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by devonkim 6y ago
The long tail of AWS customers is pretty rocky and is a revenue risk as well. Why deal with folks that can come and go so quickly when stable, sustainable revenue is what matters more for a growing company? Most AWS consultants and devopsy
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After having spent the past decade across about 12+ companies in various capacities furiously trying to make software immutable and to isolate state to dedicated services like DBs, message brokers, and networked caches, I’m not sure if it’l
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Computers are hard to manage as easily as our codebases for a lot of reasons. But it should also be known that the field is fairly young and there's a lot of competing ideas while we're trying to keep the lights on with software f
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by devonkim 6y ago
I was paying about $1.5k / mo for a terrible plan for just a family of two in NC under ACA. The public risk pool is completely terrible and large corporate employers’ risk pools are separated from the general public and self employed.
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by devonkim 6y ago
Yep, the more producers and consumers of products and services are separated the more markets are improperly incentivized even without any government involved. B2B has a place in commerce obviously but much of the problems of enterprise sof
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It was older of a trend than that I believe back to post-WW2 when private sector was hobbled. To keep people incentivized to stay longer with employers they offered more benefits that were employer tied such as pensions and health insurance
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by devonkim 6y ago
Yeah, the DoD is designed and structured historically against super power-ish nation states, not insurgent, highly distributed, and non-state actors and modern threats. This is part of why the whole “war on terror” initiative was another fo
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by devonkim 6y ago
They're only looking at total transfer costs and not level of service. You pay more for faster speed oftentimes in Korea and the baseline price may be a little higher than something like Cricket in the US but level of service even in t
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by devonkim 6y ago
The chart is potentially misleading because it only focuses upon the dimension of transfer when markets can be based upon speed. South Korea oftentimes has tiers of data based around speed rather than a cap or aportionment, which is part of
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HOAs differ vastly in quality due to lack of regulation and a wide range of community challenges and needs. It would be good to get a broad survey of folks in HOAs instead of relying upon anecdata but the lack of regulations make reliable r
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by devonkim 6y ago
“Legacy” both works and delivers value. It also doesn’t get political visibility by making something new as a manager. Optimizing the costs of existing business lines is essentially a cost center career track in itself and is why IT people
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by devonkim 6y ago
ESBs historically required a domain-aware object model (when I saw them they were routed based upon rich types and terms like CORBA and RMI were still in vogue). This is more obvious when you look down the page for features in Apache Camel
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by devonkim 6y ago
The trend changed partly due to the 80s cult of shareholder value worship enthused by Milton Friedman / Reagan that permanently altered the social contract of corporations. If the only responsibility of corporations is shareholders, th
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by devonkim 6y ago
Looks like cloudcraft to me from a few years ago but more general. Still looking for a multi-dimensional / multi-planar tool that can let me show the same functional components with different graph coloring and edges. A control /
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The consequences of messing up a make believe factory is essentially nothing except one’s own time loss. The consequences of messing up a real factory are obviously substantial. What games or side projects let us do sometimes is to explore
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Probably can’t be open sourced given IP under contracts but I could try to re-write it. There’s some new services in IAM that could be leveraged to make it more accurate and cheaper to use, too.
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Years ago I wrote a program to let various services run their course, query Cloudtrail for successful calls madero different AWS services, and attempt to find a minimal set of IAM permissions (not applicable for S3 at the time). The idea wa
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by devonkim 6y ago
Intelligence screening essentially tries to select for more financially conservative people and in the cases so far people only go that far due to extenuating situations like divorce, addictions, etc. rather than standard American Greed mot
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by devonkim 6y ago
The problem with "simple" is precisely the problem of removing what is not necessary. In most commercial software design, we tend toward making designs so flexible we make them tougher to reason about than necessary. One of the ot
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by devonkim 6y ago
Unfortunately, narcissists will never learn and any and all problems are because others are the problem unless a truly catastrophic event forced a major reality check on them given what I’ve read so far. Even on a relative scale of attempti
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by devonkim 6y ago
When I read a long time ago I interpreted recirculated air to mean 100%. It seems that old planes had 100% fresh air and modern planes are 50% or so recirculated. Heck, I didn't think even HEPA filters would have been sufficient until
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by devonkim 6y ago
Wasn't sure which were the apples and oranges to even begin comparing it seems. I was thinking of train trips locally like commuter trains for about 30 - 40 miles v. short flights a state away because for a train trip to be made a rout
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As a former landlord I’d do the same thing I did then - keep my price low if I like my tenant or increase / not renew the lease to kick them out essentially. There’s a lot of variables to pricing for different kinds of landlords. It’s
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Inflation certainly is a curious animal and the Wall Street bailouts and the recent record-setting currency printing has primarily inflated capital markets rather than raw goods necessarily. Consumer price index is perhaps more important to
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Trains at least stop and open their doors occasionally letting in fresh air. Each car has less people in it than a typical commercial flight, and my train trips are significantly shorter than my plane flights as well. It’s not obvious to me
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What really bothered me was that the cost to the government to drug test welfare recipients in Floridia cost more than to simply give them the money in the first place. Fiscal conservative me says "what was the point of that?" and
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UBI experiments in countries like Kenya and India in poor rural areas with little education show few problems. Non-mainstream ideas like UBI and RCV are simply suggestions exasperated that things aren't working to avoid a complete disa
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Demand is a no one-dimensional entity though unlike what you'll see in a macroeconomics report. The demand for smartphones in 1900 was precisely 0, for example. What happens is that our consumption will spread out and decrease in other
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We can go on about the morality of means testing but the way that welfare has been destroyed along with the increasing amount of bureaucracy to stay on it currently has shown a worrying pattern - those who get legal representation are those
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I’m a modular reactor advocate as the most rational approach in fission for the future for the reasons you stated - our collective inability to construct and manage complex monoliths seems to be a problem in physical and software constructi

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