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Bingo. They aren't paying advertised rates. Google will have margin but not as much as usual. Snap also has google by the balls here. What if snap comes out with a statement saying Gcp sucks and they're moving to aws?

Thinking he has early onset. From my medical opinion. Would explain how he can contradict himself in the same interview. All those years in NYC taking their toll.

That is my feeling as well. I walk past the Microsoft store and look at the slick surface hardware and daydream about it being a good device and me using it, then I remember the many years of windows pain that I suffered. I keep walking.

Are they really 1300/option? That'd mean you'd need a whole lotta cash to buy those.

Great to hear about the growth!

Edit: not trying to second guess you I'm more shocked that options that high exist. Seems like it'd be really tough for some employees to buy them.

Would love to see what others more experienced have to say. The two considerations I'd have myself are 1) do I have enough cash to actually buy those ($1300 is a steep strike price) and 2) is the company still growing fast and is that based on things I feel good about or hype.

I get the same feeling when I see him talk at his rallies.

Is it just me, or is it damn near impossible to not make fun of everything Trump does or says. Every time I see an article about him I feel like he's a real life Forest Gump. Hes just doing whatever, and no matter how dumb or idiotic it seems, it just works out for him.

I would have thought the same until stuxnet. Otners know the story better than I but if memory serves, the Iranian nuclear facilities had systems that were not connected to the internet compromised. No internet connection for sure reduces the risk, but for those looking to compromise a sub I don't think it's an insurmountable roadblock.

My daughter does the same. And I'm glad because she also likes my little ponies, and for some reason there are a lot of adult my little pony spinoff videos. I saw her watching one where the ponies were making out (restricted mode on). So opening gift videos are awesome!

I think the world would be a much better place if we exchanged "everyone learns to code" with "everyone learns safe and secure computer practices". That doesn't have the same ring to it but it's more important. Let's learn now to not open malware attachments before learning an if loop.

There's always the simpler explanation to why Google is getting traction:

- Price/performance is better in some/many cases for VMs

- It's easy(ier?) to use

- Clear technical advantage with some of their other services e.g. Load balancers

- Customers prefer when there are multiple companies competing for their business

I get that there are long-term strategies that involve the likes of container services. But just the fact that they are better in some areas will help them get traction. Plus they have a fantastic brand name.

I'm curious how you would use this. What files would you share and with who?

I'm so used to sharing via cloud services and chat apps that I really don't know who or what I'd use this with. Just curious what situations this would come in handy for you.

Interesting points. Can you expand on your last sentence? What part is being killed?

Thanks for the recommendations! I will investigate further. I'm amazed at how powerful these activities can be. And I'm glad that I gave them a chance. It is really easy to be dismissive of stuff like this. Having an open mind, giving them a chance, has made a world of difference for me.

Going through hard times, and seeing how fragile mental wellbeing can be, has given me a great appreciation for the work that these doctors are doing. I'm grateful you took the time to share.

I've been going through challenging times and have been confronted with somethings I've never had to deal with before. There are a couple of things that trigger anxiety in me on a daily basis now. I wake up in the middle of the night with little anxiety episodes. I'm unfocused at work because of what feels like underlying emotional issues.

The only thing that's helped (I am trying to fix without medication) are the tools from HeartMath. Their "Transforming Stress" book has been a god send. It's not a get well fast type thing, but I've been practicing the sessions daily for a month now and am in much better control of my stress and anxiety.

I have practiced Tai Chi, meditation, and visualization via NLP techniques in the past. I'm not a novice when it comes to the types of techniques that HeartMath teaches. However, the way theirs are structured are the most effective I've found for dealing with these issues.

If you're going through hard times I highly recommend using their tools.

This approach makes a lot of sense. The only other scenario where I think it makes to go microservice is when development progress is impacted by organizational structure. That seems to be a huge reason why corps like amazon broke things down into microservice teams; so productivity could stay high in extremely complex and high headcount environments.

That's a best case scenario. What it could do is make military intervention an even easier decision. The loss of human life is a deterrent to engaging in war. If one side isn't concerned about that, wouldn't they be more inclined to go to war?

If we all acted like that then maybe companies wouldn't try to pull those stunts. Bravo to you.

Taken alone it could be viewed as light hearted. Taken in the context of their past behavior it's another example of arrogance. Look at what Ballmer said about Google and Eric Sshmidt in the early days. Look at their complete mismanagement of mobile. They always believed they could just swoop in and win the market. How else can you explain the many years after iPhone was launched for them to launch a competitive mobile OS. I would call their approach to mobile an embarrassment. How could the worlds largest software company release such crap for so long? How could they go to market with a confusing array of mobile options (looking at you RT)? They thought they could win just because of past performance, and thus had no sense of urgency or humility, and that is why I think this is arrogant.

Does it do the same thing in Android? I'm on iOS and I still have a choice. There's a million popups, but I have a choice.

Excellent point. That's the heart of the issue. Changing the terms of the relationship after they've been established. Great way to ruin trust.

The perception of MSFT in the IT Industy has been improving. Seems like it has been largely due to their open source and innovation activities.

I have recently competed against MSFT in the field. And I can assure you they are up to their old dirt bag tricks. The one I disliked the most was modifying customer contracts to inflate sales numbers of some of their products.

When I see news like this I'm not surprised.

Their moves don't seem genuine. Just some PR plan. Putting lipstick on a pig.

This is the most concerning thing to me. The Multi-AZ, redundant setup is worthless if the ELB can't do its job properly. I've seen some funky behavior from the ELBs when it comes to instance state. They really need to make this better.

That's interesting. Is it an Australian regulation? Curious that they'd make it in such a way that the data had to reside in the same building/zone.

I realize that some systems may need to have all of their servers located close together in a single AZ. But barring that, if this took you offline, you should really consider spreading your instances across AZs. It's so easy there's no excuse not to do it.

Another thing to look into is EC2 Auto Recovery [1]. I don't know if this would've kicked in with today's event, but it's worth setting up as an extra safety net.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-auto-recovery-for-amazo...

edit: I'm basing this off the status page which indicated that only one AZ was impacted.

What do you mean by "Customer base mostly mid tier and less savy ecommerce customers, read: future Amazon victims"?

I do some coding but not as a full time job. And I have to admit that when I think of AI replacing a coder's job it seems so far off. Maybe it's because I'm in the thick of it and can't see the forest for the trees.

When this comes up I often wonder what part is AI going to replace? Will it:

1) Assess a business opportunity, design, and develop, deploy, and operate an entire technology solution?

2) If not that, will it pick up at some part of the value chain above and be able to figure out how to do the rest?

It seems more likely to me that the tooling for workers in this value chain will get more advanced. Some of that might include some computer intelligence that is able to perform some tasks on its own.