Randgalt

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   Netflix Promises To Make Its Open Source Cloud Management Tools More Portable(techcrunch.com)

   1 points by Randgalt 14y ago|0 comments
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   Netflix Shares Surge(sfgate.com)

   4 points by Randgalt 14y ago|0 comments
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   by Randgalt 14y ago

   Netflix does use failover. Failover is to multiple availability zones - which is the mechanism that AWS provides. This particular outage was due to a major failure with Amazon's ELB service.
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   by Randgalt 14y ago

   Thunderbirds were the totality of my existence as a boy. FAB!!!
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   by Randgalt 14y ago

   q.e.d.
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   by Randgalt 14y ago

   StackOverflow can be wonderful. It's a shame that overzealous power-mad moderators have ruined it.
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   by Randgalt 14y ago

   Hopefully after they fix "unknown or expired link" when clicking the More link.
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   by Randgalt 14y ago

   Make a friend who's a Realtor. It's proprietary data that they guard.
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   by Randgalt 14y ago

   Also to copy the text to look it up in a dictionary
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    by Randgalt 14y ago

    I'm a zoomer. I either do CMD+ to increase font size or, sometimes, do the Mac zoom screen thing (control two fingers)
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    by Randgalt 14y ago

    We have beer and whisky every Friday
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    by Randgalt 14y ago

    FYI - we've added a list view for those that prefer that.
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    by Randgalt 14y ago

    It's just an Easter Egg. We thought it would be fun. Enjoy if you like it. Go to the main Github page otherwise.
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    by Randgalt 14y ago

    We were getting throttled by Github. We're now caching the content and this shouldn't happen anymore.
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    by Randgalt 14y ago

    No way - well if you live very frugally and don't do very much - maybe
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    by Randgalt 14y ago

    As soon as dolphins show that they can respect my rights, I'll grant them rights.
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    by Randgalt 14y ago

    You can get this behavior now by using Social Fixer: http://socialfixer.com/
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    Netflix announces another open source library: Governator(techblog.netflix.com)

    11 points by Randgalt 14y ago|0 comments
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    by Randgalt 14y ago

    FYI - how Netflix handled the outage: http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/10/post-mortem-of-october-2...
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    by Randgalt 14y ago

    What does "weighted lies" mean? What is the weighting? The bottom graph splits close to 50-50.
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    by Randgalt 14y ago

    I never went to school and am completely self taught and have had a very successful career as a programmer. However, I started in the late 80s and things may be different now. The hardest part is the first job. Once you have experience, col
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    by Randgalt 14y ago

    Perfectly stated. This is the correct point of view.
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    by Randgalt 14y ago

    Why is ice melting bad? The arctic ice has been lower in the past and higher. Why is everyone so afraid of change. Humans have successfully navigated change for millennia.
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    by Randgalt 14y ago

    Los Gatos, SSE, Netflix: My team is looking for a stellar engineer to help us take the Cloud Platform to the next level. Details at bit.ly/PGo4mw"
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    by Randgalt 14y ago

    Or get him really drunk and convince him he's underpaid. He'll tell you then.
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    by Randgalt 14y ago

    Interesting idea ;)
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    by Randgalt 14y ago

    Wow is this ever a troll piece
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    by Randgalt 14y ago

    This change is only slightly better than the previous implementation. What we (and most I know) need is per-repo settings. Our organization has nearly 20 repos.
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    by Randgalt 14y ago

    So wrong. Apple is the most successful company in the world in no small part to its advertising.
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    by Randgalt 14y ago

    FYI - we have a Latency Monkey as well