They only have big outages. The VMs are incredibly reliable other than the big incidents. And, as I am often reminded by my product owners, people don't mind big outages as much as much as small random failures. If the whole thing is down, ok, fine, I'll go home. If it fails 0.1% all the time, my life is suffering. And in GCP, you start a VM and it just stays up. We've killed them from inside with memory leaks and filling the disk etc., but I haven't seen GCP kill them (50K VMs for couple years).

>So, basically Google created the most unreliable cloud system in the world

I'm pretty sure that title goes to Azure

You people probably haven't used IBM Cloud (or Bluemix, as it used to be). We inherited one application there, and boy was life stressful. There were already plans to move elsewhere, and then one day our managed production database was down. Took me something like ten hours to build a new production system elsewhere from backups, but it took longer for the engineers to fix the database.

Yeah, that's why countries like Sweden and Finland are at the very bottom of all the PISA rankings /s

Man’s life ‘destroyed’ following classmate’s false rape allegation: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/mans-life-destro...

You can't compare that as it's a paid enterprise on-prem version not something you can self-host and keep running as long as you want. You won't get community fixes for it like it would be the case if Google were to abandon Gitlab if an acquisition would be the case.

That’s not what “self-hosted” means.

5 months ago there was an outage in GKE for 3 days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18428497

It doesn't look like a good service to me at all.

That discussion seems to indicate that 1) it was a console/UI issue (not a service outage), and 2) it was actually resolved within the day but the final incident update came 3 days later.

The outage brought down spotify, snapchat and others.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17552532

Those are two separate links to two separate incidents.

That was a Global Load Balancer outage. Not a GKE outage.

When that GCLB outage happened, GKE would still be able to get traffic if you used ngnix ingress and/or regional load balancers.

Bad news! Prions are extremely stable and not even boiling, Protease or high radiation can disrupt them.

Some prions are extremely stable

Very biased article and by the way, tslint will also warns you if you don't use promise:

https://palantir.github.io/tslint/rules/no-floating-promises...

ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING in this article is wrong. I just opened a typescript project in VSCode, created unused function and a class method and I immediately get warning that they are unused. So the author can't even check the facts before writing an article...

VSCode has Local History?

Of course it's biased, it's a "Why I XXX" article ;) - what did you expect?

Regarding the floating promises warning, this setting is off by default, so you have to know it's there to activate it. Additionally, VSCode's integration with tslint output is mystifyingly poor, and I assume it is this that the author is referring to. There's clickable output in the build output window, but no popups in the text editor.

I like to run the compiler and linter manually, so I can see all the issues in one list. Popups in the editor are handy but clickable output in the build output window is good enough.

Some people prefer to work with file watchers, so the error/linter output is not as accessible. They probably need to be able to see everything in the text editor. But even if you work the way I do, you may well wonder why you don't get tslint editor popups. I've certainly wondered it myself. I can do without, but they're certainly handy.

I don't think it's deliberately biased, just a guy who's not very invested into the VSCode/Typescript ecosystem who's going back to his known tools.

FYI TSLint still has a large amount of config required to get it working, and the vscode integration still has a "wont-fix, upstream" bug where it won't lint files unless they are open in the editor. So you need to manually run tslint from the commandline. See: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-typescript-tslint-plugin...

I'm guessing that webstorm does this this more auto-magically for the user.

I'm deploying a simple SPA I wrote as a sole developer for a client later this week, and the clients have been thrilled with it so far. I've written less code than in other traditional webapps, the app is responsive and works well, and I know that sudden changes in server infrastructure (they're on-prem hosted and looking at moving to a Windows/IIS environment) aren't going to require a full-on rewrite.

I think that's probably the sweet spot for SPAs though honestly - small scope internal apps (served over relatively quick intranet connections) with access to minimal client infrastructure (all you need is a web browser).

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I’m genuinely concerned that people seriously think this is a _solution_.

Beyond sex, relationships with romantic partners are a complex, rewarding part of the human experience. How did that get lost to some?

You say rewarding, but for a lot of people it's an incomprehensible minefield. I mean where do you even start?

Humans have been working it out for a million years or so, it isn't that difficult.

If someone considers relationships with other people to be an "incomprehensible minefield," then the problem is with them, not the nature of human relationships.

Too many people overthink things, seeing each potential relationship as a puzzle to be solved, or searching for some general purpose sexual algorithm for which they can provide the inputs and recieve sexual or emotional fulfillment, or they expect hostility and deception and treat dating like an interrogation.

And of course some people just don't have empathy for the opposite sex and don't understand social boundaries or cues.

> If someone considers relationships with other people to be an "incomprehensible minefield," then the problem is with them, not the nature of human relationships.

Is it a reasonable position to tell a disabled person who considers a society with no handicap accessibility that the problem is them, not with the nature of society?

Are we talking about disabled people?

I was under the impression we were talking about a general majority of sexually frustrated young men.

> Are we talking about disabled people?

At what point does lack of ability to engage socially become a disability? Your statement already acknowledged their difficulties.

For some it’s not easily achieved, so I’d suppose it’s less about dudes thinking “meh, this is more convenient” than dudes thinking “meh, I’m not getting laid anyways”

Don't you think this would make the problem worse?