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There is this joke in Europe...

What do you call a person that speaks 2 languages? A bilingual.

What do you call a person that speaks 3 languages? A trilingual.

What do you call a person that speaks 1 language? An American.


This! Google is beating the drum about RCS, but Google Voice, their own service, does NOT support RCS.


One thing that I would find cool as a follow-up to this article would be something like a decision tree (I understand it would get very complicated, very fast, but it should be fun): I, as a developer, am using AWS/Azure and I need features X,Y,Z, tell me which database I should pick.

Probably even better if it were a model trained extensively on the documentation / features of each individual database and it would also give references to the answer (see how Bing does it).


There's a big difference between wire and syntax compatibility. This compatibility matrix does a nice job of showing the differences between vendors. But yeah, purpose-built databases have a place.


Many decision trees I've seen when NoSQL purpose-built were becoming popular are obsolete now that the main SQL databases have structures, APIs and optimisations for non-relational models: JSONB, Text Search, Timeseries, Documents... Today, the differentiator on architecture goals: converged database vs. multiple services


I am using the USB-C 4K with an M1 Mac Pro (Pro CPU), driving 24k@60Hz (via DP) and 14k@30Hz (via HDMI): https://plugable.com/collections/docking-stations/3x-display...


The service is free (you need Microsoft E3/E5 license), you just pay for the VMs, which you can customize any way you want.


Not sure why this is news - Amazon is the first company to embrace a hybrid work environment, way before the pandemic... Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday - work from the office. Saturday and Sunday - work from home.


It may be a joke, but this kind of treating employees made it harder and harder for them to justify going through the pain of relocating close to an office with huge property prices around it.


Ex-Amazon here. The joke hits too close to be funny. Plenty of people would also do on-call or other work from home in the evenings or early mornings.


I see what you did there. It hurts because it’s true.


Well now alexa can be supervising them and ensure they stick to their 12 hours of work schedule


Amazon is also really great at creating a shared company culture: their engineers now pee in plastic bottles


At least credit Blind ;)



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A light take on the subject can be found in Logicomix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logicomix - a cool blend between the dry topic and comics.


Thanks for the recommendation. I found it on scribd if anyone is interested: https://www.scribd.com/document/98921232/Bertrand-Russell-Lo...


NPR's Planet Money also had an episode on this recently: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/02/01/512921756/episo...


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