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100% agree

For what its worth, I've bought 5 of these. 2 for myself, and 3 I've given as gifts. They're amazing and have completely changed the way I cook. Nothing compares.

I used to think that until I went on a multi week trip where I had lost my ID. I went through TSA without any ID about 7 times and developed a strong respect for the agents I encountered along the way. I was a difficult case and they treated me with respect and worked hard to get me through the process. I've never been a big fan of the government, and the TSA has flaws no doubt (I hate security theatre) but I think the vast majority of the agents are good apples. They chose to serve in an "essential" service, so that was a choice. Government shutdown's aren't a new thing anymore and they still choose to serve with honor and dignity to their role. I'm happy to agree to disagree.

Most of the government employees I know feel it's an honor to serve their country and do so with loyalty and pride. In past shutdowns, they've all gotten paid retroactivly. It's not always about money.

As someone who has avidly fished for salmon in the NW for the last 30 years (~75 days per year), I can at least give my opinion that this is mostly BS.

Pervasive, non-selective, commercial and tribal gill-netting that is optimized to remove the largest specimens from the gene-pool is a big part of where I point my finger. Throw in the dams and massive increases in non-native, invasive California sea lions in the lower Columbia and you have a mess in the making. Lots of factors but I believe most of the problems are in-river, not in-ocean.

Also disclaimer, my opinions mostly come from experience on the Columbia (The largest Chinook runs in the world), not the Sound or further north.

I have a hobby that I read 3-4 print magazines for (fishing in the northwest, not that it matters) and after numerous times talking to the publishers, I still, in 2018, cannot get them to distribute an electronic version. I would pay big money for a digital archive of one of them all the way back to the 60's. They all fear piracy so strongly they won't innovate. Boggles my mind.

With more and more corporate applications going to externally hosted SaaS providers, doesn't a service like this become less relevant over time?

Depends how you define richest while saying "in history"

From Forbes... By the time Rockefeller died in 1937, his assets equaled 1.5% of America's total economic output. To control an equivalent share today would require a net worth of about $340 billion dollars.

I have used both extensively and love them for dev and non production environments.

Perhaps I have some old biases, but I have gotten caught up in noisy neighbor hell more times than I can count. Being impacted by DDOS attacks on your neighbors is no fun.

Add in privacy/security compliance where they attempt to leverage their facilities SOC2 reports rather than operate their own business to this standard and it just doesn't work for me or my customers.

EDIT: FWIW, my concerns tend to come from a place much further along in the game that might not be relevant to you right now. If you're still proving your business model and this is the fastest way to get there then by all means.

Better get very very good at configuration management, provisioning, patching, monitoring, and all the other things that go along with running large quantities of infra (even if virtual). I don't know anything about your app, but I do know many shops that deeply regret going down this path rather than building multi-tenant in the first place.

For what its worth, and some may disagree, but production SaaS apps don't belong on Linode/DigitalOcean... but that's a whole other topic.

The individual responsible is him.

And I win sucker of the year award... wonder how to delete this thread?

I wonder what this means for Google Music?

Hallelujah!!!

I wonder if Xerox went through the same mental gymnastics on their path down the drain?

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Make Ubuntu not suck on laptops

- DESCRIPTION: What I want is for Ubuntu to partner with someone on the hardware side to provide a meaningful alternative to the macbook pro that does not suck. The OS is already fine enough if you could make it work very well with a decent laptop out of the box. I have tried Dell Sputnik...endless software pain. I have tried System76... crappy hardware. Make a Linux laptop experience that does not suck and rivals Apple for quality. That is what I want.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Director of large IT/Ops team in large scale SaaS environment

I'd buy one in a heartbeat. I'll buy even more if it ends up with a real antenna jack.

Does that include good working power management and a fully functioning touchpad? I went down the XPS13 Sputnik path and had endless disappointment with constant fixes.

I'd love to hear how this laptop runs Ubuntu or Mint.

We have a fleet of these as well and have had a good experience. We are now switching to the 4k version for new ones.

I doubt Verizon has any liability if the thing catches fire...I'm no lawyer, but they may have some in an emergency if the phone doesn't work and they were the ones that facilitated disabling it.

Unless you're on Verizon

“Verizon will not be taking part in this update because of the added risk this could pose to Galaxy Note 7 users that do not have another device to switch to. We will not push a software upgrade that will eliminate the ability for the Note 7 to work as a mobile device in the heart of the holiday travel season. We do not want to make it impossible to contact family, first responders or medical professionals in an emergency situation.”

As a long time lover of Dyn and long time hater of Oracle, this deal just makes me sick.

Anyone have good experience w/ NS1 or Neustar? I need good GSLB for active/active...

As a vi/vim addict, I'm more concerned about the future of the esc key...

Many of the folks considering e-bikes here are not generally comparing them to traditional bikes, but rather with cars. In which case all of the negatives you cite here, become positives.

Seems like this is really about training their consumers to define the quality of their internet by their reachability to the Netflix CDN nodes.. Smart move on Netflix's part.

When will we know what pricing looks like? Can you describe the availability model for said storage?

Lost me at asking for my email...

Our teams would be all over this if they had real linux support.