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by freshflowers 12y ago
It's disheartening how few people in this thread have actually read the article instead of reacting to the linkbait headline. God forbid we shouldn't worship new technology as always better.
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by freshflowers 12y ago
Apples and oranges. Cloud services are something very different from a development stack. Amazon puts all its SDK stuff open source on Github, and I don't see Microsoft open sourcing its tech behind Azure.
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by freshflowers 12y ago
So far I've been able to avoid vendor lock-in on the code level (besides S3, but the S3 API is simple and has become pretty much a standard for object storage). On the infrastructure level, the "lock-in" part is not so much t
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by freshflowers 12y ago
Small print: currently only available in region US East.
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by freshflowers 12y ago
For the rest of the Western world, the Obama administration has been the worst thing to happen to a free and open internet in the past two decades. I see all kinds of American apologists in this thread, but the fact is that regardless of wh
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by freshflowers 12y ago
True. However, since most clients (especially those that don't maintain their servers well) use standard images provided by the hosting provider, I don't understand why those images don't come with automatic security updates
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by freshflowers 12y ago
There's no reason for admins to have access to temporary VM's that are created for the sole reason of running browser tests. It also makes incidents like this much harder to happen in the first place.
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by freshflowers 12y ago
And just like in so many places, these people will become the establishment and will hold on to their position so tightly that a new generation will have to find somewhere else to go. Except that in the West, we're now running out of p
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by freshflowers 12y ago
Even so, imho on a staging environment everything should be ready to deploy barring either functional acceptance or very, very unforeseen technical issues that didn't show up systems that mimic production just a tad less closely. Stagi
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by freshflowers 12y ago
No shit Sherlock. It's no secret that the front page is heavily weighted. It's also subject to personalization, so basically no two redditors have the same front page. The default front page is just the landing page for newcomers
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by freshflowers 12y ago
It's interesting how some people react negatively to this. This is what young people who want to "make it big in the city" have done it for ages all over the planet. Just the city and the industry varies, but the story remain
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by freshflowers 12y ago
Two of those, Google and Facebook, have made it their core business to prime humanity for a lifetime of exploitation of their privacy in exchange for so relatively very little. How the f is that "improving humanity"?
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by freshflowers 12y ago
This explains so many start-ups. Especially the ones with .io domains.
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by freshflowers 12y ago
Your argument has absolutely nothing to do with net neutrality. Charging people for consumed volume is something that can and does already happen, and continues to happen in places where net neutrality is law. Net neutrality is about not
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by freshflowers 12y ago
Year after year I keep reading pretty much the same complaints from the Windows ecosystem I've been hearing since the 90's. It comes with the territory: OS and hardware may not always play nice, and how well they play nice out-of-
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by freshflowers 12y ago
This is neither unique for tech workers nor unique for the US. It has been happening in many professions for decades . Tech is just specifically vulnerable, because despite all evidence to the contrary (wage suppression, the huge discrepan
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by freshflowers 12y ago
Yet more sheer propaganda about what the right to be forgotten actually entails. Here's hint #1: what Google takes down under the flag "the right to be forgotten" is Google's choice , not the law. And Google wages a pro
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by freshflowers 12y ago
I use this simple tool to discover what's on the network around me: http://www.iwaxx.com/lanscan/ (Usually just to figure out which IP some device is on.)
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by freshflowers 12y ago
The big problem with tech startups is that they are by and large technologically clueless. Security is just one of the more obvious symptoms. It's always been the case that a lot of tech startups are started by "idea people"
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by freshflowers 12y ago
There is a world of difference between being ignorant of your own ignorance and just making shit up when confronted with your ignorance.
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by freshflowers 12y ago
The risk with this approach is that you take "cool" work away from your own engineers. The first question you should always ask is "is there anybody else who really wants to do this or who could learn a lot from it". Unf
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by freshflowers 12y ago
The first argument is also a limitation of HN and an opportunity for alternatives. Actually maybe even the first two. HN community, culture and politics (and also its moderation) are very Silicon Valley / US centric. This comes through
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by freshflowers 12y ago
I'm wondering why Apple keeps launching in the American market first. Both in mobile and payment the US has been pretty much the most backward and conservative of any of their primary Western and Asian markets.
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by freshflowers 12y ago
Reducing the problem of inequality to envy is so totally, arrogantly disconnected from the reality of life on this planet that it makes me want to punch the author in the face. This entire blog post can be summarized in one short sentence:
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by freshflowers 12y ago
Of all the services not (yet) available in this reason, the absence of Elasticache seems the most conspicuous. It's a stable mature services with no regional complications. Can anybody think of any reason for that? (Maybe it's jus
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by freshflowers 12y ago
Amazon operating in Germany is subject to German laws. Legally, all asses are covered, and for 90% that's all that matters, regulatory compliance. Germany, unlike Ireland, comes with the added bonus that if privacy protection is violat
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by freshflowers 12y ago
Not a big fan of the EU or centralisation either, but when it comes to matters of privacy and standing up to US interests, I'll take the EU over Sweden's recent track record.
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by freshflowers 12y ago
The libertarian panic is amusing. There's nothing inherently wrong with taxing internet traffic, unless you believe tax itself is wrong. Virtually everything that goes into providing internet services gets taxed, so why should internet
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by freshflowers 12y ago
Maybe just a total coincidence, but the mid-80's is also the time when media and authorities started their witch hunt against hackers and the word "hacker" became equal to "criminal". Basically, in the mid-80's
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by freshflowers 12y ago
The problem is that it is now 2014, and many if not most of those companies couldn't function without software. They're just deluding themselves. There are fewer and fewer businesses in which software developers really are "p

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