jasonmccay

Yes! The ability to be outside, pull out your phone, and get an almost-to-the-minute awareness of when it was going to rain felt magical, right out of Back to the Future 2. I used this countless times.

So much of weather forecasting, at that time, was about trends and probabilities. DarkSky was about events, certainty, and action.

It was truly ahead of anything else and forced a new standard.

For me, in college, it was Age of Empires. We'd have late-night LAN sessions with roommates and friends and when I eventually crashed into bed, my brain would continue strategizing for battles, determine necessary resources to mine, etc.

Interesting ... curious what the replacement cost of these membranes are as compared to installation and ongoing maintenance of wind turbines.

Also, as always, curious how having these membranes in the water would affect the local ecosystem.

If Deis was that valuable, one could assume that EY agreed to this arrangement because they are low on cash and needed the money.

How often is a company, in effect, acquired twice?

Perhaps. My experience (a data point of one) wasn't like that. Why would you risk team productivity until the deal is signed?

This may be true, but it also makes the common assumption that your time (or the time of your team) is somehow worth $0 dollars. But, I imagine that you would be the first to say that your time is worth much more than $0 dollars.

Put another way, hardware stores sell paint and paint supplies all day. Buying those and painting a room yourself is certainly cheaper, but it assumes you have the extra time to paint and don't mind you being the laborer. Hiring a painter costs more, but saves you a ton of time, energy, and elevates the level of expertise you are bringing to the job.

Getting started is one thing. The ease of how you maintain and grow is another.

You realize that was resolved 1.5 years ago, right? Also, it was a driver-level implementation. Comments like this make you sound more troll and less informative.

"Every single time we went from the 2-node primary site to the 3-node secondary" ... Can you explain what this means in terms of MongoDB?