Can you give any specifics on this?
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AWS Shield Advanced actually offers DDoS cost protection to mitigate this specific risk: https://aws.amazon.com/shield/features/
To hunker down is to take a squat or crouch down on your heels. If I recall correctly, it comes from a similar root as 'haunches'.
'Bunker down' makes sense as an eggcorn, but I find it much less romantic somehow.
I was finding that a life of travel, hobbies, and low responsibility was becoming more hollow to me.
And the world is a tough place, but it always has been and always will be. I just didn't think that allowed me to absolve myself of responsibility in making it better and doing what a saw was my duty.
Also kids are pretty cool. They're like little acid trippers. I didn't want to miss out on the chance to have that experience.
On putting your foot down - some bosses react really badly to that. I choose not to work for bosses like that anymore, but I'm in a position where I can do that. Not everyone is, though.
I had a kid recently and the entire process of labour was free. We even stayed an extra couple of nights. We had a midwife with us the whole way through the pregnancy, and we still didn't pay a cent.
As for leave, I got six weeks at full pay; my partner gets a year (approx 60% at full time pay, 30% at minimum wage, 10% unpaid - that's how she organised it).
They are also the best at running meetings. They never let a meeting end without clear actions and owners. It's quite impressive to watch - I didn't realise how much skill there was in running meetings until I saw one of these folks run a few.
They're the kind of thing I used to bookmark, thinking that I'd come back to it at some point when I wanted to learn more about X (containers, networking, etc), but I'd never return.
I think the problem is that lists like this _feel_ good but aren't useful. They feel good to write and good to read, because you feel productive. But they don't actually fit into any flow - a learning flow, a problem-solving flow. They're just productivity porn.
As others have said, it's definitely a 'softening' of a request to make it more polite ('Go home' vs 'Would it be possible for you to go home?').
But I think there are some status games going on here, too. A subordinate would never use that phrasing with a superior.
While the phrase uses conditional language to 'soften' the request, it's also an imperative (an order) that's made to look like a request.
Try to imagine the boss saying this. How would they have said it - with an upward inflection at the end, as in a question like this one? Definitely not! The phrase would definitely end on a downward inflection, as in an order like 'Please go home'.
It's a curious turn of phrase that I'd suggest is particular to managers, parents, and other authority figures that need to maintain a veneer of respect for their subordinates. It also strikes me as uniquely American; I couldn't imagine a Brit or an Australian saying something like this (but happy to be corrected).
[0] "You pay for all bandwidth into and out of Amazon S3, except for the following: Data transferred in from the internet..." - https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
But if I had to make an a priori prediction about which systems would have the better reliability over the long term - cloud-based or those run out of a corporate DC - my money would be on the cloud-based systems.
The cloud providers are going to have better management of power/network/hardware than the most mature government agency, simply because it's a core capability for them.
Adding to this: just browser tabs themselves were a 10x improvement for me. I had actually forgotten what the world was like before tabs - a whole lot of unsortable windows, and a lot of clicks of the back button.
It was a godsend to be able to open new links in a tab, and to be able to see those tabs organised neatly in front of you.
It's incredibly frustrating when the front door to the internet doesn't actually do the one thing it's supposed to do.
>> An average German sentence is probably 2 or 3 times longer than an English one, I think this has more to do with the users of the language than the language itself, if true it means we can make English pack more punch we just have to change our perspective.
Grammatically speaking, this should be three separate sentences. Your commas should be full stops because they represent three separate thoughts. You could connect them with 'and', but I'd suggest most native speakers would find this unpleasant to read.
I don't want to make it sound like I'm not a fan of long sentences - I think fiction writing benefits from a varied cadence. For business writing, however, I think short- or medium-sized sentences are less intrusive to the average reader.
AWS's release cadence is absolutely crazy - I can barely keep up with all the new releases. Are you planning on supporting all AWS services? If so, how are you planning on keeping up?
I hope more people begin to follow this mindset than the vapid, soulless Tim Ferris approach.