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Ironically this happened to me due to a card expiry fuck up.

Too much vendor lock in. Will keep my VMs thanks.

These are possibly great but much like my foray into DVORAK layout, there's something to be said for consistency of layout. You just sit down and use it if it's the same as everyon…

Yes. I think you've just been through a couple of cycles now like myself. Cynicism comes from watching the last disaster unfold :)

That's just embedded systems that have always been there though isn't it? Someone just stuck a marketing label on it.

Does it call 999/911 when it pours boiling water in your lap :)

100% this. I haven't found a genuine IoT device that is useful. They always remind me of this scene from The Fifth Element: https://youtu.be/SnzzWGcdMqY Literally ever device has d…

HTML! And you get to do it once for both...

It was probably limited by the SATA interface speed back then.

What's even worse is that I recently jumped into asp.net 5 and tripped over three build systems and a pile of cack just trying to get it off the ground. Now msbuild as well!?! Also…

Now I can hate every moment of its existence on more than one platform! Having dealt with it for years, it's unadulterated pain and bad performance and nothing else.

They paid for our modem setup so meh ;-)

One of our clients still has a DOS box connected to a 14.4k modem that we have to drag EDI interchanges off. You wouldn't believe how much it cost to get a modem and POTS line inst…

He could also separate code and configuration as per the docs but I suspect the hubris excludes bothering to read them...: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSdkDocsNET/latest/V3/Develo…

1. He stored credentials in source control rather than using configuration profiles as specified in the AWS SDK documentation. 2. He pushed code to a new repository without verifyi…

AWS SDK for .Net supports named profiles for VS so your source check in only contains a profile name. If you hard coded your IAM or account keys or stuck them in the app.config you…