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There appear to be some but you are correct that it has a strong "card game" bias as it was originally meant to play Magic. I'm not aware of any, no.

Worth mentioning here for any interested parties is OCTGN [1], or "Online Card and Tabletop Gaming Network".

Interesting history - it started out from a VB6 application (specifically for playing Magic the Gathering) maintained by a single guy, he then handed dev off and the entire application was rewritten as a C# WPF application and was in hot competition with Magic Workstation directly for some time [2], which ultimately IMO made it a much better product. I believe I actually still have the original VB6 source on an old HDD somewhere... If I find it, wondering how to best archive it, or would anyone even care?

Anyway, OCTGN is currently a generic "tabletop game" program that allows for new games to be defined via the documented game format [3] and even supports python scripting.

[1]: https://github.com/octgn/OCTGN [2]: http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/magic-fundamentals/other-... [3]: https://github.com/octgn/OCTGN/wiki#create-games-on-octgn

Can't tell if most epic PR stunt ever or just plain stupid [0].

[0]: https://imgur.com/a/mUe6T

Was just going to recommend reading this book, glad someone did already. Being in tech/IT, you will be able to identify each of the characters in your work environment at one point or another.

I see. I was envisioning a "bigger" service - your quoted price makes sense in that case.

In theory, Handy (https://www.handy.com/services) does this for you for significantly higher rates at your own home. I've used the service before when it first started and rates were 40-60%/hour of what they are now. Seems like they could not keep up with demand - scheduled appointments would get cancelled less than an hour before and be incredibly inconvenient - which I would guess was a factor to them increasing their prices to attract more talent while keeping margins.

tl;dr; services like this exist, but 60-70$/mo is laughably low (assuming min 2-3 loads of washer + dryer per month)

Fair enough.

TIL: CTRL+K shortcut is F6 + TYPE

Whenever I see "Google Instant" reference, I get always chuckle because I swear that two of my friends and I actually invented it back in '09 for a Yahoo sponsored Hackathon.

I clearly remember one day logging onto my machine, going to google to search for something and just sitting there with my jaw on the ground as the "instant" feature began searching as I typed. I must've sat there for at least 5 minutes. I then proceeded to call my friends and made them go to google to "just execute a query". The response was "those motherf&kers actually ripped off our idea".

I will say, while the idea was "new" (no one was doing it at the time as far as we were aware of), the hackathon code was pure garbage PHP and JS fueled by free pizza & soda and stitched together to leverage the Yahoo APIs.

We went back and actually looked at our server logs (it was running a .edu/students/ site at the time as part of our portfolios) and noticed SIGNIFICANT traffic spikes from Google & MSFT registered corp IPs. Unfortunately, we figured there was nothing we could do to prove that we* invented it.

Something for you to chuckle at:

- Only reference I could find is a wayback link to the 2009 hackathon page ("Skynet Search" was also 'contextual' and knew if you wanted images or maps or directions without having you to make extra clicks). There used to be a blog post mention on yahoo as we got some runner-up prize. [1]

- Google Instant Launched Sept 2010 [2]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20091024035258/http://developer.... [2] https://www.google.com/doodles/google-instant-launch

Heh, something I read earlier on indiehackers made me chuckle.

"Honestly, negativity about my business model is more likely to come from a community like Hacker News than it is from my readers."[1]

He's not wrong.

[1]: https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/site-builder-report

Thanks for the response.

Couldn't ExpressRoute (and not familiar with AWS VPC) in theory be configured at multiple global locations to handle internet traffic?

Very cool, thank you for explaining. Is VPN the primary purpose or could it in theory be extended to work as software routers (as opposed to physical switches your traffic goes through) for all internet traffic once connect?

Let me know if I'm way off base in my understanding.

Can someone ELI5 the difference between this and https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/expressroute/? Is the technology principle the same?