Goladus

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by Goladus 11y ago
I did not read the article as literally suggesting that Amazon change the name of its service Neither did I. But it's flawed even as a rhetorical device. For that kind of thing to work for me, it would have to at least be plausible
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by Goladus 11y ago
Yeah I have no problem with drawing some comparisons to FTP. It's definitely like FTP in the sense that there's this step where you have to get the data you want to deal with then put it back; but that's really where the sim
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by Goladus 11y ago
The main problem with that is that virtually all of Amazon's original target audience would have seen "Amazon File Server" and assumed it was a "File Server" like every other "file server" they'd ever
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by Goladus 11y ago
So what is the name for the sequence of bytes that are actually downloaded? If you explicitly requested your browser to create a file, then it could be any kind of data. If the web server triggered the download, your browser probably saw
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by Goladus 11y ago
No, it wouldn't make any sense at all. Amazon Unlimited FTP Server is a simple key, value store designed to store as many FTP Servers as you want. You store these FTP Servers in one or more buckets. An FTP Server consists of the follo
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by Goladus 11y ago
It's not worthless terminology. It's a term that was chosen along time ago to distinguish this kind of storage architecture from filesystems and block devices: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_storage .
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by Goladus 11y ago
> I agree that "object" makes no sense when applied to S3. It's not like you can store an "account" object and call a method to get back the current balance, with accrued interest for the time since last deposit
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by Goladus 11y ago
How is "Object Store" marketing bs? What is the proper term for an S3 object? It's not file , because file is a term that comes from the context of a filesystem, which is what S3 is not. Read the S3 docs: http:/&#x2F
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by Goladus 11y ago
No, calling it Amazon FTP would be both misleading and incorrect, and is a very bad idea.
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by Goladus 11y ago
Yeah but just because a flawed analogy happens to work for people who are completely clueless about S3, doesn't mean you should deliberately misname your service to accommodate this lowest common denominator.
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by Goladus 11y ago
The only real resemblance at all to FTP is that you use GET and PUT instead of filesystem commands. I mean, I guess if you really don't understand what FTP is and have no desire to understand how S3 is different from posix, then sayin
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by Goladus 11y ago
I guess for people who don't understand what FTP really is, and wouldn't find it valuable to understand what S3 really is.
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by Goladus 11y ago
Nice list. Disagree with many of them, though. EC2/"Amazon Virtual Servers" - true today, perhaps. But when EC2 first launched, they were trying hard to sell the "elasticity" and "pay for what you use&quot
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by Goladus 11y ago
I was not attacking you. I just used your comments about syntax to make a point more relevant to the thread started here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10183420
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by Goladus 11y ago
> I could not help but gravitate towards the comment on that article where nervous chauvinists wring their fingers over the fact that perhaps I can't help but wonder whether your enthusiastic posturing about these nameless villains
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by Goladus 11y ago
In my experience, the more interesting reasons to choose languages come from the "platform and ecosystem" categories rather than syntax. Lua: It has clean, clear syntax but its real value is the implementation, which is geared to
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by Goladus 11y ago
> I'm not really a programmer. The real question is do you understand how a computer works. There's mapping a solution into a programming language, but programming language is just a tool to help with the real goal which is to
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by Goladus 11y ago
Has The Guardian Been Bought By The Onion? http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/09/05/the-guardian-been-b...
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by Goladus 11y ago
HN discussion of The Guardian's anonymous, fact-free editorial can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10176642
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Is “Academics Hoodwinked” Article Actually Satire?(the-digital-reader.com)
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by Goladus 11y ago
> I'll take marks off for 2011 being too early, but not for the datatype choice. I would. If he had said something like "XML is most popular... but really meant for documents not data, so something similar will probably replac
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by Goladus 11y ago
I work in life sciences. I see Ruby used (a lot) for web development and not much else. Lots of Python, R, Perl, and Java as well as native binaries usually written in C and C++. I see ruby occasionally in system administration and DevOps
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by Goladus 11y ago
Even when you know the information they have it's (currently) impossible to predict what someone will do. It's impossible to know what information they will care about, what they think is in their best interests versus what actua
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by Goladus 11y ago
The film is OK. I watched it after my girlfriend told me about it. Most of the interesting parts are mentioned in the article. The article doesn't mention that Tressa's emergency room trip was almost certainly a consequence of
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by Goladus 11y ago
> So I hear what you're saying, but if that's the case then everyone, everywhere acts irrationally all the time. More like: a sufficient number of independent agents (or aggregate populations behaving as an agent) behave irrat
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by Goladus 11y ago
I'm ambivalent about the 2nd amendment (and in fact lean left on it) but flat-out blaming it for the state of personal safety in the US is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. "Guns don't kill people, people do" at leas
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Also substantial ignorance about crime patterns and the role of the courts.
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by Goladus 11y ago
> But what’s unique about Eatsa is the focus on health and taste. What's so unique about that? Restaurants have focused on taste since there have been restaurants and have focused on health since there's been demand for it (la
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by Goladus 11y ago
> Income equality isn't "hard" if you look at it logically versus emotionally. Raise taxes, ensure a proper social safety net, widen the middle class. Income equality is hard when you start tracing where the income actuall
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by Goladus 11y ago
Good point. I will say, though, that disabled zoom is a for more prevalent, annoying, and chronic problem than dropdowns. It's orders of magnitude difference. Like, years to days. As in, maybe once or twice a year I get annoyed by a

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