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Office space that is designed to be leased is also designed to be (relatively) easy to reconfigure.

long term out-of-the-money call options I bet $425 calls are about to get real cheap.

The problem is in measurability of a change. If I improve a developer or analyst workflow that makes 100 people 1% more successful, that's likely both more beneficial and also harder to measure than a change that makes 5 people 10% more successful.

Instead of spinning out and paying for a new vm or app service to host it on (which cost the same basically)

S3 / Cloudfront is (apologies for the buzzword) serverless and incredibly cheap. It's public-facing only though.

Is that true? They'd still need to adhere to HVM vs. PVM, but that should be it.

ec2 is ~easy though, they're just smaller VMs on newer hosts.

I'm amazed that things like SimpleDB are still around and supported even though only a handful of engineers in my ~200 person org have heard of it.

You could also be missing out on incentives from the manufacturer for not using their financing. It's definitely a good idea to have money or financing already lined up, but some manufacturers will give thousands of dollars in incentives to use their financing.

1.25 MAU

1.25 anonymous MAU. Unless you're a VPN provider, I can't see anyone monetizing anonymity.

Speaks protocol buffers, a fast and compact format compared to JSON

This is definitely important at Google-scale, but for the rest of us compressed JSON typically isn't that bad.

FWIW the Hemnes line is solid wood (or at least has an option for it) and is excellent for the price.

The entire point of Garadget is to add control of your garage door over the internet...

IANAL, but I'd assume that Windows Defender is "deployed" to the system at the time of "deploying" the OS.

it felt like doing a wave of work, consisting mostly of putting things back to there proper place, only to come back tomorrow and do the same thing with no end in sight. This may be a phenomenon of employment at large, I don't know.

I've been in IT Engineering / SRE for over 10 years now and you just described 80% of my days.

After all, the "real world" won't hold your hand.

The "real world" will eat you alive if you can't discuss topics which make you uncomfortable.

From looking at their architecture diagram it seems that this is different enough from Prometheus's single golang binary to "justify" a fork.

I haven't looked close enough, but hopefully they've done so in a way that common things (query functions, alertmanager integration, etc) can be kept in sync with upstream easily.

Most are worded such that a merchant can't "charge more for using a credit card", making cash discounts OK.

Riot employees are paid to play (on a Riot "sponsored" account). Just like company email, chat, or any other service, it should be assumed that it's going to be monitored.

If Riot employees want to troll on LoL, they probably shouldn't do it on a company account.

It catches the customer at a good time because we just gave them something new.

Now ask for a review after a crash. This is just asking "we introduced new stuff, you like the idea?" when really progress comes from asking "you've now been using X that we introduced Y ago, how's it working for you?"

Sure, but it may be the only one that's doing exactly X with Y in Z language, especially when you step outside of Java, .NET, and the other "enterprise" languages or working with hardware devices.

The Angel (cat) in this example is incredibly naive which made it easy to realize that strategy would work. Would definitely make for an interesting 2 player game!

Probably would have been a good idea to sell the bridge before burning it.

A ponzi scheme would require a larger upfront sticker investment from new investors with large but unsustainable sticker returns over time.

This is just a straight up 'sticker + $.50' for 2 stickers exchange.

The picture in that link is the original dev board which is not breadboard compatible. The new version leaves 1 row available - http://www.amazon.com/Diymall%C2%AElua-Nodemcu-Network-Devel... . Ebay / Aliexpress have them for $7-8 from Asia if you're willing to wait on shipping.

We all just wing it.

The good thing is that services and charges that are hard to estimate (SQS, egress network bandwidth, S3 access charges) are mostly drops in a bucket compared to those that are easy to plan for (ec2, RDS, S3 / Dynamo storage).

S3 (or any object store) "is like FTP" has been the best explanation I've used. Way too many people I've talked to think that it's a POSIX-compliant filesystem and "like FTP" is familiar enough to them to know that treating it like a standard filesystem is a terrible idea.

It looks like a filesystem to the extent that HDFS is a filesystem, it's just not a POSIX filesystem.

I'm in favor of this, but to play the devil's advocate - what happens to the 20% that remains after 80% of an industrial zone has been converted to residential?

Tesla started as a niche electric sports car company 4 years before the Model S.

It's the same as going around Ebay and contacting a seller directly. You lose any of the protection that the servicing company (Homejoy) provides.

"technical write off" is probably a better term.