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by illumin8 10y ago
Honestly, #3 can be solved completely by putting your own HAproxy or Nginx reverse proxy in front of the microservice or API. You shouldn't be directly exposing your containers to clients anyway - you want a reverse proxy or load bala
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by illumin8 10y ago
I agree that we're probably talking past each other, re: civil/software engineering. The entire reason to do frequent, small updates, instead of large, spectacular updates is to avoid all the problems you mention in the last parag
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by illumin8 10y ago
I appreciate the idea, but in that case, it's simply a cost/benefit analysis. The benefit of not losing a few days worth of fees on credit card transactions a month is worth way more than the relatively minimal cost of good QA, t
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by illumin8 10y ago
> If maintaining critical infrastructure like bridges and tunnels worked like deploying software updates, every few weeks the bridge or tunnel would close itself to traffic in one direction for a while, without warning. They already do t
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by illumin8 10y ago
As another commenter mentioned, LTS for Windows XP and Server 2003 is very good - where else can you expect 15+ years of support? > but as a business, I would always be interested in minimizing my maintenance burden. The argument that I&
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by illumin8 10y ago
The dirty truth is that every piece of software or infrastructure you deploy immediately becomes "technical debt," and you know the thing about debt is that it charges interest. You can choose to neglect paying on your debt for so
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by illumin8 10y ago
That doesn't mean this is a good practice. In fact, I would argue that this type of thinking has created far more harm than good for both the IT industry as well as the companies that adopt this harmful practice. Case in point: many
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by illumin8 10y ago
No, it means that you're sitting in your house without a roof, and saying "I would never forget to close my windows during a rainstorm." Never mind the rain is pouring through your roof. You're seriously willing to carr
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by illumin8 10y ago
Something you should probably understand about Amazon is that their Leadership Principles are real, and customer obsession is their main focus. A big part of customer obsession is not eroding the trust of customers by treating their privacy
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by illumin8 10y ago
The plan is to have a human drive the first and last mile (getting onto and off of the highway), while autonomous systems drive the truck only on the highway itself.
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by illumin8 10y ago
It's not that hard, and doesn't vary from state to state. I agree, we would be better off if we did away with it, but it's very easy to understand. Whenever you eat in a sit-down, full service restaurant, you typically want
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by illumin8 10y ago
I've even seen something very shady recently - a nice restaurant that added a mandatory 20% "service fee" to our party of 7, had fine print that said "60% of your service fee goes to your wait staff." The implicatio
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by illumin8 10y ago
It depends what model you have. I had a 2015 15" rMBP with discrete GPU, and I typically got 5-6 hours with my usage pattern (Chrome, Outlook, Terminal, Sublime Text, doing most of my development locally but running code on cloud serv
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by illumin8 10y ago
Wait, can't you just buy a dongle to convert from USB-c to Thunderbolt 2 and continue to use your nice (I'm jealous, personally) UAD Apollo 8 with a 2016+ MBP?
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by illumin8 10y ago
By the way, I discovered that AWS Device Farm now supports testing with custom network profiles. You can even manipulate the network characteristics in realtime during the test through an API, to simulate traveling through dead zones, etc.
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by illumin8 10y ago
I don't know, honestly. I'm just proposing that developers automate unit testing that includes intermittent network connectivity and understand what the failure modes of their app are, and make design decisions based on improving
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by illumin8 10y ago
Amen! Even companies like Spotify that support full offline mode do a terrible job of testing their actual software in intermittent connectivity areas. Think about a Metro North train traveling underneath midtown Manhattan in tunnels until
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by illumin8 10y ago
It's not sufficient. How quickly could you procure new hardware, install that in a datacenter, make it fully functional, and restore your backups? The answer is likely weeks/months. Could your business survive being offline tha
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by illumin8 10y ago
The fact that you're asking this question on Hacker News leaves little doubt in my mind that you and your team are not prepared for this (running bare metal). I read the entire article, and while you talked about having a backup system
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by illumin8 10y ago
"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong." - Arthur C. Clarke Please, keep this in mind... ;-)
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by illumin8 10y ago
Also, not to mention, current best AC3200 wifi is rated at 1Gbps+, however, actual speeds are max 320mbps, or roughly 30% of the rated speed (for a single client right next to the antenna). So, based on that type of math, I expect to see on
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by illumin8 10y ago
Airbnb also wants access to your entire Google contacts or Facebook friends list if you want to use the mobile app. Let's just say that I refuse to use their mobile app and only use the desktop/browser version for this reason. Yo
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by illumin8 10y ago
It's not a grey area, it's a dark pattern, and you're basically intentionally breaking Apple's app policies, and screwing your users over just to get more permissions than you would get if you followed the rules. Fuck yo
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by illumin8 10y ago
One minor note: When you click the icon, it shows you # of comments, but says "# of commits" (commits is not what you meant). Otherwise, seems very nice!
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by illumin8 10y ago
The first test of your skill is: can you determine what the link really should be to actually view the article? ;-)
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by illumin8 10y ago
You could literally just store a .CSV file in S3 with a table that has the on-call schedule in it and run SQL queries against Athena that would be cheap... you'd be querying a few KB, but DynamoDB is probably better for this use case,
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by illumin8 10y ago
This is from 1977. An accident caused by a structurally unsound helipad almost 40 years ago should be a reason why we never allow drones to deliver packages in the city? > “It appeared it was a structural fault that had nothing to do wi
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by illumin8 10y ago
Out of curiosity, how does coconut oil help with "delirium"?
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by illumin8 10y ago
It's actually very crazy. I've witnessed delivery trucks double park and instantly get parking tickets. I think (and the article seems to confirm it) they just look at the ticket as a price of doing business in NY, and pass it a
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by illumin8 10y ago
That's insane - why not just gamble with Bitcoin or something that has tangible value? I guess the gambling/money laundering crowd will just move to any digital goods that aren't being regulated by anti-money laundering laws

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