Brooke & Ben were key PMs for the success of DigitalOcean. Both worked on the core Droplet product which was successful because of it's UX.

I used to work at DigitalOcean. Can confirm we didn't think a lot about Linode. We saw AWS as the real competitor. If there was someone in the VPS market we respected and tried to emulate it would have been OVH, not Linode.

The content of the article is relatively benign, but unflattering to Hunter Biden. Just interesting that social media platforms are censoring it.

Twitter has a clear policy about hacked material [1]. So stories based on emails harvested from a hack are not shareable. Theoretically even flattering stories would also be blocked if the source material came as a result of a hack.

1. https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hacked-materi...

This wasn't really a 'hack'. A laptop repair store backed up the drive and then sold the backup. It's shady, but not illegal.

I read the policy. I think that's a good policy that isn't politically motivated.

They also sell this data to hedge funds who can use it to try to predict retail sales.

I'm kind of skeptical of that. Do you specifically mean location metadata (I'm aware that happens), or do you actually mean AT&T sells access to datasets which map semantic content in the call to specific brands and products?

Credit card transaction data has a much higher signal for the same purpose and is just easier to work with.

Just location metadata which the hedge funds overlay with known retail locations.

Preprint on ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00011

nice! i didn't know about half of these.

UI is not part of the package. Thanks for the feedback!

Bowery is a street/neighborhood in New York City.

that's good feedback. Would a pricing calculator help or is it just that there are too many cost centers?

A calculator would probably help. How about showing some sample setups (and their resulting costs) for different kinds of webapps?

There's a lot that goes on behind the scenes. Think about DynamoDB vs Riak.