How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase • Hacker News Board

Re: How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase

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Post by kkarakk » Tue, May 28, 2019, 8:50 AM UTC

hvidgaard wrote: post #63

kkarakk wrote: post #46

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They were just told to make the portal as a learning teambuilding exercise, choice of tools was entirely up to them - i even told the person company would pony up for anything they ended up spending. HR was being a pain about getting card details(it's not easy getting that stuff in india) The dude bounced off google maps as soon as he saw the form to enter payment info and went straight to open street maps.

> The dude bounced off google maps as soon as he saw the form to enter payment info and went straight to open street maps. As he should. Unless you have in written form that the company will cover the exact expense, then no one should use a personal CC for work use.

Not everyone is a rockstar engineer in a top 5 company my guy, people have to start somewhere and paperwork is a huge show stopper in india in general.

from your comment history i see you're european.Europeans have way more protections and assurances in cases like this, india is a very different business environment...

Re: How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase

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Post by slenk » Tue, May 28, 2019, 1:42 PM UTC

rkangel wrote: post #107

klaaz0r wrote: post #6

Offtopic I need to register with medium now to actually read the article?

The chrome extension 'Make medium readable again' solves this for me: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/make-medium-readab... It is ridiculous that I have to install an extension to make a website usable though. I'm genuinely curious why people publish on Medium.

Where is the love for FF

Re: How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase

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Post by rkangel » Tue, May 28, 2019, 2:00 PM UTC

slenk wrote: post #112

rkangel wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The chrome extension 'Make medium readable again' solves this for me: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/make-medium-readab... It is ridiculous that I have to install an extension to make a website usable though. I'm genuinely curious why people publish on Medium.

Where is the love for FF

Personally, I had a go with Firefox (desktop and Android) again when they were making all the fuss about quantum, but it was still much slower than chrome for my workload - I regularly ran into common tasks that took >50% longer. Combine that with the fact that some websites work less well in FF and I just couldn't face it, however much I'd like to support them.

Re: How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase

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Post by slenk » Tue, May 28, 2019, 2:21 PM UTC

rkangel wrote: post #113

slenk wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where is the love for FF

Personally, I had a go with Firefox (desktop and Android) again when they were making all the fuss about quantum, but it was still much slower than chrome for my workload - I regularly ran into common tasks that took >50% longer. Combine that with the fact that some websites work less well in FF and I just couldn't face it, however much I'd like to support them.

Container Tabs are so nice.

I honestly haven't run into slowdowns - maybe on Youtube where its known that Google doesn't play nice with other browsers.

There's also the whole issue of not letting Google control the web but that's for a different time.