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Also the standard SLA you get will be wildly different from the bespoke contacts negotiated by enterprises. Just depends on your spend.

This type of insurance does exist. Speak to your broker.

LOL oh only 10 mill within 3 years... that is the holy grail of startups.

Not sure about the conditions of employment with Google, but if he has archives of emails long after he's left the company, could a lawsuit be forthcoming?

The cult of Microsoft is the new cult of Mac...

Did you Google the name first? This already conflicts with about 4 different open source projects, a container engine and a programming language

"Their business model looks like their products: an absolute mess." Quote of the year

Maybe they can spend some of that cash improving the atrocious service levels on gitlab.com

How is this different to www.katacoda.com?

Uhhh Russia?

Yeh we should be wasteful BECAUSE WE CAN!

Is that a joke? The syntax is worse than PHP and it doesn't run on Linux

Give me service availability over "source availability" any day. The gitlab paas product has shocking performance and uptime.

Some of the shenanigans I've seen recently from MS employees in the .NET Core and JS space doesn't inspire me with confidence... For all of Nadella's "turning over a new leaf", it …

Depends what you like. I prefer my Git hosting suppliers to have better than 50% uptime.

Hmmm I evaluated a lot of those (mainly OSM-based) geocoders recently. Unfortunately the quality of results is orders of magnitude worse than Google. The only ones that even came c…

Err, how are they in ANY way similar?

Find an industry that interests you. Focus on the delivery of your projects. There's more to finishing than just churning out code. You'll get the same reward you used get from hob…

If this is for deployment, why not just use debian slim?

Jacob that stuff really has no effect on the stability of the CI system and private runners, which is the real problem.

If you use data science libraries like numpy, pandas etc then these rely on OS level packages like libgfortran and liblapack. Anaconda is a way to guarantee you are running a known…

Ummm Google Drive?

Who cares? WSL is just putting lipstick on a pig.

Can we stop talking about Uncle Bob? He's like the old, weird, drunk, racist uncle at a wedding. His ideas haven't really been relevant for about 10 years, and he is increasingly p…

Authenticator Plus. It's a paid product, but allows me to sync my TOTP tokens to my Google drive account, so I'll never have that problem again.