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No and it never well be. Lets consider AWS. On-demand pricing, even reserve is never even going to be close, simply because there exists Amazons overhead, profit, etc. built into t…

Blinkist is worth checking out. I like using it to determine which books I am going to actually read. https://www.blinkist.com

jq, vim, sysdig

Does it absolutely need to be brand new? I typically buy my Macs refurbished. Or being in NY, if you are developer, hunt down an ST.121-3 form and get it tax free. Either route wil…

I have gone the complete opposite direction of the many questioning who wears a watch anymore. Recently I picked up my first automatic, a Seiko of course. I have worn it for about …

An AWS micro is designed for burstable CPU loads, i.e. Websites. Performing a CPU intensive task will never do well. Amazon even says this in their own documentation. The second fa…

A low price point on commodity hardware certainly doesn't correlate to the hardware industry being dead. If anything it is quite the opposite. With such a low price point, the pote…

"Being quite the audiophile, I prize myself with high-quality audio." So why do you even care about the Apple headphones? Mine have never even made it out of the box from the vario…

notifybyphone.com - Phone alert system using Twilio storesapp.com - eCommerce platform, had launched in beta and customers, eventually closed. sitesapp.com - CMS sister service to …

Everyone's A zone is different. So I could say A is down while someone else is saying B, and we could be talking about the exact same zone. It makes it difficult to say if it is mo…

The AWS documentation does a good job explaining the setup. As for multiple ELB's mapping to the same instances, I don't know if this is actually documented, it is just kinda known…

Ah, that is certainly helpful. I didn't realize that.

While a neat solution, I feel this is going the wrong way with things. One of the primary reasons to use the cloud is to get away from SPoF. This solution is simply putting lots of…

This reminds me when I use to see a ton of resumes which had "TCP/IP, NetBeui and IPX/SPX" listed on them. Of course these were the 3 checkboxes in the Windows control panel. I am …

Surprised Backbone.js( http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/ ) didn't make the list.

Stripe.com, although not sure about #3.

Used Sendgrid for a few apps, was completely fine, never could get past the interface and various "value-adds" they were pushing. Lately I have been moving everything to Amazon SES…

Take an eCommerce system for instance, you want to open up complex shipping or discount calculations to your end users. A great way to to do this is to allow them to write a functi…