aiiane

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by aiiane 10y ago
Because Linode and similar overcommit their bandwidth given that they're charging a package deal - most people won't actually use the full allocated bandwidth. AWS/GCE charge for actual bandwidth usage, which means that every
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by aiiane 10y ago
The big issue for you, perhaps - but the reality is that most users simply don't care about that.
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by aiiane 10y ago
It'd be nice if you all had a stronger story for how you're going to stay afloat long term. "Stickers, lol" isn't very much of one.
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by aiiane 10y ago
Confirming that Hangouts and Google+ are both used internally.
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YouTube’s New Messenger Means You’ll Never Have to Leave YouTube(wired.com)
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by aiiane 10y ago
My guess? They're giving an estimation based on talking to a few shards of a much larger sharded system rather than trying to actually get canonical results for every shard - since it's unlikely that you need a precise count acros
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by aiiane 10y ago
Harm reduction. As it turns out, it's really easy to stick your fingers in your ears and go "the spec says X so tough cookies", but in the real world decisions tend to be made based on actual user impact, and the impact of ki
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by aiiane 10y ago
Technically, web developers should never had to have worried about writing code with prefixes - prefixed properties were never intended to be used for production apps. :)
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by aiiane 10y ago
Except for the Republican presidential primary.
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by aiiane 11y ago
The main issue there is that "environments" are defined by configuration, so if you try to set up a configuration test environment, you run into a direct logical impass: either your configs are production configs, and thus not a s
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by aiiane 11y ago
> These safeguards include a canary step where the configuration is deployed at a single site and that site is verified to still be working correctly, and a progressive rollout which makes changes to only a fraction of sites at a time, s
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by aiiane 11y ago
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that only people who have been doing things since their childhood can or should become experts in those things.
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by aiiane 11y ago
There's also a designer, an engineering manager, a "security expert", a researcher, and a "hacker" - all men Also, note that just because the sources cited in grandparent were written after, that doesn't mean s
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by aiiane 11y ago
And in fact, it's common for SREs to hand obsolete services back to the dev team if they've been mostly phased out to the point where they're no longer the primary priority.
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by aiiane 11y ago
You don't even have to sign out of Hangouts - Hangouts has an option to not display "last seen" status which will make you always appear offline (though you can still send and receive messages).
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by aiiane 11y ago
No supply of money is unlimited, and throwing more people at a problem doesn't necessarily solve it. No sane company is going to invest more money in a platform than they believe they'll eventually get a return for, so that's
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by aiiane 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook#Chromebook_models If you're talking specifically about Google-branded devices (as opposed to e.g. an ASUS Chromebook) the Pixel 2 was released in March 2015, about 2 years
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by aiiane 11y ago
This is why U2F is a superior alternative to pin-based 2FA and hopefully will eventually replace it - you can use a single U2F device as a second factor for many different servers without either sharing keys or requiring a bunch of differen
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by aiiane 11y ago
I totally agree with nixing *-imports and attribute imports. Not only do they hide where something came from but they also tend to actively hinder refactoring by making it harder to tell how packages are being used.
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by aiiane 11y ago
No, but you can go into the phone settings and re-enable a permission for an app if you change your mind.
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by aiiane 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_computing_base
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by aiiane 11y ago
It's available to be turned on for individual blogs: https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/6284029?hl=en
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by aiiane 11y ago
Because that would make the search results load slower, since it would first have to load google.com and then do a second request for the actual search.
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by aiiane 11y ago
You are confusing copyright and trademark. Trademark is what says you can't release a game called the same thing as someone else's game, in the same way that a random publisher can't call themselves "Tor" and hope n
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by aiiane 11y ago
That is strictly worse than requiring them to sign up for the contract that includes subscription revenues or forgo revenue entirely.
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by aiiane 11y ago
If you purchase individual tracks, you can download them as mp3s, no DRM involved. It's only tracks that you have access to via subscription but haven't individually purchased that can't be downloaded (which sort of makes sen
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by aiiane 11y ago
U2F is protection against someone phishing/stealing your credentials online. Your password is your protection against someone stealing your laptop. The likelihood that a person who steals your laptop also managed to phish/steal
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by aiiane 11y ago
The failure case for that logic is pretty bad.
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by aiiane 11y ago
Ideally your containers don't depend on bash, and instead are just running their app's process. So then any given scenario is generally only either upgrade bash on every server (if the problem if lower in the stack than the cont
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by aiiane 11y ago
The same reason why often the servers themselves are structured to have separate frontends and backends - because they encompass different problem spaces, and specialization provides efficiency.

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