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by athrun 8y ago
AFAIK, most of AWS is built on top of the JVM, including massive services like S3 or DynamoDB. Seems to be working well enough for them.
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by athrun 8y ago
Typically, compliance requirements will drive you to implement private subnets. Auditors will want to know which isolation mechanisms you have put in place, and private subnets should be part of your isolation strategies. Other use-cases: -
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by athrun 8y ago
It's counter intuitive but attaching a VPC Lambda to a public VPC subnet will not give it access to the internet. See: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/vpc.html#vpc-in...
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by athrun 8y ago
Can't you simply decouple your lambda project into two different parts where you have public lambda(s) calling your private/VPC lambda function(s) when required? Public Lambdas can invoke VPC Lambdas (AFAIK, the reverse is not pos
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by athrun 8y ago
I think that was my point. Services with "native" AWS APIs use IAM for granular access management. Other services can only support access restrictions using the network so that means VPC/Security Groups.
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by athrun 8y ago
Difficult to know for sure, but it's probable that MongoDB made Amazon aware that they would introduce such a licensing change, in a bid to put pressure on AWS and get them to contract with MongoDB. It didn't work.
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by athrun 8y ago
> I'm not sure I fully grasp the problem (why doesn't DynamoDB need to be accessed from within a VPC?) This is due to the fact that DynamoDB's query API is a standard AWS API which means granular internal/external acc
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by athrun 8y ago
Ah, got your point. I'd even argue that as a CEO, he probably doesn't even interact with a laptop all that much at work as I imagine he relies heavily on a team of personal assistants. In that context, he might be an avid user of
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by athrun 8y ago
To some extent Android has won on mobile the same way Windows won on the desktop. It's true but kind of irrelevant because this is not what Apple was ever after (otherwise they would have pursued a very different strategy, with 3rd par
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by athrun 8y ago
Well, Tim Cook is not Steve Jobs. He is a different human being, with his own set of skills (and flaws) and that's OK. He certainly does not "just write emails".
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by athrun 8y ago
This article from The Economist touches on this topic. “Banks cannot use deposits in one country to lend in another, because national regulators do not want to be on the hook for loans to improvident foreigners. An eu-wide deposit-guarantee
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by athrun 8y ago
Criteo is another one.
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by athrun 8y ago
Is it even possible to anonymously lease a VPS? I guess you would need to use cash, at a minimum.
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by athrun 8y ago
I really like their Audio edition: it's a full version of the paper voiced by pro actors. I don't understand why this isn't more common. I'm already spending 8-hours a day at work, reading stuff or parsing information in
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by athrun 8y ago
Of course they do. Their EU HQ is in Luxembourg.
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by athrun 8y ago
Cross-platform rich content over SMS is a bit of a mixed bag. You’re never sure the other party is going to be able to read it properly. Also SMS doesn’t do group messenging very well. iMessage would be a great alternative to WA were it cro
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by athrun 8y ago
Why do you think WhatsApp usage is worse than IG and FB? (honestly asking). While I’ve no doubts that people at FB are actively thinking about ways to monetize it, right now the product doesn’t seem to contain any of the toxic crap from IG&
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by athrun 8y ago
Thank you for posting this! I'll be checking this out. I like how the scope of this project is only about setting up an IPsec server automatically on a Linux box. Algo and Streisand have too much features, making them unwieldy.
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by athrun 8y ago
They do [1]. In JSON. [1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-ip-ranges....
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by athrun 8y ago
I can only speak for me, but modeling financial flows in terms of transactions and not accounts is much more intuitive than the classical alternative. I'm a long time Buxfer user, which also works like this. It's not that I don&#x
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by athrun 8y ago
Wow! Thanks for flagging this. This tool has so many useful applications; mind blown.
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by athrun 9y ago
Uh, this is a very interesting (and intriguing) perspective. Couple of questions: - Does this mean that there’s a case for QE to be made permanent under a low-inflation environment? - Under this model, govermnents would be directly responsi
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by athrun 9y ago
Uh? This is already how the world works. It does not matter where you are located as long are you are transacting with EU citizens. In extreme cases of non-compliance, avenues for enforcement that have been discussed reuse existing Anti Mon
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by athrun 9y ago
Well, the point of the GDPR is to make you aware that collecting personal data of EU citizens requires their explicit consent. Just ask me for it, that's not a big deal, is it? If you don't, you're effectively stealing from m
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by athrun 9y ago
The US (along with the democratic free world) may have its own problems but it absolutely can claim some sort of moral superiority in many areas. You cite Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. Well, you can freely support, advocate, demonstrat
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by athrun 10y ago
Come on. I won't dispute your past experiences but you really should avoid extrapolating on anecdotal data. Car ownership for Parisian households sits at 39%. Zooming out to the Ile-de-France region (population: 12 million), 33% of hou
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Elon Musk joins Donald Trump’s advisory council(independent.co.uk)
5 points by athrun 10y ago|1 comments
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by athrun 10y ago
Not sure about auditability. If anything, IaaS is more auditable since everything is traceable. Additionally, AWS will provide partner ISVs with detailed reports on how customers used their products over a given billing period. That being s
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by athrun 10y ago
and iOS provides an official API for adblocking since version 9. IMHO adblocking is even more relevant on mobile because of latency & data caps.
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by athrun 10y ago
You're right, but I would reframe it along the lines of Network filesystems (like NFS or OCFS3) vs. Distributed Object Storage (S3). In that sense, certainly, the current "default" is to use the latter and avoid the former. L

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