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CodeM0nkeyon Rust/WinRT Public Preview

Off the top of my head here are three different offerings from Microsoft that enable cross cloud applications: - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-arc/ - https://dapr.io/ - https://keda.sh/

CodeM0nkeyon Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second

Voice Audiobook Player

CodeM0nkeyon GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories

They actually did the opposite and made it so you can log into basically any Microsoft service with a GitHub account.

CodeM0nkeyon Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”

GitHub has not yet been acquired by Microsoft, they're completely separate.

CodeM0nkeyon Modernizing Transport Security

Similar announcement for Edge / IE 11: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219528

It would seem these announcements (Chrome/Safari/Edge TLS 1.0/1.1 deprecation) were coordinated.

Edit: The Microsoft announcement says as much.

CodeM0nkeyon Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?

The availability of synchronous 1Gbps fiber internet for about $70/mo in the Triangle area from both Google Fiber and AT&T Fiber doesn't hurt either.

CodeM0nkeyon Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees

It's lower than $12. This job posting lists $10.50 and up for a warehouse position: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/881584480

CodeM0nkeyon Ask HN: Have you shipped anything serious with a “serverless” architecture?

I've heard the analagy used that "Servers are to Serverless what wires are to wireless", the main point being that they're still there, but they're no longer something you manage or directly interact with.

I'm also starting to see the term LaaS (Logic as a Service) used as an alternative to "Serverless" here and there.

CodeM0nkeyon I miss Windows Phone

Your summary does not accurately reflect what the license states.

You can use Visual Studio Community Edition for commercial programs, so long as:

* You're not doing so for an organization that has more than 250 PCs or 1 million USD in annual revenue

* No more then 5 users in the organization that you are using it for are using it for things other than open source, academic research, and classroom learning

CodeM0nkeyon Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform

I don't know the answer to that myself unfortunately. I know the entirety of the runtime itself is OSS and when you do local run/debug of a Function it's the same runtime that Azure uses.

It's not an apples to apples comparison though since OpenWhisk is intended to be self deployed.

I mentioned Functions here just because many folks don't know that most Azure SDKs, runtimes, tooling, etc are OSS by default.

CodeM0nkeyon Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform

> Even better if it is open source, in contrast to GOOG/AMZN/MSFT offerings!

Most of the Azure Functions codebase is actually open source under the MIT License: https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Functions