The art department is that way, we do engineering here. Faster is better.

What part of faster is better means engineering to you? Non engineers will prefer you get there faster, but however you get there, better is better.

If you want to say something just say it no need for trap questions.

Faster delivery of a project being better for engineering is obviously one of the most important things because it gives you back time to invest in other parts of your project. All engineering is trade-offs. Being faster at developing basic code is better, the end. If nothing else you can now spend more time on requirements and on a second iteration with your customer.

> obviously one of the most important things because it gives you back time to invest in other parts of your project

That is until you get so deep in code debt that you cannot move anymore.

There is an equilibrium to be found. Faster is not always better, and trying to have every single line perfect is not good either.

Wouldn't you just be closer to the closest PoP and requesting mostly cached content? With how connected amsterdam is they couldn't be around there. Also depending on when it was up until like 7-8 years ago even in major city centers there was no fiber in most places in NL. Now it's mostly covered.

Was a while back so bit fuzzy on what precisely we were measuring, but no wasn't something cached/CDN'd. Maybe a VPS or something not sure.

I was on a better connection (gigabit FTTC) and in a better peered location (central London).

>amsterdam

Don't know where precisely in NL they were or what connection type. I'd certainly expect a like for like amsterdam wired connection to win so this was probably something more pedestrian & rural

And move to the Lidl cloud?

Well it makes sense for the company to demand it, but for the community / municipality it only makes sense if they believe someone else will sign such a secrecy deal, because if their location is so good, advertising it would generate bidding war and they'd get more money.

So it depends on the game theory but with coordination on the municipalities doing it in the open should generate higher demand.

As you know from your example people fall for that too.

To be fair, I wouldn't let other people control my machine either.

I can say that as someone that does this for a job for a while, it's starting to be useful in many domains related to SRE that make parts of the job easier.

MCP servers for monitoring tools are making our developers more competent at finding metrics and issues.

It'll get there but nobody is going to type "fix my incident" in production and have a nice time today outside of the most simple things that if they are possible to fix like this, could've been automated already anyway. But between writing a runbook and automating sometimes takes time so those use cases will grow.

When parts of a market become dominated by one or few companies operating in a limited choice environment, consumers can't just opt to not use both Apple and Play store. You need to choose one in practice.

At this point the regulators should investigate what the barriers are to new entrants and if it's too costly and nobody has managed to cut in the last few years, establishing some rules is probably a good thing. This happens as industries mature and become critical, it happened in transportation (most bus, train companies), energy, water supply, trash, etc, depending on the country and market conditions.

Barrier to entry is simple: both Google and Apple heavily discourage "sideloading" or make it practically impossible.

Google is moving in that direction.

What is funny is that I know plenty of great engineers that won't earn $4mil ever in their life. For that amount of money you could give 4 guys $1mil each to create an amazing resource and take care of it for the next 30 years. I wonder how much PwC will charge for ongoing hosting and maintenance.

Next 30 years? You are probably clueless about taxes here.

That's crazy because I assumed they were obviously talking about Apple's first CEO.

For "Scott Apple" search string, Google agrees with me and the forstall guy is just a secondary mention.

For me he will always be “Scotty”. “Scott” at Apple will almost always imply Scott Forstall.

Figuring out which "json" to "emit" is the hard part.