decwakeboarder

Office space that is designed to be leased is also designed to be (relatively) easy to reconfigure.

> long term out-of-the-money call options I bet $425 calls are about to get real cheap.

The problem is in measurability of a change. If I improve a developer or analyst workflow that makes 100 people 1% more successful, that's likely both more beneficial and also harder to measure than a change that makes 5 people 10% more successful.

> Instead of spinning out and paying for a new vm or app service to host it on (which cost the same basically)

S3 / Cloudfront is (apologies for the buzzword) serverless and incredibly cheap. It's public-facing only though.

Is that true? They'd still need to adhere to HVM vs. PVM, but that should be it.

ec2 is ~easy though, they're just smaller VMs on newer hosts.

I'm amazed that things like SimpleDB are still around and supported even though only a handful of engineers in my ~200 person org have heard of it.

You could also be missing out on incentives from the manufacturer for not using their financing. It's definitely a good idea to have money or financing already lined up, but some manufacturers will give thousands of dollars in incentives to use their financing.

> 1.25 MAU

1.25 anonymous MAU. Unless you're a VPN provider, I can't see anyone monetizing anonymity.

> Speaks protocol buffers, a fast and compact format compared to JSON

This is definitely important at Google-scale, but for the rest of us compressed JSON typically isn't that bad.

FWIW the Hemnes line is solid wood (or at least has an option for it) and is excellent for the price.

The entire point of Garadget is to add control of your garage door over the internet...

IANAL, but I'd assume that Windows Defender is "deployed" to the system at the time of "deploying" the OS.

> it felt like doing a wave of work, consisting mostly of putting things back to there proper place, only to come back tomorrow and do the same thing with no end in sight. This may be a phenomenon of employment at large, I don't know.

I've been in IT Engineering / SRE for over 10 years now and you just described 80% of my days.

> After all, the "real world" won't hold your hand.

The "real world" will eat you alive if you can't discuss topics which make you uncomfortable.

From looking at their architecture diagram it seems that this is different enough from Prometheus's single golang binary to "justify" a fork.

I haven't looked close enough, but hopefully they've done so in a way that common things (query functions, alertmanager integration, etc) can be kept in sync with upstream easily.