Any plans to support the cloud endpoints with the standard env?
Wondering if the new runtime would be able to be embed that. That would be only reason for me not to switch from flex env.
Cloud Endpoints currently runs on GAE Standard Gen 1 and GAE Flex. We're investigating a solution for GAE Standard Gen 2 (which go 1.11 is, along with python 3.7, node 8, etc.) and GCF.
As for EAP: unfortunately not. Personally, I'd like to see a managed version as opposed to the current framework or sidecar approach, as it'll be easier to implement across products, but that means it'll likely take a little longer.
If it didn't recognize them as distinct URLs, a significant percentage of links would be rejected as having already been submitted. Http://site.com/article.php?id=1234 and http://site.com/article.php?id=5678 may be two legitimately unique articles.
My point is that it's not exactly rocket science to add an if/case statement in the Submit script that checks whether the URL being submitted is on a list of domains for which the '?' and anything after it should be disregarded.
'Twould also be great if it recognised that www.bbc.co.uk and www.bbc.com are effectively the same site.
That assumes that failed sales during an outage are lost forever, not merely delayed.
I've heard from various third-party developers that store downtimes (of reasonable lengths) tend to be followed by corresponding sales spikes, so that ultimately nothing is lost. I have no idea if that applies here, but it's reasonable to think it would at least partially.
I'd say that a sizeable part of App Store sales or downloads are impulsive purchases: i.e. you think you need something or are in the mood of playing some game and you can't resist hitting the button. If you can't make that impulsive purchase now, you tend to forget about it until you are in the right mood again. My take is that a very high amount of sales has been lost, not deferred.
I am willing to wager that the average sales is not uniform over the day/week. Now we are getting towards a full day, but I would hardly count the hours from 0130 to 0500 as downtime for lost sales.
> Livingston said the latest class of startups entering the program will be its most diverse ever, containing both the oldest entrepreneur the group has ever back at 57, the youngest entrepreneur they’ve funded at 17, the most female entrepreneurs they’ve ever admitted, the most foreign entrepreneurs they’ve ever admitted and, for the first time, 6 nonprofits as well as the normal mix of tech hopefuls looking to make it big.
According to this [0] article, the oldest person was 57 years old.
I like how reactionary that is, much like when people expected Instagram to suddenly gain pokes and sidebar ads when Facebook bought them. It may as well say 'WE DON'T LIKE CHANGE'.
Kinda reminds me when Kraft was about to acquire Cadbury there were thousands (Ok not literally but there was quite a bit of noise) of facebook groups saying that this shouldn't happen because "the chocolate will taste like dairylea cheese" as if Toblerone wasn't a thing that Kraft made.
It's funny how when there's news of a company acquiring another people think straight away that it'll change drastically and overnight, making the huge assumption that the company is A) going to change anything B) doesn't know that changing something will break trust with users making their billion dollar purchase useless.
Or maybe Yahoo will change things on tumblr who knows? I'd like Yahoo to add a feature to change your primary blog on tumblr. That would be nice to have..
> It looks that lot of their users don't like that idea:
To be more precise, they don't like this:
"Stop Yahoo! from buying Tumblr!! If this happens, the entire interface will be changed, and millions of users will delete their accounts - me being one of them. Please, please, please sign this to stop this!!"
... which isn't the same as Yahoo buying Tumblr. They don't want Yahoo to negatively change Tumblr (there's a difference).
