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Actually, a lot of it is known as "cash equivalents", which are generally liquid assets (but not actual cash for the most part) like T-Bills or other forms of securities (though, money market accounts are also used, which do go to banks).

No, the 4 was glass all around. This is the 5/5s with metal back.

"Then there’s Apple’s next step. Morgan Stanley, in a note last month, laid out the tea leaves: Apple has announced three data centers opening soon and spent an estimated $1 billion last year on AWS. It’s a logical move for Apple if it wants more independence from its tech rivals. And it’s one Apple should make to store the growing media libraries from its mobile, TV and TBD products.

According to a source familiar with the matter, Apple already has a team working on this; it’s known internally as “McQueen,” as in Steve. It’s unclear if that project will materialize or when. But a source tells Re/code that the codename refers to Apple’s intent, sometime in the next few years, to break its reliance on all three outside cloud providers in favor of its own soup-to-nuts infrastructure."

I mean - if you go back enough, this problem doesn't exist. It's a growing problem - I'd imagine there were plenty of secretary of state's before who didn't use technology/where technology wasn't available.

I think Apple does a combination. Both (from the article) of hosting on AWS, Google, & Microsoft, but also on its own data centers.

I suppose it also depends on what is being hosted. If you look at Netflix & Dropbox, they both took control of their core piece (CDN & Storage) - not the entire end to end platform. I'd imagine Apple does something similar.

Agree. Especially when you actually open "Skype for Business" it says "Microsoft Lync" at the top. It's a mess.

Not necessarily combined - just that there is more experience in the Bay Area (with larger tech companies there, higher demand for devs, etc-) vs an area that isn't as starved for engineers. Obviously SV vs Atlanta is different than SV vs NYC which is different than SV vs all of the rest of the country.

If you're a company in, say, Atlanta or Boulder, and you need an engineer - there isn't as much competition as there is in the Bay Area. Therefore, it's more likely that you'll find an American engineer at the same price point (which is cheaper [due to legal costs] and less risky than an H1B), so there is little reason to go the extra mile and file an H1B - unless you really need that specific engineer/talent.

Whereas, if you go to the Bay Area, if the demand for engineers outweighs the supply (which I imagine it does), then it's more likely a company will file for an H1B for someone since it's a way of increasing the supply of engineers. The additional capital and legal knowledge (for smaller companies like startups) further spurs the willingness to try for an H1B.

From your response to the other poster - the one thing I would add is that the switching costs for someone on an H1B are higher than those that are not on H1Bs since you always have to have a company sponsor you (this isn't a difficult process, but if you are switching jobs I believe you have to have a company file a petition to sponsor you prior to you leaving your old company). That switching cost is sort of a way of retaining talent (obviously if someone wants to leave, they'll leave - but for those on the fence, they may not bother).

It's not.

In fact - I would argue that you have an easier shot with Bay Area companies sponsoring you due to capital availability and legal knowledge in the area of H1Bs.

Not quite as hard hitting as I would've hoped.

Gruber's take: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/02/17/pichai-apple-fbi

"GM and Lyft said they will work together to develop a network of self-driving cars that riders can call up on-demand."

Pretty interesting. Especially considering Ford has been linked to working with Google on developing self-driving cars. [0] Though, it seems the Ford family is also involved with investing in Lyft.

[0] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ford-talks-google-build-self-0...

"GM and Lyft said they will work together to develop a network of self-driving cars that riders can call up on-demand"

Pretty interesting. Especially considering Ford has been linked to working with Google on developing self-driving cars. [0]

[0] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ford-talks-google-build-self-0...

It's incredibly difficult to short an IPO within the first 30 days because the SEC requires the underwriter to wait at least 30 days to lend out shares for shorting.

So then you'd have to get a retail or institutional investor who JUST PURCHASED shares to lend them to you to short.

In which case, why would they bother buying them in the first place.

Flattr sort of tried to do that. It never caught on, unfortunately.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flattr

You can google the title if you don't have access since it's a paywall site (If you're thinking of subscribing to a news site - I'd recommend the FT as I think it's worth the cost of a subscription to get access to their news).

Or BI has a writeup too: http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-microsoft-to-keep-german-c...

I'd say look at Google - they (sort of) use a form of second-price auction [0] (also known as a Vickrey auction (first described by William Vickrey, a Nobel Laureate economist)) for their bidding process for AdWords. In short - a second-price auction is an auction where the highest bidder pays the second highest bid price.

A lot of auction theory (and price theory) is grounded in economics, so there's a fair amount of information out there in academic economic papers (Such as one on Vickrey - [1]). I'm not sure if they'd address what you are looking for from an algorithm perspective, but most economics papers will discuss (in depth) the quantitative aspect of the research, data, and results.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Game-Theory/Why-in-a-Vickrey-auction-d... [1] http://econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/Courses/UCSBpf/readings/Lovelybut...

edit: I'd also recommend a cursory look at various auction pages on wikipedia to get an idea of what you'd be interested in finding out about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey_auction

Yes, but I meant more from the gadget-assistant side of things.

Q seems fitting (in terms of James Bond characters) to be your personal AI.

Exactly.

I assume OP was going for the James Bond feel, but it is M.

Trip to Antarctica. National Geographic Expeditions runs tours down there that last around 10-30 days depending on the experience.

Looks amazing.

In the sense that the poster is perpetuating that there is no good at Amazon at all. That everything is awful and that no one could possible like/want to work there.

I'm a former intern from AWS (6 month non-tech internship). Now I work in a completely different part of the company full time.

My experience is exactly like what 'onaplane' wrote. Internship was great & very rewarding from a career/working on cool stuff perspective. What I saw was that people who worked long did it because they wanted to (I work(ed) long sometimes because I wanted to!). 40-50 was the norm for AWS & it's roughly the same on the retail side. Are there bad teams at Amazon? Absolutely. Are there awesome ones? Yep!

"A lot of what you say is right out of the amazon weltanshaung-- its cult has seeped in to some extent."

You're doing the exact same thing in reverse.

I find that it's a interesting viewpoint when trying to learn to code through self-taught courses/guides.

It's difficult to get a feel for what you're supposed to be doing from reading a book/blogs/whatever. So it's interesting to see how programmers actually work while coding. Do they stop and jump around? Do they consult documentation a lot? How do they comment? Those sorts of intangibles/questions that guides don't really seem to touch on.

Not sure where you're located, but if you're anywhere in or near the UK, check out Biurko: http://biurkobiurko.com/

Incredibly well crafted (& in full disclosure: made by a friend!)

Didn't see that; thanks!

Not written by me, but I thought it would provide an additional viewpoint about Amazon in light of the NYT's article.

Full disclosure: I work at Amazon in a non-tech role.

In that case, you're the direct customer.

As a rider, I cannot tell Uber I want to pay $20 to get me to the airport, I can accept their prices or not use the service. Uber is setting the prices for their drivers.

Diseconomies of scale.

The last mile of shipping is the most expensive. In the US, there are tons of last miles that are thousands of miles from very large cities.

Switzerland is a tiny country relative to the US, so it's much cheaper to deliver mail.

Fresh in Seattle was originally included in regular Prime (when purchasing >$50), so the habits of Seattle-ites may change after the price goes up to $299.

You can own/invest in Tinder (ish - I say ish because you'd have to invest in a bigger company). It's owned by Match.com, which is owned by IAC ($IACI).

To everyone commenting about their tax rates, that information is irrelevant without income levels in each area.

If Germany's tax rate starts at 40% from 40,000 EUR and California from $200,000; those are not equivalent.

>"If you have not been explicitly informed by us in a separate communication that we detected suspicious activity involving your Slack account, we are very confident that there was no unauthorized access to any of your team data (such as messages or files)."

Under their FAQ on the post. It could be inferred that there was some unauthorized access to certain users' communication logs?