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So basically you're saying that here's an American company that is monopolising a critical market in my country, but I prefer that monopoly to continue because I have built up this scenario in which an Indian company might monopolise it instead.

Interesting.

What are legit natsec concerns now? How about saying yeah it happened, we're sorry and we're paying a USD 100mil each to the surviving families as a token of our regret?

This might come as a surprise to most people on this page but India and other countries around the world actually have there own laws and don't follow US laws.

No court order is required for this data. The relevant law states this:

Whenever any Court or any officer in charge of a police station considers that the production of any document or other thing is necessary or desirable for the purposes of any investigation, inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Code by or before such Court or officer, such Court may issue a summons, or such officer a written order, to the person in whose possession or power such document or thing is believed to be, requiring him to attend and produce it, or to produce it, at the time and place stated in the summons or order.

Good list. I would only add 'Send without sound' and 'Schedule send'

Waiting eagerly for the world to pass peak peak.

You are right, by itself it doesn't matter. All Heroku users should be smart enough to figure this out themselves.

However, Heroku should also be smart enough to figure out that all links should be https and servers should have valid certificates.

For a company to make such basic security-related mistakes while in the middle of a bad security incident doesn't look good, to put it politely.

It sort of explains how they got where they are.

The password reset mail is yet another train wreck.

I received this email. The reset password link in it is NOT https. If I manually change the http to https it turns out that the server, click.msg.salesforce.com, is returning a certificate that is only valid for click.s10.exacttarget.com

I too paid for one year of Hey and it delivered a genuine surprise for me: a renewed appreciation of Gmail ;-)

If that's the case then Apple should not sell its devices where they can't deal with the climate.

This discussion is about India. Why are you bringing in Israel?

Exactly.

Changing the position of the engines means it's no longer the same 'tried and tested airframe'.

If you can use servers _without_disks_ and without bandwidth, then yeah that's the price. Add some EBS, specially provisioned IOPS.

Not even getting into the fact that an m5.xlarge has roughly as much muscle as an old laptop.

Sorry but we actually cheated on that part. Redid the page so that the function that is now in Go is a separate little service that is called via ajax directly by the users' browsers.

So there's no actual Python-Go interaction in our code.

This was quicker, cleaner and has made the page more responsive for users.

This was a financial function which calculated an internal return of return for a long series of uneven cash flows, essentially a python implementation of the XIRR function that spreadsheets have.

To get to the required two decimal places of precision, each call would recurse 50-60 or more times so this was more or less all that the server was doing.

A VERY low hanging fruit.

They already do, in the sense that you'll need beefier/more machines to do the same job.

Of course, using Python means you have a lot of low-hanging fruit to pick. We have a Python service where we moved ONE ~60 line recursive function to Go and overall CPU consumption dropped to 15-20% of what it used to be.

Even so, just by following road rules, driving sober and having a well-maintained car, you likely go to the bottom decile in car-related risks. That much is definitely under your own control.

Similar experience here roughly, albeit mine is at a smaller scale.

The key phrase in your post is 'doing this 25+ years'.

What you're providing is the /confidence/ that you can do it. Most outfits nowadays probably have no one who has that.

It's only a bit smaller than the first phone I ever used.

And the 'address above' is a physical street address!

They mean write it on paper and put it in the mail.

The press release says this:

comparing no drinks with one drink a day the risk of developing one of the 23 alcohol-related health problems was 0.5% higher — meaning 914 in 100,000 15–95 year olds would develop a condition in one year if they did not drink, but 918 people in 100,000 who drank one alcoholic drink a day would develop an alcohol-related health problem in a year.

There's a good analysis at https://medium.com/wintoncentre/the-risks-of-alcohol-again-2...

Like so much on the internet, SO is not what one would ideally want, but is definitely the least bad way of asking for and getting answers.

And maybe it's something about software people. Other parts of the Stackexchange network that I use, like photography, English language and travel, are quite pleasant.

This is not true. There's a Prime app on Android, available through Google's Play Store. Works fine for me.

Dropping marketshare for others may not mean falling business. It's possible that the market size is growing fast enough for the commercial ones to actually be seeing a growth in business.

From Delhi, right now, Mumbai is 38ms, Singapore is 83.

They all do. AWS & GCP customer here, billing is fully GST-compliant from day 1.

> JS is the only language I know where half of it is recommended to not be used.

Jamie Zawinski (who else) about C++ in 'Coders At Work': When you’re programming C++ no one can ever agree on which ten percent of the language is safe to use.

This 'researcher' has no control group. There's more interest in a financial asset when the price of that asset (or asset class) is increasing sharply. That's all there is to it.

Bangalore, a large city in Southern India, is probably the world leader in the proportion of layers that have embedded numbers. Here's an example:

ICICI BANK LTD, 273, 15TH CROSS, 20TH MAIN, JP NAGAR 5TH PHASE, BANGALORE - 560078

With context, Gadkari appeared to say that driverless _commercial_ vehicles will not be allowed.

A lot of politicians around the world may be saying that soon.

Actually using generate_series makes little sense. Why should one repeatedly calculate data that will never change.

I have this table:

CREATE TABLE all_dates ( date_stamp date NOT NULL, is_month_end boolean, is_year_end boolean, is_week_end boolean, is_quarter_end boolean, CONSTRAINT all_dates_pkey PRIMARY KEY (date_stamp) )

filled with data from 1st Jan 1980 to 31st Dec 2050, which is the range my application needs.

It's a mere 22k rows and has a whole host of uses.