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This thought is the one I keep coming back to over and over again in 2020.

It's almost like the people complaining the loudest don't have a profitable software product that justifies regular ongoing maintenance or something.

Gotta say those machinations were much less troubling than the multiple times they pulled the rug out from developers during the '90s. Anyone who survived the '90s who didn't inter…

Yes, it is throwing 503s and we're also getting general network failures in other calls to the SQS APIs. As is typical, not a peep from AWS or any indication of what is going on. […

Every day I see young people dreaming about owning a Tesla someday instead of the ICE dream cars of the past (Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini, etc.) I don't know what the value of th…

Google also kills entire niches in the short term by doing this stuff. Almost nobody is going to try to compete with them head on so if they are in a niche with a product that even…

The DVR is critical. And hardware DVRs I've used are horrible. Maybe I haven't tried the right one, but the ones I've tried are less than worthless and I've finally given up on the…

Sorry, just saw your reply. I suspect you are overestimating the work. I just added some Rack middleware to handle request logging. Then plugged into the Rails model callbacks to r…

I would love to have something that competes with YouTube TV but respects privacy and doesn't funnel even more data to Google. The other live TV services all have absurdly arbitrar…

I'm now pushing application logging into a Kinesis Stream that gets firehosed to both S3 and Elastic Search. This includes both request logs and logs of any CRUD operation on my mo…

It's always entertaining to look through the older Zillow listings for moderately to very expensive houses. Without fail they are testaments to bad taste. They'd cost a sizable per…

What was your salary, and the salary of additional people to increase the bus factor to an acceptable level? There is a lot more than raw perf numbers that go into these calculatio…

Add replication across regions into the mix and things swing even further in favor of AWS. Dealing with cross datacenter replication of MySQL was eating our lunch and preventing us…

Thanks for sharing abetterrouteplanner.com. Planning a couple long distance trips that I commonly take seems much less odious than I would have expected. Although the last time I s…

Thanks for sharing the Ruby links.

Every once in a while I feel exactly what many Trump voters claim to feel when I see/hear this attitude. If a guy like Musk gets shredded for being authentic and at times a bit man…

What percentage of PC users has ever installed an OS of any kind, ever?

I have a single dependency on Google for my business and I would never take on another one voluntarily. All the horror stories you've heard about Google support have been true for …

WSJ + WaPo is great IMO. My morning routine is WSJ, FT, WaPo, and sometimes NYT. The NYT is my least favored source partly because they skew too heavily toward my biases and I pref…

In my experience, the amount of control you have over the time you spend working is a critical factor. If you can easily adjust your work hours down, at any time, then it isn't as …

> Luckily, they are still able to pay for food! It's like I'm an immigrant in my own country, sending money back to the old country. Just weird. Well said. I don't have any answers…

> What would happen if everybody would become Amish overnight? How much land would that take? How would these new Amish afford the $10K/acre that the best farm land in the US can c…

All good points. I should have been more specific. You can generate > $1M in profit with 1 or 2 devs, and in that case, AWS is a no brainer. In my experience, it is much more diffi…

This seems to be an unpopular opinion on HN, but you are correct. It is possible to generate millions in revenue with 1 or 2 devs. If you manage to do that, paying a higher than av…

And the idea that someone is going to poach a deer and throw it in the back of the truck on the way home from work is also laughable. The penalties for poaching are far too harsh f…