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by crb 10y ago
I work on Google Cloud Platform, and I don't see any of the things you mentioned about App Engine. If you want a larger memory footprint, I suggest you look at the Flexible Environment (formerly Managed VMs), which lets you use any si
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by crb 10y ago
We said the same of the MacBook Air when it first came out of its gimmicky manila envelope on stage. Or, for that matter, when the iMac came out with no floppy drive, and only USB ports!
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by crb 10y ago
My money is on the retina MacBook Pro getting smaller, and maybe cheaper, such that it will fill the needs currently filled by the Air.
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by crb 11y ago
Designer Craig Rozynski has created a new version of Comic Sans, which fixes many (most?) of the typographical problems pointed out in this article: http://comicneue.com/ There's a good interview with Rozynski on the s
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by crb 11y ago
The San Bernadino phone was running iOS 9. (It's reasonable to assume that if there was a vulnerability in 8.x, Apple would want to have fixed it in 9.)
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Here’s Google’s Real Answer to Amazon Web Services(venturebeat.com)
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Google Cloud Platform adds regions, aims to close global cloud computing gap(zdnet.com)
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by crb 11y ago
You now have to open an Incognito window and then paste into Google search to bypass the WSJ paywall - I suspect they look at some login cookie to detect humans.
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by crb 11y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7568175
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by crb 11y ago
The Kubernetes team would love to help you make the long road less winding. My contact details are in my profile!
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by crb 11y ago
Ping me if you need any help with Kubernetes, on Google or elsehere; we'd love to help
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by crb 11y ago
We've recently released Subnetworks [1], which let you segment your network in a similar way to AWS's VPC. We've been working closely with customers to ensure that we're building out the platform in a way that works for
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by crb 11y ago
Look no further (for item 1 of 2 anyway) — http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.co.nz/2015/12/the-next-g...
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by crb 11y ago
Fixed, thanks!
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by crb 11y ago
Spotify are not moving to BigQuery alone. They are also using Dataproc, Google's managed Hadoop service (which co-incidentally went GA yesterday), which lets them get value out of all the orchestration tools they already use, like Lui
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by crb 11y ago
Last year, we commissioned an independent 3rd-party vendor to prepare a whitepaper comparing GCP pricing with AWS: https://cloud.google.com/files/esg-whitepaper.pdf We also have a handy guide for AWS professionals who
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by crb 11y ago
Nice writeup on that here: https://blog.oestrich.org/2015/08/running-postgres-inside-ku...
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by crb 11y ago
There are vendors running managed Postgres services on Google Cloud Platform, like ElephantSQL [1] and Aiven [2]. And you can of course run your own on GCE, even to the extent of 24/7 commercial support - you can run EnterpriseDB from
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by crb 11y ago
I honestly don't know, but I do know that the GitHub issue tracker is the system of record for all these things, and if you report them there, they will be fixed very quickly. These sound like things we'd want to know about and I
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by crb 11y ago
I collaborate with the team at Google who work on Kubernetes, and I know that other platforms are given a lot of love - we test end-to-end on AWS, for example. If you're interested in getting involved in Kubernetes-on-something-else, w
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Google proposes its Dataflow batch/stream tech to the Apache Incubator(wiki.apache.org)
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by crb 11y ago
There was (and still is!) a great web site for this, letting you see where the various "Dial Up Networking" screens were in Windows: http://www.chasms.com/
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by crb 11y ago
http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co... "Borg programs are statically linked to reduce dependencies on their runtime environment, and structured as packages of binaries and data files"
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by crb 11y ago
> I would have already been a Kubernetes user had it not have depended on docker so heavily. You can use Kubernetes with rkt instead of Docker: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/tree/master/docs
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by crb 11y ago
> Waitrose couldn't make it pay and closed them. Citation? I still see Little Waitrose everywhere...
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by crb 11y ago
iOS 9.3 has a feature called "Night Shift": "Night Shift uses your iOS device’s clock and geolocation to determine when it’s sunset in your location. Then it automatically shifts the colors in your display to the warmer end o
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by crb 11y ago
You jest, but https://tensorflow.org
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by crb 11y ago
As it's for whitelisting, it is generally an e-mail address - the ID you are logged into Google with when accessing the Cloud console. If that doesn't work for you, let me know - I work on GCP and I can ping the people who can fi
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by crb 11y ago
You lose the ability to monitor by introspection: all you know is "this VM is using X CPU and X RAM", you can't look into what it's doing inside the VM. It's the same as a VM without an agent, today. This can be co
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by crb 11y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10619956

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