colmmacc

51 ms·

481.
by colmmacc 13y ago
Full disclosure: Route 53 developer here. There is one interesting difference; when using DNS failover in combination with Latency Based Routing, Route 53 supports partition mode failures. For example; if a customer has endpoints available
482.
by colmmacc 14y ago
Disclaimer: I'm working in the US on a H1B visa, but I'm paid above average by a respectable company and don't feel discriminated by it. "underpaid" is relative. Borders and visas are artificial constraints. If there was an open global mark
483.
by colmmacc 14y ago
Disclaimer: I work at AWS, I'm not speaking for my employer. I also helped write Apache httpd, and I'm not speaking for Apache either. Just on my own behalf. The Apache configuration in the benchmark isn't great, using values of; MaxCli
484.
by colmmacc 14y ago
Out of curiosity, did you see/find my previous comment ... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3738542 ?
485.
by colmmacc 14y ago
I really like the design and look of throwww, and I don't mean to pick on it - but every time I see these minimalist low-friction writing engines, I feel like a very big thing is missing; facilitating editing, and encouraging a greater purp
486.
by colmmacc 14y ago
Without meaning to be unnecessarily negative; what I find most interesting about this post is that neither the article, nor any comments in this thread so far, even mention Google Plus. Cuban seems to write it off as a contender, even a rev
487.
by colmmacc 14y ago
Arguably having a "correct" winner matters the least in tight elections. If the margin of victory is as-low as 1% then it hardly matters which candidate wins - that election is already subject to the influence of weather, chance, accident a
488.
by colmmacc 14y ago
If we pop another stack frame, I think there's a deeper level of meaning to the statement "Smart people change their minds". Smart people are open to evidence and argument. But also I think many really smart people recognise that their own
489.
by colmmacc 14y ago
I grew up in Dublin, and lived in Chapelizod - close to where Joyce did - and always felt a weak pressure to read Ulysses. It's talked about so much it almost becomes a nuisance not to have read it. Like you, I could never get past a few ch
490.
by colmmacc 14y ago
This is a good example of where things get tricky in DNS. A resolver could never really infer non-existence of the A record from mere non-presence in an answer like that. Although RFC1034 outlines that a server typically would do that, it a
491.
by colmmacc 14y ago
Thanks! it reads like a 36-ary encoding of an IP address in host byte order, rather than network byte order, which is why it seems to jump around so much. Interestingly, it encodes 0.0.0.0.xip.io as 0.xip.io , but then refuses to answer for
492.
by colmmacc 14y ago
Once a CNAME exists for a name, no record of any other type may exist for that same name (it's an override for all types). But for a query like this, a server is allowed to return both a CNAME and its relevant target(s) ... as long as they
493.
by colmmacc 14y ago
The issues reported so far could absolutely cause errors across any device, including an iPad. The problems that the DNS setup will cause affect resolvers - which can be a combination of software in your browser, your c library, local cachi
494.
by colmmacc 14y ago
Edge cases and niggling "works ok for me" problems really do matter for something that's intended to be used with testing. Otherwise it's easy to rat-hole for a long time trying to determine why your test isn't working, when it turns out it
495.
by colmmacc 14y ago
It's a cool idea, but there are some other problems too; which I just want to list to help the developers and am not trying to rain on a parade. As in the parent comment, a CNAME is returned for arbitrary names; % dig foo.192.0.2.1.xip.
496.
by colmmacc 15y ago
As a touring (folk!) musician, here's what I'd love to add to the platforms that BandCamp and CD baby already provide; 1. A salesforce for managing fan and venue relationships; I'd love it to be easier to build simple lists of invitations f
497.
by colmmacc 15y ago
Here's how I'm thinking about that; the costs of network transmission, computation and storage are all decreasing at a greater rate than the global economy (and population) is growing. Per person (or spending-unit) they are getting very che
498.
by colmmacc 15y ago
That's another good example! But 300 ms is nearly four times the limit of human perception. So I do wonder if - as network and service costs diminish - simply using many connections for the same thing won't seem so "wasteful".
499.
by colmmacc 15y ago
There is an interest rate on the financing, a cost for payment insurance, and almost certainly a margin on top of both, but they've both been built into the price of the car. It's very likely you could have gotten additional savings for pay
500.
by colmmacc 15y ago
Jeff Dean's presentation comes close to suggesting concurrency as an approach, with the 2ms wait-and-see approach, but I often wonder if a truly concurrent pattern of access is feasible in some cases. For many idempotent operations, it seem
501.
by colmmacc 15y ago
A related technique is to use distinct prime numbers for periodicities in the first place: http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2009/11/26/period-pain-3/ ( http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2009/09/27/period-pain-part-... http://www.stdlib.net
502.
by colmmacc 15y ago
The html page at http://whatsmyresolver.stdlib.net/ loads a javascript script from the url http://whatsmyresolver.stdlib.net/resolver/ . Fetching http://whatsmyresolver.stdlib.net/resolver/ triggers a 302 redirect to a url of the form;
503.
by colmmacc 15y ago
Take a look at http://whatsmyresolver.stdlib.net/ for one simple way. Full-disclosure: I work on Amazon Route 53, and although we don't quite use that same method - it will give you an idea of what's possible. PS; we're hiring.
504.
by colmmacc 15y ago
We don't have control over our birth gender, age, country of origin or a large other myriad of factors that are used to calculate insurance premiums. Certain industries succeed in placing these kinds of discrimination on the consumer, other
505.
by colmmacc 15y ago
You're right, better and more convenient service would erode piracy, but it would also erode profits and destroy the core business. The core business of a media company isn't simply to deliver content, but rather it is to leverage that cont
506.
by colmmacc 15y ago
I think you're on to something. When musical students are learning to be accompanists, a very common question is "how do I know what chords to play?" and there's no real answer. There's nothing more than the intuition and taste that evolves
507.
by colmmacc 15y ago
DNSSEC validation is part of chrome; http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/06/16/dnssecchrome.html DNSSEC is about end-to-end authenticity for DNS data, and one of those ends is the user application, so it's understandable that a burden of r
508.
by colmmacc 15y ago
It's entirely valid for a client to set the CD bit and to perform its own DNSSEC validation, instead of relying on a recursive cache. It's not particularly common today, but it is the ultimate expression of DNSSEC. Browsers have already mov
509.
by colmmacc 15y ago
I think the lesson is not that TCP should not be used, but rather that service-affecting code-paths should not block inappropriately. I disagree with the conversion to UDP, and consider it an anti-pattern. In general, whenever you have many
510.
by colmmacc 15y ago
I wanted to repeat a comment I made in the thread about Cory's talk - as I'd be interested in the answer. Many of today's printers, scanners and image editors already ship with restrictions designed to prevent the counterfeiting of currency

More ›