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by gtsteve 10y ago
I don't understand why he's taking this on himself to be honest. If I was incorrectly named in some sort of lawsuit, my first reaction would be to call my lawyer. Who knows if there's also an incorrect arrest warrant out for
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by gtsteve 10y ago
Where would you propose hosting it in Africa? I understand that the consumer internet situation is not very good over there, are there datacenters and strong fiber links to USA and Europe? This is essentially why my company doesn't tar
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by gtsteve 10y ago
What is wrong with Toptal? I hired a couple of guys from it last year and it was a great experience. What's the experience like as a developer? Working for Toptal is sort of my short term plan if my startup doesn't work out in fac
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by gtsteve 10y ago
It's not as though it would be impossible; our integration with AWS isn't that deep, it's not as though we use DynamoDB for our core data store or anything like that. But even migrating from one traditional datacenter to anot
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by gtsteve 10y ago
> Seriously: I don't understand why you guys stay with AWS. Personally I've been using it for ages and I know most services inside and out. They do suffer downtime in some regions occasionally, but it'd be too expensive at
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by gtsteve 10y ago
It doesn't appear to be global; my app in eu-west-1 appears unaffected. It's possible that the console won't work however as I believe that's served from us-east-1.
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by gtsteve 10y ago
To mitigate the effect of S3 going down I use cross-region replication to replicate objects to another S3 region. If S3 went down in my primary region I could update the app config to write back to the backup region and update the CDN confi
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by gtsteve 10y ago
Nice try, Jack Dorsey.
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by gtsteve 10y ago
I use Backblaze also, for my virtual machine backups as it would be time-consuming to recreate them (I have several for various clients, server set-ups, etc). The seriously important stuff such as source code is in Bitbucket, and I also hav
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by gtsteve 10y ago
I'm sure they've known that for a while but the company is about as old as the big public cloud providers and at that time I was certainly nervous about using them. If they started today I imagine they wouldn't have dreamed o
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by gtsteve 10y ago
> Our backups to S3 apparently don't work either: the bucket is empty Ouch. I can't even imagine how that feels. This is why even despite monitoring and paging scripts, I still have an event to check my company's backups w
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by gtsteve 10y ago
You'd have to part with some sort of security token to make this possible so I'd say you need to trust the site or set up a limited access account.
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by gtsteve 10y ago
It strikes me that you could do this with an algorithmic approach - is there some additional factor when building PCBs that's specifically hard? Is this one of those things like the bin packing problem [1] where on first glances you&#x
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by gtsteve 10y ago
I don't think this will change. It's hard enough to set up CI on an actual mac, let alone in a cloud environment.
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by gtsteve 10y ago
I'm pretty certain someone will make a Docker image for Core CLR apps soon. There's one for Bitbucket Pipelines already.
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by gtsteve 10y ago
The method I described doesn't require you to use a S3 static website. We don't have that option enabled, so the bucket name isn't mysite.com, it's "mysite-html", and the S3 website hosting is not enabled. Clou
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by gtsteve 10y ago
I use AWS S3, which I put behind a Cloudfront distribution. It's quick to set up, and there are no servers to keep up to date and patched. You also get free SSL for your Cloudfront distribution via AWS certificate manager. For stuff li
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by gtsteve 10y ago
Am I the only one who thinks Asana's performance is just fine? Do you have hundreds of users and millions of tasks or something? For my startup it's been fine and I'd recommend it to anyone. The startup time is a bit of a pai
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by gtsteve 10y ago
Oh no, sorry. I meant £20,000 per year is a low salary for a developer in London. To give you an idea, I haven't hired a developer fresh out of university for under £30,000 for years now.
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by gtsteve 10y ago
There are other benefits also: 1. You can get started for dirt-cheap or in some cases, free 2. There's a common API for requesting new instances and performing maintenance tasks 3. There are extra services available to help build your
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by gtsteve 10y ago
Asking as an ignorant foreigner: Does anyone know what makes us-west more expensive than us-east? Is it just land or electricity prices or something like that?
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by gtsteve 10y ago
Whether or not that contract is acceptable or not is down to the local market and the cost of living. I guess it depends where you live in Paris but when I was there I found that my cost of living was roughly equal to London, and 1900 EUR&#
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by gtsteve 10y ago
It depends on what your career objectives are. If you intend to found a start-up you can of course choose your technology stack and ignore Xamarin completely if you wish. However if Xamarin takes off in the way I hope it will and becomes a
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by gtsteve 10y ago
I have read some fairly negative comments in this thread. I have experienced many of the negative aspects myself, and while I don't disagree with them, I would still say that it is worth learning this technology. Microsoft's strat
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by gtsteve 10y ago
I was extremely disappointed in the development experience, but the core technology is extremely helpful, depending on your use-case. If your app is just a mobile front-end for a REST API then I wouldn't bother with it: develop two ver
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by gtsteve 10y ago
It adds some extra nice language features to JS. It really is a good productivity improvement, especially with JSX which enables HTML literals: pretty much essential when working with a complex React front-end in my opinion. My team has bee
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by gtsteve 10y ago
I guess you can have virtual function keys as well as buttons for specific terminals. It depends how locked down the SDK is - knowing Apple it'll probably become more extensible as time goes on. I imagine that when IDEs can integrate w
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by gtsteve 10y ago
I believe you can actually [0]. In a production setting it's a lot harder to accidentally leak the credentials - my concern would be if someone compromised the instance or if it was tricked into opening the instance store up to the net
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by gtsteve 10y ago
Well, the AWS credentials auto-rotate. It does however provide a familiar place for an attacker to go to get the instance credentials, but that doesn't really help. At some point, those credentials must exist in plain-text for you to u
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by gtsteve 10y ago
That's right. Instance store credentials have an expiration time of a few hours. However, if the instance policy is very open you could create yourself a new IAM account or use STS to maintain persistence after the generated credential

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