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tomassre | 2 years ago | on: Apple announces multibillion deal with Broadcom to make components in the USA

12 hour shifts are 13+ hours of actually being there because of lunch / breaks. For example Genentech in SF / Vacaville are "12 hours paid shifts" with 1 hour mandatory lunch. So no it is not required for an overlap because there i already a required by law break (lunch) that forces overlap (assuming this applies to more states than just CA).

tomassre | 9 years ago | on: Think twice before signing subscription to Adobe products

I tried to do this for my gym. After many back and forth calls with the bank and them telling me they just have to dispute the charge and do something else. Went in person to the bank (WF) and she said there was nothing they could (probably means will) do and I have to get a new credit card).

tomassre | 9 years ago | on: GCE vs. AWS in 2016: Why You Shouldn't Use Amazon

Thought I would chime in here since I didn't see anyone comment here about gold. We have GCP gold support. They answer all the questions / issues quickly and there aren't any limits to ticket counts I am aware of. During both the outages we have been affected by (~1.5 hour google load balancer outage, >3 hour bigquery outage) in the past few months, the support feels pretty bad even though there is nothing they can do I guess. However during the bigquery one, it was "outage will have an update by some time". There proceeds to not be some update for well past that time. Also 3 hours later its still we will have an update by some time but no more info when both of these were past SLA. Overall feels good and they answer any weird / general questions too which is nice (although sometimes on every reply they say I am going to close the ticket).

tomassre | 10 years ago | on: DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

I have used them for a side project, no issues. The big reason for me moving from DO to them that I didn't see mentioned is because they have actual private networking. And also the option for servers with HDD instead of SSD.
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