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Originally posted by Cliphead View PostContractors complaining about the price of booze? I have no idea what it costs per pint, bottle or whatever.What happens in General, stays in General.You know what they say about assumptions!Comment
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Originally posted by Cliphead View PostContractors complaining about the price of booze? I have no idea what it costs per pint, bottle or whatever.
I do recommend Waitrose own brand Bavarian weissbier though, it's the real deal.While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostWhat's the current price for a gram of coke then?Comment
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Originally posted by doodab View PostIt's €0.85 for a 500ml bottle of Bavaria's finest in Munich. Over £2 for a 660ml bottle of Peroni in my local tesco. That is not good value.
I do recommend Waitrose own brand Bavarian weissbier though, it's the real deal.Comment
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Originally posted by AtW View PostThey offer excellent vendor lock in for sure - what a lot of start ups need to do is write efficient code or hire people who can do that, this way they won't be using many resources in the first place: we handled literally millions of queries per day with a handful of cheap boxes, lots of very cheap dedicated servers out there that will be managed by the company that rents them out.
For anything web related its crazy to use Amazon, the only possible valid case I can see in them is being able to run large scale CPU only jobs very rarely, ie: one day a month to run really big job, that's fine, but if you need to run big jobs every day of the month then it's crazy to use Amazon.
They are not fast (latency wise) either for web hosting. Why on earth use them when you can get VPS for £25 per month and it can handle million requests per day if you are good with coding?
I agree with you on some level that they are crap but not that they are totally crap.Comment
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Originally posted by Cliphead View PostI thought it came in litres or fractions ofWhat happens in General, stays in General.You know what they say about assumptions!Comment
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostNo. You're getting confused with virgins blood. That normally comes in litres in other parts of the country, of course unless your in Glasgow where it's impossible to get and trying to find three wise men is considered implausible.Comment
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Originally posted by AtW View PostThey offer excellent vendor lock in for sure - what a lot of start ups need to do is write efficient code or hire people who can do that, this way they won't be using many resources in the first place: we handled literally millions of queries per day with a handful of cheap boxes, lots of very cheap dedicated servers out there that will be managed by the company that rents them out.
Hacking some crap code on a single dedicated server will let you manage enough users to get a VC sniffing around, then you can splash all their money on fixing it.Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostActually with modern hardware a startup doesn't need efficient code, until they get popular and explode. That's why FaceBook were fine with PHP until they had to write their own "compiled PHP" optimiser and why Twitter was able to run on Roby on Rails initially.
Hacking some crap code on a single dedicated server will let you manage enough users to get a VC sniffing around, then you can splash all their money on fixing it.Comment
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