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It’s also not so much about RealPage, but the consolidation that has occurred in rental property ownership and management over the years. Now take what RealPage is doing with apart…

Just about every new housing development in the greater Houston area starts like this: Acquire some cheap farmland not too far from a highway, come in and sub-divide the lots, buil…

I’d take a file system that can be indexed by my local operating system (MacOS). The last MacOS update broke Spotlight indexing for my Google Drive folders. Really annoying not bei…

Their apparel brand is a joke. It’s run by Foley’s wife. Unless I messed something, what experience or qualification does she have in apparel? Never mind the fact that I’ve maybe s…

I personally feel like Kubernetes tries to be all the things, which creates feature and complexity bloat to be able to accommodate any possible workload you can throw at it. “Cloud…

By that same logic, I wonder how many times Facebook and Instagram have been reported for making teens so conscious about their self-image that they commit suicide?

You know what else is tilt-up? Most big box stores. Not sure why Amazon is being singled out here as I’m sure this building complied with all local building codes.

Why is this on Hacker News? It’s obviously a delivery station, not any kind of data center based on the trucks that were inside the facility in the video.

PTO is a form of compensation. Every place I’ve worked at has paid me for unused, accrued PTO when I left. But I’ve also never been terminated, so don’t know if that matters.

Fresh food isn’t just more expensive, but it’s also harder to handle and stock. Processed food comes in neat packaging that can be unit priced, and kept frozen or shelf-stable for …

Fuck Home Depot. First they killed off all the mom-and-pop hardware local stores. Now we shop there because that’s usually the only choice. Are we supposed to feel sorry for them? …

I mean, how else are we supposed to know the CPU is busy?

Apple effectively did the same thing with AirTags and turning everyone’s iOS device into a listening post for the Find My network, but there’s no uproar there.

Yep, this is the thing no one is talking about. Dallas has easily added 10k apartment units in the past 5 years. Almost all of them are all electric (no gas heating). Considering i…

Another thing worth noting: HEB is privately (family, I believe) owned. The difference is night and day between their stores/employees and those of the competing grocer in my area …

Yes, sadly so. I worked as a vendor to a retail company. Every time I went to their office (which was attached to one of their facilities that held product) I had to undergo a bag …

I’ve been on Southwest flights so sparsely full (maybe 40 people on a plane with capacity for 120) where the flight attendants have to repeatedly tell people to “spread out for wei…

You don’t need to allocate instances in advance if you use Fargate.

I have this feeling that 5G is more about cheaply deploying faster Internet (ie. comment about these things going up next to people’s bedrooms) versus a more expensive fiber deploy…

That’s the problem with a lot of franchise agreements. So many things are set and specified for you that you have no room to optimize your business as an operator. In a way, you’re…

AWS employee here--thoughts and opinions are my own. Prior to AWS, I was in IT Operations at a large financial services company. I saw the writing on the wall that over time, compa…

I’m surprised no one has mentioned AWS ElasticBeanstalk. It supports Docker (ECS behind the scenes) and is very close to Heroku in terms functionality but with EC2 pricing.