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Even paying for Google Cloud is no guarantee of a reliable, robust service. Previous thread on this at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8784356

Meh. My application with paymill has been in the works for over a month now (following google wallet digital goods shut down). Requests for updates are ignored. Documentation isn't…

Google have some pretty good deprecation policies in place with regard to sunsetting their Cloud offering. I recall when I last looked (for appengine a couple of years ago) it equa…

Update: I attempted every contact avenue available to me and no one I spoke with (by email/contact forms and phone) seemed to know what was happening. I ended up compartmentalizing…

That would be handy as it seems like it would get around some of the pretty big list of businesses stripe can't get involved in due to restrictions from their banking partners.

Paperwhites are not backlit. "Paperwhite guides light toward the surface of the display with its built-in front light—unlike back-lit tablets that shine in your eyes—so you can rea…

Agreed. This is terrible journalism - no differentiation between e-reader and what is essentially a reading application on a standard backlit tablet. It even goes on to say that no…

throwaway to avoid potential google blowback Background: Over the course of 3 years I have put together just shy of 20 projects which run on Google Cloud and recommended the ecosys…