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by dcosson 11y ago
I have a genuine question, why not use S3 alone for secret management? One selling point of Confidant is using IAM roles to bootstrap authentication to the secret store. You can also do that with S3, put each secret into an individual text
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by dcosson 11y ago
I don't quite understand the swarm & compose workflow for production. I'd rather use a declarative language to specify what the systems look like, potentially with auto-scaling, health checks to replace containers if they go d
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by dcosson 11y ago
3. Fun :)
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by dcosson 11y ago
No, the most annoying is when you're on ios and the app doesn't integrate with password extensions and has decided to disable pasting in the password field.
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by dcosson 11y ago
> if he can do all these activities, he can damn well work Yeah, screw him for living life to the fullest while he still can, instead of continuing heavy physical labor every day until he's in a wheelchair. In all seriousness, it&#x
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by dcosson 11y ago
The biggest thing I see standing in the way of this vision of the future is that it seems to actively go against IT best practices that medium/big orgs have in place. For instance, the github example in the article is cool but it seems
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by dcosson 11y ago
I had heard of them, but I still have a similar reaction to you. It's right up my alley, e.g. I've bought all kinds of random hardware on kickstarter, but I've never bought anything from Quirky even though I would have loved
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by dcosson 11y ago
Statistically, all matter on the scales we're used to is only found away from earth since the universe as a whole (including dark matter) is something like 10^30 times less dense than earth. So if dark matter is found independently of
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by dcosson 11y ago
Crazy they picked a name where they don't own the .com
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by dcosson 11y ago
You're right, the dead man's switch is interesting here. I wasn't thinking about the ability to reference a fairly precise point in the future via block number instead of an external input to the system. Don't get me wro
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by dcosson 11y ago
Presumably smart contracts would very often depend on input external to the system - for example, imagine a will that says if Person A dies, Person B inherits the millions of dollars worth of Ether at a particular address that Person A owns
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by dcosson 11y ago
This looks great! Looking forward to playing around with it. I loved the idea of Airbnb's Synapse, but it's tricky to configure (you basically have to write an haproxy config from scratch plus learn how synapse config sections map
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by dcosson 11y ago
The security point here is something that confuses me about the current state of the ecosystem. The article mentions that "most vendors still run containers in virtual machines", presumably since if someone hacks an app in a conta
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by dcosson 11y ago
> as a landlord I want to use an exclusive broker How beneficial is the "exclusive" part? If it's a doorman building so the doorman can hold the keys and give them to any broker who shows up, and you list it so any broker
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by dcosson 11y ago
I used a broker for my last 3 NYC apartments (luckily the first two were new developments so only the most recent one did I pay myself). I can't exactly say I regret it because the alternative was settling for a much worse apartment, b
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by dcosson 11y ago
You're right that these companies could lose steam and this shift could never come. On the other hand, the macroeconomic stats could change incredibly quickly since these companies are growing exponentially. E.g. if a company is doubli
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by dcosson 11y ago
Yup, this is what I do as well. No special configuration was required as far as I know, either.
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by dcosson 11y ago
I recently switched to using both, docker running in a Vagrant VM. I've had several frustrating issues with boot2docker on OSX, it's generally just been less stable for me than Vagrant. In terms of using docker, IMO it's the
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by dcosson 11y ago
As an anecdote, I've had some money in both Wealthfront and Betterment for the past 2 years. Both seem to be performing about the same, though betterment has better (but still very lacking) metrics on performance. They both show you wh
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by dcosson 11y ago
"Now, what society is really missing out on is an opportunity or reason to transition from employer-based benefits to government or society-based benefits." This was my reaction as well. If Uber drivers feel that they don't h
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by dcosson 11y ago
Agree. I love what they're doing but it seems crazy that installing a new daemon and running it as root is being advertised as a key part of the solution. I get that they're trying to make it super simple for the hobbyist at home
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by dcosson 11y ago
FWIW just a couple weeks ago we got through the whole SNAP-R process a lot faster, in about 2 hours. It was a strange experience though. It felt like if anything Apple was trying to dissuade us from using encryption by presenting this vague
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by dcosson 11y ago
The sugar content here does seem higher than ideal, and soylent is about the same. I'm currently experimenting with making a DIY soylent and I've noticed that if you're trying to get all the carbs from whole-grain, real sourc
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by dcosson 11y ago
Lattice looks interesting, looking forward to checking it out more
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by dcosson 11y ago
Does anyone have resources about security/isolation best practices for running multiple applications on Kubernetes (or Mesos or similar)? For instance in a non cloud-native app that runs in VM's, you might have one app per VM and
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by dcosson 11y ago
Also, I've seen a few things recently talking about how as it continues to get easier engineering-wise to build consumer sites/apps quickly and scale them to big audiences, design becomes an even more important differentiator. Thi
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by dcosson 11y ago
I for one am hoping that this catches on, walled garden or not I'd rather spend my time reading content on an interface that I don't have to fight against (e.g. full screen overlay ads with a tiny x to close) and I trust facebook
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by dcosson 11y ago
Agree this is good advice a lot of the time. But just to offer an alternative possibility, there are other things that can affect the equation too. For instance, if you end up at the right startup you might learn a lot more than you would i
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by dcosson 11y ago
I'm also very curious which direction things will move. I think I'm less convinced than you are that it'll be away from AWS and the like though, they're innovating at least as fast as the open-source container cluster to
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by dcosson 12y ago
It seems like this would still have one of the issues SSL has where it's easy to get wrong and then it's no better than not having it, except that people think they're safe. E.g. use a weak hash function and someone can write

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