Fantastic software that I've used for over a decade. Interacted with Karl a few years ago about Adobe's AMF format; very generous with his time.
I was surprised to learn that it's over 20 years old! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Proxy
1. Wherein do you find the smugness? It does not speak to any person, let alone the first person.
2. What would give the impression that comments on the internet are written for others? Carly Simon once recorded a popular song about this type of falsehood.
3. It remains that SQL isn't relational. That is why it "won", after all. Relations are too complex for the layman to understand. Tables are much more familiar to the people in charge and arguably a better model for most business problems.
Files and folders on my MacBook and backed up to multiple places (3-2-1). My data store isn't more than 1tb (this doesn't count commercial movies, which sit on a NAS and I could take or leave those).
Worked for an eCom store for 3 years, was on-call 24/7 for most of it due to understaffing. In this context, every second of downtime was actual money being lost. CEO drilled in the gravity of each outage.
Took me a good few months after changing jobs to not get crazy anxiety every time my phone rang.
After working in a much healthier on-call setup later in my career supporting a large SaaS, I actually really like it. High stakes produce quick learnings.
Not for everyone, but everyone should try it (and be compensated FFS).
Actual business model: shame users for having 2 year old phones and push them towards throwing it away and buying one with more storage (for a premium, of course).
Perhaps it's less about billing and more about disincentivizing excessive use? Even if the service is free, it's not infinite and is ultimately a shared resource that should not be monopolized.
Nothing interesting to add, just an anecdote.
As someone based in a semi-rural part of South Africa, this dual cable break was a huge PITA for a few days. Latencies went through the roof; remote work was made very difficult.
Moved away 5 years ago. I've been back to visit 1-2 times every year since. Over the last year or so it felt that things have massively deteriorated. I guess that's the only feeling you can get when you have no electricity most of the day.
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