I guess a couple of reasons 1) you can use Boply to sell digital goods like urls or files. 2) For non-digital you don't pay an "insertion fee" on Boply like you do on eBay. And Boply is more for quickly posting your item and getting it out to your friends. The use case came from my wife who sews and wanted to have a page to send to her friend's for some of the items she made.
If I understand correctly, sites using AWS, and reddit.com for sure, are geared towards automatically starting and stopping EC2 instances as needed. If that is the case, why can't they just move everything to a different region, which hasn't been affected by this disaster?
"That's good for separating the mediocre from the morons."
That's a lot, if you ask me - the morons usually make up the vast majority of candidates, so by filtering them out effortlessly at an early stage, you get to spend your time more effectively - identifying the great ones among those who at least hold a promise.
Yeah a good point, actually. I actually am just subconsciously responding to the implicit meme that seems to be spreading that if they get the coding question right, they win. I think for screening out morons, that is probably a good bar. But don't forget to do the next coding question in person, and drill into areas where they gloss over things that they may not understand.
