devonkim

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by devonkim 8y ago
It’s kind of amazing to me that despite the sheer insecurity of US consumer financial products like credit cards that the rate of credit card fraud isn’t even higher than it is. Maybe there’s an incentive somewhere we’re unaware of to allow
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by devonkim 8y ago
Part of the differences between chaebol and zaibatsu is in the restrictions on banking that may have helped Korea keep chaebol from collapsing. You’re correct that chaebol are far closer to preWW2 zaibatsu overall. Keiretsu are professional
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by devonkim 8y ago
Corporatists tend to parade around as if regulations are what limit competition when they're the ones writing most of them to keep competitors (both large and small) at a disadvantage. Any sufficiently large and concentrated capitali
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by devonkim 8y ago
I’ve heard a pretty effective, lazy strategy for this scenario is to oversize the heap to avoid GCs through the trading day and to simply restart the application before the next day. Unsure if it’s viable for all trading platforms, but it m
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by devonkim 8y ago
I have to highly, highly disagree given the context that in most SaaS software companies operations are going to be on-call, and horrific on-call nights can't happen if you're not on-call. Even in the best of companies (minus or
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by devonkim 8y ago
Having worked in the sector in the past, I can’t imagine anything I’ve gained for my time in there besides bitterness and cynicism for business, and this attitude has had only negative impact upon my career. On the other hand, I see a lot o
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by devonkim 8y ago
A lot of problems similar to your complaints exist for CloudFormation as well. Instead of complaining about the language warts, you’ll be forced to use an even more cumbersome set of primitives to access arrays and hashes, and the messages
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by devonkim 8y ago
Some specific services (namely Data Pipeline) aren’t supported in Terraform. However, some parameters like Enhanced VPC routing in Redshift clusters is supported by Terraform but not CloudFormation. The rule of thumb that you should general
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by devonkim 8y ago
A coworker of mine wrote a Hadoop job scheduler (Oozie replacement) scheduler in bash because our defense network’s packaging restrictions were so awful. I suspect that once this library shows up in DoD projects that even bash will wind up
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by devonkim 8y ago
This is not quite correct in any company I've seen besides companies that were literally about to go under (and to try to save money to pay off creditors more or less) - companies that are struggling to grow cut spending in order to fr
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by devonkim 8y ago
FreeBSD has had jails and Solaris has had zones (with a Linux compatible zone as well aka branded zone). Given Illumos takes a lot of its roots from Solaris, it also has LX branded zones.
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by devonkim 8y ago
You mean “until recently” right? People have stopped even using “I’m not racist but...” when that was much more common a few years or so back. The political climate and subtle language has changed everywhere. It’s tough to notice as a white
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by devonkim 8y ago
What value does all this social media stuff produce? It’s affecting how companies promote products and services. If you don’t have a social media strategy as a multinational, you’re possibly going to miss out on a rather important demograph
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by devonkim 8y ago
If it makes you feel any better, the more canon ending would likely be that brutal and painful given how the books were supposed to end the story of Geralt and Yennefer. Even the full trilogy ending seems to mock the player for being desper
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by devonkim 8y ago
Apple becoming the thing they rallied against in the early 2000s is a sad state for the company despite its earnings. But investors are aware that they need to get ahead on something to keep that going at least. When Microsoft’s Surface ser
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by devonkim 8y ago
Containers that just do resource allocation and minimal isolation (masquerading as configuration management somehow) are neglecting the power of strong network and storage layers over BSD Jails (although still maybe up to par with Solaris z
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by devonkim 8y ago
A colleague of mine worked on the automated call center systems in the early 80s. The fastest way to get to a human is to cuss it out. This has worked for almost every system I’ve worked with so far (not sure if they’re using the same under
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by devonkim 8y ago
Nothing about “make a boatload of money” is bullshit unless we treat capital / wealth as meaningless. The issues that structuralize incentives different from reality is what makes an activity bullshit. The marketing people are there to
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by devonkim 8y ago
A house I owned was built in two halves, transported, and joined together down the middle (a “marriage wall” results). The primary issues I hit weren’t the house - it was insuring the thing and properly classifying it. Some insurance compan
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by devonkim 8y ago
Literally repeating past failures (and successes!) is rare throughout history so direct comparisons are not necessarily going to be useful for determining likelihoods of future events. In modern America, we don’t have food shortages but we
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by devonkim 8y ago
The only one I’m familiar with is that you drive more than you report and that lets you take on more jobs. You’re not supposed to drive more than (for example) 14 hours / day for safety reasons but most drivers that pull six figures te
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by devonkim 8y ago
The really terrible part is the de-correlation of management quality with rewards for management. Supposedly management is better compensated than individuals due to their impact upon organizations being greater than individual contributors
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by devonkim 8y ago
The problem with being poor is that it is extremely taxing on both your time, your ability to make rational decisions, and even IQ. Being poor is, in effect, a disability that keeps one from being able to make it out of that situation itsel
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by devonkim 8y ago
The reasons I would like refer a human or automaton depends upon the kind of transaction I need. If it’s something I think is done pretty often I’ll look for a web form with a workflow that someone has invested some time into to make sure t
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by devonkim 8y ago
I used to have to pay several hundred dollars / mo after I had a major accident with a personal injury involved and was in my late teens / early 20s in Washington state. The policy renewals were nearly $3k each time for just mysel
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by devonkim 8y ago
Devs hardcoding things in their software in a rush making the software tougher to deploy and operate causing greater incident rates and therefore page-outs. Devs interested in greater resilience and stability in their software should be opt
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by devonkim 8y ago
Even among gamers I’m not sure if the bewildering array of random LEDs is well received as a generality. I’ve built all my PCs for 20 years now and my gaming machines have always been as boring as I could buy and build. My computer shouldn’
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by devonkim 8y ago
And there’s two sides to the equation - even if you have a world class orchestration platform if your application architecture is extremely stateful and can’t tolerate certain services being down the platform can not help. Most places I’ve
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by devonkim 8y ago
Most of the value of AWS in my experience isn’t really the infrastructure services as much as the higher level managed service offerings in databases, rudimentary machine learning frameworks, and a decently documented (better than 90%+ of e
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by devonkim 8y ago
Attracting is one thing, retention is another. Pay isn’t the reason people leave from FANGS oftentimes, but pay is oftentimes the reason people move to FANGS.

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