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by blantonl 14y ago
Well, we've gone from "degraded performance" to completely losing our EBS instance store for our master MySQL server. If we don't see resolution shortly we might have to look at promoting one of our slaves and moving forward from there.
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by blantonl 14y ago
I took our Web sites offline (RadioReference.com / Broadcastify.com) so our back end processes (audio archiving, audio serving etc) don't crater. Our Master MySQL server uses EBS (striped RAID across 4 EBS disks) and it is getting killed du
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by blantonl 14y ago
A new congressional investigation claims Microsoft has been able to avoid paying $6.5-billion in taxes since 2009 thanks to the complicated tax structure in the U.S. The role of a CFO (and his office) is to do exactly what resulted above.
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by blantonl 14y ago
In all fairness, I think it depends on what "X" is in your case. If you've decided on Prolog as your language of choice, you are going to be limited to a pool of government type candidates and IBM event management gurus. Perl was one of th
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by blantonl 14y ago
Of all the reasons why the OP chose Perl for their project, this is the one that makes the most sense: 5. Perl code is fun to write. If you are comfortable in your environment, then moving fast comes naturally and you have far more opport
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by blantonl 14y ago
Did Yahoo never internally adopt Yahoo Mail and Calendar? if so, that would be analogous to Google using Lotus Notes internally.
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by blantonl 14y ago
1607 E. Big Beaver Road, Suite 250, Troy, MI 48083 Good old Big Beaver Road, coincidently, Exit 69 off of I-75 :)
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by blantonl 14y ago
Jeeze.. Facebook has taken it on the chin since it's IPO. It is great to see an insider's positive perspective from a satirical perspective.
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by blantonl 14y ago
Agreed. You've basically described the concept of the "race to the bottom."
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by blantonl 14y ago
... and I can't name a consumer desktop application (especially a really generic one like mail with tons of free competitors) that has become a major $1bn+ (or even $100m+) business in the last several years. Exactly. An "exit" can mean a
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by blantonl 14y ago
Damn right they do. These "architects" are typically folks who have just a bit of coding experience but learned to navigate the bureaucratic waters to their advantage, and they love it. A real "architect" who really solves business problem
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by blantonl 14y ago
But the domain name is tied to IP (at this time)
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by blantonl 14y ago
Congrats to the Stripe team - this will hopefully allow them to expand their platform outside of the US. I am one of those "anti-funding" guys, but I also understand cases where capital is needed to take it to the next level. This would be
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by blantonl 14y ago
FYI: Facebook's legal team really frowns upon any domain name that uses xxxxbook.xxx - you should expect to hear from them soon.
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by blantonl 14y ago
Yup, I can confirm from here in Montana that both Netflix and Herkou are down. However, I have 20 instances on us-east. And haven't seen any problems, even during yesterday's outage on AWS. Edit: that doesn't mean this isn't an AWS outage..
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by blantonl 14y ago
probably to prevent folks from all stacking up in a single AZ. Just think if someone posted a blog post saying "I've noticed that EBS performance is far better in 1d vs. 1a"
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by blantonl 14y ago
The uproar over this is ridiculous. Craigslist is free to choose who can consume their data. If you choose to build a platform that is dependent on third-party data and APIs, then you choose to accept whatever choices those third parties m
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by blantonl 14y ago
Spot on. He doesn't want to update his 50+ applications, but he wants to patch PHP and deal with the deployment of that to all the servers that support those 50+ applications. And he admits that he's not a C++ coder. Sounds like a change
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by blantonl 14y ago
this is a classic example of "you mess with the bull, you get the horns."
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by blantonl 14y ago
6.) Throw money at the problem. Examples: Google+, Bing. 5,4,3,2,1 all offer good advice. 6 could (will?) be a bottomless pit
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by blantonl 14y ago
The value PM's provide is enabling specialization of labor. This right here should have been the top rated comment on StackExchange. And, everything else the parent said is dead on.
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by blantonl 14y ago
Regarding BMW, I know someone who purchased a BMW just to go to auto club meets and meet new people. I have to admit, that is a new one. Did he purchase an M5 or other super expensive/powerful BMW to go to auto club meets? Or other mode
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by blantonl 14y ago
I'm curious, what is it like living in Tel Aviv if you aren't Jewish and are from the USA? The reason I ask is this article seems to focus on the benefits of cultivating a startup in Tel Aviv. Are there cultural disadvantages to folks wh
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by blantonl 14y ago
Great idea. Now, how do I unsubscribe or disable alerts in the future?
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by blantonl 14y ago
Still, the website being off-and-on down on launch day is pretty facepalm. It might actually be a hidden benefit. When I saw the error messages I thought to myself "wow, there is a lot of demand for more news of this..." Therefore, I mu
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by blantonl 14y ago
Search for Netflix in the App Store or the Android play market.... There are a bunch of third party apps.. Especially on android (but none of them actually stream Netflix, they just allow you to manage your queue etc)
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by blantonl 14y ago
Spot on. When you build your house on someone else's foundation, your house is at the mercy of the foundation's owner's plans. Publically available APIs are great, but at times I am troubled by how many people develop entire products and ap
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by blantonl 14y ago
I suspect it was because he also needed to make a living, in addition to covering expenses for the business. $24,000/year in revenue is tight for any business - even a single employee business.
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by blantonl 14y ago
Exactly! A customer could care less who you host with and what stack you use. The customer thinks one thing: if YOU are down, then YOU are down.
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by blantonl 14y ago
What is most troubling about this post is that it appears that LinkedIn still at this time doesn't know the attack vector.

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