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AWS has over 175+ services and is continually improving. I would say more new services on launch don't live up to the promise but quarter after quarter you see dramatic improvement…

AWS Business Support is only $100 / USD per month where you can call in 24/7 and be connected with a Cloud Support Engineer within 5-15 mins. If you don't like the engineer, hang u…

As a fellow content creator, I'd say your book appears to be lacking based on the outline.

I would agree the noise is high and the pairing is poor. I've done Startup School twice and will a third time with the same company.

The sticking keys on the new macbook pro is a serious problem. Always get Apple Care. I have had a problem with the last 3 mac purchases.

I've been using Rails since version 0.8.6 and have apps as old as 8 years I'm still maintaining. I've had teams as large as 20 on a single rails codebase. You do not need anything …

Yes! Space Repetition Learning is amazing. For me its wasn't about becoming a 10X developer but proving that I was already 10X because I was facing a salary cap of 120K CAD where I…

I do something similar with Rails and Postgres. I've never been good at publicizing tools I've built. I think the biggest problem with Rails is Arel and by making it easier to writ…

I've built 40+ web-apps in the last decade through freelancing and then had my own web-firm with a team of 8 developers all remote. I got tired of building MVPs and so switched to …

Another Canadian in Toronto. Its not hard for US companies to work with remote Canadians but there is a perception that taxes, payroll, insurance is hard when its not. Its frustrat…

I'm working on a Modded Minecraft series using AWS If anyone has an interest in playing on my server ping me. We could use a few more players. https://medium.com/@andrewbrown_78670…

I think anyone who signed up in time were put on the audit track if not accepted into the advisor track. I don't believe it has any community feedback which is what I really wanted…

It happened to everyone. You can still join this facebook group to get community feedback by others not not in the Advisor track https://www.facebook.com/groups/229021634448412/

I was a bit disappointed in not being accepted but figured could make a facebook group so we could get the benefit of community feedback. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2290216344…

I didn't even know it was possible that you could end up on the audit track instead of advisory. Unless I am reading wrong if you are put on the audit track you can't even particip…

I always ask people if they looked at website, my code or anything before hiring me and the overwhelming answer is no. I've always had to get things in front of people just get the…

I haven't been working on my game since my newborn has been my priority but I have an open-source tetris-attack like game built in eletron, typescript and phaser. Its deterministic…

Based on how verbose this article is I think maybe her original article was misunderstood because it was a chore to sort out the junk from the content just like this one. Too much …

My introduction to GaryVee was through Signal vs Noise in 2006. Beyond growing his parents wine company he's in the business of producing inspiration porn, like Malcom Gladwell or …

My Sivers, I've been reading about you for years. I love your story about how you scaled CD Baby with People instead of Algorithms. I think its of greater advice now in a startup w…

get out of here spaces.