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New comment by princetman in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

princetman — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 15:20:20 +0000

Depends on what you’re after * Australia * United States * Singapore * Dubai * Europe (Belgium/Switzerland/Netherlands)

New comment by princetman in "Doctor GPT: A Large Language Model That Can Pass the US Medical Licensing Exam"

princetman — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 13:05:36 +0000

Yes, field of diagnosis and experimental medication/treatment requires no new logic.

New comment by princetman in "Doctor GPT: A Large Language Model That Can Pass the US Medical Licensing Exam"

princetman — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 02:25:10 +0000

A programmer is simply a database of past projects, information they’ve read, and programming knowledge.

They take in requirements, perform coding, analyse output, repeat.

New comment by princetman in "Twelve Years of Go"

princetman — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 10:10:37 +0000

Docker and Kubernetes comes to mind.

New comment by princetman in "Making the dislike count private across YouTube"

princetman — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 18:35:10 +0000

As a complete novice in life in everything that is not Tech, I rely on a lot of how-to videos on YouTube from small unknown creators. Likes and Dislikes ratio is one of the key filter to weed out less helpful or outright misinformed videos. This may be shrewd move for YouTube to boost engagement but at the greater cost of utility and UX. Very disappointing.

New comment by princetman in "When working from home is toxic"

princetman — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 15:13:38 +0000

Right, you must have room with a door to WFH otherwise back to the open plan office.

New comment by princetman in "Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login"

princetman — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 11:02:29 +0000

No, I hardly ever tip my delivery drivers. Tip is not expected for normal service here, unlike USA. If someone goes above and beyond, you can tip but there is no obligation. We have minimum wage system and most in my area are paid above that.

Most popular gadgets with screens, smartphones, doesn’t have credits, not the most popular apps on App Store apart from couple of words “From Facebook”, “By Google” etc. It’s not considered “incredibly disrespectful” to not read credits in apps or acknowledgments in books that have it listed. It’s a personal preference to read or skip them. I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make.

New comment by princetman in "Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login"

princetman — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:17:32 +0000

I get the sentiment for live performance, but in your own home, I can not relate to this. Vast majority of people in credits are doing a job and getting paid for it, just like any other profession or trade.

We don't pay "respect" to delivery drivers, or to designers and engineers who brings us our gadgets and services in same way. Why should I spend my time and attention on credit rolls? It's not like anyone noticing it.

New comment by princetman in "Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study"

princetman — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 17:27:01 +0000

This can be said of all interviews, not just tech. It’s hard for great many people to put themselves out there. I mean interview itself is a performance, isn’t it?

Having said that communication and interpersonal skills are big part of most jobs even in tech. We hardly develop software in isolation these days.

I don’t know about other industries, but in Tech there are some really inexperienced interviewers out there, who’re impulsive and lacks discipline in conducting objective and meaningful assessment.

New comment by princetman in "Being a good guy boss left me £1.2m in debt"

princetman — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 08:22:21 +0000

If I recall correctly you either have to mail in your passport with application form and photos or you can go to post office where they can verify ID for your fist provisional license.

One of the step to get full license is to take theory test in person at test centre. They check your address and verify ID again at this stage.

We have small driving test centres in most areas. You prebook the slot and turn up. They’re fairly punctual.

New comment by princetman in "Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop Being So Selfish and Disrespectful"

princetman — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 14:28:14 +0000

Here in UK we have a few lavender farmers who does exactly that.

https://www.mayfieldlavender.com/mayfield-lavender-farm/

New comment by princetman in "Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro"

princetman — Tue, 21 May 2019 19:03:07 +0000

For me 13” Retina MBP circa 2013 was the pinnacle of form factor, price, & performance. Unfortunately they went out of support and employer forced us to upgrade with 15” Touch MBP. I don’t have any complaints about keyboard, guess I’m just lucky in that regards.

But new MacOS and hardware are frighteningly unstable. I have observed roughly 1 in 5 times that it’ll crash outright with blank screen when attached to external display. Resetting PRAM, & SMC work for a couple of days and then back to same behaviour. Apple Store had a quick look but stupid thing didn’t crash so they blamed it on faulty cables at work and home. How can a cable can cause it to crash even after disconnected?

Unless they up their game I’ll never spend my own money on another Mac.

New comment by princetman in "ArangoDB Receives $10M Series A Funding"

princetman — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:39:58 +0000

I wonder how would one douse investors concern of having Open Source product like ArangoDB, and AWS effectively eating their lunch if/when wide adoption comes?

Congratulations on the funding btw! I'm a happy and grateful user.

New comment by princetman in "ArangoDB Receives $10M Series A Funding"

princetman — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:05:06 +0000

I also feel managed service is quite critical offering they're missing right now. Considering recent AWS and Elastic debacle, market is going to be tough for Open Source products like ArangoDB.

UK tech firm Blippar collapses into administration

princetman — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 10:49:04 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46603085

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18705682

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Canadian Michael Spavor Missing in China

princetman — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 08:54:20 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-46548614

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18670878

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by princetman in "Google’s cloud business under Greene was plagued by internal clashes"

princetman — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:25:04 +0000

People underestimate Microsoft’s clout. Microsoft has massive enterprise distribution network[0] and “Microsoft Certified Partners”. Basically there are technical consultants who goes around recommending MS offerings to their clients while collecting commissions from MS. It worked for Office, Exchange, SQL Server, Sharepoint, and now it’s working for Azure as well.

Google Cloud is new vendor & it’s very unlikely that they’ll surpass MS anytime soon.

Microsoft collected $9.5 billion in Azure cloud revenue in 2018, vs. $1.6 billion for the comparable Google business, according to investment bank KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc. Next year, KeyBanc forecasts, it’ll be $15.1 billion for Microsoft, $3.2 billion for Google. Of course, in a market expected to top $40 billion next year, third place in the U.S. isn’t so bad. Still, “Google is way back,” says Brent Bracelin, an analyst at KeyBanc who co-authored the report. “They don’t have enterprise sales distribution,” he says. “That’s their big Achilles’ heel. Microsoft has a massive footprint there.”

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-13/google-ma...

New comment by princetman in "Google’s cloud business under Greene was plagued by internal clashes"

princetman — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 15:54:57 +0000

And she did deliver, a lot[0].

After Diane took over the reins, Google Cloud managed to get solid enterprise wins. 20th Century Fox, Colgate, Disney, eBay, HSBC, LATAM Airlines, LG CNS, The Home Depot, The New York Times, Schlumberger, Target and Verizon are some of the key enterprises using Google Cloud.

The most notable win for Google Cloud came from Twitter which has moved large-scale Hadoop clusters to GCP, with a total of about 300 PB of data migrated.

Netflix, a loyal AWS customer, is using Google Cloud Platform for disaster recovery and business continuity.

Google Cloud made impressive progress in establishing itself as an enterprise cloud platform.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2018/11/18/5-ways-...

New comment by princetman in "Google’s cloud business under Greene was plagued by internal clashes"

princetman — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 15:22:09 +0000

That’s a little harsh. I mean hindsight is always 20-20. Under her leadership Google Cloud did acquire big name customers. Google’s struggle to gain foothold in enterprises and reasons are well discussed on various HN threads over years. It’s a lot to expect from one executive to turn it around in face of fierce competition.

New comment by princetman in "The Google Cemetery – A list of dead Google products and why they died"

princetman — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 15:02:28 +0000

Not to my taste. I guess you must use some App to read the feed? I just launched home page on the phone and it’s far from ideal. Take a look at this screenshot. https://ibb.co/hwFJXA

Would love to know what’s your setup on the go.