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It's also taking down other services that depend on VMs spinning up e.g. builds in Pipelines: https://status.dev.azure.com/

Existing discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10508629

Overall I think it's good that we now have a pretty direct way to pay upfront for increased convenience of faster delivery time. This value is akin to the (opportunity) cost of act…

Overall I think it's good that we now have a pretty direct way to pay upfront for increased convenience of faster delivery time. This value is akin to the (opportunity) cost of act…

Agreed, not an equivalent system. Another scenario where this causes issues that a login equivalent can improve: imagine losing your phone including SIM card. This then causes a fu…

This is the current system, but with "use this physical item, the SIM card, to login". This does assumes that the replacement phone in question is unlocked so can work on the other…

Kobo evidently are doing some analysis on completion rates, and published a report last year aimed at publishers using analysis based on similar metrics: http://cafe.kobo.com/_ir/1…

This really would be interesting. I'd like to see data on overall completion % for ebooks. Assessing those books which tend to be completed once started would help identify the mor…

Note: this is not my work, just something I stumbled across. GitHub project is here, including examples of all angles considered: https://github.com/LasseD/BrickCounting

Very well presented and interesting analysis. Primary compliments I also have in particular for the author is inclusion of a link to source code and the concise but complete and in…

I also imagined floating point arithmetic problems when seeing the title. What is really happening here is that a, b and c may themselves have different values depending on the ope…

Whilst down, here's the google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:i4t2gyG...

There's another lightweight version to do this here: https://github.com/mckamey/konami-js This includes a minified version resulting in a https://github.com/FlorianBezagu/Konamiz/b…

There's another lightweight version to do this here: https://github.com/mckamey/konami-js This includes a minified version resulting in a https://github.com/FlorianBezagu/Konamiz/b…

I'm also an actuary, but do some coding in my own time. I'm primarily here due to interest on current technology and programming trends and generally interesting articles. Our team…

Both AnkiDroid and the iOS Anki support syncing, so then all reviews can place on the device without using any data and then synced later in the day. I do this myself and it works …

I had thought about that, and/or have it show information about the colour, but decided against it in the end as I really like the single purpose nature of it. I've also always qui…

A zoomable history of the entire evolutionary tree of life.

I also found the inaccuracy of the chart awful and looked into producing a correctly scaled version: http://i.imgur.com/8wgAk.png The main problem was being able to still display r…