This perfectly sums up my feelings on this: https://giphy.com/gifs/anchorman-lies-lie-EouEzI5bBR8uk

where lies a myth? It's customer needs vs. tech that wins.

I agree, I personally don't think it's a valid myth. As you said, the customer overall knows what he wants, and he doesn't want technical (or ideological, in the case of Free Software) purity.

I was just pointing out that because techies consider something superior (ergo the myth), it doesn't necessarily "win". Plus in this case I think it's really, really hard to argue that GCP is superior to AWS.

a search for your question "all the floating point operations that can produce NaN" gave useful results for me.

$200MM rev is crumbs when you're taking billions. I don't think this provides a good example of how it can work.

Opposite to the armchair analyst opinions last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12218654

Then you're in the android ecosystem which is heavy Google.

Maybe job board postings are down 40%

http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2016/05/06/it-job-growth-slows-tech...

do these actually exist?

One that comes to mind is Basecamp.

do you have an example?