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The other day I was talking with someone here in Estonia who is working on a similar system that looks at real-world AWS usage and moves customer machines on to reserved instances, using a marketplace so customers don't have to take on the 12-month commitment of a "real" reserved instance.

It looks like a new wave of AI-enabled cost-cutting cloud startups is emerging. Exciting times!

Hmm it seems curious that this attack on a successful Ukrainian startup is happening at this time.

Could it be a Russian smear campaign? It seems like the sort of thing that the St Petersburg disinformation teams would attempt, in very subtle ways...

Yes here too, and I think it's great and it's the way forward, but as with anything it requires some changes in thinking and approach. Re-composing everything into small functions, queues, and asynchronous events takes some getting used to. And there are some patterns that can help (e.g. using "job queues" can sometimes be the answer, rather than having a different queue for every type of action), when to use FIFO vs unstructured queues, and lots more.

Books like https://www.manning.com/books/serverless-architectures-on-aw... might help. And of course many consultants, good and bad, will cash in on the new trend, and there will be some high-profile disasters which should never have chosen serverless in the first place.

As the articles say, he has been under investigation for a while for his bitcoin mining work (which as far as I can tell is not under dispute). The Australian government has decreed that all bitcoin "investments" should be taxed for capital gains [1] so he could be up for a huge tax bill on his paper "profits" even if he was just mining back in the early days.

[1] https://www.ato.gov.au/General/Gen/Tax-treatment-of-crypto-c...

fewer errors ;-)

Proving your point!

I know it's a bit OT but if anyone really does want to charge for offering skills in this way, you should check out a startup called www.minutebox.com which offers pay-by-the-minute video calls which are intended to work like this.

Props to these guys for doing it for free! I hope it works out for you.

umm... see that bit under the vote which says "xxx points"? That's how many many voted for that item!

Any word on when it will be available outside the US, particularly in the UK?

If you're still at Cal then you should talk to international house, they would know lots of good visa consultants etc -- but on the other hand they have to play by the book as they could jeopardize their entire visa sponsorship programme if they do anything wrong... so you won't learn any dirty tricks from them. But maybe you could get work as a tutor etc which would let you stay in the country..?

For some reason I thought of this post when I read this story, so I came back to post the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/20/ten-rules-for-wr...

It's about writing fiction, but I think we can learn a lot from people who spend years holed up in a loft with a laptop typing out tens of thousands of words that may or may not ever be seen by anyone.

One theme that resonated with me is that you should try to get to something you can vaguely call "finished" as soon as you can: have something on the page that you can then come back and edit, refactor, tinker with. Might help. Good luck.

http://www.geonames.org/ (download area at http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/)

Used as the placename source for http://www.dopplr.com among others.

HTH,

Brendan.