Dunedan

84 ms·

391.
by Dunedan 7y ago
> I’ve set a goal to be processing $10M/month in Stripe volume by Spring, which is a pretty big stretch goal. As the app is already highly profitable, why suddenly such an ambitious goal?
392.
by Dunedan 7y ago
> Anandtech has been at it since the 90s and hasn't changed their format at all. This is a serious decades-long stagnation of the web. Aside from the quality of their content, their format is something I really like about Anandtech.
393.
by Dunedan 7y ago
Not sure if that's still the case, but a while ago as an AWS customer with premium support you got a very extensive list of phone numbers of AWS representatives to escalate issues to in case your technical account manager or his superv
394.
by Dunedan 7y ago
While it doesn't fit all of your criteria AWS does offer something like that with AWS Snowball: https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/
395.
by Dunedan 7y ago
That smells like it's related to the T2 chip.
396.
by Dunedan 7y ago
Actually I really like the AWS documentation, even more since they launched their public knowledge center [1], which offers answers for common use cases. And AWS does have of course evangelists blogging about a lot of stuff. You should chec
397.
by Dunedan 7y ago
> a cloud-based browser I cringed reading that. Assuming I might have misunderstood the product I looked at the linked pages and cringed even more. There is definitely too much money available to startups in SV nowadays. As Mighty are lo
398.
by Dunedan 7y ago
Maybe Stack Overflow Jobs would work better if they'd publicly state what their job ad pricing is and if they'd improve the user experience (e.g. there is no way to get a nice looking printable version of the developer story). Fro
399.
by Dunedan 7y ago
> We were looking for that rare combination of someone who could foster the community while accelerating the growth of our businesses, especially Teams, where we are starting to close many huge deals and becoming a hyper-growth enterpris
400.
by Dunedan 7y ago
Basecamp even made a headline out of it a while ago: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/basecamp-valuation-tops-100-b...
401.
by Dunedan 7y ago
Btw: The quoted changes for MacBooks are slightly inaccurate. MacBook Pro's from 2015 already had working keyboards and touchpads as they have them connected via USB as well. The models which got support now are: - MacBook 2015 - MacBo
402.
by Dunedan 7y ago
There has been a lot of progress regarding audio in the past few weeks. Rudimentary audio support is there now and I'm confident we'll see better support soon. Check out https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-lin
403.
by Dunedan 7y ago
> A USB 3.1 Gen 1 cable built and sold in 2015 would have been advertised to support 5Gbps operation in 2015. Fast forward to 2019 or 2020, that exact same physical cable (Gen 1), will actually allow you to hit 20gbps using USB4. I was p
404.
by Dunedan 7y ago
I'd argue that running at 100% of provisioned capacity is something that only makes sense for a very, very small subset of DynamoDB users. Actually I'd only do it if my access patterns were really predictable and if it's fine
405.
by Dunedan 7y ago
From the Terms of AWS Promotional Credits: > 10. Promotional Credit is valid for a limited time only and expires on the > date indicated when you receive the applicable Promotional Credit code (or > such other date designated by us
406.
by Dunedan 7y ago
> A USB4 host and USB4 peripheral device may optionally support TBT3 -Compatability. That sounds good from an implementors point of view, but offers another area of possible incompatibilities for connecting USB4 and Thunderbolt 3 devices
407.
by Dunedan 7y ago
When the USB-IF announced that they're going to incorporate Thunderbolt into USB4 I already worried that this might further complicate USB hardware and software. Turns out: My worst nightmares just became true. We now have running USB
408.
by Dunedan 7y ago
> I don't understand how 'swipe from the left' can be used as a universal back gesture. Isn't it the case that most apps use that gesture already to open a menu? That's also discussed in the blog post I linked. t
409.
by Dunedan 7y ago
> The way they show and demonstrate gestures, along with the UI at the bottom, strongly suggests that they intend to eliminate the semi-"hard" buttons in favor of gestures. Yes, that's the case. When you're using gest
410.
by Dunedan 7y ago
No, they didn't abandon it. Werner Vogels just last week affirmed that they're still doing it: > And we continue to work in two-pizza teams today. http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2019/08/modern-app
411.
by Dunedan 7y ago
Yes. us-east-1 is the first AWS region Amazon made publicly available. It's also historically used by a lot of customers as "default region" where they launch all workloads where they don't have special needs of launchin
412.
by Dunedan 7y ago
> Very few companies or systems need near-perfect uptime. Multi-region cloud engineering, especially once data is involved, is incredibly expensive. Without data it doesn't even cost significantly more than running in a single regio
413.
by Dunedan 7y ago
It's good practice to not just remove stuff, but to deprecate it first, to give everybody time to migrate. That's exactly what Apple is doing there. The deprecation notices clearly states that they'll eventually remove it: &g
414.
by Dunedan 7y ago
> However, a typical Slack customer may boot just once each morning and could find themselves perpetually a full day’s worth of releases behind (we release new code multiple times a day). > […] > We still want users on the latest p
415.
by Dunedan 7y ago
Check out ASRock's DeskMini series [1]. While slightly larger than a NUC you can throw in a 65W CPU. Especially the DeskMini A300 [2] for AMD APU's seems to be pretty popular. [1]: https://www.asrock.com/nettop&#x2
416.
by Dunedan 7y ago
I can't really speak for large companies, but I believe my answers apply, no matter what's the company size. > How do you tie in to version control? You're probably talking about the infrastructure definition? Infrastructu
417.
by Dunedan 7y ago
While I agree that opsless isn't a fitting name, how do you come to the conclusion that a serverless architecture requires more ops resources than a traditional one? From my experiences the opposite is the case: The amount of time spen
418.
by Dunedan 7y ago
Instead of setting up servers I'd improve my cost monitoring and make the developers responsible for the costs they generate (with great power comes great responsibility). Both of that should have happened before they got permissions t
419.
by Dunedan 7y ago
"Omega tau" made a really nice podcast a while ago about how Planet Labs is approaching Earth observation. That podcast goes into the details how the company and the satellite constellation came to be and what novel approaches the
420.
by Dunedan 7y ago
If you have spare money to buy new stuff, you have no pressing reason not to do so. What helped me was to find another "higher" purpose for spare money (e.g. pension savings, house down payment, a big vacation, ...), so I can alwa

More ›