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   by flyt 14y ago

   - Finding space in an urban area of the Bay Area that comfortable can fit 8,000+ people is near impossible - Tech company employees have a near equal distribution of living in either SF or the south bay, with some folks in the east bay. Hav
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   by flyt 14y ago

   It appears to use S3 as its basic backend. My guess is that S3 has been modified to have "zones" of data storage that can be allocated for Glacier. Once these zones have been filled with data (and of course that data is replicated to anothe
3. 153.▲
   by flyt 14y ago

   Amazon specifically said it does not use tapes.
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   by flyt 14y ago

   In my experience Amazon doesn't care what you use AWS for as long as 1) your checks clear and 2) they don't receive any LEO interest in your data/service usage (i.e. WikiLeaks)
5. 155.▲
   by flyt 14y ago

   - Facebook earned one billion dollars of cash on the day of the IPO. Subsequent stock swings don't affect the ability of the company to operate day to day, or make capital improvements. - Facebook has a number of old, less efficient datacen
6. 156.▲
   by flyt 14y ago

   Also their selection of games was really poor.
7. 157.▲
   by flyt 14y ago

   re: growth. Facebook has one billion active users. There are seven billion humans in the world. There is a lot of growth left.
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   Quora Tones Down New Feature That Shows Who Viewed What Content(allthingsd.com)

   3 points by flyt 14y ago|0 comments
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   by flyt 14y ago

   Facebook lists existed for at least two years prior to Google+. Nobody used them because nobody wants to meticulously organize their friends into buckets and categorize their communications.
10. 160.▲
    by flyt 14y ago

    iOS 6 removes the needs to enter passwords for app updates. finally.
11. 161.▲
    by flyt 14y ago

    This already happened and Smith won the primary with an overwhelming majority.
12. 162.▲
    by flyt 14y ago

    The failure of a single AZ in a single region does not trigger AWS' SLA.
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    by flyt 14y ago

    Or that there is absolutely no way to deep link to an ongoing outage, and users must reload, then expand the link every single time, or subscribe to an RSS feed. AWS needs to blantantly copy Heroku's status system, which is worlds better fo
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    by flyt 14y ago

    Amazon has Elastic Beanstalk, which is the same idea as App Engine: total abstraction of underlying resources. http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/
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    by flyt 14y ago

    Adding to the stack of people reporting that Amazon's paid support reps are great. Amazon is about putting the customer first and although their services occasionally have problems I never have any doubt that the people I work with are smar
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    by flyt 14y ago

    http://www.quora.com/What-is-Borg-at-Google "It's the system that manages machines. If you want to run a program that uses x CPU and y memory on 100 machines, you don't specify which machines to run it on. Instead, you request 100 machine
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    by flyt 14y ago

    http://axonflux.com/how-facebook-uses-scribe-hadoop-and-hive...
18. 168.▲
    by flyt 14y ago

    Xbox is a good product.
19. 169.▲
    by flyt 14y ago

    Facebook.
20. 170.▲
    by flyt 14y ago

    You set it up once. After you get through that hour long process you've got a great system that is battle tested at many large shops, with plenty of domain knowledge on the Internet.
21. 171.▲
    by flyt 14y ago

    this. stop talking about how great a MVP is and then complain when people haven't build multi region distributed services that are fault tolerant to major platform outages.
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    by flyt 14y ago

    Real logging of IAM access and key/role usage would be much appreciated for auditing. Tough now to figure out who is doing what, from where, and with what permissions. Restricting AWS API access from sources outside the AWS network would al
23. 173.▲
    by flyt 14y ago

    No more bullshit "drop your globally usable AWS keys directly into config files and application code" yes please!
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    by flyt 14y ago

    Dear person that works at Amazon Web Services: please just build this for the community. ec2instances.info is a much better resource than the existing pricing page and the calculator is entirely too much for many uses/discussions. thanks. e
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    by flyt 14y ago

    Easy: everybody authenticate with Facebook Connect, then we just have a single location and storage mechanism to secure.
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    by flyt 14y ago

    Now I just wish that AWS would generate estimates more frequently.
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    by flyt 14y ago

    RAM is a resource that they can't oversubscribe, so it costs more. If I have an instance with 8x CPU cores they can timeshare CPU time between multiple customers on that physical server, since it's unlikely that all instances will use 100%
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    by flyt 14y ago

    This OS might be the biggest Apple flop ever. There are just way too many fundamental changes which are not proven to be actually better. I would rather see new iOS touch UI as another full-screen app to see if it can stand on its own befor
29. 179.▲
    by flyt 14y ago

    Lockup doesn't expire until six months after the IPO. Employees and ex-employees have a while to wait until they can begin selling.
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    by flyt 14y ago

    Facebook's press site is operated by NASDAQ.