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No worries! Thought so much but double checked the numbers just in case I had mixed something. :)

T3 RDS instances are not yet available anywhere (that I know of), only T2. T2 is not available in eu-north-1.

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/rds/mysql/pricing/

If you were running your databases on T2 instances on regions supporting it, migrating to the cheapest available RDS instance type in eu-north-1 would cost $0.374/hr on-demand. That's over 9 times more than the price of db.t2.micro in eu-west-1.

I can see various instance prices (EC2, RDS, Elasticsearch) being 5% cheaper in Stockholm than in Ireland.

However, eu-north-1 has very limited instance types available when compared to eu-west-1, which could make you pay up to 10x more in Stockholm if you have been comfortable using t2 RDS instances in Ireland for your (test or even production) environments.

Yes. And then there was 1 minute of the keynote shown with perhaps Chinese dubbing. Tim Cook has never sounded that feminine before.

Should anyone else find it useful, here's what I'm now using: http://zpr.io/HS5f

It detects new AWS security bulletin items and notifies you via Google Hangout.

Divide and conquer.

By making any success with its Android phones, Microsoft can achieve two goals:

- further fragment the Android platform making it more difficult for users to buy devices and for developers to support the various devices and

- benefit from Android's strong market position instead of only trying to create market for Windows phones in places where it doesn't fit

They've identified the greatest flaw in Android ecosystem and they're exploiting it in an attempt to make their own offering more attractive in the long run.

Great list of suggestions. While many of us on HN prefer Linux or OS X for any development work, it doesn't mean we don't at least occasionally work on Windows machines. Knowing how to make that experience more smooth definitely helps.

Going through the list of suggestions there was one particular item that stopped me to think. Living close to the arctic circle where sun never rises with the winter solstice approaching, trying F.lux (http://justgetflux.com/) felt at first a bit depressing with the app interpreting it's night even though it was noon. But then again, I guess most things have a tendency to feel depressing at this time of year.

I was surprised not to see Revel included in the round 7 results. You can filter results by it but nothing is shown.

This is significant because, on round 6, Revel was performing better than raw Go in at least some of the test scenarios, which is not something you can say about many frameworks.

Was there ever an explanation why Go without any frameworks was performing worse than Revel? Simply because not much effort had been put into optimizing the Go code?

Now, that doesn't say it's never uploaded to other servers than those of Apple's.

Cynicism at its new level but who can I really blame.

By giving exclusive rights for premium services, Disney and other studios have full control over the content. The worst that could happen is that the content would become commodity like news content on the web.

The more exclusive they make the content appear, more likely people will continue to pay for it (again and again).

Great answer.

Another important point is that - just like with gaming consoles - the money is not just in the hardware unit but in the app market. This gives Google yet another advantage when compared to other Android phone providers.

But I would go as far as saying that Google has had (and will have) only a limited stock on Nexus 4 just to make sure it isn't stepping on the toes of other manufacturers in the Android ecosystem.

They've made their point with Nexus 4 to make iPhone 5 look over-priced and lacking in many features (articles claiming innovation is happening elsewhere have been appearing all the time now). They've also stolen at least some of the thunder of Nokia's new Lumia 920, which has been selling surprisingly well if the first reports are correct.

So, what it seems to me is that Google has done a brilliant move: launch a product everyone is talking about instead of iPhone 5 and the Windows phones but keep the stocks small enough so that it won't really cannibalize its partners' market.