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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
> RTO might be the latest instance of it, but it isn't some big cultural shift. Again, this is just demonstrably false. But if you want to continue to have some personal vendetta against Amazon's culture, you do you.
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
I guess I don't really see the point of your comment in context of this article. The article doesn't mention most of those things you mentioned - it doesn't mention cutthroat culture, or stack ranking, or PIPs. The article is
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
I think this is true of any company. As things get larger, red tape increases, and the mess of spaghetti code and complexity/inter-dependencies of systems means it gets harder and harder for any one person or team to fully understand t
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
Are you under the impression that company cultures don't change over time? Of course they do. "nothing has changed in the last month or last quarter" is a ridiculous statement to make, as it's demonstrably false. As just
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
The article cites a few data points for "Austin losing its luster": - Techstars pausing their Austin tech accelerator and venture funding being down 46%. This is the most compelling data point in the article, however venture fundi
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
A "regular human" would die just sleeping at 20,000 feet like these people did. You're really underestimating the amount of preparation and skill that goes into a feat like this. Likewise for this part: "The first two da
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
Direct Connect locations are not the locations where the main region data centers are. AWS has a network link from their DC to Equinix, etc to make it easier for customers who are in Equinix's colo to make a direct connect to the AWS n
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
They're not custom made, but I recently bought a couple pairs of "Vibes" and "Loop" earplugs and they are easily the best <$50 purchase I've made in the last year. I prefer them to Etymotics (one of the othe
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
Being awkwardly goaded by your boss to chant some weird company saying at a company holiday party is _exactly_ the kind of stuff that people make fun of after-the-fact by making memes about it (speaking from experience here... which is why
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
Yes it does, it says within the quote that the phrase was "popular" and is using the creation of a reacji as supporting evidence. The fact that an employee made a reacji of something does not mean it is popular. It takes a extreme
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
> The phrase itself was popular enough that OpenAI employees created a special “Feel the AGI” reaction emoji in Slack. I know it's small and kind of a throw-away line, but statements like this make me take this author's interpr
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
This posting isn't for SAR, which typically requires specialized skills and the time commitment is different. This is for _Preventative_ SAR aka PSAR, which basically means just being physically present on trails to give people guidanc
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
Your boundaries aren't the same as someone else's boundaries, and just because someone else has different boundaries doesn't mean they don't have any at all. Some people wouldn't want to spend their weekends working
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
The target audience of volunteers for this type of position are people that are probably used to happily sleeping in tents and eating camp food for days/weeks at a time. I don't think they'd mind.
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
Some of these postings are indeed asking a lot, but I don't think this specific one is that crazy. It's essentially an opportunity to live out in the wilderness and go hiking regularly, with free housing provided in exchange for m
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
You can filter the opportunities to only show "Event" types (as opposed to "Position" types) which are things like one-off volunteer events like this one: https://www.volunteer.gov/s/volunteer-opport
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
Replace "manually read through every file" with "run your security code scanner against every file" and it becomes less nonsense, but just as applicable. In reality this really isn't how code scans are done, so it&#
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
Arstechnica [0] has a better article on it. The tl;dr is that Amazon already uses a fork of Android called FireOS. However, Google makes manufacturers sign a contract that says that if they manufacture devices that run Android, they cannot
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
>other than pulling support from Google as they continually show how much Amazon truly sees them as a competitor. It seems the opposite to me. The article talks about this. Google has contractual limitations on manufacturers that ship de
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
My impression from reading the writeup is that CF did receive support and communication from Flexential during the event (although not as much communication as they would have liked), but hasn't received confirmation from Flexential ab
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
I think you misunderstand what's being talked about in this thread. "Operations" in this context has nothing to do with external-facing documentation, and instead refers to the resilience of the service and ensuring it doesn&
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
They aren't telling the facts as they know them. Cloudflare themselves say that the information in the article is "speculation" (the article literally uses that term). Publicly casting blame based on speculation isn't so
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
>If Flexential and PGE aren't sharing information or otherwise cooperating as much as Cloudflare might like, then going public with some speculation might be an attempt at applying some pressure to get to the bottom of what happened
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
I've been involved with some new service launches at AWS, and it's a strict requirement that everything goes through some rigorous operational and security reviews that cover exactly these issues before the service can be launched
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
I don't think I agree that the use of the word "another" implies that the breaches were equal, but I can see why others might interpret it that way. I won't disagree with opinion on the quality of Ars' reporting or
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
It says Okta was "hit by" a breach, which it was. A breach happened, and Okta was impacted. Furthermore, it happened to data which Okta is ultimately responsible for, and Okta should be held responsible for their choices which led
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
I would. A critical part of having a robust security program is having an effective third party risk management program which evaluates all third parties that you do business with and holds them to high security standards. Okta is the ultim
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
>Every company and every vendor has strengths and weaknesses. Yes, every company and every vendor does have strengths and weaknesses. That's why it's foolish to lock yourself in to only one vendor. If you locked yourself in to
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
In comparison to other cloud companies, AWS "deprecated" SimpleDB over a decade ago and stopped letting new people use it, but still hasn't deleted the data for anyone that is still using it. EC2 Classic was the same. Not giv
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by arrakeenrevived 3y ago
>We brag to our customers about the fact that our only major technology vendor is Microsoft. If anyone bragged to me about this I would laugh in their face. You're putting your entire company at major risk. Sometimes it has benefits

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