raghavsethi

Athena (Presto) supports standard ANSI SQL - you can query data that's stored in S3.

Also, what exactly is a database traversal? Is it a random read benchmark? If so, what is the distribution - uniform, zipf, or something else?

If I may put a bit of a cultural spin on this, his comment sort of reflects the culture in India, where a vast majority of people do not feel comfortable simply asking for a raise. Most people (men and women) essentially follow the strategy that Nadella suggested, to work harder and believe that you will be rewarded for it eventually. I'm not in any way suggesting that this is an effective strategy (especially for women), but it might explain his comment somewhat. Great apology, though.

Great work guys! Looking forward to playing with this!

I'd been wondering why all the news suddenly dried up. Illuminating article.

Really excellent idea. Thanks for doing this.

That true. They could've simply linked to the IE9 download page.

But I think MS's algorithm would have de-ranked the site because any IR algorithm considers the content of the page too - if the web page served to IE users is about redirecting to browser download pages, their crawler (which may identify itself as IE) might not consider it to be the best result about 'Kogan'.

Really interesting viewpoint.

Definitely a good thing. Given the timing, I'd optimistically say that they might want Leap to be demoed or featured at the iPad 3 launch.

As an aside, you probably don't want to piss Apple off by asking HN about it in public!

That's not a bug at all, it's a feature.

How is Google supposed to track repeat visitors without any kind of state except IP? And IP is an awful variable for state because of NAT.

The heading is misleading and overly sensational.