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Kinesis isn't a good idea for low-latency queueing. It can handle high throughput, but it can often take anywhere from one to ten seconds for a message to make it through the queue…

What you're describing reminds me a lot of Padelford Hall at University of Washington, another product of the late 60s. ( http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/june07/content/vi…

I could see Amazon using this as a NYC media presence, as much as a store. They could do readings by authors, launch events for Amazon original video content, Kindle product launch…

I think this is the first time I've seen the phrase "post Edward Snowden world", used like "post 9-11 world" has been for the last decade-plus. I hope that catches on. Edit: can't …

They're a bit vague when describing the "I-was-going-to-buy-it-anyway" problem, but it sounds like they're mainly talking about PPC ads on search engines stealing from SEO links on…

I think this study fails to give serious thought to the phonetic differences of the left-side and right-side letters, and the possibilities for co-correlation there. The right side…

I suspect that people in southern California would share your confusion about the pronunciation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jolla

I completely agree, it's interesting how many people love to jump to economic theorizing about how people will act, and how few people look at the actual cost to implement. I read …

There's really nothing new about hostility to immigrants in the United States. The last generation's wave of newcomers is the next generation's "old guard", saying that the new wav…

This is becoming my biggest concern about these Basic Income plans, too. Giving this amount of money to every person in Switzerland would total almost half of the country's GDP. Ev…

You're only paying 35% in US federal taxes if you're making over 400K a year. Someone making $100K to $150K is in the 28% bracket. And you're probably only paying 10% in state tax …

Gravity can be tested just by dropping your pencil. The invisible hand takes a lot more faith and fervent wishing, IMO.

The catalogue will list the build-year of the property you're looking at, but will it give much information on the build-years of the other nearby buildings?

DoubleDown Interactive - Seattle, WA - Full time, permanent ( http://doubledowninteractive.com/ ) We just want everyone to have a good time. DoubleDown is an on-line casual casino,…

If you were born in Bulgaria, Hungary or a hundred other places and your first exposure to English in bulk and attempts to speak it started at the age of 10 or later you'll have a …

Agreed. One of the things I liked best about Matter was how it took all of Star Trek's hand-wringing about "first contact" and turned it on its head - there were right and wrong wa…

DoubleDown Interactive - Seattle, WA - Full time, permanent ( http://doubledowninteractive.com/ ) We just want everyone to have a good time. DoubleDown is an on-line casual casino,…

They're contractors. Treating contractors like they're full-time employees, without giving them full-time benefits, can get a company sued, not to mention dinged by the IRS for bac…

If the workers are being classified as contractors, then it's important to have an arbitrary cut-off that limits how long they can work at your company. Otherwise some people can g…

I can almost guarantee that the 11-month max is Amazon's policy response to the Microsoft permatemps lawsuit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permatemp - scroll down to the Vizcaino v…

I would recommend that your friend: * make a list of technologies/skills that he would like to learn; * make a list of technologies/skills needed in his job, and in his upcoming pr…

There's nothing requiring you to specifically test every function in a class - though, as others have said, you can set the access level to default or protected to have package-lev…

This is a percentage chart, which only shows that mobile traffic is eating into desktops' _share_ of the total traffic. This chart says nothing about whether mobile is eating into …

The main difference is the margin. IPhones sell, reportedly, at a 58% margin. The profit margin on Windows has, in the past, sometimes exceeded 90%. Amazon is retail. They make 12%…

That sounds like it could be generalized to [noun] [adjective] [adjective]. Notice the lack of verbs, prepositions, or markers for subordinate clauses. This seems much closer to a …