* For Azure Virtual Machine instances in an availability set, there will be at least a 30-minute interval between each VM in an availability set (if they are in different update domains). Maintenance is scheduled to only impact one region at a single time in each regional pair. This enables you to deploy VMs across those regions to reduce the impact of the maintenance - Azure Maintenance notification
* The Azure Portal may be the biggest, most complex Single Page Application (SPA) in the world. The portal framework is built on TypeScript and Knockout.
* Stack Overflow’s architecture serves 200+ million HTTP requests with modest hardware. Azure hosted MSN.com serves upwards of a billion http requests a day
* The OneNote Clipper is a bookmarklet / browser extension that can capture an image of the entire web page or selected text from a web page. All clips include a link that lets you return to the original web site.
* In the coming years, machine learning will change the world—making computers exponentially smarter and helping companies cut costs, figure out where to invest and a whole lot more - Bloomberg
* The National Association of Fire Marshals also recommends that people avoid leaving devices unattended while they charge. The same rule applies to laptops and smartphones. Always charge them correctly, and unplug power cords when they are not in use - NY Times
* Millennials are more narcissistic, entitled, and self-indulgent than generations past...narcissism can be useful at times, research has linked narcissists’ sense of entitlement and belief that the rules don’t always apply to them to a range of counterproductive work behaviors, such as embezzlement, workplace incivility, bullying, and white-collar crime - HBR.org
* Great idea - Six Chix is a collaborative comic strip series drawn by six female cartoonists who rotate the drawing duties through the week based on a fixed schedule. Five months after the strip was launched, the six women met each other for the first time on May 27, 2000 at the National Cartoonists Society Reubens Dinner in New York. Six Chix was the brain child of the late Jay Kennedy who in 2000, when Six Chix was launched, was the editor-in-chief of King Features
* Only in India - Vijay Mallya, a Member of the Rajya Sabha (2002–2008, 2010 – present) or the upper house of the Parliament of India has been declared a ‘wilful defaulter’ by State Bank of India, a public sector bank (of which Government of India holds around 58.59% equity shares) for defaults on nearly Rs.7,000 crore loans to his long-grounded Kingfisher Airlines. IDBI (as on 31 March 2014, Government of India held 76.72% shares in IDBI Bank) extended loans to Mallya's Kingfisher & has ended up with bad debts of Rs 700 crore. Bank of India (government-owned since nationalisation in 1969) gave over Rs 300 crore after being pledged office stationary like boarding pass printers & folding chairs.
* Chutzpah: ‘mob frenzy behind madness’ - Sixteen years after they torched a bus and burnt to death three college girls while protesting the arrest of the then AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa, the convicts appealed to the Supreme Court on Friday to roll back their death penalty, saying murder committed during mob frenzy is not pre-meditated - The Hindu
* Belagavi in Karnataka, formerly known as Belgaum, was once a strategic British military post that kept an eye on the Portuguese in nearby Goa.
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