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Lol not sure if its good/bad news..

Can someone shed some light on how much it actually costs to run your own infrastructure? Say that I use 5 large instances of RDS database and then around 100 large EC2 instances along with ELB's. This will roughly cost around $1M a year with AWS. Will running your own infrastructure be costlier than this?

Totally agree on variable/function names, but for some reason I love complicated one liners. I know its wrong, but its my way of measuring how smart I really am(even though its not).

Interesting article. This is good, but for chat applications, I feel Lambda is exactly the technology to be not used unless you have deep pockets. The number of S3 PUT requests for caching chat messages will eventually grow high as the chat app scales.

This is hilarious

This truly opens up a world of possibilities. My only itch in the wound is the lock into Amazon linux compatible executables. If they can run exe's compiled on a Ubuntu box, that would be awesome!

Maybe Moore was short sighted.

" Since Amazon hasnt updated anything about their typography since 2009 I wouldn’t hold my breath."

That is actually not true - http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/01/bookerly_am...

Oh and this - "Speaking of highlights: Amazon has no graceful option to update books. Updating a book, in Amazon’s world, is the digital equivalent of handing you a new book, then burning your old one. Hope you didn’t have any notes or highlights in there." Hey that's actually not true. I beg the author to please provide examples and scenarios. Amazon goes to great lengths to not impact the reader by erasing their notes.

I really used to admire a girl at college a lot.. We had UNIX labs where you didn't have a GUI but just a Putty to a RHEL5 server in which each of us had an account. Once I was asked to help figure out the girl with something, and after doing it I just inserted this line into her .bashrc "echo "You are awesome!"". Everytime she logged in(we had two one hour sessions a week), she used to get that message.

There was also another guy I disliked and I just inserted "exit" into his .bashrc. Even the sysadmin couldn't figure out why his terminal was quitting as soon as it was opened and they finally had to delete his user account and then re-create it.

I basically started learning Vim because.. well it was a hipster thing. The first two years, I really did not know how to actually learn it. All I would do is enter insert mode, move around with arrows and ":wq". But then after 6 months, I started with basic commands, like "55gg" to move to the 55th line etc, "G" to the last line and "gg" to the first line. Then came buffers, I started opening multiple files and started using minibufexplorer(my entry point into plugins). This went on for another 6 months. Next came actions and boy oh boy, I became the hipster vim user in college. While editing CSV files(like deleting all instances of a particular row having text "abc"), I used Vim instead of awk/sed just because I wanted to learn more. Fast forward a year, I call myself a basic vimmer and superior to others at my workplace by just knowing search, moving around, actions, buffers, a cool autocomplete plugin and other plugins here and there.

Throughout the learning process one thing I observed was that, its just not enough to read about a cool article about Vim and leave it there. I would keep repeating the sequence of actions mentioned in the article atleast ten times every day and would find some usage for it during programming. I would intentionally force myself to use it, until at some point, the action I just learnt magically comes in as a replacement for a dumb action I was about to do. At that point I would know I've mastered it.

I am really amazed at the kind of things Amazon turns into a service. And this ML service is just wow'ing. I have fiddled with basic SVM's before, but this takes away the part of writing code and makes it sort of a end user product(you are still expected to know basics about ML). On the other hand, I also don't think this will take off very well. Maybe a few companies/startups who have cash in their pocket will use it/try it out, but the audience is really limited beyond that in my opinion.