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The truth is stranger than fiction.

https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656

We have a slack emoji for it called greenish. It's the classic AWS green checkmark with an info icon in the bottom. Apparently it's NOT an outage if you don't acknowledge it. It's called alt-uptime.

Oh ffs. I can't tell you how much I hate these self professed 'thought leaders'. s/thought leader/unoriginal wanker/g is what goes through my mind and I just stop listening. Stop talking like you are on a god damn yoga retreat.

Congratulations guys! Welcome to 1995.

Actually your DSL is probably more secure because it wasn't designed by complete muppets. Who thought it a good idea to put everyone on flat Layer 2 network. Remember the time they were handing out block devices without scrubbing. How is the new Ceph backed block service. What's the p50 latency? What about p90?

Bzzzt! Wrong answer, try again. They are not good for anything remotely resembling production. Since your production should try and closely resemble everything else I'd say they are not good for anything at all. The tag line is "Cloud computing, designed for developers." They should be even more careful about good practices and sound design keeping in mind the kind of customer they are trying to get. Over the years they have done anything but that.

Ok. Repeat after me, "I will not use Digital Ocean for production. They are not a real hosting company."

The why is left as an exercise for the reader.

> The risk of abuse is exceptionally low.

I call bullshit. This coming from the same guys who were mapping one night stands using ride data? What were you guys studying there. Fornicating habits of young adults in large metropolitans?

http://www.whosdrivingyou.org/blog/ubers-deleted-rides-of-gl...

I almost forgot about the time you guys were tracking journalists.

Uber has a reputation and history of being a "shady" company.

I think this is as good an explanation today as it was in 1970. You are the nun in this story.

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html

Quora was definitely not the first startup to do 10 year exercise period, not by some margin. My Lime Wire stock options from 2000 had a 10 year exercise with a 6 year vesting schedule, no cliff and vesting every 3 months. Here's the proof: http://imgur.com/6eTUyui

Adam's on the right track though. I just had to write a 6 figure check today to exercise my vested options at my current employer because of the 90 day clause. It makes me angry because the company's official stance is that the board wants to use stock options as an employee retention tool. I was fortunate enough to have had the cash but a lot of other people are not and there is no secondary market. So if you get fired or have to quit during a bad market you are basically screwed.

That is incorrect. My 2000 stock plan from Lime Wire had 10 year exercise period from grant. Completely agree with you about all of it but you weren't the first one not by some margin.

Lord, just please take him in his sleep. Besides the obvious stupidity inherent to the argument you could simply accomplish this by having the company buy back the unexercised options at the current FMV.

Stevens APUE is a much better choice.

It's probably using middle-out.

This might in fact turn out to be one of the biggest, most expensive blunders by the company in question. Years later the tale is recalled - aggressive misguided legal department sends a C&D to one of the greatest projects in human civilization. Internet responds by hackers pooling in time and resources to build an alternative, superior, free solution that becomes the benchmark effectively putting the aforementioned vendor out of business. Poetic justice.

Oh yeah, colossal piece of shit it still is.

The iOS app is the single worst piece of shit app I have ever used. Take a look at VictorOps.