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Fair enough, but that still limits potential employees to a certain physical proximity to Google offices. While there are a number of those, and I aim to bring one here eventually, it is still a limitation.

As a remote worker, it's delightful to see things move in this direction, as VPNs are a regular thorn in my side.

Of course, there's a certain irony that Google isn't fond of remote workers. :)

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I don't know how the author is doing Agile, but it doesn't match my experience. I've implemented "Agile" processes on four different teams, and while certain aspects were more successful than others in different contexts, nothing was at all like what is described in the article.

For starters, a very significant part of the article relates to performance anxiety over story points. Over 6 years of doing this, I've had two instances where people were called out for not putting points on the board, both of which came from outside managers not familiar with Agile.

Besides that, one of the core tenets of Agile is that you adjust the processes to work for the people involved. Trying to enforce some arbitrary subset of Agile processes on a team is a recipe for failure and frustration.

This reads to me like "bad managers are bad at managing Agile processes".

At 30 GB/day (still quite high for a consumer SSD), it's 70-200 years, depending on the drive.

That title seriously misrepresents the findings. These drives lasted orders of magnitude longer than they were rated for. For 99% of people on the internet, you could write all your daily traffic to any one of these drives for the rest of your life (assuming it stayed constant).

It's fascinating how much this engineers experience shares with mine. We both appear to have similar approaches to working with technical systems, that has led to skillsets that are more broad than deep. We've both had interview problems because of this, and we've both ended up in DevOps.

I've also had more or less the exact same experience with DevOps, though with (hopefully) a happier ending. I was on a team working for a client that desperately needed "DevOps-type" things. So I built them, and their infrastructure team ignored them.

Eventually we stopped working with that client, and I was moved to a different organization, where each development team was doing it's own thing, operations-wise, and had no interest in adopting a uniform approach, so my (short) efforts there were also for naught.

But then I had the opportunity to come back to the first client, as their DevOps Manager. Before I took the job, I talked to their current development organization about what their pain points were, and what actions they would be willing to take to alleviate them, and I built a strategy around that. A key part of this strategy was gradually eliminating the need for a DevOps team, as I firmly believe the best application of "DevOps" is as a joint project between Development and Operations to optimize shared processes. Once the friction is minimal, you don't need a team there anymore. So we have a developer embedded in our meetings, and have more or less full control of any infrastructure.

Seriously awesome. Since making this post I have set up the domains and account I needed, and tested it. All that's left now is the mx records. :)

mxroute appears awesome for my needs. Thanks!

I've had lots of good experience with Rackspace in the past, but in this case I only need one mailbox, but I need all mail for the domains sent to it. Maybe my case is too specific.

Hmm, this looks like a language I would design if I ever got around to it. If they have a good distribution system, could be awesome.

I thought the burger building was a really nifty expression of media queries.

I grew up middle class, and statistically I'm upper-middle-class now. The closest I've got to a new car was when I got together with my wife, who had just purchased one.

Currently, we operate two cheap vehicles, less than $10k between them. But I work from home, and my wife is part-time, so we don't put a lot of load on them. We also can easily handle one of them breaking down, both financially and from a scheduling perspective. I have the time to change a flat if needed.

Used cars make sense for me, but I'm definitely privileged in many of the ways Jack describes in the article.

Is that birthday grade?

Neat. Their phones always interested me, but I recently got a pair of their headphones, which are amazing. Not just in the quality of the item itself, but the fact that they are made on the other side of the earth, and arrive at my door rather promptly for less than an hours wages. (I know that point itself isn't unique to Xiaomi, but they are exploiting it to great success)

We're currently evaluating Terraform for an H1 2015 rollout. This looks like another interesting option, though it might require more modification to our services than we can commit to.

Ok, trying out WingIDE now, and it's definitely a step up from PyCharm. Touch support is still not great, but the text is crisp almost everywhere. Now to figure out how to use it....

I'm pretty sure after the iPhone 5s announcement, when he was floored by the 64-bitness of it, I posted something along the lines of "it would be really clever for a mobile company to hire Anand".

Maybe it was just in my head, but nonetheless I think Anand will be an awesome addition to the Apple team. Anyone want to start a pool on when we will see him onstage in a turtleneck? ;)

Ahh, the 300A. I remember being blown away by the results people were getting with that. I didn't manage to get my hands on one for a few months, but when I did I lapped the heatspreader (the only CPU I ever lapped, thanks HardOCP!), and ran it at ~540 for several months. It did get unstable and had to be dropped down after that, but it was still >500. As much as the actual performance was awesome, the important thing for me was really the achievement around it. I was just some kid in my parents basement, and through some reading and a little elbow grease, I was able to match the performance of the most expensive CPUs in the market. I was empowered, thanks to Anand and his ilk.

Woah.

I'm also 32, and when Anandtech started I was building PCs for myself and others. It was an incredible resource, and it's been incredibly consistent in the years since. What always struck me was his discipline and dedication, even in those early years.

Whenever there's some nifty gear announced, I always wait for the Anandtech review to purchase, and whenever I want to compare something new with something old, I know the old Anandtech review will have just the details I'm looking for.

There have been other sites that dove into particular details in more depth, but none that provided a consistently deep level across so many topics.

As much as Anand may have received an education through this journey, I know he has educated so many of us, and through that, strengthened the tech community in ways that will reverberate for years to come.

Thanks for all you have done, Anand, and please let us know what comes next for you!

Something I've been thinking about for a while. Probably could have used more polish, but I would rather get it out there for comment (even those lambasting nee.)

Nice! I'm trying to convince my brother to use similar techniques in his game to allow the environment to respond to music played by the user.

For those of you in the Python world concerned about such a thing, check out Peep: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/peep

It's a pip wrapper that expects you to provide hashes for your dependencies in requirements.txt.

There was a lightning talk at PyCon this year, it seems super easy to use (though admittedly I'm not using it regularly yet).

We use HuBoard, and while it's definitely preferable to managing issues without an overview, it is also fairly inflexible in our experience.

We will have some feedback about this coming your way. :)

Based on a stay two weeks ago, I've been craving just such a service. Their reports match what I experienced, at least on the negative end. Now I just have to convince our travel agent to use this for future bookings. :)