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... You have what is really just a webpage in a desktop container using 24gb?

Wat.

> Azure seems to be doing well and some people expect it to overtake AWS sooner rather than later in market share.

Source?

Edit: Sorry, that was lazy of me. Googled: https://mspoweruser.com/cio-surey-finds-microsoft-azure-will...

A bit of a biased source, "mspoweruser".

Read a bit more.. We'll have to see how the offerings change or evolve in the next 5 years.

Edit 2: https://rcpmag.com/articles/2016/08/02/microsoft-behind-aws-... AWS is still > 30% of the overall market, Azure hitting around ~9%.

I disagree. If you have something that is of significant value to the company, you need to hedge your risk. Automation is a particular hedge. People fail, and while processes do too, they often fail less.

Would you be comfortable moving something fragile by hand that is worth a lot of money? Maybe. Would you prefer if the fragile item being moved was done with an automated process that was shown to best protect fragile items? I would.

"I'm really sorry I caused that car accident." "That's okay, next time take Driver's Ed and don't drive on sidewalks." "Thanks, I'll make sure to do that... by the way, why can I even drive on the sidewalk in the first place? Why wasn't it required to take Driver's Ed?"

I'm very obviously using hyperbole here, but questioning a process, to me, often shows a level of maturity in engineering. It's not blame-shifting - you clearly still made the mistake - but it's fixing a root cause.

I do think it has to be brought up carefully and with the right tone at the right time though.

> "Oh wait, why sue Congress when you can simply vote them out of office?"

That can be radically difficult because of gerrymandering.

That aside, launching a public campaign, garnering votes, and voting on a _single issue_ is often the wrong way to elect a representative.

For instance, I think the 2nd amendment is actually a good idea to prevent invasion of a foreign force (an armed population is very hard to rule over). However, I pretty much never vote for candidates that support the 2nd amendment because they often also deny climate change, vote for private prison control, etc. I can't go with their whole platform. I don't want them representing me.

So in those cases, when you have one issue - especially when it's just part of a whole (e.g. just section 1201) - it seems like the right approach, especially when you think there's a piece of legislation (like the Constitution) that supersedes and invalidates the legislation you're looking at.

I was actually going to say I like the UI quite a bit at first glance. I haven't bit in yet, but overall I really dug the layout.

It feels like you may, in the longer-term, sacrifice different thinking for productivity. If I worked with the same team for years, unless we were some how really, really pushing ourselves as a group, I think I would miss out on whole worlds of approaches to problems.

Looks neat. It's a bummer that it's Mac-only

A dependency manager installed with a dependency manager to make the dependency manager faster.

Sheesh.

This is neat though. Not sure how I feel about the global packages. I feel like it's a strength to have libraries pulled down exclusively per-project.

This seems like a glorified recruiting post.

Additionally the title is "Working at Genius", not "How code reviews work at genius.com"

First, I appreciate this story, but it seems the author compares the build process of software to the production process of the car line.

It's comparing the build stage vs the literal produce-the-thing stage.

I also think the stoppage of the production line happens in software.

If my code breaks while in production, I grab as many log files and stats as I can, roll back the code, deploy, and then study exactly why everything failed, and if we recovered post rollback.

That seems like the similar case on the car production line - haul the faulty model aside (get the logs/metrics), figure out exactly what happened, fix it.

Who knows how the actual assembly line was put together. Maybe they iterated hundreds of times.

I don't expect my code to fail in production, otherwise I wouldn't have put it in production, but I understand it _may_ fail. That's why I put in logging and metrics collection, the same way those engineers hauled aside the car.

I see it as helping myself future-proof myself. If I know I have inherent risks as I age, or worse, genetic mutations that could passed to my children, personally it's worth the possible data abuse to me.

It would be very unfortunate if this turns into Gattaca though.

To me, that always smacks of profit margins that are so razor thin the business is having trouble staying afloat.

In this case it may just be poor wording. It doesn't say that they cared that they had to pay more, just that it was required to get people to work, which seems reasonable as you said.

Sounds like no one is happy then.

Could you design drones that have higher integrity because you don't need to have a conventional cockpit area?

The Rifter fleet is real.

So if I jump onto an unsecured hotspot, you're telling me 100% of my traffic is being routed through a Google proxy first? The same company that already has all of my email, docs, photos, and chats? I guess they already had my browsing history with Chrome, but wow... that's a lot.

Absolutely. It's a really hard problem. I think predicting the future data accurately is also really hard though, and I'm not sure how much value is there for end users. That said, I haven't built a successful company and they seem to know what they're doing.

I really wish they would invest in helping their users answer the "Why" question more. Why did users click that link 5000 times? Why is this funnel dropping off? Why did the time-to-first-interaction increase?

These are questions for the business, but I feel like Mixpanel could add so much more context. "We noticed that 'time to first interaction' has gone down with 'watched home page video'." That would at least be a clue.

MP has the data, but all of that analysis is manual (or was, last time I used it).

You're optimizing for growth, the article optimizes for happiness. Depends what you're looking for in life.

"I have JS and cookies disabled"

So imagine what bots often don't have.

Adding JS interaction and cookies takes more effort on the part of the programmer writing a bot.

So yeah, you'd look a lot more like a robot. How else would you quickly differentiate between human vs non-human based on a single request, or even a collection of requests over time? It's a game of stats at scale.

I think it's much more of a "I already write C#, so now I can write apps for other platforms without needing to learn their language!"

That leads to further evangelism at conferences, more talk about how C# is great and the platform is excellent, etc. I think they hope to persuade entire dev shops to switch over, rather than single devs, in a very long-term sort of way -- even if it's just a small percentage that change, the press is potentially worth it. MS has an image problem, and this would help mobilize their core to speak to more of the good parts.

Can you explain why you think so?

I believe they mean you write code in VS and target Android/iOS/etc for builds. It sounds like it's moving more towards a regular IDE than very .NET specific.

It does not sound like you can run VS on different devices.

If you sign in, under the "Settings" -> "Branded Short Domain" section, there are two links.

One says "Personal", and lets you continue along without pricing being mentioned.

Then there's a "Business" link that forces you talk with Bitly -- I'm assuming because you would have immediately been notified that it cost money.

You abused a service, and now you're upset because you can't scam them. Cool.

How is this different than Gojee? http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/21/recipe-finding-app-gojee-qu...

I literally can't think of a single reason why I'd use this... Maybe it's the Next Big Thing but what's the target market?

* Who is the customer?

* What is the pain point?

* How do you make money?

Except for all of those employers that want a CS degree that are writing web apps.

Then why do other engineering disciplines go onto practice in industry?

There should be computer science, and then there should be software engineering. One is in the sciences school, one is in an engineering school.

I bet the engineering enrollment would be significantly higher.

Bastion. Bastion is amazing.