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by astral303 4y ago
I think real DevOps works here just fine as long as your organization allows the time for deep work. If you are writing application code with 0% of your brain lent to operational concern, you are writing it in a disconnected dream cloud and
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by astral303 4y ago
You know the walled garden is put up with good reason -- to keep fraud and abuse out? And that very few are actually capable of doing such a job, and the software industry has continually demonstrated the lack of that capability.
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by astral303 4y ago
Au contraire, AWS has a stable of foundational services that have not moved in a long time and a worthwhile knowing, no matter what service-du-jour gets rolled out. Not a moving target at all.
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by astral303 5y ago
Not for WAF. The original article states that you must use API Gateway if you want AWS WAF.
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by astral303 5y ago
Jamf is onerous to use. Are they still requiring two days of training with a purchase? Last time I tried to purchase the product, they would not let me skip two days of training. As a fast growing <10-engineer startup at the the time, I
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by astral303 5y ago
All you have to do is open a separate Apple ID and open a business account with your local Apple store. They will happily bill you in alternate ways. As a one man band, you have no use for MDM. Apple Business Essentials simply has no value
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by astral303 5y ago
Fastmail is a bargain for me. I’d pay $40/mo for super high quality email.
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by astral303 5y ago
You really can’t beat Fastmail. No other provider comes close from when I researched a few years ago.
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by astral303 5y ago
The downvotes prove the rampant Google fanboyism on HN. The YouTube app for AppleTV is exhibit #1 in Google's anticompetitive behavior.
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by astral303 5y ago
I don’t pay money to use Facebook..
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by astral303 5y ago
Much more likely to succumb to random whims of google than to experience this
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by astral303 5y ago
Sad but true. But what is it your privacy worth? You can always keep an emergency fallback Gmail account.
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by astral303 5y ago
Omg not a good look … a commercial e-mail provider…. IMAP and web are down. Where is the failover? hugs best of luck to the ops team
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by astral303 5y ago
Fuck YouTube and their AppleTV app. It's exhibit #1 in anticompetitive behavior -- ship a shitty, subpar app, for a premium service. I wish that Apple were to prohibit any custom video playing controls on AppleTV, but this crowd will r
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by astral303 5y ago
To call this an interface for “ non-technical” users is an utter delusion.
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Their Baby Died in the Hospital. Then Came the $257,000 Bill(nytimes.com)
55 points by astral303 5y ago|62 comments
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by astral303 5y ago
WhatsApp is an app to communicate with another person or persons. "chatting on WhatsApp with friends and relatives with no specific topic discussion" -- sounds like someone looking for human companionship. I can't believe thi
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by astral303 5y ago
RIP Sir Clive Sinclair! I grew up on a Soviet clone of the ZX Spectrum 48, the Hobbit! Many hours spent. Many games written. Used to write BASIC on graph paper before entering it in.
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by astral303 5y ago
Kotlin’s closed/final by default is a huge flaw when working with a large codebase. Code is not left extensible by default. I don’t want to sprinkle my code with the open noise. False performance optimization, big maintenance/flex
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by astral303 5y ago
That's because this "cannot do" definition of an addict is incorrect/harmful. This is the disease theory of addiction (addicts can't help themselves) and has been proven wrong/harmful in recent psychology.
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by astral303 5y ago
This comment is on point! You have to be nicer/kinded to yourself. Life is hard/stressful enough as is. When you start feeling bad about yourself, as GP said, "I'm so terrible I can't stop checking my phone", y
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by astral303 6y ago
Pick up some Java
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by astral303 6y ago
Closed by default/final by default is a bad bad decision that reeks of premature optimization. No I don’t want to litter my code with “open” just to allow it to be extensible. Makes Kotlin a non-starters for me.
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by astral303 6y ago
Thank god they've changed that. Preview or GA is much harder line, where you can't hide behind a beta label for cycles on end. You can see the language in that release "give your business the confidence." My point was th
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by astral303 6y ago
Distributed computing and networks, amirite? I'm sorry, but if you can't see that ACID transactions don't scale over multiple machines, then of course you will bemoan about how a large database gives up your prized feature. E
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by astral303 6y ago
That's because keeping track of request state is not free. Ask an edge router. If you have a request open, even though it's not doing CPU, that request has to be in a queue somewhere, tracked for a response that can be transmitted
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by astral303 6y ago
My large disappointment with Google's Cloud Platform offering was lack of commitment to parity features. I am sorry but the concept of "Beta release level" is a complete misfire/mismatch for what an enterprise needs. For
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by astral303 6y ago
Hear hear, here's to products getting the job done well and reliably, untouchably. If you want to come anywhere near close, you have to put out something considerably better and I've yet to see that. Maybe Google Docs is starting
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by astral303 6y ago
I must be boring because I manage plain old (virtual) machines with a load balancer at the edge. It is easy as pie to manage and is easy to understand and secure. I build the clustering into relevant services as needed, because what it mean
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by astral303 6y ago
You have to get up. Set your body on unreturnable path to awake.

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