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Have you ever used the "WhatsApp Web"?

(rant) Yes, traffic to Netflix increased significantly as Spotify was down.

I bought an Anker 5 port USB charger and one of the port died after just 1 month of infrequent use. Their products are very well polished but their QC is bad as you can find so many similar reviews in Amazon. They refused to replace my unit as it was sold by: Amazon Export Sales LLC, according to them which is not official reseller.

Thanks for the reply. One more question: Is it still true that your team must develop service on top of Windows? Can your team use Linux? (I cannot see the direct relationship between these cloud services and Windows, except C# support)

Same as Lambda, why Python but not Ruby support?

I really feel sad for the close down of Mandrill, although we are not affected as we are also paid MailChimp user, so we can merge our accounts. However, we are considering moving away MailChimp due to this, just don't like the way they do business.

The page can be improved if you remove or self-host your Google Web Fonts.

I can't see the problem if their customers are also 5-10 years behind where they should be..

If your Windows host need Windows update, then all the Linux guests would need to be rebooted (but seems they've managed to reduce the number of reboot significantly since last year). But regarding the performance and security, most people using Linux still prefer a Linux VM host.

Dear Azure team: you will be more awesome if you offer Linux VM running natively on Linux Host, more developers will come.

You are right that both projects are monolithic (and of coz open-sourced), but it is unfair to compare a VC backed company with non-profit organization.

Good or bad is very subjective, but in AWS without a support plan, there is no way to contact them except you create a thread in a public forum asking for help. If you are lucky your post is not being ignored then someone will reply you maybe within one day (then back and forth might cost you one or two days to get issue resolved luckily). In DO/Linode you can create a support ticket to them and usually they respond within a few minutes, this is a huge difference.

Always add $49/month (the basic support plan) if you want to compare AWS with DO/Linode, don't just look at the $5/month instance charge.

I've a few instances in aliyun (alibaba cloud) to monitor the traffic from time to time, Cloudfront works for me now, while googleapis.com is blocked.

I cannot convince myself not to use a politically neutral company (or China friendly) like AWS, Azure.. when I am considering the CDN service.

The issue with Google launching these services is you don't know when they was/will be blocked in China. Not really a global competitor to CloudFront/Azure IMHO.

Apparently the author didn't test the quote against a search engine.

The post make sense only if you havn't ordered anything from taobao/tmall (not alibaba.com or aliexpress), and have no idea the difference between taobao/tmall and amazon/ebay and thus how logistics work for taobao/tmall.

# Disclaimer: Spent ~$200 on tmall yesterday

IMO, Microsoft is becoming the new Google; Google is becoming the old Microsoft, how funny is it..

Very cool. Btw, sorry to hijack, please also let your colleagues know that they need to update the SSL cert used in *.parseapp.com, e.g. http://sha1affected.com/results?server=doitfordenmark.parsea...

Congratulation on launching a killer feature once you addicted to it, very hard to move out from AWS :) (but honestly, this is a very awesome technology we've been dreaming for years)

Be sure to check out https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow before rolling out your own custom analytics solution..

It is not FUD. libdrizzle as you mentioned still lacking of MySQL 5.6 support. (libdrizzle 5.1 stable version was released two years ago)

You still need some client libraries to connect to the database: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2038881/gpl-and-libmysqlc...

I think docker is really successful in term of marketing (no offense), I guess they've learnt a lot from the nodejs/golang's camp :)

Just like few years ago, everyone here on the front page is talking about nosql and seems like everyday, there's a new webscale nosql database being born...but now, I often see more people here inclined toward traditional technologies such as Postgres as it has been greatly improved. (Yes, a lot of aged software are still improving, e.g. MySQL, Apache, PHP or even Perl5)

I am not saying Docker is just a hype, I also don't think it is completely unnecessary, but it is not for me to solve my immediate problems and therefore I would rather review Docker..maybe few years later.

Priceonomics: We help companies crawl data from the web. Well, the article itself is indeed interesting, but I am just curious why they post these kind of content on their blog, is it related?

Perl's motto: TIMTOWDI (There Is More Than One Way To do It) <-- This include using other languages such as Ruby/Python to solve your problem.

In another news, google stop fixing security bugs which cover 60% of the current android users (4.3 or older). Not saying microsoft is right, but they just dropped windows xp support last year (that is >10 years of support).

[1] http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/01/google-wont-fix-bug-...

The major problem with Google Cloud is you don't when they will be blocked in China (that is 20% of the Internet population, or if you don't care). On the other hand, Microsoft and Amazon have better communication with the China gov.

I always joke to my friends that why Chrome didn't bring extension support to Android - Because extension support will hurt Google's mobile ads revenue so deeply if you can install adblock with one click.

So, please also consider support a non-profit organization like Mozilla, when their products are actually not weaker.

I think this is a good start.

But it is also important to educate users that even you are using HTTPS, some companies' internal network might not be fully encrypted and therefore it is not fully secure against some three-letter government agencies :)