Duff

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by Duff 15y ago
AWS is a shared service, so as they add more customers, the overhead costs of administering the service continue to drop. Their priority is to keep growth going at a steady clip. AWS is also a very granular service, so Amazon gets near real
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by Duff 15y ago
IMO, the unmade decision is a symptom. In my personal experience, I start deferring things when there's something else going on that I don't want to deal with. Usually the something else is that I haven't accepted that I "don't know" someth
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by Duff 15y ago
Singapore is a city-state, so administering that sort of program is feasible. The US is so much larger in terms of both size & scope that any program would be overrun with fraud, or overrun with bureaucracy to prevent fraud immediately.
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by Duff 15y ago
The process for installing client certs is wonky. We setup a PKI to authenticate computers and allow us to use SCCM inside or outside of the firewall -- it works great. I tried to get other folks to use it, but people equate cert with compl
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by Duff 15y ago
Not really. They segment the market pretty well, and few people buy the retail box and have to think about this stuff. Basically, it's cheap PC, or PC that does video for consumers. The key difference is Apple has "computer offerings". Micr
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by Duff 15y ago
It's kind of annoying that I had to pay $30 for OSX 10.5 SP2.
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by Duff 15y ago
The way the SO content is licensed and the API creates a powerful disincentive for a malevolent corporate overlord from putting a paywall up. A paywall would dramatically reduce the amount of new content being generated, and the open licens
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by Duff 15y ago
True. The problem with that approach in the US is that our laws demand an "objective" approach to dealing with this stuff. We don't trust police to make subjective decisions.
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by Duff 15y ago
The problem is that not everyone works at a startup, armed with a credit card. If you sell to the Fortune 500 or government, a procurement officer does the purchase. The procurement guy's purpose in life is to extract discounts. With govern
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by Duff 15y ago
You need to consider what threat you are defending against. Before credit cards were popular, it was common for aircraft passengers to be armed with handguns and carrying a lot of cash -- yet there were few incidents. Think about that. An o
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by Duff 15y ago
I'm fine with that. i'm just saying, that isn't the way things work right now.
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by Duff 15y ago
He is wrong about date/time setting. Most computers have automatic time sync, and consistent time stamps are important for many business purposes. Giving end users the ability to manipulate time can cause significant issues. Is it overkill
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by Duff 15y ago
I agree. The first one linked is particularly inane.
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by Duff 15y ago
Definitions matter. The definition of "disabled" from a point of view of someone on the dole probably isn't what you envision.
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by Duff 15y ago
This is why we need to continue to advocate for open government and open access to data. Weather companies like Accuweather were annoyed by the National Weather Service releasing weather data in KML form -- they saw it as a threat to their
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by Duff 15y ago
My sister gave me a $25 BestBuy gift card last Christmas. I went to BestBuy, and found that for each of the 3 different things that I needed, I would spend less by buying it on Amazon, even with the gift card. Tax software, for instance, wa
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by Duff 15y ago
Shipping is a tough business. You need lots of trucks, ramp space at airports, and lose the ability to cherry pick what states you operate in. Consider that despite billions in investments, both DHL before they went away and FedEx Ground to
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by Duff 15y ago
Wall St gave people with no money the ability to buy stuff that they cannot afford. I'm talking about a $300/mo apartment.
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by Duff 15y ago
Sounds great, but proceed with caution. Where I work, you would be deemed "non-responsive".
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by Duff 15y ago
The problem with a "solution" like this is same as the problem that the minium wage presents: it is insufficient to live on, and less than the value of social services benefits. If you want to magically improve the plight of the poor, make
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by Duff 15y ago
If you have email that warrants encryption beyond transport encryption, you're nuts to be using a web browser to generate it.
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by Duff 15y ago
New York doesn't send a ticket to a collections agency. If you fail to deal with a ticket or appear as ordered before the judge, an arrest warrant will be issued. Next time you're in NY, you'll be arrested for contempt and shipped to whatev
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by Duff 15y ago
Read the comment and think before posting a response that doesn't make sense. I assume there's an over-diagnosis because the abuse of these drugs is both blatant and widespread. Look at the infographic and you'll see that there is a very wi
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by Duff 15y ago
Unless you're a really small org, devs and sysadmins have different roles and need to have distinct privileges to prevent them from stepping on each other. The bigger you get, the more important this is. You have a few things from an intern
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by Duff 15y ago
"The marketplace" isn't a market at all -- it's a bunch of people, with and without a medical condition, who get a third party to purchase a medication for them. That infographic tells the story -- 50% more Iowan children need amphetamines
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by Duff 15y ago
The headline should read "Tesla: Not so easily bricked under normal circumstances". The problem here is that not everyone lives in California, and most people think of cars as durable (vs. perishable) goods. Those two things cause problems
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by Duff 15y ago
They have a small IT department that has developed some pretty interesting tools, most of which are open-source. They had a very progressive CIO who had APIs created to access legislative data, etc. Really useful stuff if you need to know w
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by Duff 15y ago
I wouldn't shop on Facebook, for a few reasons. One - I don't trust them... At some point they will do "beacon" or something similar again. Two - Facebook will eventually either make you use FB gift cards or make a cut from the retailer. Ei
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by Duff 15y ago
Apple is ahead of the curve -- this is coming to Windows as well, although perhaps through 3rd parties. About 2 years ago, my then employer was considered a "strategic" customer to one of the big security/AV vendors. They came in to give us
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by Duff 15y ago
Two things differ from pre-iPhone Palm. Apple has an established track record of not getting what people want from a TV. Ala carte TV shows and a crippled set-top box is not very inspiring. Palm wasn't exactly a superstar before the iPhone'

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