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Re:Windows Azure Storage certificate expired? on Friday February 22, 2013 @06:48PM (#5267714)
I agree to the general concept. I'm just curious about how you would handle it. Would you use AWS as backup to Azure and switch DNS when this happens?

Anyone else is welcome to pitch in here, I'm new to native cloud applications and find myself just waiting in this case.

Re:Windows Azure Storage certificate expired? on Friday February 22, 2013 @06:40PM (#5267677)
Some individual services are up. But my system as a whole is down with Compute failing to start and Storage/Service Bus completely down.
Re:Windows Azure Storage certificate expired? on Friday February 22, 2013 @06:32PM (#5267637)
You seem to be asking more than one person about failure plans. What kind of a failure plan do you have in mind? For something as big as this (many azure services are completely down)
Re:Windows Azure Storage certificate expired? on Friday February 22, 2013 @06:22PM (#5267596)
Yeah I didn't see anything wrong with my services 2 days ago, which rely heavily on Sql Azure.

Right now everything is down.

Re:Every recorded meteorite strike on Earth since 2,300 BCE mapped on Monday February 18, 2013 @07:11PM (#5241715)
Apparently Oman is a destination for meteorite explorers. That explains the difference between Oman and Saudi Arabia on the map. http://www.livescience.com/3613-searching-meteorites-deserts...
Re:Ask HN: How much should I sell my Windows Store App for? on Thursday November 29, 2012 @01:57AM (#4846564)
Nice, I used to work for MS too :).

I actually went the JS route because of my skillset. I was was web-dev before I joined MS and never got into XAML much.

The JS platform was pretty stable from the initial public release, I guess that's because it is built on top of IE which has been around much before Win8 came along.

Re:Ask HN: How much should I sell my Windows Store App for? on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @01:12PM (#4843836)
Thanks :). This was around 7 months of mornings and weekends while I had a full-time job. (I quit a month ago to start my own thing).

I built this with JS/HTML/CSS but the MathEngine component I built using C# (.winmd) and called into it from the Javascript.

If you have any specific questions about how different parts are implemented, let me know :).

Re:Ask HN: How much should I sell my Windows Store App for? on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @01:48AM (#4841350)
I did some price experimentation with my app (Blu Graphing Calculator). I ranged from 1.49 to 3.99. I kept every price up for around a week. Here are some of my findings:

- Blu was selling the most at $1.99 but the revenue was the most at 3.99 (sold on average more than half of what I sold at 1.99).

- Interestingly enough, it sold much more at 1.99 than at 1.49

I chose to push back to 1.99 for the time-being to increase the # of users.

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