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by ak217 9y ago
FYI, I believe you can disable retries and replace them with a DLQ (which you can then ignore, if you don't care about failures). I would be interested, though, if anyone has figured out a way to raise the 30 second RequestResponse tim
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by ak217 9y ago
Equifax must be dismantled and driven into bankruptcy. You present a fallacy. No, a rational company with accountability for its data doesn't outsource their IT security or let the intern access production. They take their job seriousl
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by ak217 9y ago
This is really cool, but do sandboxed Android apps really have access to set CPU frequency/voltage to invalid combinations? Or is this only useful as a way to break into the secure enclave after getting root privilege escalation throug
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by ak217 9y ago
You buying stock constitutes market liquidity. Market liquidity allows companies to do follow-on offerings, buybacks, and preferential rate debt financing (often with stock option collateral) at their leisure. It also allows companies to co
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by ak217 9y ago
Thank you for building the best terminal app in the world, and for responding to user feedback so quickly.
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by ak217 9y ago
That's the problem, there's more things you need to debug, since PBR does not get rid of any of the problems that you encounter with setuptools or pip, but adds its own. Trying to paper over the (real) problems with the Python p
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by ak217 9y ago
I think you may be misunderstanding the problem being discussed. The code that uses pip will crash if pip is not already installed. There is no way to parse and satisfy the dependency on pip, because the author chose to import pip as a libr
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by ak217 9y ago
This is actually less robust, since instead of relying on the setuptools API, you now also rely on the pip API. If you control requirements.txt, there is nothing "not robust" about parsing it in setup.py.
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by ak217 9y ago
What do people use for mocking S3 behavior with high fidelity, to test exponential backoff and other resilience strategies in this situation? I've seen a handful of test libraries but none of them seem to make realistic up-to-date erro
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by ak217 9y ago
To make $200K post-tax, you need to make at least $260K pre-tax. In the US, that puts you almost exactly at the boundary of the 1%. I suppose this is a matter of your definition of "plenty of people".
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by ak217 9y ago
If you're handling XML in Python, defusedxml ( https://pypi.python.org/pypi/defusedxml ) is a nicely packaged set of XML parser configurations that mitigate attacks in untrusted XML.
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by ak217 9y ago
I thought this would be about allometric scaling of organs. But if we're on the topic of metabolism, I wonder what the rate of cancer is for shrews vs. elephants, once the metabolism and lifespan are somehow accounted for.
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by ak217 9y ago
In my experience, here are the things to be actively controlling: don't hunch over (keep your back relatively straight), keep your arms bent at 90 degrees and swing them moderately (not too little, not too much), don't lock out kn
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by ak217 9y ago
I've been running recreationally since high school, I average about 20 miles/week, an even mix of road/trail. I'm also a bit heavier than a typical avid recreational runner, putting more stress on my legs and feet. Havin
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by ak217 9y ago
Nobody has gone to the trouble of getting this done properly in public, but the closest comparison is here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9766/the-apple-ipad-pro-review...
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by ak217 9y ago
> a massive greenbelt surrounding a geographically constricted urban area We have a bunch of parks (which add enormously to our quality of life) surrounding massive suburban sprawl. Within the city, there is space for hundreds of residen
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by ak217 10y ago
Passive investors? i.e. if a large mall REIT is publicly traded, especially in the S&P 500 etc, cash will flow into its long positions simply by virtue of that.
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by ak217 10y ago
SAM solves a different set of problems from the frameworks like Chalice. It does not address the app request/response API, deployment package building process and dependency bundling, the test-development cycle, routing and other API G
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by ak217 10y ago
This is an absolutely crucial point that is not discussed nearly enough in the context of passive investing. Thanks for the link, I didn't know Matt Levine had stated it so eloquently already. A tangentially related point is that membe
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by ak217 10y ago
Yes. In my impression Chalice is designed to be a microframework (emphasis on micro ) with the bare minimum of glue necessary to make deploying Lambda apps easy. Zappa is designed around an ill-fitting API (while WSGI is widespread, it&#x2
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by ak217 10y ago
Chalice does provide a local mode, yes. It worked well for me.
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by ak217 10y ago
This is awesome. If you're deploying stuff with Python on Lambda, I highly recommend checking out Chalice ( https://github.com/awslabs/chalice ) and also an extension to it that I wrote for using Lambdas on SNS&#x2F
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by ak217 10y ago
I much prefer Chalice ( https://github.com/awslabs/chalice ) which just got a synchronized release supporting Python 3 as well.
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by ak217 10y ago
FYI, you can also instruct cloud-init to use a particular key pair by supplying it in instance metadata/user-data. This avoids the need for hacky scripts extracting public keys from console output (which may also be delayed by a few mi
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by ak217 10y ago
I can tell you why I think so. When private sector unions negotiate an impossible deal with their employer, the employer goes bankrupt. When public sector unions negotiate an impossible deal, we all end up paying more taxes to make it possi
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by ak217 10y ago
> Of course, they were not being properly funded, but that isn't the fault of the people who took them. Yet it is somehow the fault of the taxpayers, who are asked to sacrifice part of their income to make up for it.
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by ak217 10y ago
No argument there, but public employee pension funds have access to a unique resource: they can hold the taxpayers over a bucket to make up for the deficit. In California's case, the difference comes from tax increases and cuts in fund
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by ak217 10y ago
In 1958, the cost of a ticket was about 4x what it is today (adjusted for inflation but not earnings growth), flying was at least 20x less safe in terms of fatal crashes per departure, and consumed at least 4x more fuel per passenger-mile.
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by ak217 10y ago
Requiring each building in a business area to have its own attached parking is a great way to perpetuate sprawl. Successful walkable business districts either use metered street parking, or intercept cars in parking lots at a stand-off dist
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by ak217 10y ago
Right, people are intelligent enough to not go into a gridlocked city if they have a choice. They'll avoid it altogether. This is the problem with this class of argument, and the one in the article. They rely on cherry-picking data or

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