Why not just use Azure auto-off (or just script your VMs to shutdown)?

That's a fair point. You could do that.

Azure does have auto-off today but it still doesn't make it easy to change that time per-day. It also doesn't have auto-start. You can also group VMs between resource groups and subscriptions since we flatten all the VMs across cloud providers, regions & resource groups.

This all fits into Folly: The Facebook Open Source Library. https://github.com/facebook/folly

They use facebook ids everywhere which are integers represented as strings.

opensourced at facebook c++ conference today. talk about fbstring here: http://ramisayar.com/fb-cpp-conf/

LIKE!

Apologies for the "awaiting moderation", I was sleeping. It's up now.

> people want people to want them

LOL Nice.

I used the email analogy cause I figured that would be more obvious for people to recognize the security risk... it's hard to explain things like drive-by downloading for non-techy people.

JAPAN FOR THE WIN! I like that use case...