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Comment · 9 years ago
It might be great functionally, but it looks like there's no design or aesthetics at all - kind of like an iphone made with matte plastic and without rounded corners.
Comment · 9 years ago
No comments on the interiors? It looks more befitting in a prototype than a $36,000+ car.
Comment · 9 years ago
RIP and condolences to his family, friends and colleagues. RescueTime looks like a product I should've gotten several years ago.

I wish I heard of it earlier from some other news.

Comment · 10 years ago
This sounds eerily similar to an experience I had. The CEO of a 10 year old company that kept growing in revenue and profits (even during the recession) went from being the most level headed and inspiring person to totally incompetent. He suddenly gave up and stopped coming to the office and and gave the employees a free reign to do what they wanted. Things actually worked but every time we needed his involvement he would show up and just fuck everything up.

After months of declining business he told me privately that the reason for his behavior was because he was burned out but felt everything could be fixed in 6 months. I didn't stay to find out and quit immediately. 6 months later those who remained ended up working 3 months without pay and found themselves out of a job while the CEO declared bankruptcy. Towards the end I heard he got more erratic and started blaming the employees, the board and everyone but himself for his situation.

It still baffles me how someone who seemed like he could turn anything to gold and had such good judgement could suddenly lose everything and become so hopeless because of burnout. Over a year later he still hasn't recovered and is being sued by several people.

Since you're an engineer - I'd say tell the board (verbally) what you think and put in a notice of resignation. If they change things for the better they might ask you to reconsider your resignation. If they take offense and side with the CEO - you're better off quitting anyway.

Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
The tool doesn't look like it's meant to be run within a cloud. Instances in a VPC without internet access would have only private IP addresses within the CIDR range of the subnet in which they are launched.

It's to find out which cloud a public IP address belongs to, for which the public data source/whois lookup seems the only option.

PS: the metadata (in case of AWS) can be accessed only within the instance itself.

Comment · 10 years ago
Wouldn't deploying cloudfoundry to AWS GovCloud accomplish the same thing? (Sorry, if the question seems too ignorant)
Comment · 10 years ago
Bootcamps have become more about cash and I know quite a few that are in trouble financially. Though they've gotten postive reviews lately it seems they will eventually be viewed in the same vein as Online degrees.
Comment · 10 years ago
You forgot the iphone SE, it's much worse for the Apple watch and Macbooks.

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