A CS professor at my old university focused his PhD on knots, and showed me a bunch of software he had created that simulated this same effect, but with much more depth of color and contrast. I still bet he is excited to see this. His screen saver was knot simulations, and he always had rope in his office, and I'm just now realizing he was suicidal and it was all a cover.
The BEST way to ensure what your work-life looks like is to start your own company... not whine to an existing company that has already proven willing to exploit you.
If the most expensive attorney could clear me, but an average cost attorney couldn't, and I can only afford the bottom of the barrel; what difference does it make that I can afford "an attorney"? I can't afford the attorney I require.
I thought I was the only one seeing this... they claim it's only windows 10, but I'm also seeing it on a 2012 macbook pro i5 intel graphics 3000. Not very often, but enough to be very annoyed and concerned by it.
My fear is some other program is gaining access to portions of the screen or video memory to scrape for banking information using ocr or something like that. Sometimes the glitches will be filled with upside down and stretched/keystone shifted versions of an area of a rendered page from a different tab. The keystone shift triggers my off-by-1 memory allocation bug sense... But it might be some other driver issue or exploit causing that on purpose somehow (like rowhammer). I fear this is going to take years to track down.
The cost for the highest level of support is about the same as the salary for a single Senior Software Engineer. It certainly would be a surprise if there were only 100 companies in the world that can afford to hire a single employee to provide them with the services they require.................................................
Account manager and support contract are sold together... $150,000/yr paid up front + 4% of yearly spend.
Seems insanely high, especially compared to the next step down which is only $250/mo per user... you could get by with a separate account with a single master user that controlled all the deployments and billing and only pay $3,000/yr. What you get for that extra $147,000+/year is that you talk directly with the lowest level engineer actually working on the problem rather than relaying messages that lose context... but you'll still need to know what you're talking about and be able to actually help the engineer rather than spin them in circles, or you'll be kept at bay.
This is why I mentioned that I'm better than most at filing reports. If you just say your app doesn't work, they aren't going to dig through your code and figure out the problem. But, If you build a demo app in <100 LoC that reproduces the issue, they will thank you and fix it very fast. Perhaps your bug reports aren't worth shit.
Same with all the people complaining about outages that affect everyone, and not getting individual responses... you probably aren't helping at all, or telling them anything they don't already know. If you can isolate and demonstrate the issue in a reproducible way, and suggest a fix or likely culprit (because you've been keeping up with recent Google Cloud changes), they will call you.
Not true... you just have to pay for it. I worked for A fortune 100 company that was moving some things to Google App Engine, and paid for the highest level of support. We had a list of guys we could get on the phone whenever we needed, including the main guy in charge of everything.
I helped them fix a lot of bugs and broken processes, but I'm better than most at making reports. If they had to deal with bad developers blaming Google for problems that had nothing to do with Google, that would waste a lot of time. But on the other hand, if we didn't pay for support, those problems probably never would have been fixed, and I don't think we were ever compensated or given discount support for helping.
Every single page included a literal statement that this was just a game and nothing illegal was going on.
I don't even see why they contacted me. I thought it was a prank, so I got their contact information... DC phone number and .gov email address, both went back to the same guy.