RedSocks112

Even paying for Google Cloud is no guarantee of a reliable, robust service. Previous thread on this at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8784356

Meh. My application with paymill has been in the works for over a month now (following google wallet digital goods shut down). Requests for updates are ignored. Documentation isn't great. It is a shame as on paper they do seem quite good...

Google have some pretty good deprecation policies in place with regard to sunsetting their Cloud offering. I recall when I last looked (for appengine a couple of years ago) it equated to a promise to keep the service running for about 3 years. Doing a quick check of terms now, it seems like this has been updated to:

"Google will use commercially reasonable efforts to continue to operate those Services versions and features identified at https://cloud.google.com/terms/deprecation without these changes for at least one year after that announcement, unless (as Google determines in its reasonable good faith judgment):" https://cloud.google.com/terms/

Not great, but a year is a long enough time to migrate away. That being said, my recent experience (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8784356) has prompted me to migrate away asap.

Update: I attempted every contact avenue available to me and no one I spoke with (by email/contact forms and phone) seemed to know what was happening. I ended up compartmentalizing my accounts (so removed my personal id from each) and set up new billing accounts and had some moderate success. By moderate I mean:

1. I would get an email saying the restrictions had been lifted because no violations of t&c's had been found. 2. Low and behold all apps would be running again so I could re-set up paid accounts for appengine apps, etc. 3. About 3 hours would pass and I'd see that each app would again be suspended. A little while later I started hitting the free plan thresholds and was unable to do anything about it. I also couldn't contact customers as I had no access to data store.

This repeated for a few days and seems to have resolved itself. No explanations from Google. No apologies.

As a result I have absolutely zero confidence in their competence at supporting cloud based businesses and am currently working my ass off to migrate away.

That would be handy as it seems like it would get around some of the pretty big list of businesses stripe can't get involved in due to restrictions from their banking partners.

Paperwhites are not backlit.

"Paperwhite guides light toward the surface of the display with its built-in front light—unlike back-lit tablets that shine in your eyes—so you can read comfortably without eyestrain."

Source: http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Paperwhite-Ereader/dp/B00AWH595...

Illustration: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/12/26/technology/lig...

Agreed. This is terrible journalism - no differentiation between e-reader and what is essentially a reading application on a standard backlit tablet. It even goes on to say that non-backlit screens (i.e. Kindle e-readers) are fine and the same as a book.