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Comment #41588173
IBM today is mostly a service provider - with those in the 50+ age bracket being "kicked out" there will be at least 2 groups: (1)The ones with skills "to keep the lights on" for t…
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Comment #14161028
Are you not concerned that this move (relabeling the open source version different from how the product is known to the broader public) might further diminish the number of contrib…
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Comment #14118601
same result - only one issue like that known to me So of course I could be wrong and this issue is not the only one in that protocol implementation / sys component(s)
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Comment #14115963
sorry mixed it up. If I look at glove & WordNet usage e.g. for topic extraction, bagging / clustering or semantic similarity would you say we would need to get rid of such a bias, …
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Comment #14115902
sounds familiar - we found that one 1996 when doing system programming on NT (NuMega SoftIce was your best friend together with material published by Mark Russinovich prior of him …
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Comment #14115839
very interesting topic - could you please share a link to the original paper. best probably to read that one first.
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Comment #13986653
The Brexit is just one of key changes hitting the UK tech working / start-up / corporate environments in the moment. Brexit, IP Act, changes to IR35 (in / out), the £ drop, announc…
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Comment #13966423
Out of personal experience hiring many new staff members, this might be true for entry level to mid-level jobs with broad supply of candidates being a good match with their (claime…
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Comment #13894822
Running / monthly cloud cost and comparison to other options (e.g. run on a rented dedicated machine / co-location) should already been looked at when you do even the most basic bu…
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Comment #13644130
I believe focusing on potential technical problems is the wrong approach. What you have to look at is lock-in or no lock-in. Any responsible IT Manager should avoid lock-ins / silo…
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Comment #13225553
additionally relying on specific applications / services that can relatively easy singled out with DPI and by that also stick out their users for "further inspection". Their sugges…
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Comment #13203815
From a first cross-read, this article is bluntly discrediting UBI. Starting with numbers: about 204M working age population in the US - hence the USD10K to each of them example wou…
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Comment #13156916
To better understand changing house prices in London you first might want to look at longer term development of prices - one UK estate agents chart at http://www.winkworth.co.uk/ar…
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Comment #12960678
I'll see from your reports that you're migrating 1000s of 2TB drives to 8TB drives - what is actually happening to your old 2TB drives? Guess you are not throwing those away so wha…
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Comment #12487039
similar also with magarine / chemical industry vs butter / farmers - for decades they paid for favorable research to say that magarine is better for you than butter.
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Comment #10650306
The date (14-Jun-2013) would fit. "... The disclosures were published by The Guardian and The Washington Post on June 6, 2013. Subsequent documents have demonstrated a financial ar…
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Comment #10639126
"... and from Monday, the official language of the USA will be Swedish. In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will…
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Comment #10618047
Their example dedicated host adds up to $2'226 per month - had a quick calc on the retail HW cost for a machine like this - should not be more than $6.5k with 2 * E5-2670 v3 12 cor…
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Comment #10578180
"They" can get these almost unlimited monies basically for free from the Chinese banking system while similar funding in the US and Europe ends up with so called investment banking…
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Comment #10574370
Do understand that your target with this setup was to load test the Swarm manager and 30K is quite impressive. Did you do / are you planning to do a test with other than the low en…
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Comment #10555905
"...The report identifies stark gender and race gaps, too. The 10 largest retirement packages belong to white men, for a total of $1.4 billion. The funds of top female CEOs adds up…
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