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Remove your card before the clerk gets annoyed at you. The screen is flashes various messages like "PLEASE REMOVE YOUR CARD after the TRANSACTION IS COMPLETE". Push the card too hard and the reader falls off the table. Pull at an angle or too slow and it drags the reader.
- no wildcard subdomain ssl - poor metrics, nothing per instance - poor dyno granularity - (jumps from 2.5GB RAM to 14, no cpu/storage control) - no transparency on what each dyno actually is - external postgres replication disabled (deal breaker) - no first class postgres metrics and access logs/alerts (kibana recommended, but not great) - no external postgres backups (e.g. S3) - no deletion locks on dynos and add-ons, esp databases!!! - no warning when add-ons like databases are being deleted as a result of apps being deleted - deleting an add-on also irreversibly deletes all replicas and backups - painfully inconsistent naming for databases through their connection str env - dyno types for build processes use Perf-M? Not configurable - No lambda or github action style computing - No scheduled scaling - Unable to choose aws-us regions - Hard 30s timeout limit - Limited to 1 api key per user. No labels, configurable permissions, usage logging - no http/2 - frustrating enterprise offering. massive over-sell, near zero value
"Is two years enough experience to create a curriculum?" is a good discussion prompt but it's hardly a silver bullet for dismissing the project. A counter argument is that being new to the field gives the OP a fresh perspective.
OP never claimed to be an expert and there is nothing disrespectful in this post. It's too bad it's the top comment. Best of luck to OP on pursuing a new way of engaging students.
Fly has potential, but they've changed/grown so much that most docs are out of date, everything is buggy, support is not very responsive, and their security posture leaves a lot to be desired. Not a fun place to be production issues pop up.
Like I get all caps subject lines with spammy content that my grandmother would recognize as spam, but it blocks some personally written emails from other gmail accounts.
If you’re emailing them, word your message to make it clear you’re not a bot. Persistence over time is often necessary.
One domain we actually wrote letters. The company didn’t even know they owned the domain. (They got it through an acquisition)
If their number is insanely high, see if they’ll consider a trade. That’s worked several times because they overvalue both domains.
Use some type of escrow service. We normally split the fees.
Stable Diffusion is already making waves in digital art. I expect more specialized models fairly soon.
Free data and services we used to take for granted like YouTube, farming software, and car seat heaters are becoming forcefully monetized. Will we someday refer to these as the good old days when search engines were “free”?
Solar
Basically the shared drive was much easier to use so everyone ended up using it over time.
Ended up paying a data recovery group $5k/hr to recover what they could.
Apple bought Dark Sky and closed the api for new devs. Supposedly they'll shut down the api next year for existing customers. If that happens, there are a bunch of sites/apps that would love to swap out their connection string to a similar service.
The biggest issues are when Dropbox detects conflicts and spits out conflict files. I wish I could turn that off. Checking out a different branch can be noisy because Dropbox will sync all the “changes” files.
The only major problem I’ve had is Dropbox bogs down with 500k+ files - even if they are very small. NPM will put you there fast.
In reality there are many classes of successful businesses. It’s hard to explain the success of a restaurant franchise and of flappy bird in the same formula except to over generalize it as, “decent idea with decent execution and decent timing in front of a decent audience.”
I do think posts like this are very helpful at eliminating dead end habits. I know I’m guilty of searching for a lock.