documents of a private company. Most of the information is nothing more than embarrassing.
>> "If this level of openness is uncomfortable, so be it but there may be many who feel, this level is ok."
So you publish your communications openly then? Seriously, one minute HN is complaining (rightly so) about government invasions of privacy and the next it's congratulating theft of private communications from someone it doesn't like.
Wikileaks has lost what little remaining credibility it had in my eyes. This is little more than stolen documents to satisfy the kinds of people that read gossip sites.
All societies, at some point in the past, may have started at similar level of privacy ...etc. Due to various reasons, if we see now, some societies are more open than the rest and this is due to the choices they made consciously or accidentally or made by influencing entities in those societies. Wikileaks is following the same trend but may be with more speed/velocity.
If we see history, there are no absolute boundaries of privacy and it changes with time and it may feel outrageous now but if we see multiple similar incidents, then it becomes natural,common and after few years, it becomes standard of life and I won't be surprised if future generations in these societies feel proud of that level of transparency and make fun of those who lack that level of openness.
q2 commented on WikiLeaks publishes 30,000 leaked Sony documents wikileaks.org/sony... · Posted by u/ryan_j_naughton
This unacceptable and outright disgusting. For me, Wikileaks lost all credibility. It is wrong to violate the privacy and confidentiality of employees and contacts of the company. It does not matter if there are clues of wrongdoing or if somebody calls the contents trivial.
Government ties, connections to the military industry and support for politicians? How is that a scandal? And how is that worth violating people's rights. Nothing is redacted. Nothing is explained in context. This is awful.
If something is worth a scandal, it's the chutzpa of Wikileaks.
This is more freedom and more transparency. What is wrong with that?
Remember, openness and transparency has many levels. You may be at different level than Wikileaks. If this level of openness is uncomfortable, so be it but there may be many who feel, this level is ok. Look at how some Govt's point at others as closed societies. Just in this case, there is some one who took more higher level of openness than traditional ones.
q2 commented on Finance world in the dark as Bloomberg terminals go offline telegraph.co.uk/finance/n... · Posted by u/jacquesm
I don't understand how Bloomberg could be down worldwide.
Worldwide???
99% of what Bloomberg terminals are useful for can easily be replicated in multiple data centers. Why not, at a minimum, three separate regions, e.g. Asia, Europe, America?
These terminals lease for $24,000 a year. No discount for multiple terminals. I wouldn't be surprised if a single big investment bank pays $50 million a year to Bloomberg for its terminals. Michael Bloomberg is a billionaire. Surely the company can throw a few crumbs into some redundant data centers and availability zones.
And if it's down because of a botched worldwide software update, the people responsible should be immediately walked out the door and told "you're too f*ing stupid to work here any more".
IMO.
Sorry to be so dramatic. But the financial world depends on these terminals (for better or for worse). They have a right to expect unrealistic reliability.
Support people at Bloomberg must have been really busy today and phones may be constantly ringing. Wish we get post mortem report later on.
Can anyone share financial details of this company like, is it VC funded or public enterprise ...etc and sources of funding?
Honest questions: How people can write such long articles? How many hours they might have spent in writing? Does anyone read it from the top to bottom completely? Is it not possible to express the whole thing in a small article without losing the gist?
EDIT 1: Gruber's articles have lot of useful information,analysis and insights but I feel, current article is too lengthy.
EDIT 2: Anandtech's reviews are also detailed but they are easy to select to go to required part of the review. Hope interface of DF may change in future.
Thinking of make as an example of "declarative programming" helps in appreciating its functionality.
This aspect needs to be highlighted to those who have knowledge of imperative/object oriented programming paradigms only.
Otherwise, understanding how those makefiles actually work can become confusing and painful.
q2 commented on How Wall Street Middlemen Help Silicon Valley Employees Cash in Early wsj.com/article_email/how... · Posted by u/zachb
2 words: "accredited investors." 2 more words: "no recourse."
As long as this industry exposure is low, bubble bursts may not impact main stream economy but if the exposure is more, then as previous financial crisis shows,---due to inter linkages in finance sector and due to wrong judgments of even supposedly sophisticated investors,--- main stream economy cannot live insulated life.
So as of now, risk may be limited to investors in question only but if the scope and invested money increases, then it can create fresh financial crisis worldwide.
EDIT: This seems to be heavily used in industry as well as in Federal IT dashboard...etc. So it appears to be a good choice.