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by ctvo 4y ago
> Actually, this strategy works for google. Google enters these markets and then kills it for any possible future competitors. In the short run, it's a loss, in the long run, you nullify new possible competitors. They're no lon
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Those blog posts are a good start. I was referencing the full pricing page for s3 that breaks down by region and class. This is not a good look. From your blog post: > It's hard to come to a firm conclusion since pricing data i
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by ctvo 4y ago
us-east is a geographic distinction within which there are multiple regions. us-east-1 and us-east-2 are not the same. This outage occurred in us-east-2. Within an AWS region there are multiple data centers. They call their data centers ava
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by ctvo 4y ago
It wasn't a boneheaded question at all. As an executive in an all-hands situation, with thousands of employees and their concerns, you'll get questions that are uncomfortable (because they're repetitive, touch on grey areas,
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by ctvo 4y ago
I find just using something (logseq for me) and turning it into a habit is so much more effective than worrying it's not quite right and trying to optimize by finding the perfect note taking app. Can it handle markdown? Can I search? C
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by ctvo 4y ago
You do see up front pricing. Please look harder, it’s there for every dimension they charge you for (instance type, network traffic, disk size, etc.). Back to your analogy. You get charge for these other dimensions that vary when you rent a
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by ctvo 4y ago
No, the claim is it's a better way to hire "Good Engineers", because what's the point of a method that isn't better than the current standard of white boarding, which we know also excludes people, but has also ident
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by ctvo 4y ago
> I don't watch TV. I don't play games. In my very limited spare time, if I don't have pressing household chores I build software projects, work on home IT stuff, and read the occasional book. These things aren't mut
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by ctvo 4y ago
> I'm moving back to NJ to be 'hybrid' beginning of August...Do I mention to the head of the project the first time I meet him that I built the entire app or just let my boss have his glory and mention I'm on the team
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by ctvo 4y ago
Twitter is on my list because Musk may end up owning it as a private company. I’m creeped out imagining Musk with unfettered access to medical care over a large population. Come in for a physical and leave unexpectedly pregnant because ole
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by ctvo 4y ago
> We continue to live in the worst cyberpunk utopia. I sometimes think Bezos doesn’t get into politics because he’s saving himself from a conflict of interest when he becomes president of the corpo-state of Amazonia. Oh, and he’s also no
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by ctvo 4y ago
Really? Meta, Google, ByteDance, Twitter, …
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Then again, I can't imagine doctors would be happy with the AWS Management Console experience... I can assure you health care professionals in the US deal with far, far worse IT situations. It’s very unfortunate.
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by ctvo 4y ago
What other Amazon efforts in health care are you aware of and what other acquisitions have there been to call their record terrible? I'm only aware of https://amazon.care/
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by ctvo 4y ago
> It's not okay to cry at work because of how stressful a deadline is. I mean, let's be honest here, this person was working at Stripe she's not a nurse that has someone's literal life in their hands. Crying at work b
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by ctvo 4y ago
Problems between "designers" and "developers" are usually symptoms of larger problems on the team. People lack trust in each other, and there's an adversarial mindset vs. a collaborative one and a shared goal of sol
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by ctvo 4y ago
> "These were already signed off/approved/whatever". > "But... you ONLY did a wireframe of 3 screens, for iPhone 13 only, in portrait, and ... we already have to support desktop/tablet/mobile."
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Uber engineering has a few gems but for every 1 gem they've hired 10 or more greedy idiots, so maybe not a great example? What an odd sprinkling of something entirely personal. > Otherwise, be pragmatic: Learn Make, Maven, and
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by ctvo 4y ago
It's not clear to the reader what metrics you have and what you do not. Reading the post top to bottom, when we get to this line at the end: > This incident has made it clear that a few blindspots exist within our monitoring systems
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by ctvo 4y ago
No one needs to know the raw numbers. That may be a little more helpful than no numbers but that could also be internal data they’re not comfortable sharing, and that’s fine. There are numerous other ways to write this that would have commu
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by ctvo 4y ago
> On July 13th, at around 18:45 UTC we started to receive reports of an outage from a small number of users. We investigated the status of our services, but were unable to confirm any of the reports. All of our status monitoring and test
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by ctvo 4y ago
The rent in areas adjacent (downtown Brooklyn included) to Brooklyn Heights is nothing to sneeze at. You're looking at equal or higher prices to Manhattan. Even areas further away, like Prospect Heights or Crown Heights, with decent ac
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by ctvo 4y ago
The problem for me, as a long time NYC resident, is that there's no other place in America I want to live even with work from home as a possibility. I like mass transit. I like not owning a car. I like that the city is generally safer
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by ctvo 4y ago
I've found DDB to be exceptional for use cases where eventual consistency is OK and you have a few well defined query patterns. This is a large number of use cases so it's not too limiting. As the number of query patterns grow, in
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by ctvo 4y ago
I misunderstood and assumed all rentals in Vienna were under this system vs. only public ones. I do wonder if the city continues to provide supply, what the downward pressure on price will be for private units and if that eventually harms
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by ctvo 4y ago
> CMV Questions more than anything else: - How does the system decide which applicants out of multiple get the unit? Lottery? How does the system decide which units get rented first (so the owners get income) e.g. 3 identical units on th
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by ctvo 4y ago
You continue to reply to defend your position that 5k euros is below average rent per month for Eastern European capitals in their most attractive locations. Do you actually have data? It's such an extraordinary claim people are using
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by ctvo 4y ago
NYC uses much lax requirements: Your yearly gross income (before any taxes, in aggregate, including other sources) must be greater than 40x the rent price. The example of 5k would require a gross income of 200k or higher, making it much eas
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by ctvo 4y ago
> I've known lots of tech workers who went as much as years without realizing how badly they were being underpaid, even by the standards of their weak local market I agree that white collar jobs obfuscate salaries and that power dyn
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Many people were working these jobs without realising what a bad deal it was. Can you share some details on where you're getting this data? I'd like to dig into it more. Imperfect information certainly is a thing, but many pu

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