1 out of my 6 instances in the region was affected. It took me about an hour to get it back up (which was me clicking once and waiting). I wonder how much of that is fallout from instances being sent to other availability zones and bottle-necking.
I've used one, it's just a laptop. Granted, I like to toot my own horn too, and my machines are no slouch so the performance benefit of SSD and high resolution was not something that was new to me. I have a new iPad and the 220 ppi is completely wasted on white space and sharp fonts. It offers no usability benefits in my experience. I don't do any media work.
I hate to be that "640k should be enough for anyone" guy but I'm not seeing much benefit to having all these extra pixels. Even if you did do some kind of high-detail image editing, you'd zoom in...
Now if it could run games at this resolution, that would be another story, but it can't. So who cares.
I can hardly use it indoors the glare is so bad. Luckily my workplace also has the much more practical ThinkPad available. When you compare them side by side... I'll just say it's clear what the designers were after.
>>I sympathise with the sentiment expressed but must point out that there is no market force that prefers un-established open products to established walled gardens save for a fraction of hackers' tastes and preferences.
It's not just about having alternative options, or "hating that people enjoy Apple" about doing things an effective and efficient way. Being efficient is something we all care about because we're all on the same planet. Being locked into a certain vendor's way of doing things is a Bad Thing™, and definitely not efficient. We already learned this with Microsoft... I guess everyone has to learn the hard way that not caring about your tools, paying someone else to care, and then expecting them to "just work" is not a effective way to do anything.
I'm weary of using structured data, that is data that is structured in such a way that you don't need to understand what it's passing around. Keeping it simple means that the developer will always know exactly what data is being passed around.
This is important for a lot of reasons not all of them are related to only development as a job.
Large companies have known for a long time that your dataset is more important than your algorithms.
Data is facts and algorithms are basically opinions of the developer. A smarter developer may have more correct opinions on how data is related, but it will always be skewed by the limited perspective of the developer.