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New comment by evilmushroom in "The first solar road has turned out to be a disappointing failure"

evilmushroom — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 01:28:22 +0000

Or just put them above the road then? :P

New comment by evilmushroom in "How I use the good parts of AWS"

evilmushroom — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 05:39:52 +0000

You know, that makes sense. I was missing that context.

If you ever do, please give container orchestration a look. It makes it honestly easy.

New comment by evilmushroom in "How I use the good parts of AWS"

evilmushroom — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 05:28:27 +0000

My company runs AWS cloud all 20 of the non government regions as well, google cloud, and our own data centers around the world. Yeah certain regions (hello eu-north-1) are problemmatic, but we have work arounds for that. Terraform has been fine.

New comment by evilmushroom in "How I use the good parts of AWS"

evilmushroom — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 05:18:18 +0000

I have to use both. I find google easier to do simple things.. but I find it lacks some of the flexibility AWS has for less simple things.

Well, that and Google's managed k8s solution was down for multiple days awhile back when I was doing a comparison. Another reason I use EKS atm.... despite I think GKE is a bit better.

New comment by evilmushroom in "How I use the good parts of AWS"

evilmushroom — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 05:13:41 +0000

Not even in the same universe. Containers using some managed k8s (EKS, or GKE) cluster with helm is ridiculously easier to manage a dynamic sets of applications running than bare amis. I have a k8s cluster that runs across >1k ec2 instances where I have thousand of containers running various jobs. I can apply/delete any massive deployment across that literally in seconds. with a single command.

The layers make it a lot lot easier here.

New comment by evilmushroom in "How I use the good parts of AWS"

evilmushroom — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 05:05:30 +0000

Yeah. Terraform is the mature standard for this. To me it feels like OP isn't that familiar with large scale infra work.

New comment by evilmushroom in "Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B investment in Apple"

evilmushroom — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 05:06:32 +0000

That is not my experience. I've been shipping code for >20 years across a ton of platforms. MS tech has always been a snowflake headache.

New comment by evilmushroom in "Artificial Intelligence Is Now a Pentagon Priority. Will Silicon Valley Help?"

evilmushroom — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 05:57:01 +0000

I do machine learning--- but hate the overhead headache with DoD work. However if they paid me enough, of course :P

New comment by evilmushroom in "DigitalOcean’s quarterly report on developer trends in the cloud"

evilmushroom — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 16:24:17 +0000

I see people getting excited about something new "past REST"... which by that what they mean is RPC.

New comment by evilmushroom in "Silicon Valley’s Exclusive Salary Database"

evilmushroom — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 04:04:19 +0000

Yup. I make 3x what glassdoor lists for my company. So do at least 2 other senior engineer friends of mine at the company.

New comment by evilmushroom in "The Cost of Developers"

evilmushroom — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 21:55:09 +0000

Oh, they understood it, top tier mobile devs, they just thought it was trash. Drastically preferred to do native. I went to bat for them, and we shipped a beautiful app on time.

New comment by evilmushroom in "AI at Google: our principles"

evilmushroom — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 20:37:30 +0000

And now someone else will easily pick up the contract, and Google loses any ability at all to influence it. Perhaps they could have reduced civilian casualities more so than whoever picks it up.

New comment by evilmushroom in "Things I Regret About Node.js [video]"

evilmushroom — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 09:59:47 +0000

Or people just enjoy building something that scratches an itch for them?

New comment by evilmushroom in "The Cost of Developers"

evilmushroom — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 12:39:19 +0000

I have literally had a mobile team threaten to quit if we adopted Xamarin after they built a small app in it lol.

New comment by evilmushroom in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

evilmushroom — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 09:37:54 +0000

it's still bad.

New comment by evilmushroom in "Facebook moving away from React Native?"

evilmushroom — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 06:45:13 +0000

My mobile teams threatened to quit if we adopted Xarmin after building an app in it.

New comment by evilmushroom in "Fake it till you make it: the wolves of Instagram"

evilmushroom — Fri, 04 May 2018 18:05:47 +0000

Most of the countries I've lived or worked in (around Asia, Europe, South America ) are largely the same. I think it is a human quality.

New comment by evilmushroom in "Why I Don't Sign Non-Competes"

evilmushroom — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:31:28 +0000

Nope, not me. When I leave a company I purge all code, all documents, all access to any services etc.

New comment by evilmushroom in "Why I Don't Sign Non-Competes"

evilmushroom — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:38:07 +0000

My division got laid off... my company is paying my full salary + bonus through my enforced non-compete duration of a year, which I think is the right thing to do if they're going to enforce such. (and knowing what I know, and what I worked on, it's in their best interests)

New comment by evilmushroom in "Steam now accepts Bitcoin for purchases"

evilmushroom — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 23:25:44 +0000

Horses also have some interesting auto-pilot features, not to mention they are green. Their fuel source generates oxygen during development and some of their byproducts can be used to enhance your garden!