While I will wholeheartedly endorse DataDog's platform from a technical perspective, dealing with their sales org (in 2021, anyway) left a bad taste in the mouth. It's not surprising other parts of their business are similar.
Posts by Robert Grant
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Datadog allegedly asked developer to kill open source data export tool
What is Google doing with its open source teams?

Re: You thought that?
They've been villified a lot, despite in my mind being the most engineering-friendly cloud platform, and doing loads of good stuff like open sourcing VP8, starting Kubernetes, making AlphaFold, making Go, running Android, etc. They're obviously not perfect, but I think this is to be expected based on the commentary they get in the media.
Microsoft to enterprises: Patch your Exchange servers
Questions asked about Chinese takeover of UK tech company
Up to 18,000 Amazon workers in firing line as it chops cost
Some engineers are being paid between $250k and $1m, says salary survey

Re: Too Much Moaning..reading comprehension?
> and while I have neither the time, nor inclination to reply to most of what you say
The correlation between people who have time to tell their interlocuter that they're not worth their time, and people who write walls of text, is once again reinforced.
AWS strains to make Simple Storage Service not so simple to screw up
Should open source sniff the geopolitical wind and ban itself in China and Russia?
Elon Musk to step down as Twitter CEO: Help us pick his replacement
GitHub adds admin controls to Copilot, paints 'Business' on the side, doubles price
London cops break into gallery to rescue lifelike art installation
Google's Dart language soon won't take null for an answer
AWS joins the water positive gang, claims it will be there by 2030
Google frees nifty ML image-compression model... but it's for JPEG-XL
Meta fined $275m after data-scraping fiasco leaked 533m Facebook users' profiles
Linus Torvalds to be 'more hard-nosed' as Linux 6.2 merge window meets Christmas
EU still getting its act together on European Chips Act funding
Too soon? Amazon commissions FTX mini-series
Massive energy storage system goes online in UK

Re: it can only take the output of about 15 Dogger Bank turbines
> Great, we'll build another 200+, then. Like we built 200+ power stations. Is there some sort of problem with that?
There is a problem if it doesn't do enough. Building 200 more may address today's domestic needs, but as we electrify cars that won't last. And domestic is maybe a third [0] of total electricity consumption, so we'd need more like 600 if we wanted enough batteries to cover all of the UK's usage storage needs if we went to all part-time generation techniques.
If that's the plan, then it would be good to see a total cost of generation that's based on these costs. I find it very hard to compare future generation proposals, because, say, we predict the maximum total cost of ownership of a nuclear power plant, which is then part of its business case, but I struggle to find the same for a renewables-only plan.
What I also find interesting is the amount of power lost to transmission - looks about 50% in the UK [1]. Micro reactors [2] are really interesting for this - you need much less generation if you generate closer to consumption.
[0] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1094628/DUKES_2022_Chapter_5.pdf - chart 5.1
[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1094628/DUKES_2022_Chapter_5.pdf - second page
[2] https://www.power-eng.com/nuclear/westinghouse-sees-a-tech-disrupter-in-its-evinci-microreactor
Intel reveals pay-to-play Xeon features with software-defined silicon
Software company wins $154k for US Navy's licensing breach
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison

> Holmes in an emotional speech told the court that she regretted her failings and having failed the employees, investors, and patients she tried to serve.
This is not true - should it be in quotation marks? She didn't fail people she tried to serve; she deliberately claimed for millions of dollars and crazy amounts of press that something that is currently impossible was in the process of being fully industrialised. That's not failing people you tried to serve.
Artemis I isn't just a test run – there's science to be done
Evernote's fall from grace is complete, with sale to Italian app maker

I work in the software as a medical device industry, and in a previous role, PDFing up a tree of Confluence pages formed a major part of our technical file. There were some more old school documents, but the content the important thing. You can add boilerplate to documents if you need to, as well.
Tesla recalls 40k cars over patch that broke power steering
US Department of the Interior seeks $1b single-vendor cloud contract
Tesla rival Rivian posts losses of $1.7b, with worse to come
Microsoft tests 'upsells' of its products in Windows 11 sign-out menu
LG debuts thin malleable screens made from contact lens material
Sizewell C nuclear plant up for review as UK faces financial black hole

Re: Daft
You seem to have jumped to the closest pattern match. Of course people do this, but they mostly don't. They mostly invest it where they can. We've just had 2 decades of low interest rates, and people haven't squirreled their money away somewhere else with higher rates. They've pumped it into startups and scaleups. Tech salaries are a good indicator of this.
Chipmakers cripple products to dodge US China ban
Nitrux 2.5: The latest update to a radical Linux
You fire 'em, we'll hire 'em: Atlassian sees tech layoffs as HR heaven
Microsoft mulls cheap PCs supported by ads, subs
Version 252 of systemd, as expected, locks down the Linux boot process
Royal Mail customer data leak shutters online Click and Drop

Re: "The root cause is now under investigation."
These things seem to happen more in the public sector, or at least the really silly ones happen there. As much as I oppose the RM privatisation, this is just not the case. Private companies don't want security breaches either, and spend a lot to prevent them.
Apple perfects vendor lock-in with home security kit
Shareholders slam Zuckerberg's 'terrifying' $100b+ Metaverse experiment
India's – and Infosys's – favorite son-in-law Rishi Sunak is next UK PM

Re: it is not easy (or necessarily possible) to define where income was generated.
> the income is "generated" where and when it leaves the customer's bank account; i.e. that the customer determines the tax location.
This is what VAT is for. Corporation tax is taxing the inner workings of a business, rather than just the end result.