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How is this different from Terraform Cloud's cost estimation please?

https://www.terraform.io/docs/cloud/cost-estimation/index.ht...

Thank you! I was literally looking for an Indian music alternative to Generative.fm. May not have been the use case you are trying to target, but it is the use case for me :)

Big shout out to Generative.fm as well!

Edge Chromium has Microsoft Translate which does a pretty good job as well

Forgetting the overload of medical infrastructure for a bit, here are some of the myriad of issues that this leads to:

1. There are 20-50 year olds with pre-existing conditions such as asthma who are at higher risk. For example, a colleague on my team has asthma. Another colleague on my team has a husband who has asthma. As a Manager, I can't ask either of them to come into work.

2. What about 20-50 year olds who come in contact with 50+ year old or live together with them? They may be at low risk, but they will definitely spread the virus around more

It becomes quite complicated dealing with these things on a case by case basis.

I currently work in Tech Strategy at a Big 4 - the reason why Big 4s want to roll it back is because over the last few years, their revenue in audit is steadily decreasing. Especially with automated tools, outsourcing, RPA taking over and making a lot of the grunt work significantly cheaper. At the same time, the consulting revenues are significantly going up. SOX limits the scope of work the Big 4 can execute at firms they audit (nothing related to financially significant systems etc.). The best client relationships are with the firms the Big 4 audit! Hence, the push!

Are there guides similar to Material Design that you would recommend to an app developer? Looking for Dos and Don'ts. Appreciate any help in this direction!

I read this and then I read this -

Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy feature (http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/21/12994362/allo-privacy-mess...)

Performance for privacy - LOL

> Of note, many have forgotten, but rice suffered from a pandemic blight in the 1980s that was saved only because a particular species of wild rice, coincidentally found in South India, happened to have disease resistant genes.

Do you have a source for this as well please?

BJP is a right wing "Hindu" party with close ties to nationalist organizations like Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Shiv Sena. They have had a rather sordid history in the last couple of decades wrt religious violence - Gujarat Riots, Babri Masjid demolition etc.,

Recently, there have been some incidents which have resulted in communal/religious tensions flaring up

1. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/india-divided-after-hindu-mob-lynch...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._M._Kalburgi

India's intellectuals have started criticizing the Government for not speaking out against this violence. In fact, some BJP affiliated people have made some really controversial statements with regards to Muslims in India. Arundhati Roy is among a host of people who are returning their awards in protest of the Government's stance.

Link to the actual paper: http://www.slideshare.net/lutherlowe/wu-l

Is there any focus on Product Management or is this just Dev jobs?

Continuum as well by Microsoft

Reference: http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/6/8560195/microsoft-continuum...

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As an ex-management consultant, I don't see any other plays that were possible for Elop. I am going off of the Bloomberg article for some conclusions. He is vilified simply because he became the last CEO of a beloved empire which was already gasping for it's last breaths. His plays were the right plays from a Business Perspective. But at that point, it was already too late and Apple/Google had already conquered the market. The only viable option would have been to re-invent the cell phone.

1. Nokia had a Maps business. Obviously, Elop wanted to see it on the chosen platform. 2. Nokia had a host of apps that they wanted to see on the chosen platform. 3. Google refused to allow modifications to their MADA. 4. Meego/Maemo were not viable/not ready. 5. Microsoft's offer came with an infusion of cash.

(Bloomberg article: http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/magazine/content/11_24/b42320567...)

You can just set your location as US. That would make it work. (Not ideal)

Does anyone know of any true market data sources that are not delayed, free and open for commercial use?

You could try and maybe normalize salaries based on the location I guess, but this also hits a snag when you take into account occupation. Some occupations generally pay lesser than others. Do they then not warrant H1Bs? Don't think so.

Think you need to see this:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1006_051006_...

Reliance on crocodilians may not turn out the way one hoped

I understand the comment on poor fact checking but don't get why it is voted all the way to the top since it takes away the focus on the message to some extent.

This is a serious problem with no apparent solutions. Even Everglades apex predators, the alligators are unable to deal with the issue. A fight between a python and an alligator is fatal to both.

http://science.time.com/2012/01/31/invaders-how-burmese-pyth...

TLDR quote from the article: As per study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the increase of the python population from just a few to perhaps a few thousand has been connected to declines of several native mammals. According to the study, observations of raccoons have declined 93 percent, bobcats by 87 percent, and possums by 98.9 percent.

Have you read this article on Business Week?

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_24/b42320567...

Talks about Nokia's strategy and it does look like there was buy-in on the decision from management and the board.

Also, they had hired a Strategy House - can't remember which (either BCG or Bain) to bolster their conclusions. Am sure there were agreements and Elop wasn't a one-man army.

GPS alone re-categorizes this. One small addition - they are also heavily emphasizing the Health Cloud alongside the band as a feature

http://www.microsoft.com/Microsoft-Health/en-us

Former Product Manager. Currently a strategy consultant in IT space. On my way into bootstrapping something and HN gives me the inspiration, knowledge etc., Also, looking to get back into Product Management someday.

This article specifically talks about the unruly requirements - https://medium.com/war-is-boring/fd-how-the-u-s-and-its-alli...

A founder's visa should be opened up to a class of people. In this beta testing case, it would be open to a class of people who get selected with YC or are interested in YC. That's a very limited view from a governance perspective. The only ones who should have such power are USCIS and Consulate Officers. USCIS should work with incubators for the judging criteria. There should be another criteria for start ups who want to go without a sponsoring incubator as well.

In addition, not sure what the visa status will be during the three month funding cycles. That alone limits a lot of options. A F-1 student or a H1B employee cannot create a start up and apply to YC even though they are in US because they can't leave their status for 3 months.

Thank god none of you are in charge. Just kidding or am I?

Elop played the game straight forward. Forking is a half baked option and when you are leveraging your company, forking is not an option. You need full scale OS support and that means, Nokia could have either gone with MS or Google. Google apparently refused to make space for Nokia's competing service suite (Read-Business Week) and as such, the option was only MS. I know the hate is strong for MS in this community but it's way too illogical to think one man alone could have played his tactics and strategies to influence Nokia to switch to a MS OS for his career progression.

Meego was ruled out as an option as well. A tech-pretty thing may not always work out. WebOS taught us that lesson. So conspiracy theories are pretty meaningless.

Not yet. They need to beat Lumia 520's price. Agreed, the specs are higher but most people in that space don't care.

First off, MS's answer to the question is more than enough - "We appreciate Bloomberg’s foray into fiction and look forward to future episodes". Three unnamed people? Really?

Sherlund is an idiot. The proposition, if you ask any consultant/financial analyst/Rick Sherlund is to maximize shareholder value. The problem with MSFT, Apple, Google is that shareholders are short sighted and don't understand how technology works or the charms of integrated offerings. They only see Product/Service/Capability-Cost mappings and see that by disposing money losing assets, they can enhance value proposition through the remaining assets.

Elop's strategy is fine if MS is in a money crunch and wants to undertake Cost Optimizations. It's not fine when MS is in the midst of their "3 screens, one cloud" transformation. If XBox and Bing continue their trend of losing money in the next 5 years, then yes, I would do things that Elop is fictionally proposing to do. Until then, hell no.

There are reasons for MS not auto updating IE and leaving update settings to system admins. SAP in my company works only for IE9. One cannot simply drop whatever it is and start working on bug fixes for IE10/11, Firefox and Chrome, irrespective of whose fault it is. Google is being Google in this matter.

Maybe he wants Google to buy his company

Added to the fact that people coming from India and China don't have options like DV list, O1 and are sort of ill-treated and are looked down upon, etc., - I owe a lot of gratitude to the outsourcing and loan staff boom. Thanks Infosys, Wipro, etc.,

Can someone comment on how London compares with Berlin?