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mattrjacobson The new boomtowns: Why more people are relocating to ‘secondary’ cities

I completely agreed with you until I had kids and then the opposite was true. I don’t think either option is good or bad- just different trade offs.

mattrjacobson Why Netflix Rolled Its Own Node.js Functions-As-a-Service Runtime

Every single comment here is about the name “serverless”. Can’t actually think of a better bikeshed example than this.

mattrjacobson S3 was down

If you want to understand the impact of an S3 outage (or many other kinds) ahead of time, Gremlin (http://gremlininc.com) has built a tool to run these scenarios on your infrastructure.

Happy to answer any questions about the tool, either here or over email.

(Disclaimer: I work for Gremlin)

mattrjacobson Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for..

I'm interested in the distinction you draw between shipping and finishing. Care to elaborate on what that meant in a Google context?

mattrjacobson Non-transitive Dice

For any poker players out there, this is analogous to the Texas holdem preflop matchups JTs, 22, AKo.

AKo > JTs : http://twodimes.net/poker/?g=h&b=&d=&h=Ah+Kd%0D%...

JTs > 22 : http://twodimes.net/poker/?g=h&b=&d=&h=2h+2d%0D%...

22 > AKo : http://twodimes.net/poker/?g=h&b=&d=&h=2d+2h%0D%...