branola | 11 years ago | on: Introducing Preemptible VMs
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branola | 11 years ago | on: Introducing Preemptible VMs
Any developer who was burned by App Engine pricing in the past is likely to take the lure of a "70% off" discount with a grain of salt because of the much higher cost of incorrectly relying on Google's pricing pledges.
In case anyone forgets, the pricing changes on Google App Engine caused many developers to abandon apps they had developed on the platform because of hundreds of percent increases in pricing:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine/rSh...
branola | 11 years ago | on: Programming by Voice: Staying Productive Without Harming Yourself
Stopped clicking with a mouse completely and never looked back. Dwell clicking apps are a godsend for anyone with mouse-related injuries.
branola | 13 years ago | on: Normalize.css v1.0.0
Is this something one could use as an alternative to "HTML5 Boilerplate" or does it serve a different purpose?
branola | 13 years ago | on: SpaceX wins $440M contract with NASA to develop Space Shuttle successor
Sierra Nevada will receive $212.5 million
Didn't realize beer was such an integral part of space exploration.
branola | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: DeadMouse – Surf the web with just your keyboard.
I prefer Mousetool (on Windows at least):
branola | 13 years ago | on: Why you need your own company
I agree that the post is mistitled and should be called Why you need side projects. The two quotes at the end of the piece support this:
“If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert.” - Australian psychiatrist W. Béran Wolfe
“Find a happy person, and you will find a project.” - Sonja Lyubomirsky
branola | 14 years ago | on: Twilio's Nine Values
Reminds me of Stewart Lee's standup bit on "the values of the Carphone Warehouse" (a British mobile phone retailer):
branola | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: Google alert for daily deals
Not bad. But I prefer WiredDeals:
The advantage of WiredDeals over DealsFerret is you can run searches and see the latest activity on the big deals sites without needing to sign up for an account. And, like DealsFerret, you can sign up for an account if you need alerts. I'm not associated with WiredDeals, by the way. Just an avid user for several years and like not having to dig through the big deals sites to see what's happening on a regular basis.
branola | 14 years ago | on: Save Time On Hacker News: Mark All Read
Love it! . . . But . . . I have Chrome set to delete all cookies whenever I close my browser and to save session cookies otherwise. So this extension works as long as the browser hasn't been closed once. But after the browser is closed and cookies deleted, the extension forgets what has been read when HN is reopened.
branola | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: Hacking recruiting - Coder's Coffee
What parameters are you using to define who the "best" coders are?
branola | 14 years ago | on: Derek Sivers Renounces his US Citizenship
Assuming it's true that he's dodging taxes, why would he want to rub everyone's noses in it? I wouldn't expect it to be a particularly well received blog post for example, not to mention potentially endangering his ability to successfully expatriate - since I believe you are not 'officially' allowed to do so for tax reasons.
branola | 14 years ago | on: Data Engineer in Google Case Is Identified - author of NetStumbler
Depicting his actions as the work of a rogue “requires putting a lot of dots together,” Mr. Milner said enigmatically Sunday before insisting again he had no comment.
It doesn't sound particularly enigmatic to me. It seems like Milner is clearly saying that Google deliberately misrepresented his behavior as a rogue action to facilitate their legal self-protection when in fact it's obvious from their choice of the author of NetStumbler to work on Street View that his designated role was likely to involve making use of his expertise with Wi-Fi networks.
branola | 14 years ago | on: Skill Doesn’t Matter If You Lack Taste
“It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.”
- Salvador Dali
branola | 14 years ago | on: Don't Get Grinfucked By Your Users
Grinfucked is an unnecessary and combative neologism. Users are not trying to deceive anyone except to avoid looking stupid when navigating the latest UI tricks that often only make sense to tech insiders. Also, this has been happening for decades.
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During those 3 years no warning was given that the pricing changes were going to be of such a magnitude.
As a result people had sufficient time and not enough warning to build entire businesses on an infrastructure that they later had to abandon.
That's unforgivable.