#1 story on HN: Google kills "Cloud Prediction" API
Response from Googler: it's fine because you can switch to a different API
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GCP's "product roadmap project manager" doubles down on this: one year ought to be enough for anybody!pic.twitter.com/PNnFrhgnAM
Meanwhile, on DEC alum board, someone looks for PDP11 troubleshooter. PDP11 released 47 years ago, succeeded by VAX 7 years later.pic.twitter.com/A85lkYhjI4
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Engineer with VAX experience wanted to work on the F-22, the most advanced fighter jet in the world: https://web.archive.org/web/20190618050109/https://www.lockheedmartinjobs.com/job/california/f-22-avionics-systems-engineer-senior/694/8842471 … http://web.archive.org/web/20100310163744/http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/2000/05/moody.html …pic.twitter.com/Bke8CD1VpQ
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Until a few years ago a very, very critical piece of Italy's power grid infrastructure was a PDP-11
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There's a filter company in Texas that is still using an IBM 402. (or possibly was, I last I heard about it was a few years back)
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BTDT. Might consider it if they pay me in PDP11s.
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Why can't they switch to emulator to run their critical PDP-11 (or VAX) application? Hardware upgrade should negate emulation overhead.
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