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I haven't used Atlas but I recall in 2013 mLab being a pretty solid experience. A lot of great features for a reasonable price.

Anyone have an idea at what market share looks like for for MongoDB hosting these days?

As an aside I recall Rackspace buying ObjectRocket when it when on it's SaaS / PaaS buying spree in 2013. Did RAX ever spin it off?

Almost exact same setup for me GA-P35 + Snow Leopard running tri-boot (Linux, Windows, OSX). I reclaimed the OSX disk as a data-only partition as it became seriously unmaintainable in 10.7. FWIW I've not had any issues upgrading Linux or Windows at major releases.

Depends on the type of checklist.

If it's something like a grocery list, etc I tend to use Google Keep.

If it's code specific then one of GitHub's project boards.

If it's going to require managing a team, keeping up on tasks, generating productivity reports and something akin to virtual scrum / kanban / post-it's on a daily, weekly or monthly basis BusinessDay [1]. I chose it because of recurring tasks, aging of cards and private lists.

This goes into the process behind it [2]

[1] https://blog.businessday.io/

[2] https://blog.businessday.io/2016/09/04/quick-start-for-accou...

In production (sarcasm).

Hmm, at one point wasn't there a tight integration between Koding and GitLab? Or at least an attempt to make the tools more cooperative?

In fact a Koding acquisition by GitLab seemed like a no brainer.

FWIW ~2012-2013 there was Cloud9, Koding and Nitrous. Now that Nitrous is defunct and Cloud9 was acquired I'm not sure what fills the void.

Put differently is there a void to fill? Is there an actual demand for web IDE's? Or is this just bling?

Can you link to your Upwork profile?

Have you tried https://www.gun.io/ ?

StumbleUpon was "unique" in the aughties sense of the word. Before Reddit and Digg made things Hot or Not this was the place to go for interesting content. It wasn't loud or or overly verbose; it sent you to great sites before SEO and paid media killed content.

Maybe I'm just waxing nostalgic on the implementation as well as the time. IDK.

I hope Garret, Ali and the team at Mix do great things.

Many thanks to Graham!

search.cpan.org was invaluable during my college senior projects in 2002 and much more so in my first gig. Back then I couldn't imagine being a Perl dev without it.

FWIW I can't imagine a better way to transition a project. Kudos to the MetaCPAN team!

All great suggestions.

I'd also like to add Janet Lansbury [1] as a great resource

[1] http://www.janetlansbury.com/

Uncanny

http://take.ms/ch1TN

A single and solemn wave goodbye.

I remember my Voodoo3 quite fondly. There was quite a performance boost in games based on the Quake engine. I also recall their being poor Linux driver support until 2005 or so.

My Voodoo3 ran right up through CS v1.6 (albeit struggling at times). A new system I built in 2005 used 2x BFG 6800s in SLI (3dfx tech nvidia inherited). While impressive I seem to recall their being some variation in nvidia's SLI spec/implementation. Perhaps 3dfx SLI performance was seemingly better because of Glide support but my memory escapes me (obviously not an apples to apples comparison).

FWIW, there was also a huge aftermarket of Voodoo cards on eBay (1999-2004) and a decent community providing 3rd party driver support.

Upwork can be a stepping stone for talented developers who don't necessarily have the exposure, community or connections and may not have the accessibility to compete in other market places like Toptal.

In my experience Upwork support has always been slow and cut-rate. I realize the irony as Upwork most likely employs contractors from its platform who aren't necessarily invested in building a product or community. It's unfortunate but this is a huge shortcoming both from a support and policy (ToS) standpoint. Support needs to be invested in the product.

FWIW no freelancer (or gig economy worker for that manner) should be dependent on a single platform for income. There are so many job platforms to invest time and energy on - Upwork, Toptal, Gun.io, RemoteOk, etc. And the plethora of developer focused Q&A sites. Leverage those to augment your personal profile (site).

The (original) iPad I received as an Xmas gift in 2010 is still alive and kicking. In fact it is the most robust piece of ("mobile") hardware I've owned since 2010; outlasting various iPhones, Nexus devices, laptops and other electronic devices which have been purchased or received as gifts.

Then again it's only used to stream movies, read news and light browser based activities. Amazingly and to the delight of the kids most games are still playable.

The only other portable electronic devices I own with similar resilience are the original Raspberry Pi and potentially a 2011 Mac Book Pro. Though having to replace the logic boardonce and battery twice probably disqualify the MBP.

Currently there are a studies [1] suggesting Alzheimer's is an inflammatory disease where a bunch of different particles like micro-plastics, heavy metals, microfibers, etc accumulate in the brain causing a brain immune response (amyloid beta and tau) that is more dysregulated in people with certain genetic backgrounds.

Honestly I think this hypothesis makes the most sense - especially if you look at Alzheimer's global and local distribution patterns. Locally people near freeways get Alzhiemer's at way higher rates [2] (I've seen interesting maps of this before but can't find any ATM).

Think about all the particulate matter (incomplete combustion products, rust particles, little pieces of tire) you are breathing in near freeways.

Globally industrial countries have the highest rates of dementia, and the lowest rates are in Africa, India, and South Asia [3]. These places have less industry, less traffic, less plastic (I mean, they are catching up fast, but historically if you're looking at patterns), etc.

[3] also mentions a correlation between meat eating and dementia. I don't necessarily think this is due to the "any meat is bad for you" FUD instead it's most likely due to two factors

- plants have greater anti-inflammatory properties

- any type of fat will accumulate loads of particles and plants don't have fat

tl;dr nutrition is complicated and there is a lot of FUD

- [1] https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/alzheimers-disease-consis...

- [2] http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-air-poll...

- [3] https://nutritionfacts.org/2015/11/12/where-are-the-lowest-r...

Didn't Rackspace acquire ZeroVM during it's 2010-2013 SaaS buying spree? I'd anticipated seeing ZeroVM as some part of their "cloud" offering but it looks like it was rolled into OpenStack Swift. Has Cloud Files performance improved at all in the past 4 years and how much of this can be attributed to ZeroVM (a lot of ignorance in this question I know).

It's unfortunate there is so much wealth inequality but that's a bit of a separate issue. In certain situations there should be a threshold and that's why estate taxes exist. However a lot of us not only work for ourselves but to better our childrens' future station or at least give them a better chance at not being riddled with debt like we are / were.

I think your sin analogy isn't an apples to apples comparison nor does it make sense in this context. However I'll play devil's advocate.

If your father was a felon / committed "sins" then most people in society are going to be skeptical about how you might turn out. It's an unfortunate truth. Not to say you will be a felon but based on the environment you were raised in you have a statistically higher likelihood of becoming a felon / deviant. So yes, you will be judged by the sins of your father whether you like it or not. That's why people leave their home towns for to start new lives or change their names. I'm not saying its right but that's the reality.

serverless is the shake weight of tech.

in all seriousness a very useful and cool tool. thanks for sharing!

i'd have picked a more informative domain; maybe serverless.info?

nice to know that is currently not cost effective for my workload.

- lambda = $3,327.05

- ec2 = $1,1146.24

Ideally the presence of the `WALE_GPG_KEY_ID` env var should enable encrypted backups https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e#encryption.

Put differently to be a "successor" it needs to be a drop in replacement ;)

Wow, great work! I am definitely going to test this out over the weekend. However AFAICT the `aws.Config` approach breaks certain backwards compatibility w/how wal-e handles credentials. Also wal-g does not currently support encryption. FWIW, I would love to simply drop-in wal-g without having to make any configuration changes.

Why not initiate a share buy back, continue to trim the fat and go private? A return to their roots is necessary rather than trying to balance the share holder value of their B Corp status.

> Aren't these a bit of the cliches?

To an extent. The op doesn't have to do one or any of these. They are suggestions which can be leveraged.

As I mentioned in a previous comment I probably didn't quite understand quite what the op was asking.

You're probably right. I think I conflated "it's too time consuming and I'm not so ambitious" with laziness but the ops statement is hard to unpack in its current form.

I'd agree that Upwork is hit or miss and as a freelancer and a business owner would prefer something like turtle.ai. Will look into it :)

Freelancing takes some degree of ambition and if you're just starting it can be time consuming.

What I'm hearing though is you want the benefits of freelancing without having to do the work of a freelancer? That's a huge fallacy. Freelancing requires some degrees of ambition and most importantly work.

Unless you've built a reputation for providing these services its going to be difficult obtaining customers.

What should you do? At the very least

  - build your profile and build your brand
  - "become" an "expert" in your field by blogging, tweeting, etc to drive engagement
  - get connected to other "experts" and start conversations
  - build a simple landing page (site) for each area you want to provide services for. A/B test the landing page using Google Ad Words, etc
  - sign up as an organization on freelancing sites and start doing jobs which can be done asynchronously
  - become a maintainer or contributor to security auditing software

Alternatively you could buy an existing business and improve it.

Again, all this requires ambition and work.

If you don't have time or interest in finding the time it's probably not for you.

Profession: SRE - full time, remote - < 20 employees.

M-F

- [09:00] wake up. make breakfast for child, myself and dog

- [09:30] make coffee. cleanup kitchen / house. random chores

- [10:00] nanny arrives. slack, email, github

- [10:30] actual work begins

- [14:00] make lunch

- [14:15] make coffee, nap or take dog for walk.

- [15:00] resume work

- [17:15] nanny leaves

- [18:00] make dinner. wife is back from work. spend time w/family

- [21:30] child is asleep. walk dog or go for a run

- [22:15] resume work

- [00:00] sleep or time for side projects (1 hour)

Some days have more consistent blocks of work time but this has recently been the norm.

Sad. I remember, at least initially, Google Gears having a tough time trying to parse blog content linked from Ffffound. I'd download all my Reader content for plane rides only to have missing images. Brings back memories of a better time; before Yahoo killed Delicious and Flickr.

Hmm, not entirely sure I would title this wedding at scale. It does seem like a fairly standard wedding size. Great homebrew solution though.

I did something similar in 2009 with a custom Wordpress plugin. However, guests were imported from a CSV of our Google Sheet guest list as Wordpress users. Each guest was automatically assigned a randomly generated dinner code. The code was included in the wedding invite card as we wanted to be fairly traditional.

When a guest confirmed they received an email with custom directions from their home address and a printable parking pass. Guests could cancel up to two weeks before the event at which time an email was sent to the caterer. The plugin also generated email reminders 7, 2, and 1 day prior with the same links.

Two weeks prior to our wedding the guest food selections were compiled and sent directly to the caterer for final numbers. Seating charts and name cards with food selections were also printed using the WP database and PDF templates via pdftk.

Guest who provided email addresses were sent photos from the event via Picasa Web Albums 3 weeks after the event.

While this is much lighter weight and as others have expressed fairly impersonal the grooms family and bride probably knew this.

Kudos on a quick and fun implementation! In retrospect I wish I had use Twilio ;)

No doubt smug and for little reason. Then again now days you're not cool less you NoOps your pants.

I don't think you should look at it from the standpoint of what's popular as it really depends. Instead take a look at the company, team experience, road map, learning opportunities, size and stage of company, etc.

If you enjoy learning and exploring parts of the stack in some depth ensure that vision matches up with the role and it's responsibilities.

I found each of these invaluable at different points in my life. YMMV

Biz - the Personal MBA - Josh Kaufman - http://amzn.to/2aFsj3c

Org - the Fifth Discipline - Peter Senge - http://amzn.to/2aNpbQz

SciFi - Perdido Street Station - China Mieville - http://amzn.to/2aNoWFn

Parenting - The Continuum Concept - Jean Liedloff - http://amzn.to/2aZEAAL