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True. I sometimes stream university stations in Canada but there are no college/university stations that I can get on broadcast radio.

I don't know about where you live, but where I am in Canada the majority of FM radio is as bad or worse than cable television; constant ads, stale "radio friendly" music and DJ's with inane banter and making bad jokes. It's painful to listen to.

Google maps is still pretty amazing. Maps and search are the only two Google products I still struggle to move away from.

(I am a big fan of Play Music too but of course they killed it.)

As general rule of thumb exercising close to exhaustion 4-6 times a week will greatly improve your ability to sleep and overall mental well being.

I'm sure it will be able to be disabled but it's so frustrating seeing more advertising being baked into the browser. I really don't want web browsers to subtly (or not so subtly) influence what people are reading.

edit: Like many others have noted before this everything is "free" model of the Internet seems completely broken to me and I feel a bit sad/hopeless about it.

80% of my clients run the same "master" version while 20% have minor customization's specific to their organization.

I don't want to end up maintaining 20 different applications, but being able to do minor modifications to the UI or data model on a per customer basis has been a nice selling point.

The way you are thinking would be much cheaper than what I'm doing with the downside that clients data exists on the same server (but maybe they won't care) and the fact that a performance issue for one client can impact other clients.

I haven't found an AWS account per customer to be to bad to manage yet and makes keeping track of your AWS spend per client simple. It's also trivial to run your resources in say Sydney for your Australian clients and London for your European clients.

I run a very small SaaS and do this. Each customer gets its own isolated AWS account all organized under a root account for consolidated billing. It works great and has allowed me to develop client specific features where required (using git branches). Customers like the fact that their data is completely isolated from everyone else.

Rolling out updates is simple, I just run the same deploy script for each client (after scheduling with the client if need be) and if a deploy goes wrong, you'll usually notice it after it affects one customer rather than all of them.

The main downside for me is cost. The cost per customer scales linearly which hurts as you don't get the same economies of scale like you would in single tenant solutions.

Same. I love my X1 Carbon.

I don't use the trackpoint but it's also never presented even the slightest issue to me when typing.

I've been running Ubuntu 18.04 on my X1 Carbon for the last couple of years and it has been delightful.

Yes! Part of learning a language, for me, is gaining muscle memory with my fingers and having to use a mouse is a turn off. Very cool site otherwise!

Interesting. If I could combine the flavor of a good Pink Lady with the crispness of a good Granny Smith I'd die a happy man.

Amazing. The mind boggles at how complex this is and the fact that humans have the tools to discover and understand the process. Thank you very much for sharing!

Better yet, switch to standing!

I tend to agree unfortunately. I've spent 10+ years working remotely and the past two weeks have been brutal productivity wise now that my wife is working from home and both kids are home too. As a self-employed individual, it's worrying to me what the next 6 months of this will do to my output.

edit: and I feel bad for worrying because we're in a much better position than many others.

Salary information on HN is skewed by Bay area engineers where $312k is not out of the realm of possibility for a senior developer afaik.

/r/personalfinancecanada is the Canadian version.

That line stuck out to me too. As someone on here said recently "revenue is easy if you're selling dollars for quarters".

This is almost always (and frustratingly!) Monthly Recurring Revenue.

Sure, lots of drugs impair your driving, but alcohol seems to be the one that people drive after using most frequently. This could be just selection bias though given that alcohol is the most widely used hard drug and easiest to measure/detect on the side of the road. It would be interesting to see a "drug" vs "drives after using drug" analysis!

Alcohol is really weird. It's unquestionably a pretty hard drug and yet it's (ab)use is completely normalized in our culture. It's also a drug who's abuse regularly kills people other than those using it.

Even if it's true it's a huge difference. Very few people are going to a) think about this issue and b) know the right terms to google for a solution and/or c) dig around in their browser settings to find the setting.

> What happens if the credit card you use to pay for everything gets hijacked, and you're trapped with a blocked card trying to clean it up but your bank is taking their sweet time and won't give you another card until it's sorted?

This happened to me this week. Luckily bank got me the new card within 2 business days, but still was a bit stressful and I burned a day getting my payment info updated everywhere.

I need to keep exactly two instances running (in separate AZs) and will never need to scale up beyond that...is it still worth investigating spot fleets in this case?

With regards to AWS RDS & EC2 multi-az deploys and cost...buy reserved instances! It is much cheaper if you can afford to pay up front for 1yr or 3 years at a time.

Heroku looks really expensive if you need e.g. a private network per client (compared to AWS VPC). Between $12k-$36k if I'm reading this correctly: https://elements.heroku.com/addons/heroku-private-spaces

"Alfred Lansing's Endurance"

Just an incredible book. If you have any interest in survival stories this is an absolute must read.

> I have a two year old. Getting him up and going before 8 is impossible

Forgive me for being blunt but: no it isn't. It might take some work over a few weeks and may mean some tough mornings, but throwing up your hands and saying "well, I guess you're the boss 2 year old!" is silly. Your two year old can't tell time and you can migrate his schedule forward 5-10mins a day if you want too. Yes, his sleeping/waking will fluctuate around a mean and you can't control that, but you can control the mean value.

It doesn't even have to be as extreme as abuse. For example, non-parents and parents alike should feel free to be critical of parents who allow their kids to misbehave in a restaurant.