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The only logical reason I can think of is corruption.

Google's free consumer-facing products with no SLA being shut down... HN loves to complain about this. Any time there's a thread about Google, someone has to complain about the time when they shut down Reader.

Agreed, I was forced into using it years ago and still have PTSD from how awful it is. API endpoints randomly return with 500s, block devices hang or just become disconnected, provisioning is extremely slow. The unquantifiable "just works" and general care & polish is missing.

Apply some time stretch, pitch shift, slight distortion, and the watermark is likely destroyed.

Are they receiving any compensation?

Supporting all that flexibility is challenging for development, and could cause issues for the end user.

I can imagine that people over-customize Firefox, forget about their changes, then have bugs, finally abandon Firefox thinking it's unstable.

I know from personal finance that having a buffer in the bank is good... But this seems to be a rather large buffer.

Can someone please explain what's going on with these numbers?

"We never intended to deceive any customers when we invented a new definition of e2e encryption"

I read they're prized for curing male impotence, because you know... They have hard scales.

I assume, Rockefeller University. It's a large hospital on the upper East side.

Many of the bigger SV tech companies have an internal kernel/os team.

There's insurance for this type of thing, and I'm guessing that the organizers do not have it.

Or they're being praised for "fixing the website"

I don't think engineering costs are an issue for msft.

Empirically, the source of msft's quality issues seem to be managerial / organizational.

To explain what I think this comment means. When working on embedded systems, you can interact with hardware devices by writing directly to specially mapped memory areas.

E.g., if you want to write text to a small screen, the kernel driver gives you a memory region that you write bytes to, and they're shown on the screen immediately, without requiring the CPU.

Stripe has the ability to negotiate with their upstream processors that we end users do not. Instead of trying to reduce their costs by pressuring their providers, they're passing along the fees to their customers.

Elastic databases have been the source of leaks because of incompetency of the people deploying it, not because of its FOSS license.

Great people don't work at crappy companies.

I think this is part of the problem with the language- a fragmented set of keywords, all with slightly different behavior.

This is the same reason why it took Sun years to open source Solaris. There was still major parts of the OS they didn't release source for, because it had licensed code. The Open Solaris initiative was rewriting these parts to make the OS completely open.

Not bad luck, bad design. Same for Gandi, and for the situation you just described.

Drive failures and HVAC failures due to bad power are not "black swawn" events. These are very common problems for DCs, and a good design takes these problems into account.

However, a "bad" design is cheap, and hopefully the savings is passed to the customer.

Sure, but in this case, the choice of Azure over AWS was due to government corruption, rather than actual technical diligence.

Ironic, because normally Oracle are the ones doing this

Reliability of AWS and GCP is one of their best features. Everyone just assumes Azure works as well as the others (spoiler alert: it doesn't).

The main reason you hear about so much Azure growth is because they give free credits to their software assurance customers. For everyone else, not work paying for it.

I use vim, so I can't comment directly, but lately people have complained about stability of the VS Golang plugin

I agree, but my point is that federal taxes as disproportionately higher.

With software performance optimization, it's best to focus on the most expensive problems first. A few hundred dollars per quarter for state taxes vs. a few thousand is a massive difference.

Federal taxes are still much higher than state taxes. How is the federal government helping the situation?

I really think this inequality is caused by technology.

Generally throughout history, investment in technology helped the bourgeois factory owners reduce their manual labor costs. Think about advancement in factory automation replacing workers.

Now instead of replacing factory workers, we're replacing (or supplementing) knowledge workers with more technology, and again the bourgeois benefits more than the workers do.

The pro-capitalist counter-arguement to this is "when the economy shifts, manual factory jobs move to automation maintenance and development" - i.e. who builds and fixes the robots?

A much smaller number of people have the ability to build & maintain automation systems, and typically these people are oppressed by the same power structure of inequalities. The bourgeois own the company that provides the automation, and the workers make tiny fractions of the profits. (Think Jeff Bezos money vs. Amazon software engineer money).

I'm not saying that people who create successful new companies shouldn't receive benefits. I'm saying that various American policy enforces the inequities.

E.g., healthcare and insurance is extremely expensive for start-ups. Much more affordable for big companies. As a worker, the healthcare costs may prevent my from being able to afford leaving my corporate job (and therefore, I will be stuck as a member of the proletariat forever).

And there are many policies and systems that oppress Americans. Student loans, bureaucracy, over-inflated housing markets, etc.

Use K8s to schedule the work.

Not really, Balmer slashed R&D and only focused on short term profit, which isn't sustainable long term.

Missed major market opportunities: Mobile computing The Internet (servers, clients) Cloud computing