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Yeah, it may seem high, but at the same time a lot of the content is still content he created. In that context, I think the number is reasonable. We use it as a huge part of the our home schooling at the house.

Time to get the "they're stealing our jobs" crowd out in the fields picking.

I remember those days. The age of "shareware". I made a good side income in the late 90s writing software utilities in Delphi.

I do miss the days of a good visual IDE.

Florida made $77 million in 2017 alone in selling its DMV data to bill collectors, data brokers, marketing firms, and insurance companies.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90376510/floridas-dmv-is-selling...

You want to send something sensitive, mail a letter. In the US, the protections on ease dropping on physical mail is quite good. Requires an actual warrant in an actual court, unlike most electronic communications.

Otherwise, assume your communications are being collected and perused.

I love to watch the shrinkage of ice cream. Over the past 10 years, the standard packaging of ice cream has gone from 1/2 gallon (1.9 L) to where they are currently at 1.4 L, with prices staying relatively the same.

This was devised by Amazon in 2005. They called it OpenSearch (http://www.opensearch.org/) Basically it was a standard way to expose your own search engine on your site. It made it is to programmatically search a bunch of individual sites.

That was not a bad thing. It was curated. Most of the crap never made it in the directory precisely because humans made decisions about what got in. If you wanted in the directory faster, you could pay a fee to get to the front of the queue. The result is that Yahoo could hire people to process the queue and make money without ads.

To this day, HomeSite was my favorite HTML editor. The Allaire ColdFusion Studio variant, my favorite IDE for a language. Everything went downhill when Macromedia purchased Allaire, and we got Dreamweaver.

Yeah, the whole affair was about Barcelona getting a cut of the money from Sagrada Familia.

> Barcelona officials said the city will be paid 4.6 million euros ($5.2 million) in fees under an agreement negotiated with a foundation devoted to completing and preserving La Sagrada Familia.

Local radio stations of my childhood did one thing that no streaming service could provide... community. Not the "fake" online community crap. You got the news of your community. You learned the away high school basketball game had been rescheduled. You learned about crimes that may have happened in your community. It helped get local news out in a town that had a weekly newspaper. You got to hear fascinating stories from old timers in your community. Oh and there was music thrown in for good measure :)

Nailed it :)

And a lot of the time they leave University with a BS in Computer Science and can't find (code) their way out of a paper bag.

I am not disagreeing with you that it is easier than deploying your own infrastructure. .. But, again back to my original point, lamda functions are not anything new. They are simply an http app that is "typically" responding to a single route. The API gateway is simply a configured proxy routing the "public" routes to your various "functions".

All the parts are easily replaced or scaled however you see fit. Your function can be in any language that can respond to http on any platform you want. You can put whatever proxy you want in front to define your routes. You can get as simple or complicated as you want.

Serverless is not serverless, you are just abstracted away from it.

[EDIT] I would add that personally I would spin you a cluster of Flynn on Digital Ocean :)

Again each piece you have named can be done in an "older" tech which was the original point of this thread. Every few years the tech industry reinvents the same tech and a new generation of developers think mana has fallen from heaven, when in truth it is the same as the last round with new buzzwords attached.

Apples to Apples. Your 20 EC2 instances are just 20 VPS at any VPS provider located geographically where you want to deploy them. Also with a script. You still have not gained anything from your vendor lock-in. IaaS has been around since the 90s.

More like learning to use a slide rule :) You still have to learn how to setup a load balancer (API Gateway), firewall (IAM, API Gateway), Server Config (CloudFormation, API Gateway, S3, etc) and so on. And those are Vendor specific. Move to Azure or GC and you have a whole new set of "serverless" servers to learn to configure. About the only thing you have really given up is knowing where your machines are physically.

Problem is that these young whippersnappers don't even realize that there is nothing "new" about this tech stack. You can recreate the new sexy with 30 year old tech. You are talking about a load balancer that is redirecting requests to individual cgi-scripts based on the url. They have just given up knowing how to setup and configure physical servers.

They are good for plain text emails, since a lot of email systems mangle plain text emails at ~ col 72.

DuckDuckGo has become the search engine of choice. Again I agree that HN is the type of audience that will skew the results, but personally I have DDG a more than capable search engine.

The package delivery business side of the USPS is a profitable venture. The USPS is in the state it is in not because of Amazon or last mile delivery that is doing for other businesses. The core problem is Congress and the requirement they put is the USPS that they prefund 75 years of pensions. A requirement placed on no other institutions in the US.

Just like India does.

If you know RoR, then use RoR. You should pick the stack that you are comfortable with and can produce good code quickly.

I am not aware of any "frameworks" for this. However, the bulk of your CSS can be classless. The really tricky part is grids. You will in all likelihood have to use classes for that.

Yeah DuckDuckGo is awesome. I have been using them exclusively for the past couple of months for search. In that time I have found their results as good as Google's results for the topics I cluster around.

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS Feed" href="http://feeds.abcnews.com/abcnews/topstories" />

I use to work at a small health insurance company with a tech staff of 10 people. 1 persons entire job was to essentially managing the tape backups and getting them sent/picked up from offsite storage. This was a senior network administrator.

I learned in the late 90s that the best fit for myself was to hop and hop often. I tended to stay with a company for about 12-18 months and would use each hop to increase my salary. Among my friends, the basic catch phrase was "want a 10k pay raise, get another job". This worked well on 2 fronts, your pay kept going up, and you tended to stay at the firm long enough to extract any real value to yourself in terms of interesting projects, learning a new industry etc. That just made you more attractive to the next company.

One more quick point. US banks would love to have all that cash repatriated. It for every $1 that Apple et al. deposits into their bank they create $10 of new currency that they can loan out.

Would the repatriation mean more US jobs as a result? Doubtful. Apple, et al. would not suddenly do on a hiring binge. They would also not suddenly start paying their employees more or provide better benefits.

This is a red herring that politicians love to try and justify huge tax rate cuts for businesses that are unnecessary but provide a good sound bite. Tax rate cuts that they already enjoy because the US government allows them to stash the cash overseas already to avoid the taxes.

A US citizen is forced to pay income tax on all income worldwide. Live in France, pay French taxes and US income tax on income over $72,000. And you only get the $72k break if you are in the country less than 30 days in a calendar year.

US corporations, on the other hand, can stash all overseas earning overseas to reduce their tax liability. Most US corporations already pay a lower effective tax rate than most US citizens.