Comment My first login in years, just to express... (Score 5, Funny) 58
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Comment "external Azure customers" is the real story (Score 2) 62
The key piece from this article is:
“With the incredible demand Azure is seeing and the growth of our platform, we’ve decided to pause our planned migration of LinkedIn to allocate resources to external Azure customers,” Hiremagalur wrote in his memo.
At least a couple of ways to interpret this comment. Azure either doesn't have the capacity required to support LinkedIn or the cost of running it "on-prem" is so much better than in Azure vs paying customers it doesn't make sense...or a combination of the two.
Submission + - OpenAI announces leadership transition - Sam Altman is out (openai.com)
tagous writes: Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.
https://openai.com/blog/openai...
https://openai.com/blog/openai...
Comment Re: Elon and CJ have different timelines (Score 1) 110
The Falcon heavy was also often promised and then delivered way behind schedule.
I guess the difference is no one paid for a Falcon Heavy lift in 2011.
Comment Former customer (Score 5, Funny) 25
So many years ago I don't think the term "cloud" existed yet, I had a website I wanted to host but I didn't really give a crap about it. I just wanted the cheapest place to drop some flat HTML files I could find and I found No Support Linux Hosting. Their model of "if you have to contact us for something, we probably don't want you" resonated with me as a nerd and the price was perfect (I think $1 if I'm remembering correctly?). It felt like it was a pet project of some admin who also wanted a place to host some sites they didn't care about and figured they'd split the cost as long as it didn't cost them a minute of their time. I'm not at all surprised that they're shutting down - cleaning up from a hack is work and the entire business model is that they don't want to do any work. Well done, mates. You did exactly what you said you'd do from start to finish. That's a level of integrity and laziness I can respect.
Microsoft Partners With Docker 104
rjmarvin writes Docker is teaming up with Microsoft to bring its open container technology to the next release of Windows Server. Docker Engine will work with the next release of Windows Server and images will be available in Docker Hub, which will also integrate directly into Microsoft Azure. The partnership moves Docker beyond Linux for the first time with new multi-container application capabilities for cloud and enterprise developers.
MIT Combines Carbon Foam and Graphite Flakes For Efficient Solar Steam Generati 110
rtoz (2530056) writes Researchers at MIT have developed a new spongelike material structure which can use 85% of incoming solar energy for converting water into steam. This spongelike structure has a layer of graphite flakes and an underlying carbon foam. This structure has many small pores. It can float on the water, and it will act as an insulator for preventing heat from escaping to the underlying liquid. As sunlight hits the structure, it creates a hotspot in the graphite layer, generating a pressure gradient that draws water up through the carbon foam. As water seeps into the graphite layer, the heat concentrated in the graphite turns the water into steam. This structure works much like a sponge. It is a significant improvement over recent approaches to solar-powered steam generation. And, this setup loses very little heat in the process, and can produce steam at relatively low solar intensity. If scaled up, this setup will not require complex, costly systems to highly concentrate sunlight.
Comment PCI Compliance (Score 1) 199
Screw ads. I'd enforce PCI compliance on them.
Video A Conversation with Ubuntu's Jono Bacon (Video) 53
Comment Re:correlation does not prove causation (Score 1) 137
Oooooh snap!
Chinese Chang'e-3 Lunar Rover On Its Way After Successful Launch 101
savuporo writes "The Chang'e-3 lunar probe, which includes the Yutu or Jade Rabbit buggy, blasted off on board an enhanced Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 1:30 a.m. (12.30 p.m. EDT). Landing is expected on December 14, at a landing site called Sinus Iridium (the Bay of Rainbows), a relic of a huge crater 258 km in diameter. Coverage of the launch was carried live on CCTV, with youtube copies available."
Unlocked Firefox OS ZTE Open Is Now Available On eBay For For $80 122
SmartAboutThings writes "We've been hearing quite a lot lately about the Firefox OS, but there are actually only a few Firefox OS phones launched on the market. ZTE Open is one of them and is actually the first Firefox OS phone for consumers. Even if Firefox OS has support from carriers all over the world, it's pretty hard to sell devices in more locations across the world. To remedy that, ZTE is going to sell the Firefox OS Open phone on eBay for eighty dollars, which is actually ten dollars less than the launch price. A real great thing is that the handset will be off-contract and unlocked which means you will be able to use it on all mobile networks. ZTE didn't mention when exactly the device will go on sale on eBay, the company just mentioning 'soon.'"
Ask Slashdot: Moving From Contract Developers To Hiring One In-House? 524
An anonymous reader writes "I run a small software consulting company who outsources most of its work to contractors. I market myself as being able to handle any technical project, but only really take the fun ones, then shop it around to developers who are interested. I write excellent product specs, provide bug tracking & source control and in general am a programming project manager with empathy for developers. I don't ask them to work weekends and I provide detailed, reproducible bug reports and I pay on time. The only 'rule' (if you can call it that) is: I do not pay for bugs. Developers can make more work for themselves by causing bugs, and with the specifications I write there is no excuse for not testing their code. Developers are always fine with it until we get toward the end of a project and the customer is complaining about bugs. Then all of a sudden I am asking my contractors to work for 'free' and they can make more money elsewhere. Ugh. Every project ends up being a battle, so, I think the solution is to finally hire someone full-time and pay for everything (bugs or not) and just keep them busy. But how can I make that transition? The guy I'd need to hire would have to know a lot of languages and be proficient in all of them. Plus, I can't afford to pay someone $100k/year right now. Ideas?"
Remote Desktop Backend Merged into Wayland 215
New submitter Skrapion writes "One month ago, an independent developer submitted patches to the Wayland's Weston compositor which adds support for FreeRDP, an open-source remote desktop protocol. Now, after six revisions, the remote desktop code has been merged into the trunk. While remote desktop has been prototyped in Weston once before by Wayland developer Kristian Høgsberg, this is the first time Wayland/Weston has officially supported the feature. For a summary of why we can expect Wayland's remote desktop to surpass X.Org's network transparency, see Daniel Stone's excellent talk from Linux.conf.au."
Boeing Touts Fighter Jet To Rival F-35 — At Half the Price 497
An anonymous reader sends this news from the CBC:
"In a dogfight of defense contractors, the hunter can quickly become the hunted. It's happening now to the F-35. The world's largest defense contractor, Lockheed Martin, is trying to convince wavering U.S. allies — including Canada — to stick with its high-tech, high-priced and unproven F-35 stealth fighter. But the F-35 is way behind schedule, way over budget and, now, it's grounded by a mysterious crack in a turbine fan. After years of technical problems, it's a tempting target for Lockheed Martin's rivals. It's no surprise, then, that the No. 2 defense contractor, Boeing, smells blood... The Super Hornet, it says, is a proven fighter while the F-35 is just a concept — and an expensive one at that. ... The Super Hornet currently sells for about $55 million U.S. apiece; the Pentagon expects the F-35 to cost twice as much — about $110 million."
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