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Where is this evidence to substantiate this? We would love to read it, please share it with us.

I'm not trying to sell anybody on anything, but let's just compare for a moment. Vultr offers 10GbE for all price tiers, access to actual networking power tools like BGP sessions, access to 14 datacenter locations. They provide a generous amount of bandwidth by default and only charge $0.01/GB (the actual market rate) for anything after it. Unlike GC they have yet to "fat finger" a routing table causing a global network outage, or trash an important metadata server like AWS just did. CPU benchmarks routinely show them (and pretty much everybody else) trouncing at least AWS for the same cost basis, by a lot. Benchmarks have also, amazingly, shown some of the AWS instances losing out to mobile phone CPUs.

Facts, benchmarks and a cost analysis suggest that they are at worst competitive and likely far superior to GC/AWS offerings in pretty much every way at the one thing that a "cloud" provider should be especially good at: giving you solid, high performance VMs to run your infrastructure on.

I don't want to hear crap like "my investor read a marketing brochure somewhere so we went with X". If my investor told me that, I would make sure to inform him of the value of paying less money for a better thing, and how knowing the difference can be a huge competitive advantage.
I'd just like it stop telling me my chromium is not up to date. :/
Probably the settings app which is there to replace the control panel of old. It's very dumbed down, and frequently has to launch cpls itself to allow you to do more complex things.

FYI you can still get the control panel, just hit windows key and type "control panel". (Note, it appears for me after just CON, so you probably won't have to type the whole word, depending on what you have installed)
Looks like this is "bring your own number". It's neat, but I wouldn't trust this site to stay up under any kind of stress, which means my number would be erratically dead. If the source is available though, this is neat enough I'd consider self-hosting it.
I disagree. Experimentation is an important part of learning and yes, initially there's a lot of "wooo, shiny!" going on. It doesn't matter - you are STILL learning.

It also helps to remember that software projects are never finished - only abandoned.
"there is a very strong capitalist-critical argument to be made about buying in more intentional and ethical ways, but color me shocked that very few of these minimalist troubadours ever really take things to an economic or class-based argument."

As long as they look critically at their consumerism and are voting with their wallet for ethical consumer goods, let them have their Instagram pictures. Even if they don't care about consumerism and are doing it for aesthetics, it shows people that you can think different about your consumption habits.
> Would you call a gang member that now uses guns instead of knives a "changed man"?

The IRA stopped using bombs and guns, and took up pens and microphones. Their political goals never changed, but their methods did.

I'd say they're changed men. Using arguments instead of violence is ultimately a good thing.

Gang members often don't have a goal of "I wanna rob people". They want money. If they put on suits and ties and become software engineers because the pay is better---they're changed men.

So what does Microsoft want?

The most trite statement would be that they want market dominance and money for their shareholders. A "good" Microsoft would be one who due to government regulation or social approval cannot do bad things to achieve dominance.

This is the balancing act that we play with all companies---they want money, and society forces them to only gain money in socially approved ways thus we all benefit.
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The F# ||> operator is provided by the core library. Over-use of custom operators is something I always push back on in F# codebases; they can sometimes be useful in making code more expressive, but the downside is it makes the code significantly more difficult to comprehend until you're familiar with what each operator does. I prefer readability over concision, and even without the custom operators F# code is fairly terse.
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Learning ruby at the moment and this is setting off alarm bells. What? gems break each other?
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Keep videos short, less than 10 minutes. If you HAVE to, only then have large length videos, but they should not be more than two or three.

One topic per video.

Have a text guide on github and point it to the video, that way, you can edit it.

Buy a Mic or use your mobile earphones, they work wonders in sound, test your earphone's mic optimally.

I use Mac, QuickTime is enough for me.

Speak slowly, use a bright text editor with syntax highlighting enabled. Execute code in the demo, don't just show a PPT, PPTs are waste.

Read my books and watch my YouTube channel!!

https://github.com/thewhitetulip/multiversity

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I think the author of the post was trying to say that he has disproportionally allocated his time from finishing projects to just learning new things. There needs to be a good balance between keeping up to date with technology and producing something from the technology.
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I feel you’ve been on the right track all along. Instead of doing the opposite on the programming side you might need to do the opposite on the product and selling side. Instead of building something you have no passion for look for ways to sell what you have already created. In other words see if you can productize your "auto-scaling, multi-zone, cloud infrastructure". There’s definitely other people who would like to use that.

Or teach people how to use the new shiny thing.

Or help them decide the pros and cons of new technologies by talking about the subtle distinctions you have noticed between them through your experimentation.
Skype has had ads in it for a long, long time. I always find them very jarring.
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Superstructure is only useful if you have something to support. Otherwise, it just scaffolding without building.

I guess all of us learn something similar to this at some point in our lives.
You simply watch how js-required blog shows you neverending progress, instead of working on it. That's how.
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Good read! Is it possible to know which hearing aids brand has this? Pity that the HA manufacturers are so secretive what their buzzwords mean. It's impossible to get good comparison between offered features.
It depends on your goal. Is your side project aiming to become a side business or an experimentation to learn new things? If it's a business, it's important to get things done. If it's for fun and to experiment, sometimes the end goal is not to actually complete it. The endeavour itself will be reward enough, perhaps.

It's true that a lot of programmers do jump from shiny new tech to the next shiny new tech. If it's to start a business, it's probably best to stick with boring stacks.
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surreal we live in a time when discussions like these are public and on twitter.
I spend £27 GBP a month and that is considered to be expensive by some people who pay as little as £7.

For this I get 4 cleans/checkups a year and a zealous hygiene regime. I also get some insurance for accidental trauma too.

Sure, if you do need major work it's going to be expensive but the emphasis is very much aimed at preventing this. In the past 15 years or so I have had minimal work done.

Relying on an NHS practice is, as indicated in other replies, a bit of a lottery and you'll be hard pressed to get decent treatment for something serious. Partly because some dentists are not qualified to do stuff like root canal and partly because of funding restrictions - they just don't want that kind of work.

Having said that, things have improved since my childhood when NHS dentists were payed per filling. You can imagine how that worked out in many case.
> With every major U.S. wireless carrier now offering unlimited data plans, consumers don’t need to log on to a Wi-Fi network to avoid costly overage charges anymore. That’s a critical change that threatens to render Wi-Fi obsolete.

Does anyone at Bloomberg understand data caps or throttling?
Nothing I said suggested zero anywhere. I have said you can't measure 'with intervention' vs 'without intervention' by only looking at the with intervention outcome. Thus, to support your argument you need to demonstrate what the harm would have been vs what it is.
> Customers will get full LTE speeds until they reach 22GB of usage, after which they’ll be subject to reduced data speeds and de-prioritization.

> Hotspot tethering — up to 10GB at LTE speeds — is included, as are calls and texts to Mexico and Canada.

That's certainly an alternative take on the definition of "unlimited" than the one I'm accustomed to.

Curious: What's the reduced speed? Is it less than 1Mbit/s? If so, good luck doing anything other than reading/checking mail/look at a map. And yet the articles are discussing "watching videos" without connecting to wifi.
Crazy thought: would it really be that bad?

If the votes end up being noise, it comes out in the wash. And we already have protections against compelling people to vote one way or another, so carrot-sticking children for votes would (continue to be) a serious crime.

It might even grow our children into a less apathetic public.
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Fingers crossed this happens. Currently we have a government thats talking up clean coal :(
Its a quite familiar pattern by now: A group lobbys to the state, the state hits on the competitor group or drafts laws, that "create" Buisness, by punishing old, but working, infrastructure/products.

If there ever was a mafia. I kind of respect the early bill gates, for trying not to get involved in this "buisness".
AT&T. Main thing there is the non-competes. Such a thing is unheard of in my world, but pretty standard amongst the myriad of companies that supply AT&T with chop-shop labor.
Is it possible to setup a Stripe server side .js code on this?
Whenever I see these "Amerikkka is awful!!!11" style comments, I always wonder if it's someone from Europe or elsewhere with a genuine insight that's worth considering... or just an immature kid from Minnesota suburbs being "edgy".

As someone who's reasonably well-traveled, I've hardly found shifty marketing language to be unique to any particular locale.

And I'm not even sure that THIS marketing language is all that shifty. You want an iron-clad assurance that NOTHING will change between now and the next 100 years? The Sun going supernova? Heat death of the universe? I'm pretty sure that reasonable people understand that "always" or "forever" mean, "Open-ended and not subject to change without adequate notice".
Argh, we have this all over our lan. Is there anywhere I can get a copy or the md5 of the trojan scilexer.dll? Also, - how many people just downloaded these binaries?
I agree. It relied on context. Mea culpa.
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This is obviously terrible news, but Britain isn't really known for its sun. Most of our renewable energy comes from wind.

http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

(it's not very windy today. This usually sits at 10-15%)
Sure and I love that those people (highly skilled immigrants) are working for American companies.

But so what? That doesn't demonstrate that the US doesn't have enough talent. It just shows that some people from out of the country were working on something. Maybe if the situation was different then that paper could be exclusively written be Americans. The majority of the worlds most intelligent people reside elsewhere, but the US has nearly 400 million people. It's fine with or without immigrants. Japan is fine isn't it?
We use the Web Audio API, HTML5 Canvas (with PIXI.js) and MediaRecorder to render and play-back generative music videos on the client side. However, it turns out that MediaRecorder can only work in real time, so unless you have a reasonably beefy computer, your video render might suffer from frame drops and random hangups. In an effort to eliminate these frame drops we moved the same js rendering code that we use on the frontend into a headlessly run Firefox instance wrapped in some additional node.js logic for controlling logic flow. That required splitting the rendering process into an offline pre-processing step for FFT analysis on the audio stream, a separate rendering job for rendering the frames themselves, then using ffmpeg to combine video frames, audio data and remuxing timestamps to ensure proper playback speeds.
I live in Lithuania, and here you can get unlimited LTE for €19.90/month from Telia. It's designed to be used at home for those who can't get fibre optic internet, but I guess it would work fine in a phone too.
The number one thing to remember is almost no one cares what tech you used. Just get it shipped.

People have built million dollar business that had it's first iteration in MS Excel, if it is useful to someone and kind of serves the purpose then that is enough for a start.
In the US they have the title of DDS (doctor of dental surgery).
These predictions are pointless. Economy is not driven by extrapolating past charts, it's driven by outlier events. The thing about outlier events is that no one can predict what they would be, except that they are bound to happen. A magnitude 9 earthquake in Northwest, fraud in big company, scandal in administration, or war with Iran - all these can totally change economic outlook.
> Yes, I believe there are scenarios where completely disabling updates is desirable.

I think you misread what i wrote, as you are saying yes, but following it with a statement that is very different from the one I posed.

> I believe in having a choice which updates to install while not disabling the updates altogether.

Entirely possible. I am in fact doing this from time to time to pull in security updates immediately while temporarily holding back reboot one. The tools exist, but ms really does not want them used by people who might not fully understand the ramifications of their actions.

I hope you can understand that due to my agreeing with them, I'll refrain from trying to detail the how.

> Having to remember what every single setting is called?

No, typically you just type in what you want to mess with, e.g. language, region, firewall, mouse, applications, etc. and get the correct and useful thing. There are of course exceptions, but i can tell you my parents are having a much easier time with it as measured in less time spent by me having to step then through the paths into the old school settings.
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The real motivation behind acquiring technical debt is that 80 percent of your development work will be dumped eventually. Remember this.
In the middle ages, the main practitioners of medicine were "barber surgeons", barbers that were also surgeons and dentists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_surgeon

Also, all this was done in a very unsanitary way. In fact medicine was unsanitary in the West until Florence Nightingale conducted an statistical survey showing that cleaner spaces had fewer mortality rates.
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I'm on the verge of completing one of my side projects. The most useful thing that I've found that helps me stay focused is to already have users who you know will want it. By staying focused on you users and what they want, you can stop a lot of this shiny chasing before it starts.
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You are one of the 2/3rd kids who were part of the marshmallow experiment. You cant control your desire for immediate gratification. I feel that with the level that you are in, you need a bigger problem to solve, rather than start a new startup(whatever that is). I know your type, I was like you, most of my friends are like you.

Also did I mention that you are an introvert by nature (read susain cain). You are easily distracted by shiny things.

P.S. I am no expert, those are just the things that I realized about myself....

P.P.S Shit. I think I am still like you, because otherwise I would have worked on the code review that I was supposed to do....
We know. That's why PostgreSQL pilots hopefully clearer pricing structure where you choose how much CPU and RAM is needed and pay per CPU and GiB of ram. No more `db-nX-<something>-X`.

You'll still see instance size names for a while though. I think D0-D32 are for first generation of CloudSQL (which is MySQL only). db-* are for second generation and match GCE instance names.
Offtopic: I got quite a NSFW Ad when I clicked through to this. Well depending on the workplace. But yeah not something I'd love a colleague to see over my shoulder.
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Can you please provide an example? I have had a few issues here and there with Rails and updating gems, but for the most part, Ruby is a fairly consistent and reliable language. That and the fact that you can use rspec to test your Ruby code, it's kind of hard to find gems without a test suite let alone break immediately...
My side projects usually aren't meant to get completed. I specifically use them to try new things. If it works out, I might use the new stuff in my job. If not, I gained some knowledge.

Some of my stuff is good enough to use (as in early alpha), but doing the final 20% won't pay off anyway.
cons: If the customers email service goes down, then their access goes down.
If your email service goes down, then the service goes down for everyone.
If a major email provider is compromised, then a bunch of your accounts can be compromised.
All public server-to-server email communication takes place over port 25, unsecurred clear text. That seems like a poor choice for anything security related in 2017.

If anything we should be removing insecure protocols like email, telephone and SMS from the authentication chain rather than relying on them even more heavily than we already do.

I hate to suggest it but authentication via something like WhatsApp might be more secure.
No, it's currently public IP only.
Even if mobile carriers introduce truly unlimited plans and excellent indoor coverage everywhere, they will also need to open extensive APIs to enterprises if they want to entice them away from Wi-Fi.

Enterprises (including businesses with public access areas such as shopping centres and stadiums) want the extra control and information (such as the location of consumers as they move through shopping centres) they have with their Wi-Fi networks that they can get today.

Conversely, the mobile carriers will probably be wanting to incorporate the Wi-Fi access into their mobile networks as another access type. Apart from the control aspect, having combined and coordinated access to both licensed and unlicensed spectrum allows a better infrastructure cost to capacity tradeoff.
Isn't this more commonly known as flossing?
Infrastructure wise, I'm absolutely guilty of this as well. I have found that there's a middle ground...

You (probably) don't need the microservices and the complexity that comes with it, upfront. A monolith (and the simplicity in terms of deployment, logging, monitoring, etc. etc.) will probably do early on.

However, you don't want to shoot yourself in the foot for when it turns out you do need those things.

I try to write code in self-contained modules, with well defined boundaries, and glue it together in a monolith. If/when it needs to be split out into separate services, it becomes much easier.

So, application/business logic code: keep the standards high, do shit properly. Glue code to keep it all together? Less important. You can rip that out later and move to different infrastructure with the same code.

That's very generic advice, and I seem to always break my own rule on this at some point... but I find it's a better mentality for when shit just needs to get done.

Doesn't help with tech choice in general though (and I'm often guilty of this as well...).
>> You can't leak passwords if you don't store passwords.

> That's exactly why you only store password hashes in the DB. Come on, this is a solved problem!

Isn't leaking hashes dangerous for the users' privacy though (I'm not well-versed in security, so sorry if n00b question)?
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We recently purchased a house 9km from Edinburgh with no mobile signal - fortunately the Vodafone signal booster device we got (which relies on broadband) appears to work really well.

What we hadn't noticed is that you get a decent signal in the garden but not in the house. Probably as we are right next to a small hill of solid volcanic rock that is between our house and the nearest mast.
This looks like it: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.471....

I don't see any links to it from any of Skiena's or the publisher's webpages, so it's not clear how legitimate it is.

Incidentally, I wouldn't really suggest Skiena as an alternative to Cormen et al; they're extremely different in style and content, and in situations where you need one of them the other probably won't help you. I recommend getting both. (For more verbosity on this, see my review of the first edition of Skiena's book at https://www.mccaughan.org.uk/g/books/alg-design.html .)
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To be fair, there are some instances where GC has unique technological advantages compared to VPSes. Their new distributed ACID SQL database comes to mind.
Ta. The soloshot seems to be a tracker and camera both have gps receivers solution. The tracker has to sit with a view of the sky for 8 mins presumably acquiring sattelites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBtTwWtlYO4&feature=youtu.be...

Also it seems to just rotate a camera tripod mount and so doesn't have the altitude problem. Having mucked about with gps the lat and long are fairly accurate - typically off by 10m whereas gps altitude is often off by 200m which is easily enough to send your drone into the ground. I guess if it did differential timing between the two gps's that could work or they could measure ground altitude some other way. Dunno if Lily cracked that. Conventional aircraft in fog use barometric altimeters corrected for weather conditions. And that's only accurate to ~100ft.

I didn't quite crack the finding kids in a shop problem. Satellite gps wouldn't do it but I was thinking maybe ultrasonics - radio signal makes the tracker beep then you could use loudness / timing to a few microphones a few inches apart like human hearing locating sounds. Not sure if anyone's built something like that.

Update:

Googling, it seems cheapish full differential gps is becoming available from Reach gps http://www.directionsmag.com/entry/finally-affordable-high-p...

and has been used in a one off island mapping with a fixed base station http://gpsworld.com/l1-receiver-uav-help-discreet-survey-of-...

dunno if that sort of thing has been got working in a Lily type setup though. And it's still $600+
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