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A large part of the issue with pricing on Google App Engine (which is the one that still stings for many people) - was that they were building on a relatively proprietary platform.…

There are small things - e.g. you can't do weekly / fortnightly billing. Once I discovered that I stopped investigating BT for our primary subscription engine. We just hold the car…

Shouldn't it be the service's responsibility to determine what you are rating as a median score and then recalibrate your scores to their drivers? i.e. If I always rate 3, but some…

Except if your target customer isn't a chemist.

Overnight Atlassian release security alerts across their product suite for critical security defects in their product suite. The defects include a remote privilege escalation for u…

I recently went on holidays and was merrily tethered away on 4G to Telstra. Hit the cap limit on my plan - 3GB - called Telstra to get a datapack add-on - "I'm sorry, but you are o…

Amazon (the mothership) runs at a loss [1] It is predicted that Amazon AWS runs at a huge margin [2] Of course it's possible that these number are skewed by some Irish Whiskey Doub…

The old Polar series of sports monitoring watches (HRM/speed/cadence etc) used to transmit data using a "Sonic Link". e.g. client library - https://code.google.com/p/sonicread/

Double opt-in is optional at Mailchimp. Customers can add emails directly and check a box saying "yes this customer gave me permission". Aweber uses double opt-in and there is no w…

I guess the main issue is that the timeline of events has gone like this: Snowden/Guardian: NSA is doing X Govt/NSA: We are not doing X Snowden/Guardian: Here are some slide/proof …

I wonder if the developers get a real handle on the platform and squeezing the most out of it by the time it gets to EOL.

Could be that the active user base of mixpanel has dropped slightly while people are offline to upgrade. Would depend on exactly how their metrics are being gathered. None-the-less…

I was using LaTeX => PDF generation, but because I don't do it all the time I found it cumbersome and confusing at times. Prawn seems to have come a long way since I used it last -…

SQL Server Standard is $2K per core - with > 4 cores per socket, things flip around a bit. I'm not a SQL licensing guru; so perhaps I'm confused as well...

Interesting idea, it looks like you scan the Gemfile.lock (or equivalent) at "deploy" time. My preference would be to upload that Gemfile.lock to a location, and then it could be s…

The only question I'm really interested in... And Linode isn't saying anything new

Monocultures are "bad" (plenty of other issues too!)

Could be that the passwords were hashed, but something logged a password, or there was leakage somewhere during the login process. All it takes is one debug log statement to leak t…

Agreed, I don't know if I'd be able to sleep if my status was displayed on anything with less than a 20000:1 contrast ratio

Sales Tax Clearing House as a Service!

Only lawyers think it's a good idea to deploy lawyers into the routing mesh.

Because your sample is so small, the results are easily skewed by a few people. As the sample size increases you'll get a more representative picture of what is happening. It doesn…

I could believe this - once you have load balancers, multiple proxies and different servers all over the place - getting the IP address of a request can become difficult. If there'…

My motto is - "Where there's confusion, there's contracts"

Nothing wrong with using the cloud as long as you really understand what you're getting yourself into. * Use a vendor specific extension - e.g. EBS + snapshots to mount customer da…