The fairly consistent location of a station-based bike makes it attractive to me for both commuting and errand running. I have a GoBike station right near my house and right near my work, and it's very easy to fit into my routine, whereas pulling out a phone to (hopefully) find a dockless bike is much less convenient to me in those cases.
We dual-write mostly to be able to offload certain query patterns, like joining large tables on non distkeys. Redshift does much better than BQ joins as long as they're on the same DISTKEY or if you can afford to make the table DISTSTYLE ALL, but if you can't, having to shuffle really impacts not only the runtime of that specific query, but also any other running queries. We have a job that took 1 hour on a 28 node dc2.8xlarge cluster, but only 4 minutes on BigQuery with basically no rewriting of the query, and saw a reduction in runtimes of concurrent jobs as well.
This is for proxying images that users link in chat, not for when users upload images to the service. It doesn't make sense to talk about doing this resize on the client, as the client doesn't have the image.
That is a great point. It could still be feasible to cache the image on the client, and have it do the resize. Although I probably wouldn't accept it as a client, especially if my internet cuts out halfway through.
Yes, the use-case of proxying images is a different mater. I was talking about client uploads since so many companies seem determined to waste my bandwidth and time uploading without resizing first.
There's also a "Grant temporary membership" option when creating the invite that will automatically kick users when they disconnect unless a role has been assigned to them, but having that as an option when accepted would be cool.
I thought for a second you were facetiously referring to Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica... "hey, check out this cool new work on orbital mechanics" :P
As binarymax mentioned[1], it's very useful when you want to test on multiple devices where editing the host file would be undesired or not possible. This includes mobile devices or computers that are not your own or that you don't have administrative access to. It's also easier to just share a link instead of asking people to change their hosts file just to test a part of a site.
This app is now on the Play Store and works with most phones and tablets running Android 4.4 KitKat. Unfortunately it seems to crash on my S3 running CM 11, but your experience may vary.
