Yes! The ability to be outside, pull out your phone, and get an almost-to-the-minute awareness of when it was going to rain felt magical, right out of Back to the Future 2. I used this countless times.

So much of weather forecasting, at that time, was about trends and probabilities. DarkSky was about events, certainty, and action.

It was truly ahead of anything else and forced a new standard.

> The ability to be outside, pull out your phone, and get an almost-to-the-minute awareness of when it was going to rain felt magical

But iOS has this now. It's the same thing. They integrated it from Dark Sky.

it doesn't work nearly as well. i'm not sure why, but the predictions are significantly worse than dark sky's were

I agree. One of the weird things is that the precipitation map will show rain coming that doesn't show anywhere else in the Weather app. Nearly every time that happens, the map is the one that's correct. And usually forecast.weather.gov will align with the map as well (and provide a better forecast than the app).

But that's the point. The map is based on the Dark Sky algorithm and only goes out an hour or so. And that's where the next-hour precipitation graph comes from -- and I've never seen them not match. Everything else is standard weather forecasts. Dark Sky itself worked the same way. It wasn't making 6-hour forecasts using its 1-hour algorithm. The results would have been terrible.

This is why I don't understand the complaints that iOS precipitation accuracy is worse than Dark Sky's. The map works the same way. The chart works the same way. Complaints about UX I get. But not the complaints about a supposed fall in precipitation accuracy.

I get that it's a common trope that products always supposedly get worse once they're bought. But in this case, in terms of accuracy, I just don't think it's true. And remember, Apple would have zero reason to worsen the quality. The whole point of buying it was to improve iOS weather. Which it did.

to each their own, but i used darksky for years as a daily bicycle commuter and found it to be profoundly accurate--to the point where i could use it to find clear patches of 15-20min to ride home in. there was a marked decline in the reliability & accuracy of the information provided to me once i was forced to switch to apple weather

I dunno. I literally use Apple Weather for that (can I run an errand in the next 25 min before the rain comes back) and it works the same as it did with Dark Sky. No decline that I've noticed. Like, it doesn't suddenly start raining after only 10 min when the app said I'd have 25 min.

For me, in college, it was Age of Empires. We'd have late-night LAN sessions with roommates and friends and when I eventually crashed into bed, my brain would continue strategizing for battles, determine necessary resources to mine, etc.

Interesting ... curious what the replacement cost of these membranes are as compared to installation and ongoing maintenance of wind turbines.

Also, as always, curious how having these membranes in the water would affect the local ecosystem.

If Deis was that valuable, one could assume that EY agreed to this arrangement because they are low on cash and needed the money.

How often is a company, in effect, acquired twice?

Perhaps. My experience (a data point of one) wasn't like that. Why would you risk team productivity until the deal is signed?

Depends on what you're doing with the team. Going dark is not, for instance, a strong indicator that they're going to keep the product alive.

If you are interested in the Jekyll / Github approach, you ought to check out Octopress (https://github.com/imathis/octopress) by Brandon Mathis.

It includes all the benefits of this approach, but with a nice out-of-the-box theme as well as useful helpers to make the blogging experience much better.

Also https://github.com/developmentseed/jekyll-hook

This may be true, but it also makes the common assumption that your time (or the time of your team) is somehow worth $0 dollars. But, I imagine that you would be the first to say that your time is worth much more than $0 dollars.

Put another way, hardware stores sell paint and paint supplies all day. Buying those and painting a room yourself is certainly cheaper, but it assumes you have the extra time to paint and don't mind you being the laborer. Hiring a painter costs more, but saves you a ton of time, energy, and elevates the level of expertise you are bringing to the job.

Getting started is one thing. The ease of how you maintain and grow is another.

No, my assumption was that previously we had:

(Heroku Cost) <=> (EC2 Cost) + (EC2 DevOps Cost)

Now we have:

(Heroku Cost) <=> (EC2 Cost) + (EC2 Devops using Docker)

Where (EC2 Devops using Docker) < (EC2 Devops)

So the value proposition has shifted. It's not a "Heroku Killer", but it does dilute their value prop, as my prior post mentioned.

This. No one ever factors in Ops time when I hear them complaining about Heroku.

I'm not sure ops time is even the one to worry about. Most things I've learned I've learned the hard way. So a server going berserk isn't fun, but it's not like I just wasted either time or money on it. I learned something. I better understand my execution environment.

Downtime, on the other hand, is just lost revenue opportunity.

I certainly do, and I can tell you the amount of time I've spent managing servers over the past year has cost us less than running our entire production stack on Heroku would have done. So has the odd bit of downtime we've encountered because I've not got the same level of experience as Heroku's ops team.

I don't know, Docker + CoreOS is pretty dead simple.

You realize that was resolved 1.5 years ago, right? Also, it was a driver-level implementation. Comments like this make you sound more troll and less informative.

"Every single time we went from the 2-node primary site to the 3-node secondary" ... Can you explain what this means in terms of MongoDB?

Yes, this. It is really stretching it to say that you can effectively "game" on your TV when airshare'ing from your iPad /iPhone to your Apple TV. It sucks.