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IMO, they probably didn't want to be cloud vendor agnostic. They really wanted to be /video encoding/ vendor agnostic.

What if Enron or Lehman Brothers utterly fail? What about taxes on stock gains?

I think property taxes in US already vary a lot from state to state. It certainly vary also from country to country. It's something you need to be aware to take a decision on whether it's a good investment or not.

Ultimately, all these costs are also embedded into renting price.

Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, HP and many others would certainly not agree with you. They cook their own food, own lot of real estate and I am pretty sure they don't think it's time they lost.

These big companies do not manage one single house (office). They manage a real estate portfolio. Most of big companies have a mix of rented and acquired office space. Ultimately, owning real estate or not is an investment decision.

Some big companies, like HP recently, went from owning most of its real estate to sell large chunk of it ... Reason is to get some cash flow and to rationalise some expenses. But not because someone else could manage better their real estate.

so as a society, it would be better to have a handful of house owners collecting the rent of everyone else? Is that a good allocation to you?

negative ROI on investment is the risk component of your investment. This is true of any investment. Stock being certainly higher risks than housing and still people invest a lot in stocks.

But I should have said renting is a sunk cost. There is no investment component at all in renting.

You still need to rent something for you and your family. It's almost a fixed cost in your life. In any case, it's better to turn that fixed cost into an investment. It's hard to believe you'll ever get your equation right. Even more when you weight investment risks and actual average ROI over 25-30 years in stocks.

It's an interesting article. I'm from Belgium, one of the highest house owners countries. Even though it's true it's a life-long debt and it might be risky (in case of crisis), housing is still considered as a Long Term Investment so that you can pass that investment to your children (after heavy tax deduction :)). I find interesting the article does not mention who actually owns all these houses and who benefits in the long term. After all, renting has a guaranteed zero ROI.

Also, recently, I've been looking at housing market in Munich and it's very very expensive. Renting is ~20% more expensive than in Brussels and acquisition is +100% more expensive. So, although I admit I do not know rest of Germany housing market, I have some troubles thinking why Munich would be more expensive than Brussels. And I certainly miss, from that perspective, why German system would be more interesting.

Actually, to the contrary. It's all about SDN.

It provides open interfaces to interact with the switch through several means like OVSDB, REST API ... or CLI. OpenFlow is not supported yet although will be in near future.

Since it's open source, it also gives you the opportunity to run other agents in the switch control plane ... which is hardly possible with IOS or JunOS.

And here is the recently announced partnership between HP and Pica8. PicOS is certified to run on HP Altoline switches.

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/pica8s-white-box-os...

Memristor does not seem to be normal neither. Is there any on the market?

This is a very competitive and huge market. Lot of companies running to obtain the next disruptive tehcnology/product. No one is really ahead of the others for now. So I guess it will be difficult to have any good tech reports without any marketing touch in it :)

Memristor do no computation at all. It follows the same idea as the described RRAM. High density, low cost, persistent, low power consumption, high write/read throughput, low latency. To the exception that it could even replace RAM, not only nand devices. I don't remember of the top of my head reading performance but it was clearly closer to RAM levels.

Do you have the reference?

I think it's actually one of the point he made ... nobody teaches students "how to learn".

It might be good adding this to their courses. (And before reaching University would be even better. :))

/Redde Caesari quae sunt Caesaris/ ... you're right!

Gladwell widespread the idea to the public though.

And Norvig made usage of this meme for the programming field in a short summary.

probably not the sentence I would remember, nor the summary of it all.

What did he try to achieve? Proving you can accelerate the learning process and he did so by example with a MIT graduate level. Even though, it's from MIT, it is a graduate level, nothing more ...

I think the described method is interesting for acceleration or in lean terms, reducing any waste, or even optimizing the learning process. Pick one ...

BTW, 10.000 hours is not from Norvig but from Gladwell, "Outliers".

Portugal has decriminalized more than marijuana. They decriminalized "hard drugs" too like cocaine and heroin for example. Yet, in a few years, backed by some additional health policies related to drugs, they saw all metrics used to monitor drug usage improving a lot.

Here is a small article from Time about this counterintuitive, yet very interesting, "experiment" : http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,00.ht...

mv is relying on operation "similar" to rename() defined by POSIX which specifies that it should be atomic.

So, the assumption "On Unix, mv is atomic operation" is not true. If your underlying FS is fully POSIX-compliant, mv will be an atomic operation.

I think it's important to stress it because there are some distributed FS that might even try to be POSIX-compliant but which are not guaranteeing atomic rename's and therefore this trick would not work well.

In case, you had a new idea. Would you try to get the MVP before writing the first line of code? If yes, could you explain us how and why?

What are the main strengths / advantages of Lean Startup?

Could you foresee some limits of this methodology? If yes, what are they?

Do you have an idea of how many companies have adopted this methodology?

Did he measure, at IMVU, the real gain between first methodology they were using and Lean Startup model they implemented?

In a few words, how would you define Lean Startup? And main differences with others?

Any thought on whether Lean Startup could take part in recover from US economic crisis?

To what extent this methodology could scale? iow, is it really only for startups?