It is the new Experts Exchange.
Yup. I have an adblocker, but after the first answer (which was crap) I got a link to the question "What is jam made from?" and then got prompted with a modal to prompt me to make an account. Never again.
Readit Newssofaofthedamned commented on The Quora Partner Program Is a Scam medium.com/@AntonioKowats... · Posted by u/vincent_s
> They probably don't pay you enough.
Can confirm :)
> ...we do already pay for resources that are provisioned by our K8S clusters
Customers are charged for worker nodes, but until this point, the control plane ("master") nodes have been free. In addition to the raw compute costs for those nodes, there's the SRE overhead for managing, upgrading, and securing them.
> ...but I generally assumed that that cost was amortized out
<googlehat>I'm not really sure.</googlehat> <civilian>My guess would be that, initially, this was the case. However, over time, people have created many zero-node clusters. Now the amortization isn't. Again, pure speculation.</civilian>
> But, isn't that quotas are for?
See my comment above about zero-node clusters.
> I have a new $73/mo. fee attached to my account (which, is not the end of the world) is that this really comes out of left field...
Acknowledge, but I do want to highlight that changes take place a few months from now (June 2020), not immediately. Furthermore, each billing account gets one zonal cluster with no management fee.
> Is this the precursor to you all discontinuing GKE because, as the DevRel class likes to tweet, nobody should be using Kubernetes if they can use (more expensive) services like Cloud Run?
100% no. Also, Cloud Run is almost always cheaper than running a Kubernetes cluster.
> Are we about to get Oracled?
I'm not sure what you mean by that verb.
So couldn't you charge the control-plane for zero-node clusters?
We offer one free zonal cluster, which is specifically designed for your use case :)
I have personal experience of a few companies in the UK where GCP are offering 90+% discounts to onboard. GCP are spending hundreds of millions to do this. K8S control-planes are a rounding error compared to this.
You could have grandfathered in current deployments but - nope. In the tech world this is up there with killing Google Reader.
sofaofthedamned commented on Facebook's Download-Your-Data Tool Is Incomplete privacyinternational.org/... · Posted by u/Garbage
Do you believe that Google or Facebook sells personalized profiles of the form "jschwartzi is interested in tacos"?
Because that isn't how these companies work.
TBF it may be best to explain your working a bit better, considering you work at Google.
sofaofthedamned commented on Cloudflare silently deleted my DNS records txti.es/cloudflare-delete... · Posted by u/iudqnolq
I've put this idea forward a number of times here on HN in regards to other big tech companies.
Technology companies need an "ombudsman" - a contact that customers can go to when the normal tech support processes have failed.
The Ombudsman must not be part of the technology companies ordinary support processes, it must be entirely separate, and have highest level authority to demand action within the company.
To avoid the Ombudsman being overused, you could give it a price of say $20, which is always refunded when the case is resolved.
HN constantly has front page posts from people for whom big tech companies have support processes have failed but there is simply no other recourse unless you have "a friend in the business".
It just doesn't work to have some random Cloudflare person offer their email address as some post disaster issue resolution process on social media. Formalise it with an official Ombudsman and maybe then companies like Cloudflare might avoid HN front page bad publicity.
I had an issue at "one of the biggest tech companies" that went on for days and days in which tech support kept telling me I had set up something wrong, until eventually I emailed one of the top managers who I happen to "know" at that company - it was fixed within hours. That "contact a friend in the business who can actually get things done" is a necessary part of a large support organisation and it simply does not exist yet in any tech company that I know of.
That's actually a really good idea. Bit like a Credit Card Chargeback, except it's charged to the customer and is refundable.
This is a very fascinating discussion. NRK, the Norwegian national broadcaster also does this. NRK Beta, which experiments with new technology in broadcasting, launched a streaming service in 2007, which was the basis for the streaming offering they are still providing today.
It's worth mentioning that NRK and Norway has taken inspiration from BBC since the dawn of television, including the licensing system (which has just been replaced by a fixed tax).
Same with NHK (I think) in Japan. Lots of old school broadcasters doing proper engineering.
sofaofthedamned commented on Twitter's community verification system will be a disaster easydns.com/blog/2020/02/... · Posted by u/StuntPope
If easydns can't survive a HN flood then I wouldn't want to be a customer of theirs.
British Telecom was trialing on-demand video deployments in the 80s.
No internet, instead it used fibre optic cable to create a switched video network, which could be used to watch normal cable tv channels, or connect the user to a dedicated remote laserdisc player.
While such systems never got wide-spread deployments, it's interesting to consider how the media landscape would have changed if we had gone that route.
Source, A promotional/technical video from the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1AiM1S8MGk
BBC research are amazing. They've been doing this for decades, most recently with next gen codecs and latency issues on internet transmission. As a British person I'm actually proud of them, even though many people complain their politics are orthogonal to mine.
sofaofthedamned commented on Code Shame: Sharing your embarrassing code brendonbody.com/2020/01/3... · Posted by u/bbody
I have stuff I wrote in the mid 90's. Mostly C code. It's horrible to look at.
I wish I kept the earlier stuff from my Amiga days.
Same! Best programming I ever did was on the ST and Amiga.
sofaofthedamned commented on The first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1 sha-mbles.github.io/... · Posted by u/ynezz
Please don't feed the cancer which is AMP.
https://techcrunch.com/2008/12/30/md5-collision-creates-rogu...
Please don't overegg the issue with AMP by comparing it to cancer.