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Tried this out in early access and wanted to love and use it however a few things that made it not workable:

* wildcard subdomains aren't supported.

* Only CNAMEs to digital ocean's CDN are supported (can't have an A record).

* There was no way to run a console command.

* Bandwidth is 12x higher than usual droplets and unlike standard droplets there isn't an included bandwidth pool.

Les Landes?

While we're all here talking about databases I've got a question for the DBA/well versed software engineers.

What database or database design strategies to be used for an analytics dashboard that can be queries real-time similar to Google Analytics?

The first real scaling issue I've come across (as a junior dev working on a side project) is a table with 38 million rows and rapidly growing.

Short of just adding indexes and more RAM to the problem, is there another way to design such a table to be effectively queried for Counts and Group Bys over a date range?

Iimagine things can't really be pre-comuted too easily due to the different filters?

Right now in order to charge USD (not the local currency), we have to give up 2% of total revenues to Stripe (or your local issuing bank) every month.

Is any progress underway to allow merchants to deposit funds to a USD account outside of the US?

No problem with companies putting something on sale.

One of their values is that:

"We know that our business activity—from lighting stores to dyeing shirts—is part of the problem. We work steadily to change our business practices and share what we’ve learned. But we recognize that this is not enough. We seek not only to do less harm, but more good."

Running sales, just generates more impulse purchases and consumerism. If the products they make are truly the best that they can, they wouldn't have the need to clear out stock on a regular basis and to make way for new styles being made all the time.

Furthermore, they love to plaster their branding all over the "Big Oil, Don't Surf" campaigns (of which I do think is a good cause), but it's a little hypocritic when the surf industry wouldn't exist without oil, not to mention that their own wetsuits contain synthetic rubber (derived from oil).

Is Patagonia's marketing at heart not Greenwashing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwashing) ?

I get that they source materials ethically and do things way better than 90% of other clothing companies.

Surely if they truly wanted to minimise their impact on the planet, they would rid their stores of sales and cut back on the amount of new styles/designs that they release.

Where I live there are around 3 patagonia outlets that are always promoting sales of up to 80% off, and that just seems so off compared to what they claim to stand for.

I remember a few years ago seeing the writer of https://thesizzle.com.au pop up in a forum asking for anywhere online where he could make small (sub $1 transactions ideally cent transactions.

I had a hunch it'd be for something to do with points.

Then this story popped up a little while later:

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/nab-shuts-down...

Anywhere in particular you would recommend exploring for a future visit?

I was there for two days earlier this year and felt like I just scratched the surface.

One nice thing about going everywhere with a backpack is I'm used to having earbuds with me.

For anyone else that doesn't want to carry a backpack, a set of earplugs fits great in the coin pouch of a wallet, or attached as a keychain.

Do you mind sharing what role/salary you were offered in Dublin?

I was offered 35k for a junior role, but declined it as that seemed pretty low (especially taking into account housing difficulties there).

Might just leave this here for others to read a bit more about South Bank and the risk it faces: http://www.llsb.com/theproject/

Just curious what nutritional value beyond a large amount of carbohydrates do potatoes and rice have?

To any structural engineers, what kind of tolerance are buildings like this usually built to?

How much movement can they take? 2mm doesn't seem like much at all.

Managed databases? Is this a private beta?

Any chance you've got an open source version of this script that you could share?

Likewise, the NBN (national broadband network) in Australia was a disaster.

Pin Payments for a local solution or Braintree?

It was possible, using one off charges with a webhook.

Curious, can you share what your hobbies/projects for this year are?

Got to Berlin. Just about every club bans all forms of photography and many put a sticker on your phone's cameras when entering.

In Australia we've got https://www.choice.com.au/ that provide in depth product/service comparisons and also advocate a lot on behalf of consumers with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

They're also independant and I trust that they don't have any ulterior motives.

Self promotion. It's on the outside of the car and may prompt others to glance/notice it and be intrigued by it.

A pretty low cost for the amount of 'increased' perception of value.

From who I've spoken to, depending on the company entry level is between 50k and 80k for a junior level software engineering role.

Until you hit the banlieues Paris feels extremely claustrophobic compared to say Auckland or Melbourne.

If I'm not mistaken, the person that you're responding to is from Australia and lives in one of the cities where Ford closed their factory :)

Not steel, but rather an Aluminium Smelter and Mill.

Also, just down the road its accompanying power plant/coal mine:

http://www.alcoa.com/australia/en/point-henry/default.asp

he also seems to be doing a lot of speaking gigs around the world lately.

I was on the tube in London and saw ads to sign-up for Disney's on demand app with their entire library, is that the same thing or something else?

You might find the value proposition a bit different where governments pay for student tuition.

The whole Waymo thing seems like quite a big crisis as well.