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Amazon has been operating at near breakeven point for a long time. Most of the years the make some money, sometimes they lose a bit. Their stock holds up because they increase thei…

The threat from Android to iPhone probably looks bigger than it actually is. Per study that just came out [1], iPhone users are much more loyal than Android users: 24% of Android u…

We've built a complete continuous deployment system with TeamCity/MSBuild that worked quite well for us. It probably took about two-three weeks to work out all the details, and now…

You can use profits-to-GDP metric, for example: http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/03/news/economy/record-corporat... . It's no guarantee profits won't go even higher, of course, but the…

I think it reflects the general Microsoft philosophy of having APIs for everything. After all, they are an API company. It shows in the PowerShell design with it's object API appro…

It would be interesting to know what the median valuation is. Half the startups will be above it, and half below it. This would provide additional interesting details.

One of them is Eric Lippert. If you use C# you'll enjoy his blog, http://ericlippert.com/ .

Some businesses are fundamentally high-margin, and some are low-margin. It mostly depends on the amount of raw materials involved. For example, Microsoft (software) is a high-margi…

Most definitely. He may well be completely innocent per numerous laws, executive orders and/or the Constitution. An example of the relevant recent piece: "Executive Order 13526: Se…

I guess the question requires further qualification, "What has Microsoft done, in the last 12 years, to compete with the Sony rootkit?"

OK, I guess the issue is with the "never in production". One size rarely fits all. I can have a lookup table with three rows in my database, for which Large Hadron Migrator is hard…

Albania, Argentina, Belarus... am I looking at the right list? OK, some first-world countries are mixed in there too, but the entire list is hardly a source of inspiration. Many fi…

Or you may have just cashed out your 1-year CD that paid you .86%. You had $2.3M there and received income of ... $20k. Disappointed by the depressed interest rates you went on a s…

"ALTER is in itself an odd command, useful only in development, never in production" How would you then ever modify an existing database?

And why specifically do you dislike, say, SQL Server? (except for price; obviously Microsoft wants to make money off of it).

"case-sensitive filesystem" What is the business use case for a user to treat documents "Annual Report.docx" and "Annual report.docx" as absolutely different and unrelated?

200-300 "pieces" = $200,000-$300,000. One "piece" is 1,000, typically applied to money.

That doesn't affect net profit either.

But it may be increasingly assembled by the providers of virtual services from components, rather than purchased from Dell.

"Starting Jan. 30, 2013, only Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government customers can set up new devices with Google Sync." Am I reading it correctly that only new setups…

Hyper-threading doesn't mean you magically get extra 4 cores. It's a technology that works well for _some_ workloads, and for those it achieves up to 30% performance boost, per Int…