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by freehunter 6y ago
I actually heard the details on a cloud-related podcast, but I found a transcript of the episode here: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-morning-brief/whit... The relevant bit: >[customers] were texting
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by freehunter 6y ago
Pipelines was introduced 5 years ago, which also seems to be the last time they changed their prices. Their current model is based around the classic three-tier app (basically Ruby on Rails) no matter how much web applications have changed
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by freehunter 6y ago
I actually don't think Heroku has changed much at all since they were bought by Salesforce. That's partially a good thing (Salesforce isn't making them worse) but also a bad thing because Salesforce doesn't seem to be ma
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by freehunter 6y ago
If it’s in a contract, companies can sue. And big enough customers who have lost enough money due to the outage would definitely threaten to sue to recover that money.
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by freehunter 6y ago
Reminds me of a recent outage from IBM Cloud, where the VPN was hosted on IBM Cloud so employees couldn’t log in to fix it, and the email is hosted on IBM Cloud so support teams couldn’t email customers to let them know and even access to t
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by freehunter 6y ago
And not just outages, but security incidents. I’ve worked at/with/for many companies as both an employee and a consultant where the top priority wasn’t to have fewer security incidents, but to have fewer security incidents that w
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by freehunter 6y ago
Abusive/abrasive bosses are still celebrated today. Jeff Bezos runs a company where employees urinate in bottles because they aren't given time for a bathroom break and asks employees in meetings "why are you wasting my life&
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by freehunter 6y ago
I use iCloud photos a ton and my old 128GB Mac's disk is constantly full just from the non-removable thumbnails for iCloud photos, without any actual photos on my local machine. I've been fighting disk space issues with my Mac for
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by freehunter 6y ago
Yeah this is the first time I've read a Substack post as a website and wow that UI even looks almost exactly like Medium. "Medium but for email" seems to be a pretty accurate description.
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by freehunter 6y ago
x86 is wasteful in comparison to these M1 chips, not necessarily in comparison to 1990s chips. It wasn't wasteful back then, but today there are faster and more power efficient chips on the market. The longer Intel keeps making 100W de
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by freehunter 6y ago
>The people who suggest breaking up Apple are correct that it would destroy them I haven't actually heard too many people calling for Apple to be broken up (most of what I hear is around increased regulation) but when I do hear brea
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by freehunter 6y ago
To re-iterate how much more reliable SSDs are now that they used to be, until about a month ago I worked for a vendor of hardware/software that is designed to read/write to disks hundreds of thousands of times per second (log coll
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by freehunter 6y ago
Funny enough yes, fruits and vegetables were designed to be addictive. The fruits we have today are the result of genetic modifications that make them sweeter, so sweet in fact that zoos have had to stop feeding modern fruits to their anima
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by freehunter 6y ago
Honestly I'm so glad we're in a renaissance of UI-based code generators. I grew up in the era of Dreamweaver and Visual Basic where you could just draw your user interface and then write code to glue it together. It wasn't pe
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by freehunter 6y ago
If you're using a reputable payment processor (like Stripe), they should be handling fraud detection and remediation for you. The real thing to watch out for is using your marketplace to sell illegal things. It was even mentioned that
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by freehunter 6y ago
IndieHackers is great for business ideas, but I don't get a lot of value searching for projects there. Seems like a lot of their content is either plain old consulting (writing Wordpress plugins/themes, coaching, etc) or newslet
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by freehunter 6y ago
Oh man you would not like the accessories for a BMW or Audi then. Because what you're describing is not unique to Apple, it's a defining feature of being a luxury brand. They want price conscious consumers to choose another bran
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by freehunter 6y ago
This comment exercising various mental gymnastics to find nefarious causes for a teenager's changing personality... Every generation of parents thinks their kid is the smartest and then they become teenagers and suddenly they're m
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by freehunter 6y ago
Almost everything in history is "unprecedented in human experience". That's pretty much the defining feature of being a human, that our world is constantly changing (because we're changing it). A smartphone is just anoth
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by freehunter 6y ago
Maybe people wouldn't be leaving if they weren't paying $8k/mo for an apartment that's an hour commute from their office?
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They're a necessary thing if the city has grown dependent on their tax income to provide basic services. The reason Rust Belt cities like Detroit are doing so poorly isn't because of the people who live there or the politicians th
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by freehunter 6y ago
If everything else is the same, that seems like a solid reason to prefer the ARM architecture even setting aside 1:1 comparisons. Isn't faster compilation and execution the whole point of a faster processor?
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by freehunter 6y ago
I strongly doubt that. If I moved to Eldora, Iowa and voted for the most progressive, liberal, all-blue policies, up and down the ticket... it's still not going to turn Eldora into San Fransisco. There's not going to suddenly be a
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by freehunter 6y ago
>They seem committed to it. I'm actually not sure about that. Did the MacBook Air ever have a Touch Bar? It seems like this particular MBP has one mostly because they used the exact same case and keyboard and screen and webcam and p
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>Over time those voters elect politicians that enact policies that make the new place a lot like the old place they left So the problem is citizens legally voting for people/policies they want to see in their local jurisdiction? Tha
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One good intention might be to expose everyone to more diverse ideas. People from the cities get exposed to a more rural or fly-over life and people from the center of the country get exposed to people and ideas from the bigger cities. Ther
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Yeah that's the reality. It's true that Apple hardware is expensive, but the reality really is that you can buy less expensive and also cheaper products than Apple sells. But if you want to buy something of the same quality as a
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Similar products do exist, although they're not very good: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KKYZL66
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That's how websites used to fit more ads into an article before constantly-updating Javascript ads became the trend.
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by freehunter 6y ago
You can get the function keys with the Air, which has the same internals as this Pro.

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