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I don't think it's played; it's that idiots brought low-margin businesses into a high-margin enterprise b2b saas company (that exploits a monopoly too) and are shocked that gaming …

Well, I do interpret this is step one towards a forthcoming post titled "Our Incredible Journey [with Fly Machines]"... Whether that comes to pass depends on sprite uptake and so f…

sucks: fly backburnering the app platform to build sprites. > [...] Sprites, and focusing the company on [Sprites] and the problem they solve. Then later > first path [the thing I …

This really sucks. I not only like fly a lot, I have two production apps; thousands in annual creds up for renewal soon; and some mildly embarrassing discussions about migrations t…

Randomized Control Trial

I had immense trouble buying api quota as a startup with a brex card and a C corp.

I used to run a hybrid mobile app + webapp company. Private emails regularly lead to awful customer service interactions because people cannot tell us the email they used to regist…

Deliberate bad faith is about right. Apple was not the problem for rcs; the carriers are and were.

That's flatly not true. imessage interop means not just the person who installs the other app, but the data of everyone with whom they message loses the security/privacy guarantees…

> What problem is solved by putting a data center in orbit? Applying standard financial metrics (do they make money? Will they ever? What valuation does that justify?) to certain c…

The idea that a package can be updated and with a deploy at the right time could be live on your servers in prod 10 minutes later has always been crazy, and the last years have jus…

I'd bet good money this is mostly related to Europe's GDPR / DMA actions against Facebook. Ironically, I think Facebook would be in the clear to just charge everyone in Europe and …

> native apps a plenty in the 90s and 2000s And 1/100th the feature footprint.

> feeling that the convenience from ignoring the "deep expertise" and piling on hacks and lazy abstractions But again, accidental complexity. The web platform is utterly rotten. So…

> Probably the best choice but doesn't change the structural problem. The structural problem is that we are destroying trading relationships built with Europe over generations.

In 2008, Softlayer did monthly rental with provisioning of baremetal servers in hours. They quite likely did it earlier, but I used them in 2008.

If it were google's bug as Railway has certainly at least insinuated, then yes. I would also be fine with them saying "blah blah blah abuse was detected; we're working through it w…

That assumes a competent org. If this were aws, I fully believe that. At gcp it's entirely plausible.

When I've written similar services, there was a (low) hard cap on how many fraud decisions they could action before they quit and paged. If we were getting hit with a wave of somet…

"we did not have the monitoring or controls to prevent our anti-fraud from hard killing 3% of workloads, including many instances of pg" Oof.

"Speed with Quality" Having been in some of these values meetings, I really imagine it went like this: someone wanted speed, and someone else wanted quality. Sorry, I mean Speed an…

I'm pretty sure it's one of the revenue models for those free tv/movie boxes. You can even see them at best buy. Absurd.

It's coming. The Poshmark morons demanded government id to buy a $35 shirt. On an established account, an address that matched my credit card, etc. The only answer is delete your a…

"A thing is being implemented." Liars only: Apple is doing nothing.

If a single non-malicious code change can break a thing like that with nobody noticing that's a catastrophic failure in testing, QA, and operations (nobody noticed 20% of euros tra…