sbennettmcleish

At least it's a wonderfully round number :)

Quite timely, I cancelled my personal all-products yesterday, likely going to re-direct those $ to a Claude subscription.

In recent times it seems like IntelliJ has become what I ran away from Eclipse for, i.e. bloat and non-performance.

(not an American) .. but only if there was a group of people with lots of extra money just sitting around invested in things growing in value ;-)

the factory must grow ;-)

I'd say damn near 20yrs. I used it quite extensively about 10yrs ago and it was an odd one then, but was very useful for the purpose we had (semantic validation of XML payloads).

When it comes to AWS Cloudformation, I love YAML. Can't think of any other positive use though.

LOL ... well that's more than a tad ridic. An additional private generator might be in order if you're in the US.

Interesting that for a largely US focused article the stock image is of Perth, AU - https://www.google.com/maps/@-31.9678004,115.8467131,376a,35... :)

Yes, we're not gonna run out. WA ships nearly a billion tons/yr.

220bn profit? Really? Surely they mean "revenue"

oh ... and the only game where i've regularly hit 2am and thought "one more thing..."

It's an uninterrupted treadmill cos you just spent 3 hours extra doing seventeen other things and realise you still haven't actually "fixed the copper" or whatever the heck it was you were meant to be doing :)

1600+hrs in ... still pushin' all my buttons.

Bought the app, well worth it! Currently using two phones and my progress syncing perfectly ... like one should expect!

I appreciate that AWS Lambda has been a win for various people but this case study doesn't really mention what they tried to do with scaling. Whilst 0 to 100k sounds good, they also had seemingly chosen just one scaling solution of a big instance - several smaller instances behind a load balancer which scale up/down would surely have served the same outcome?

Lambda has been sold on "saving costs" but what seems to be often neglected is the developer time spent re-jigging into a "serverless" model. Developer resources are far, far more expensive than mere EC2 instances.

Initially I was that way too, only took a couple weeks and a few reference templates that demonstrated the constructs to get past that and haven't done JSON since. Definitely more efficient to develop with.

Absolutely agree! Have been smashing out YAML templates for 12mths with pleasure (3yrs of JSON templates beyond that), comments are the winning proposition, allows neat sectioning of various parts.

good summary. Only bit missing would be the recently / soon to be phased out $2 non-bank ATM price gouge

These "company managed" pension schemes have always fascinated me and would seem ripe for corruption / raiding by the company if they're short a few $$$.

Seems like in Australia we're in a pretty good position with "superannuation" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superannuation_in_Australia being compulsory since 1992 and is typically managed by completely unrelated parties to your employer.

The payments are generally made directly by your employer into the fund of your own choosing.

The biggest thing is once you've had this contributed to YOUR account, it is YOURS (drawable from age 65) and doesn't matter what happens to the fortunes of your employer(s) in the future.

"weird" wouldn't be my first choice of word, desperate for a "hip", short domain and willing to take any name maybe.

They slot 'sponsered content' blocks into your stream of saved items, it's done very well IMO. These have to make some decent $$$ surely.

However, I just checked my queue and couldn't see any.

It used to be 1hr each way and getting worse [https://audit.wa.gov.au/reports-and-publications/reports/mai...], then moved and am now 7-14 minutes away (depending on trains at a level crossing).

Yes, for which I use NewsBlur.

Agree 100%. I've been using XSLT very extensively in my current role for at least two years now and I love it!

However, I can say with certainty that I'm the only one within my team that shares this view.

Using it for transformation of XML to HTML, semantic validation (does my XML contain A and B when C='Individual'?) and mapping from one XML flavour to something JAXB friendly. Implementing much of this stuff in Java or other would be a nightmare and/or unproductive process with a LOT more code required.

My wife and I took the cue from Scott Hanselman & his wife Mo a few years back. Pay all income into one account and then pay yourselves an allowance for "guilt free spending" for all the little things you want to just buy.

http://hanselminutes.com/216/geek-relationship-tips-with-sco...

Great stuff! Good to see this coming out of Perth and hopefully they can get a good foothold on the market from support of businesses here before the bigger US/EU competitors (finally) arrive.

Whilst it is Microsoft with bags of money and all that, I don't really see how such a huge fine (even for M$) is warranted.

Yes, they stopped offering the browser choice, but at what point did someone from EU-HQ contact MS-HQ and tell them they'll be fined if they don't put it back in? Surely it would only take a few weeks at the most to actually re-instate the "feature" once they were threatened with a huge fine.

It might have been better for Microsoft to have actually been forced to give money to the other browsers to promote their products, or alternatively, just bundle Firefox/Chrome with Windows and be done with it.

I've long been a fan of collective nouns, you could almost never run out even if you choose only birds .. Murder anyone?