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kuviaqon OpenAI and Microsoft tensions are reaching a boiling point

OpenAI is absolutely not locked into the Azure stack. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_LLC

kuviaqon Roger Waters refused use of song for Instagram ad [video]

Roger Waters is from Pink Floyd, not Led Zep

kuviaqon New – Savings Plans for AWS Compute Services

FWIW: Oracle Cloud has been using this pricing model since day 1, except it extends to all services, not just compute: https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/get-started/subscriptions-c...

(Disclaimer, I work at OCI)

kuviaqon AnandTech: Microsoft Surface Review

"The biggest issue I have with recommending Surface is that you know the next iteration of the device is likely going to be appreciably better, with faster/more efficient hardware and perhaps even a better chassis. "

Why call this out when it is true for every single piece of consumer hardware these days?

kuviaqon Twitter open sources its MySQL secret sauce

Better link: http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/04/mysql-at-twitter.html

kuviaqon Shovel: Rake for Python

What does this solve that fabric doesn't? Read through the docs but didn't see any comparisons.

kuviaqon Node.js isn't a silver bullet, but it's still a bullet.

You can run pyramid through gevent wsgi and use gevent-websockets to get the same functionality. Highly performant, no callback soup, and all one stack.

kuviaqon Why Facebook Connect Shouldn't Be Your Only Sign-in Option

We let our users create accounts on our system or use facebook. 80% choose to create an account on our system instead of using facebook (This is an iOS app).

kuviaqon Migrating away from Puppet to cdist (Python3)

Anyone have a comparison between cdist and fabric?

kuviaqon Why big companies fail to keep talent

I think the issue around this is in big companies you rarely see the reasons for the shift in priorities. At least this has been true in my experience. When priorities shifted in my last job all we got in explanation was some buzzwords and a 'trust me'. At my current startup job, when priorities change I get all the information that lead to the decision, and can also participate in making the decision.

kuviaqon Show HN: An OS X music library I've been working on for the past year.

Most of my album art is not displaying. Any info I can send you to help debug?

kuviaqon Startup Tools

Scout should also be added to this list, great server monitoring/graphing/alerting platform!

http://www.scoutapp.com/

(Just a customer, don't work there)

kuviaqon New gaming laptop with innovative UI by Razer

More info from engadget (including lots of pics): http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/26/razer-blade-hands-on-with...

kuviaqon Poll: What database does your company use?

+1 for Riak, it's suiting our needs very well so far.

kuviaqon [dead]

Looks like mirrors are still up, to use with pip: pip install -i http://d.pypi.python.org/simple [package]