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by ciguy 6y ago
I had the privilege of diving with Manta Rays in Hawaii a few years ago. They come to a specific bay to feed on plankton each night. Seeing these 1000 pound animals glide through the water so peacefully was surreal. In some cases they came
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by ciguy 6y ago
I lived in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia for like 6 months each. I've lived in or visited over 100 countries so far and those are still in my top 10 favorites.
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by ciguy 6y ago
Machi Picchu was one of the few items on my world travels bucket list that was actually more spectacular and awe-inspiring than expected. Many famous landmarks are nice but kinda just ok when you are up close. Machi Picchu is a whole other
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by ciguy 6y ago
I respectfully strongly disagree. At a certain scale when you can afford to have a full-time engineer working on it, open source tooling will give you a better, cheaper and more flexible solution since it's easy to customize. Datadog i
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by ciguy 6y ago
This is good advice, however you will also want to make sure you have a plan to get off datadog when you grow. Datadog is one of the easiest to use and most comprehensive out of the box. But it gets really expensive as you begin to scale up
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by ciguy 6y ago
Companies are just resistant to change, period. It's a feature of human nature and is exacerbated in many companies cultures. Legacy stuff will always have an intrinsic advantage simply because it's low/no risk. New stuff alw
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by ciguy 6y ago
I lived in that area for a few months and I still miss it.
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by ciguy 6y ago
I'm a certified scuba diver, but cave divers are just a whole different level. They have my respect but I also think they're a little bit crazy. Watching some videos of these guys exploring that cave I was struck with just how ski
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by ciguy 6y ago
Appreciate your reasonable responses. It's of course possible that they change the security level at times especially if the Forbidden City was closed as you say. It likely also changes around the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Ma
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by ciguy 6y ago
Yeah actually I did get a Black Mirror kind of vibe at certain times for sure.
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by ciguy 6y ago
You just ignored the armored vehicles and police station permanently setup at one end of the square? The facial recognition when you go through the scanners? The guards posted at vantage points with rifles? You were either paying no attenti
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by ciguy 6y ago
I've been to the Eiffel tower several times. The security there is not even in the same league as the security as Tiananmen Square.
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by ciguy 6y ago
Yep, every time I post anything that mentions China I lose Karma, but I don't particularly care. Sometimes the comments start with 10+ upvotes and then suddenly a wave of downvotes comes. Most recently some very new accounts with mostl
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by ciguy 6y ago
I've been to China a few times, most recently in late 2018. I traveled overland by train from Beijing to Xian and then to Shanghai. Everything as a non-chinese citizen was just harder than it was when I visited in 2014. Buying train ti
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by ciguy 6y ago
This is great. I've always felt that Rancher was underappreciated in the DevOps world probably because it's deceptively simple and easy to use and we tend to gravitate to complexity. I know a number of companies that have switched
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by ciguy 6y ago
This is great. I've always felt that Rancher was underappreciated in the DevOps world probably because it's deceptively simple and easy to use and we tend to gravitate to complexity. I know a number of companies that have switched
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by ciguy 6y ago
This worked because you can actually buy government revenue vouchers or stamps to pay for official fees or transactions in many countries. I could definitely see this being believable to someone coming from a country where this is a thing.
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by ciguy 6y ago
I've been traveling extensively for 10 years, over 60 countries and counting. Still haven't ever been in a situation where I needed relatives to send money. I have multiple banks, cards, credits cards, accounts and lawyers who can
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by ciguy 6y ago
Kidnapping is a real, albeit unlikely threat in many of the places I end up in. That's why I have lawyers and insurance. There is no scenario in which I want my grandparents or parents involved in a kidnapping situation in any capacity
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by ciguy 6y ago
I travel internationally a lot and my parents and grandparents get calls like this on occasion. I send them an annual email reminding them that I will never call asking for money. I also give them a password in the email and let them know t
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by ciguy 6y ago
Using Stackdriver as an example here shows how out of touch people at Google are with their customers. Stackdriver has been terrible for years and has visibly become worse over time rather than better.
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by ciguy 6y ago
Why should Ebay be obligated to do business with Romania if Romania refuses to rein in scammers on the platform? It seems Ebay was more important to Romania than Romania was to Ebay since they did in fact do something about the scammers aft
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by ciguy 6y ago
This is content spam, I couldn't find a link to the Akamai announcement but that would be a better article for this.
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by ciguy 6y ago
There is an entire culture of Heirloom vegetables where many gardeners share seeds amongst themselves and attempt to preserve some of the agricultural diversity we had before modern monocropping took over. Obviously most of the varieties do
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by ciguy 6y ago
I'm getting major Microsoft Access vibes from this. I guess we really have come full circle.
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by ciguy 6y ago
Others have outlined some specific issues such as commit status not bing visible from repo view, but besides a few things like this which will likely be fixed quickly I think it's a cleaner a more modern looking design. It's easy
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by ciguy 6y ago
I visited Newgrange on a whim several years ago while staying in Dublin. I liked it so much I stayed a few days and explored the surrounding areas. Newgrange is the largest but there are numerous smaller tombs in the area, including Knowth
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DevOps Weekly RoundUp(thisweekindevops.com)
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by ciguy 6y ago
Looks really nice, similar to draw.io but a bit cleaner designs. I would recommend making the default sign up flow friendlier to AWS and GCP users. Right now figuring out how to add those libraries is hard. Also I would highly recommend mor
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by ciguy 6y ago
Since when has Stripe ever been even remotely "secretive"? They've been highly publicized in the tech community since the beginning. Just because they weren't mainstream in the beginning doesn't mean they're se

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