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You gained $20 worth of assets, so the counterpart of the $20 leaving your bank account is countered by your assets-account gaining $20

Now each year your book loses 1/5th of its value, due to wear and tear (4$ disappearing from your assets-account), this is countered by your depreciation-account (4$ tax write off, every year!)

After 5 years, it is worth $0 according to your books, but you manage to sell it again for $10: your bank account gets debited for $10, while your capital-gains-account gets credited for $10

Fastly Outage 5 years ago

It is time to remove that "100% uptime guarantee" claim from the website :grimacing:

If you are an enterprise software vendor (non-saas), orgs expect you use _their_ db.

If they already have an Oracle license, or a MS-SQL DBA around, you either say goodbye to Postgres or give the contract to your competitor.

Store customer data immutable and encrypted, with a unique AES encryption key per customer. Encrypt that AES key again with a single RSA key-pair and store the encrypted AES-key in a database.

You can access your customer data, using the customer-specific AES key. You can access the customer-specific AES key using your private RSA key.

When you need to delete the customer data under GDPR, you can delete the encrypted AES key for that customer from your database.

While I agree, the feedback I get from a session like that is useless:

"While you mentioned this during the demo, I noted: 1. Your state-drop down has only 3 entries. 2. There is a validation error 3. You get an error at the end.

We need you to fix this ASAP !!!"

It's not simply against social norms: in (some/most?) European countries you can get a ticket for hogging the left (fast) lane. You are supposed to move over, if traffic allows.