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If the writer of the article honestly thinks that any of these companies are just sitting on piles of cash, they're insane. Not even Warren Buffet is doing so. That cash is IN the economy. It's being invested, it's a bond here or a loan there, but it's never just sitting idle.
Yeah, the beginning of time, yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, hourly, helps immensely. Never used dedupe though.
Also, you NEED some kind of alerting. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of human detection, which is insurmountably ignorant of old data.
This right here. Saved my bacon so many times.Clients don't like missing emails, so they like getting spam and actually OPEN the files. Good thing we had configured a regex alert whenever one of those files were created. Saved a lot of hours of recovery.
This was exactly my thought when I read that line. This is so far off in left field, I'm not entirely sure what he thinks he'll inherently benefit from by using Raspberry Pi, let alone several of them.
No, you've failed to account for theft of intellectual property. This is just as much as a heinous crime, if not worse.Ask Philo Farnsworth, or the Wright Brothers vs Curtiss, or Eduardo Saverin.
If I take 2-3 years bringing a story to live production before having someone release it to the world for free, my rewards are diminished. And before you use the argument that movie producers are rich, thousands of people involved in the project aren't, and even if they are, they are rich because supply meets demand, and they've created something that people would pay money for.
What exactly is meant by Tech Savy? I'm sure most non-IT people know very little about scripting, domains, networking, and everything else an IT person is responsible for.
I remember hearing about this, but never suspected Google was one of them. Good thing they realized their mistake promptly and got their money back. Bad publicity nonetheless.