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The answer is that, you are using a service that is unsustainably too cheap. In the longer term the price will have to increase, probably quite significantly and you'll have to choose whether you think it's still worth it or take the bus. Unfortunately you, and many others are the ones benefitting from drivers being underpaid.
“In a normal company, the personality of the boss is usually diluted by the fact that the question of how to successfully run the business was answered a long time ago.”

Definitely true for me and other people I know. Often all of a founder's egotism, paranoia and other foibles seem to be magnified whilst trying to find a business model.

Re:Ask HN: Should engineering jobs have a nap time? on Thursday March 10, 2016 @08:18AM (#11258965)
you could work in spain. Everyone gets a 2 hour nap time - it's ciesta baby!
No the product is search, it's monetised by advertising.
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Re:What is WebAssembly? (2015) on Monday January 11, 2016 @06:37AM (#10880218)
They plan to build a standardised garbage collector at a later stage so support other languages that require this so they can compile straight to web assembly.
Re:Analyzing 1.1B NYC Taxi and Uber Trips on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @12:51PM (#10582758)
That is phenomenal analysis, well done!
What are the uptime metrics on Scalingo? I see there are no uptime guarantees /SLAs. http://www.paasify.it/vendors/scalingo Here is heroku's uptime metric by way of benchmark. https://status.heroku.com/uptime?region=EU
I'm really keen to know this too. I see they have add-ons for postgres, redis etc... but what about sentry, new relic? What would be the process to work with those?