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Aaand it's back.

Specifically the revenue that won't come back once the website is back online.

I wonder how many millions of revenue Amazon loses per minute of downtime, specifically the revenue that won't come back once the website is back online.

I would take that number with a huge grain of salt, given China's past performance on honesty.

> Yeah, ebay has much better buyer protections unless the item is Fulfilled By Amazon (which carries a cost premium). eBay prices also tend to be better. If you're going to buy cheap chinese crap anyway, just cut out the middleman.

That's what I thought until I was scammed by a Chinese on eBay... after countless emails, calls, even police reports, eBay did not return the 800 dollars I lost... not sure if it's an isolated case but it was pretty frustrating.

He introduced me to the SV culture and compared it with Latin American culture (We're both Latin American). Gave me examples I could relate to and practical advice on how to work with Americans. Introduced me to a couple of lawyers and some other persons. Explained me my options regarding raising venture capital in the Valley (in the end I wasn't ready for raising).

I met the founder, Jorge Ribs, a couple of times. He gave me some of the best advices I've received about Silicon Valley. Great guy. I'm happy it's gaining traction!

> Gotta love JS community. It flip-flops on some major aspect of system design roughly every year, yet people continue to arrogantly spout their opinions about system design as if they had been correct about everything all along. Not "these are the benefits, these are downsides" not "I've improved in X by using Y", always "nobody needs X, everyone must do Y, and if you're not doing Z you're wrong and unprofessional". Zero self-awareness.

Gotta love HN community. It flip-flops on other's people opinions every day, yet people continue to arrogantly spout their opinions about those opinions as if they had been correct about them all along. Not "these are the benefits, these are downsides" not "I've improved in X by using Y", always "nobody needs X, everyone must do Y, and if you're not doing Z you're wrong and unprofessional". Zero self-awareness.

I actually loved Coda back in the day. One of my coworkers still uses it a lot, but his entire workfow depends on editing code on smallish production sites via (S)FTP. I find that approach fatally flawed for modern front-end and/or not-so-small projects. I really wouldn't go back from my Webpack + Production CI/CD to editing live websites. Many of the performance improvements needed to achieve very fast websites these days depend on tasks that belong more to the CI/CD than to your local development environment. For instance the generation of critical CSS and webpack's production build, which is slower if it includes the JS and CSS optimizations. Finally, a deterministic (or as much as possible) process to upload the changes to production. I find Sublime Text better as an editor for that kind of front-end workflow and there's quite some good extensions I've favored throughout the years that don't exist in Coda. I'm curious and optimistic about this new Panic editor, let's see how it goes!

I've also been waiting for Google Cloud Storage support for a long time. Please add it, Panic! That's the only thing I'm missing.

Smells bad to me. It could also be that Dropbox always kept the files and there's questionable government policies for doing so, and also that the bug isn't "ancient", just a normal bug from some weeks ago that brought back some files.

Clickbait title, not exactly what he said.

Agreed. Most of it are biased value judgments with little evidence. Still, the theses remain as interesting possibilities.

"From 4.5 B to Zero" a new book by Elizabeth Holmes. https://twitter.com/aficiomaquinas/status/738079483081547777

I made a Photoshop mockup of the "Zero to One" book: "$4.5 B to Zero" by Elizabeth Holmes. https://twitter.com/aficiomaquinas/status/738079483081547777