donavanm

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by donavanm 8y ago
See also Red Swoosh. Or the S3 bit torrent support. Hosted perr to peer distribution is/was a reasonable idea. But the adoption/efficiency/variability costs dont appear to be compelling compared to the “dirt cheap” HTTP CDNs
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by donavanm 8y ago
As others pointed out there are fundamental problems with the system and usability of NOTAMs. Its a little absurd that theyre always used to blame the operator (“should have read the NOTAM”) when a flight briefing might have 10s or 100s app
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by donavanm 8y ago
Straying pretty far of off topic, but... in the trading house story why not just act as a market maker or counter party? Ignoring the fee structure and leverage the complaint appears to be that they simply took the deposits and did not actu
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by donavanm 8y ago
A nit, i believe ITAR is open to US Persons which would include greencards & permanant residence beyond those born in somoa or from overseas us citizens.
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by donavanm 8y ago
Agree servicenow is bigger than just incident & problem management. But they are very big in that area, as a subset of ITSM. As mentioned upthread I definitely see Pager Dutys move away from alerts & messaging as preliminary steps.
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by donavanm 8y ago
Youre looking at the wrong market. Pagerduty is working “bottom up” in to the IT support game. The trending and business reporting tools are leading indicators of this. Im genuinely curious how long until they have pro services & billab
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by donavanm 8y ago
Interesting, ut I didnt catch what “the line” is. is the terminology related to “above the fold” and “below the fold” from the print industry? As a terminology aside online retail sales still uses “hard lines” and “soft lines” as product &
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by donavanm 8y ago
So your pricing is aligned with the storage cost. But youre explicitely not pricing in write throughput/IO access, deletes, or similar caused by lifecycle events? How does that square with long term trends to greatly increase density w
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by donavanm 8y ago
Nice take on granular cost accounting. Interesting that its per customer attribution, as opposed to per component. Need the latter to talk about efficiency and scaling. Would like to hear more about total avg cost (which they have) vs margi
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by donavanm 8y ago
As I recall marshalls will also freeze/ship them by the dozen as well.
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by donavanm 8y ago
As mentioned, Hire & Develop. Its required for leadership positions (sr IC or people managers). May not be obvious, but also applies to yourself; continual improvement and whatnot.
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by donavanm 9y ago
Wrt rotation theres also a cultural component of it. Systems grow in complexity and importance. Forcing periodic rotation, With corresponding automagic client support, ensures thats its even possible when you need it. Compare STS tokens t
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by donavanm 9y ago
Hi, Im a principal at AWS. I havent worked in Minneapolis myself. I have worked in Seattle, Portland, Palo Alto, and Dublin Ireland. Ive also visited the Vancouver, Sydney, and Paris offices. The difference between teams is definitely large
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by donavanm 9y ago
> installing the bollards that should have been there all along. A bit of an aside... Please dont default to “install more bollards!” thinking. Bollards are incredibly dangerous, where I live a cyclist is paralyzed/killed by bollard
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by donavanm 9y ago
I think the issues tatersolid has with linux aio is implicit dio. Thats really painful if youre working with hdd or high concurrent read scenarios. See my sibling comment for why. That leads to people implementing “async io” threadpools in
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by donavanm 9y ago
Last I looked (~4.4) linux AIO implied DIO. Conflating aio and dio is the problem, not a feature. On FreeBSD AIO works with the page cache for read and write, read ahead works, sendfile works, io & cache & readahead & size hints
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by donavanm 9y ago
That cost is definitely not bandwidth. Content delivery is around $0.005-0.01 per GB with an external provider. Less if yiu have the scale to do it in house. My guess is that the bulk of that spend is compute + storage/io.
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by donavanm 9y ago
> Amazon and Google are caught up in a dumb contest to see who can produce the best hockey-puck-sized speaker that can add items to your shopping list. Youre either misrepresenting or woefully misunderstanding this. The echo et al are no
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by donavanm 9y ago
I grew up in the california mountains. Marijuana was a notable factor in the local economy. When CA passed medical marijuana I dont recall any adverse impact on prices. My supposition is this basically used existing supply and allowed for v
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by donavanm 9y ago
Indeed. I remember the evolution of ECHELON in the 90s having the same impact in some circles. And then Carnivore coming out a decade later. If someone doesnt (at least) know of SHAMROCK and MINARET they really have no context.
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by donavanm 9y ago
And yet no rant on the 6 other companies with larger US sales revenue https://stores.org/stores-top-retailers-2017/ . I like that subtle inferred redefinition of "monopoly" as well. Maybe we can just use &quot
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by donavanm 9y ago
I havent played in this space for a year or three, but isnt this basically what everyone is doing for fixed port boxes? The os and routing daemons run on a set of low power xeons with a "bunch" of ram (RIB). That pushes forwarding
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by donavanm 9y ago
As you point out for a business the FCPA is both elementary, serious, and enitrely possible to comply with. That said the "jail time" provision is a joke. Going from memory no corporate officer has ever gone to prison for an FCP
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by donavanm 9y ago
Serious safes are in the neighborhood of $5-10,000 and weigh 2-4,000+ lbs. proper concrete anchors are maybe $100 and another 1-2hrs of installation time. Thats a hard roi to beat.
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by donavanm 9y ago
As sibling point out all is not lost. In a wood framed structure put lag bolts in to studs or beams. It doesnt have to be perfect. Your primary goal is to prevent a strong man, or someone with straps/handtruck, from literally walking o
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by donavanm 9y ago
Depends on where you are. UL ratings are used in north america. There are similar EU ratings that I dont recall of hand. TL ratings are for theft/entry resistance. There are other modifiers for fire, water, chemical, etc resistance. Un
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by donavanm 9y ago
I really want one. Theres no reasonable modern adventure/utility truck on the market. Icons are nice but $$$. Same for all the other modern after market conversions. Like many others Ive settled on a 30 year old truck (4runner/hil
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by donavanm 9y ago
Yup. I took a swag at a generalized breakdown of "data transfer" costs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7479030 four years ago. The values might be slightly different today, the logic isnt. I suppose part of t
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by donavanm 9y ago
Depends on job level. For a senior SDE maybe. For principal definately. Actual kernel/embedded systems/driver develoment in Seattle Dresden and Cape Town off the too of my head. https://www.amazon.jobs/en-gb/s
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by donavanm 10y ago
Check the policy again. As of 2017-04-01 (for reals) there are effectively no restrictions on internal transfers. Including "performance" restrictions.

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