jeffbarr

> I hope Jeff Barr is reading this.

IAM.

Please feel free to track me down and email those use cases to me.

They have been private by default since the launch of S3 in 2006.

I am happy to share feedback with the Polly team! Can you be more specific about what you believe sounds bad?

Visit the EC2 pricing table at https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/ , choose the US East (Northern Virginia) Region, and you will find prices.

Interesting history!

As a left-hander fountain pens are more trouble and mess than they are worth. My handwriting sucks anyway.

My current favorite ballpoint is the Zebra F-701. I've replaced the ink several times and the pen is still as good as new. It has a nice solid feed and the knurled barrel is also good for small desktop sanding and grinding tasks :-).

I do my best to possess exactly one pen at a time, and do not have any spares laying around. This forces me to take care not to lose my trusty F-701.

We just gave Polly the ability to ensure that a given block of text is spoken within a specified period of time:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-polly-update-time-dr...

I am messaging the team to see how we might use this for the plugin.

Hmmm - cool idea, but definitely ambitious and re:Invent is almost here.

The plugin is open source and we welcome PRs at https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-polly-wordpress-plugin . Feel free to code something up and give it a try :-)

The audio is generated by Amazon Polly; see https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/give-your-wordpress-blog-a-... for more info!

I now use the audio version as a second form of proofreading, and find that it helps me to find places where my written transitions could be better.

I agree that there's room to make the contents of the table sound better, but I am not sure what direction this should go in. Suggestions are welcome!

Back in the 1980's, I took one of these chips and ran four copies of the same OS on it, using some virtual memory and driver magic. The full story can be found at http://jeff-barr.com/2008/01/08/inmsx-running-4-copies-of-an... .

As I noted in the blog post, the storage resides within the cluster. It is storing small values (log sequence numbers) so the space is used with great efficiency, but there is a finite limit. While I don't know the specifics, I would expect that the mapping (time to size) was chosen based on real-world historical data. Cause that's how we roll!

I wrote it, and great to hear! Did it make sense in the context of multiple uses for blockchain?

The man rumored to be John Titor is currently in jail for drugging and raping at least four women: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/10/post_37...

Happy to help - there are plenty of open positions on the AWS team!

We review and then approve all on-topic comments, but are working through a bit of a backlog this morning from what I understand.

I wrote it -- do I need to make a fix??

I'm alive and well! Due to the number of launches we have to pick and choose a subset for the main AWS Blog. Stay tuned for some cool stuff...

To infinity and beyond, obviously....

We push the blog posts out as soon as the announcement is made, and then go back and add links later.

Read the post!

Any time!

My Seattle neighborhood has over 30 Little Free Library (https://littlefreelibrary.org/) book exchanges. The owners tell me that they simply seed the exchanges with an initial collection of books and do little in the way of curation or maintenance after that.

I keep a printed list in outline form, edited and annotated as I make progress throughout the day. My list contains items as diverse as building mind maps and writing blog posts for re:Invent, flattening out some boxes in my recycling pile, updating my will, and adding final screen shots to those blog posts. So far so good.

The key to productivity for me is to make the actual act of checking something off of the list a cause for a tiny internal celebration. As I make that checkmark I make sure that I feel a sense of accomplishment. This might sound trivial, but it works!

More details in my blog post at https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-instances-wi...

Which one?

Can you test this on the production version? I know that many issues were addressed during the preview period.

As far as I know, none of my colleagues can golf. But I hear that we do have some nice courses.

Per the Terms & Conditions at https://aws.amazon.com/awscredits/ :

"Promotional Credit you receive is personal to you. You may not sell, license, rent, or otherwise transfer Promotional Credit. Promotional Credit may be applied only to your own account, and not any other account."

Ok, good start, but pretend that I am dense and give me a specific example along the lines of "The W console makes it hard to do X because it says Y. Why not say Z instead?" Vector values for W, X, Y, and Z are acceptable.

Any aspect in particular? I'm always happy to pass feedback along to the teams.