I'm pretty sure fmt.Println("HELLO", str, len(str), len(result), n) isn't supposed to be in the final solution? :)

Good catch :) fixed!

The HR is in the top left, it overwrites the pre-initialized text console.

Thanks, I see it now!

Finally. So many college students I know have tried building this but none took off because it really does need to be in the Spotify app.

The Microsoft blog post that the article is using as a source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/update-2-on-microsoft....

After reading this, it seems the headline is a bit misleading.

The Microsoft blog post states: "We have seen a 775 percent increase of our cloud services in regions that have enforced social distancing or shelter in place orders."

So it's not an overall increase, just in certain regions?

Ok, we've taken 775% out of the title above.

Yes, and they also say that if you're hitting quotas, you can try another less congested region. If you have established workloads in a region though, I'm not sure how quickly you can migrate a complex interplay of services to another region-- are there simple tools to do so in Azure?

hopefully you are writing infrastructure as code - would be easy then.

I doubt they’re talking about their compute services. The increases are more likely in Microsoft teams and Office 365. And as far as I know you can’t choose a region for those services.

For toy projects, sure.

A lot of the value of hyperscaler clouds is the lowish latency local datacenters.

Also, everywhere's going to have enforced S.D. or S.I.P. sooner or later.

Those ‘certain regions’ would be most of the world, though, presumably.

Q: "What is the most promising startup idea you’ve heard that didn’t succeed?"

PG: "Maybe Pebble. It could have been the next Apple. But hardware startups are a bitch. External factors can kill you in a way that doesn’t happen with software, and you can’t do things as gradually as you can with software."

This answer stood out to me the most since many of the other questions are answered somewhat in his essays already.

For fellow ignorami,Pebble was a wristwatch; see https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/19/what-working-on-pebble-tau...

I loved my Pebble. I wore the classic one till it broke. I wish they had stayed around.

Whenever I ask different ex-Pebblers about what killed the company, their perspective is always relative to their area of concern.

The fully loaded cost of an employee for a business is not the employee's salary.

"The fully-loaded costs of employees are much higher than their salary: exactly how much higher depends on your locality’s laws, your benefits package, and a bunch of other HR administrivia, but a reasonable guesstimate is between 150% and 200% of their salary." -https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/

Most employees' salaries are not 100k.

> Most employees' salaries are not 100k

I'd hypothesis that most employees on whom companies spend $10k for cloud software are making $100k+.

> I can’t think of anything more important or critical than software that runs on a commercial airplane.

Nuclear reactors?

Arguably, the existence of nuclear reactors which don't fail safe under any contemplated crisis is a hardware bug. It's possible to design a reactor that can be ruptured by a bomb or earthquake, which will then dump core into a prepared area and cool down.

This kind of physics-based safety is obviously not possible for airplanes.

What triggers the core dump? Humans? Software? Are there detectors integrated into the walls?

Physical rupture of containment.

If all electronics fry simultaneously, then the reactor core cools in-place.

I should have said “commercial airplanes are among the most important and critical things that use software.” It’s obviously difficult to determine the objective most important use case.

Related: https://twitter.com/kvogt/status/1226550931086610433.