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Amen, I'm becoming an old grumpy engineer on my team for constantly asking why we need yet another <insert cloud technology here>. I'm not against new technology but I am against not considering what we have and how it may already solve the problem without adding wider breadth to our operational surface area. And it's every single damn year now because now cloud providers string their own cloud primitives together to form new cloud services.

> my belief is that the cloud _is_ cheaper than on prem but it is difficult to configure it to be so.

It takes discrete effort in the core planning of your architecture. You cannot look at AWS resources (or any other cloud provider) as an all-you-can-eat buffet. You have to look at your requirements, look at the viable options that may support your requirements and take into consideration cost associated.

Without looking at cost during design your company/service/team will have a bad time at some point. There are also some really specific things you can do to lower costs but require knowledge and understanding of a myriad of technologies.

No reason to be aggressive about disagreeing. I used to not charge for french fries with meal at my restaurant, now I do. Bait and switch? Or a business raises their annual subscription, is that a bait and switch. When is a business changing prices or pricing for services given not a bait and switch in your non business brain?

Bait and switch? Changes in a business aren't always a bait and switch.

Exactly the bus or gas for a car and time to drive farther isn’t free.

Is that really all that bad? Whole Foods are everywhere and sure some small population might be inconvenienced but companies have to reduce cost and I’m sure UPS wasn’t a small cost.

Beyond tiring.

Mine sits in the drawer but it was fun to tinker around with for a few days. Life gets in the way of some things.

> I live in Europe outside EU

I had to think on this portion of your comment for a moment. It's obvious in hindsight but the first time I've ever heard it phrased in this way.

s/programmers/product

It is unlikely an engineer decided to introduce a block list of names and this likely came from a product manager driven by compliance and risk mitigation. Problems are rarely the cause of the implementer and usually that is the side effect of layers of poor decision making in corporations. Poor because of the aggregation, not poor because of any one specific decision maker in the chain.

+1 to subpar on Mac. iPhone is about the only surface where its seamless/smooth. The rest leaves me constantly frustrated.

Thank you for sharing this. I was not aware of the way these countries operated, it's a very interested way to manage this.

They are hard problems because of the political landscape in the US. Sorry but I thought that was implied by my statement. Clearly there are simple implementations that can solve the problem.

> multiple home ownership

There will always be the need for landlords in some circumstances. Not everyone wants to own a home and sometimes life dictates the need for flexibility. Where do you draw the line? I'm not sure what to think of it, but the idea of owning investments isn't going to dissolve any time soon and physical assets (homes) are one investment vehicle.

Coming from a person who has rented for a long time, currently owns one home and does not rent.

I suppose we have different jobs. I and my team go out of the way to automate menial work so that we focus our time on value add for the customer more directly.

I'm not sure what you're suggesting but it adds no value to the discussion.

Care to be specific? Using big words with vague generalizations is out of place here. Sharing my experience here for other's to garner and use for their own decision making is far from out of place.

The dev ops potential is inspiring. Log diving can be so frustrating/cumbersome/tedious.

You should discuss with your leadership/skip-level. I'm not speaking for the entire company, strictly sharing how things happened during covid and what I know from my team/peers.

That said, if your entire team is back in the office, you will be a burden and at a disadvantage relative to the rest of the team. So your circumstances are yours but you should consider how you can best be successful and remain agile to the changing world pre, during and post-covid.

Employees were hired with a specific location or they weren't. There isn't an in-between. However, employees during covid were also hired and told to remain out of office until guidance changes.

Some chose to interpret that as WFH forever, some chose to buy homes hours away from their assigned office location. Now some are acting confused and feel slighted when in reality, they ignored or conflated the hiring and the WFH-covid guidance into a single thing.

I work at Amazon.

Some employees hired during covid were explicitly classified as virtual. Some were given a location and said you don't have to come to office but if you did have an office it would be in <city>.

It's made very clear when hired so anyone saying otherwise missed a subtle detail.

Employees who were hired remote can remain remote. Not all employees hired during covid were classified as such. Employees were also able to request exemption from the return to office policy.

Damn YouTube is pushing the ads these days. I don't remember last time I opened YouTube and didn't see an ad on open. I'm logged into Chrome, no VPN or funny business. What a racket.

Citation please.

Fidelity does this if I understand correctly.

Argh - I don’t think mine is ready for another sorting discussion but I’ll consider this for my future solo loading exercises!

Wiser words unlikely to be said. My wife wants the utensils up, they are up. I’m trainable and willingly adaptable.

Ironically, I recently got into a merge sort discussion with her regarding how to load utensils. Sorting on load reduced unload time, she got it but didn’t care for the detour in time complexity. She just gave me a snide look at that part.

I’m always fascinated in what features people love about the terminal app they use. I use iTerm2, would love to hear from others what features they adore or rely on most from their terminal?

You’re missing the point. This isn’t a marketing piece. JPM doesn’t need to compare themselves to SVB for any reason, that’s like comparing David and Goliath. What’s purpose would that accomplish?