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by ctvo 6y ago
Excellent article by the author. The subtle point of delegating everything to remote services is your user doesn't need to know when you've modify behavior. If Amazon were to bundle the content, you'd need to explicitly updat
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by ctvo 6y ago
Your theory here is they're purposefully downplaying their level of self-driving technology to avoid regulatory processes? Are they going to keep winking at customers and letting them think it's level 3 so they continue to take th
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by ctvo 6y ago
> I run a subscription site and just recently added a cancel button. I used to make customers file a support ticket. The previous thinking was that if you put up a barrier to cancelling there’s a chance the user will defer it and give yo
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by ctvo 6y ago
Gambling. Especially in this environment, but the financial markets are both more available and the games have more depth than any casino near me. The ability to leverage is a lot less frictionless and doesn't include fingers getting b
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by ctvo 6y ago
Edward Snowden wasn’t a whistleblower. He stole US intelligence material as a contractor, leaked it to the press and fled the country to avoid facing criminal charges. The whistleblowing process is not break the law then claim whistleblower
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by ctvo 6y ago
But they do lie, and sometimes we learn about it and they get fired. Pyramid of trust: - cited sources - anonymous sources - off the record sources
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by ctvo 6y ago
> it's also very verbose code (due to the simplicity of the language). That makes it very hard to read go code and build a mental model in your head. Verbose does not equal complex usually. Something that's a single method call
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by ctvo 6y ago
The article lays out the points as if they exhausted all their Go options and ran into some deep language problem. I agree with you that this isn't a huge deal in Go, and could have been solved without a language, tooling, etc. change.
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by ctvo 6y ago
...? The article is about a very specific service handling state for if you've seen a message in a channel. It has nothing to do with processing user content.
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by ctvo 6y ago
This covers the wider problem of contract (protocol) changes in distributed systems: https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/ensuring-rollback-sa... > With each change, we explicitly assign a distinct version to se
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by ctvo 6y ago
It's a bit of a step back in time reading things like this. This is stateless HTTP requests hitting a relational database. How is this dead horse still being beaten? The patterns for load balancing, horizontal scalability, caching in t
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by ctvo 6y ago
Race-IQ stuff as you call it is still a debated issue. The recent blowback over Nathan Cofnas’s work [1], for example, show there’s a culture where anyone not in line with the view there’s no connection is a target for cancellation. I don’t
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by ctvo 6y ago
Agreed. Giving this summary and then going into details would benefit readers more. AWS's BuilderLibrary, while containing excellent content, also gives an overview of distributed systems that sorts of point this out: https:/&#x2
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by ctvo 6y ago
Asking for sacrifice from others is often hard, simple, and ineffective. > Stop eating calories and you'll lose weight As America approaches 50% obesity > Stop using AWS, Microsoft Office, AdSense, and Instagram (If we want to ta
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by ctvo 6y ago
Short sell researchers aren't new. Their business model is to raise awareness to possible fraud for profit. They've had hits, recently for example, Luckin Coffee, and Nikola. I would assume anyone participating in the markets also
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by ctvo 6y ago
Chamath and others using Elon's playbook of leveraging social media to create a brand mostly opposite of what reality is continues. Elon: I'm a genius! Also TSLA's self-driving technology is better than Waymo's Chamath:
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by ctvo 6y ago
If you would continue reading beyond 10 words you'd see this: > Initial Disclosure: This report represents our opinion, and we encourage every reader to do their own due diligence. Please see our full disclaimer at the bottom of the
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by ctvo 6y ago
> Mr. Francis brings more than two decades of experience in e-commerce and consumer technology to GameStop. Most recently, he was an Engineering Leader at Amazon Web Services. Checking LinkedIn Mr. Francis was at AWS for ~1 year workin
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by ctvo 6y ago
> The decent thing to do (for all managed Open Source products that you didn't create yourself), would have been to offer a cut to the original team. Who are the members of the original team? Are we not going to give a cut to all th
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by ctvo 6y ago
Yes, for this administration it's a manual. Did you read the list? Mobsters, corrupted politicians, etc.. The ACLU and EFF should also find a way to give Trump money / favors under the table to get pardons too in the name of the e
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by ctvo 6y ago
I quake to think of how bad ES's own managed service must be if it still gets customers then. I don't know anyone that uses the services offered by ES so I can't ask directly.
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by ctvo 6y ago
Great. The burden of proof is on you to prove coordination. A parting analogy (since I'm awful at them but keep making them): A group of Spanish speakers are spread across a number of gates waiting for their flight at SFO. A person sta
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by ctvo 6y ago
> It's the coordination that is terrifying. Imagine there's a number of farmers in a village who all stop working and go inside when a thunderstorm is imminent. Did they all coordinate to stop working at around the same time or
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by ctvo 6y ago
What unfortunate circumstances we find ourselves in when the cost of doing business with a company associated with white supremacists, insurrectionists, and murderers outweighs the benefits so much that other private businesses won't s
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by ctvo 6y ago
Yes. Toggled reader mode in Safari and stopped loading to avoid it
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by ctvo 6y ago
> They want to suck the maximum money from consumers before they realize. This is a naive understanding of how corporations like Google and Amazon work. Bad will and using gym membership tactics aren't how they scale or make money.
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by ctvo 6y ago
I understood what you're trying to say. I still disagree. The products and technologies involved are too different to take any goodwill and apply it universally. Even in the same product there are issues with subcomponents: The M1 is g
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by ctvo 6y ago
Kind of strange they're an Amazon with slower shipping and less customer service.
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by ctvo 6y ago
What an odd comment. Because Apple released a product recently that received excellent reviews, all Apple products are assumed to be good? All Apple products come out of the unit that produces their processors. All Apple products are owned
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by ctvo 6y ago
I think this is a common reaction. We're built with fraud detection as social animals. People who talk as experts about areas their experience and accomplishments haven't aligned with always raise this. In this case, don't te

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