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One hour in, no more Codex for me. This thing rips.

Thanks for clarifying. I didn't know they used a SPAC. For sure going to see more and more fraud via those until some new mechanisms are introduced.

I haven't paid a lot of attention to Nikola and was surprised when a friend said they had gone public and saw their valuation.

This one always felt like a fraud when it was private. How was it able to go public? Isn't that supposed to root out these things?

Hearing about their revenue was an eye opener for sure.

Side note, I always wonder about the WeWorks and Nikola's of the world. The founders, who are obvious frauds in retrospect, still probably walk away with hundreds of millions if not a few billion. Sometimes it feels like being a decent human being doesn't pay off. Doesn't help that our current political environment is also rewarding the worst in us too

That’s disappointing. The original Actions was amazing and much of that was the thoughtful main.workflow file. This feels like a regression. I’m not a yaml hater like many but main.workflow was clean, almost pleasant to use. It felt like it actually came from understanding developers.

These are fun. We have one in a home and the kids absolutely love it. Completely impractical but definitely adds something to the home. Nice party trick for folks too.

That's the thing, it largely _doesn't_ have more than Azure or GCP these days. And for 80%, maybe 90% of all use cases in existence, AWS v Azure v GCP from a pure catalog offering perspective is identical. And when that compounds with other factors, it falls far behind.

Obviously Amazon.com is different and it's mostly about logistics, inventory and reduced buyer friction among some other things.

I'd agree with this for amazon.com and consumers.

That still doesn't explain AWS v Azure or GCP which have similar (or better) services, more than competitive pricing and in Azure's case, waaaaay better support.

In fact, everything about AWS is typically worse. Perhaps AWS entered the 'no one ever got fired for buying AWS territory' even when there are a ton of better options out there. If that's the case, kinda sucks for devs who are stuck using their crappy services when so many others exist.

I have long held that Amazon(.com) has some of the worst UX I've ever seen, and it still is able to sell massive amounts to consumers.

We are left to consider that perhaps UX, particularly to the mass market, really doesn't matter. Or maybe that Amazon has such an entrenched lead, mindshare or other, it can weather some horrible, horrible experiences.

Considering that AWS is almost identical on the cloud front, I'm not sure really what to think here.

I'm a programmer. I use cloud services everyday. I have actively stayed away from AWS in the past few years b/c it has such a bad UX/DX and yet....it grows.

Azure is better. GCP is better. AWS, when compared to those two objectively, is downright terrible. Their services are disjoint. Their command lines don't work together. Their web console? Hooooooollllllly mother of god.....

I guess I don't know what to make of Amazon. Developers seem to fawn over things like Heroku, Zeit, GitHub and they are hugely successful in their own right....but still AWS is used by developers and, IMO, it shouldn't be anymore. It's 2018 and AWS is very clearly stuck in the 1970s/80s DX. They just don't get it, or maybe they do? And DX doesn't matter to most developers?

If we are honest with ourselves, AWS should be in third place in 2018. And it shouldn't even be close. Their services are comparable to the point of no real differentiation to their competition, and they have worse billing, worse experience, worse DX, worse support and overall worse nearly everything.

And yet they grow.

So yes, Amazon.com and AWS are terrible. And for some reason it doesn't seem to matter. I would like to live in a world where it does, particularly for developer tools where I hope that developers have more taste and sense than the choice of AWS shows.

This....this makes no sense. An integration doesn't mean something else is going away. That's not how platforms work.

FWIW, gitlab is going to get acquired...it has to. Probably by google, or oracle, or salesforce, or ibm, or hp (or whatever name they have these days), or redhat. And depending on which one it is, will be how ruined gitlab becomes, because all of those seem like terrible options, but I digress now.

Linking to nutritionfacts.org is like linking to Exxon with an article on why green energy is bad.

That's not really what I meant. What I really meant was that Manuscript very clearly does project management (it's even in the title of the site), which Trello did. I imagine that would be a 'no-no' in the Trello sale to Atlassian.

Or is that not the case, contractually?

Someone educate me :)

How is Fog Creek allowed to do this after the sale of Trello to Atlassian? I would have expected some provision related to not releasing product/project management software for some period of time?