whirlycott1

This is really useful!

Chief Architect at PagerDuty here. Sorry this has happened to you! I can accelerate this for you but I’ll need some info to get started. Can you please email me at pjacob@ [PD domain] if you’re still open to PagerDuty?

That "Overwhelmed" book is excellent. Halfway through it now and it's really altered my perspective on everyday life.

Congrats Brian, Tristan and Jim!

How do people feel about Springpad? I've only used both casually, but it seems like the power users probably have thoughts or advice.

Certainly, there's a whole ecosystem of add-on services for AWS that improve the whole experience.

On the monitoring side, we're shortly moving into private beta for Stackdriver. Ping me if you want early access. @whirlycott

Dan was a super guy and a good friend. Incredibly smart, incredibly experienced, well respected and wonderfully nice to be around.

It's incredibly sad and a big loss for the technology world, but let's not forget to direct our thoughts to his wife and son that he leaves behind.

I tested infinite scrolling on a large site about a year ago and the results were decidedly negative in almost every significant respect according to our A/B testing. Does anybody actually have evidence that infinite scrolling is a good thing?

Note to self: try not to make announcements on April 1st lest they get mistaken as jokes.

The startup scene is not elitist at all. There are lots of easy places to plug in and I think people are generally receptive. Feel free to ping me when you arrive here or email me. I'm easy to find online.

I'd say "focus on the server," which seems to be overloaded and currently unavailable.