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by illumin8 7y ago
It shouldn't. Amazon believes in strict regional isolation, which means that outages only impact 1 region and not multiple. They also stagger their releases across regions to minimize the impact of any breaking changes (however unexpte
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by illumin8 7y ago
Wow, what a dick move...
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by illumin8 7y ago
Not from Apple, just a happy customer. I'm actually thankful that Apple forces developers to respect my battery life. Battery life on Android has been a shit-show for years because any app can burn your battery down by constantly downl
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by illumin8 7y ago
$250 a year is a pretty small amount, probably about what it costs to keep a registry of SysEx IDs so that manufacturers don't create conflicts. What's the alternative? This is a bit like MAC addresses - if network gear manufactur
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by illumin8 7y ago
Seriously, don't be a dick is pretty easy to understand. I've met so many brilliant female engineers that I can't imagine what toxic bullshit causes people to think this way.
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by illumin8 7y ago
The author of the article admits that his fund is short TSLA. I don't know why I would believe his data.
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by illumin8 8y ago
Of course, but the big difference is that Google can't prevent you from making a living using your skills as a technologist at a competitor, even if that competitor is your own startup.
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by illumin8 8y ago
Seems really cool. Serialization is the answer: manufacturer sends exact serial numbers electronically before shipping merchandise. Serial numbers are scanned with barcode readers on entry to fulfillment center and as they are picked/p
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by illumin8 8y ago
Wait, you mean they just barely demonetized them? As in, they've been paying them for clicks this entire time, even after all of the measles outbreaks the last few months? Crazy... to think YouTube execs had no clue that there is a dir
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by illumin8 8y ago
Wait, you mean they just barely demonetized them? As in, they've been paying them for clicks this entire time, even after all of the measles outbreaks the last few months? Crazy... to think YouTube execs had no clue that there is a dir
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by illumin8 8y ago
> If I have to scale a service to N instances where each of them cache the same type of data. Actually, they don't. If you're scaling a multi-user system to millions of users across hundreds/thousands of instances of your
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by illumin8 8y ago
>> ML can detect kids in videos > It can't detect context, however. You don't actually need to, at least initially. You only need to detect kids, and when you have some threshold of reports on comments on a video where th
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by illumin8 8y ago
This is not true. ML can detect kids in videos, and if there was any financial incentive to doing so, Youtube could follow their recommendation graph to know exactly what type of content to ban or restrict commenting on. The reason why they
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by illumin8 8y ago
These evaluations all happened on Windows, which is notoriously bad at protecting memory from snooping by other processes. Does anyone know how well MacOS versions of all the password managers would have fared? I suspect the JavaScript base
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by illumin8 8y ago
I would never swim in a pool like this. Every pool I've been to required toddlers to wear special swim diapers to prevent exactly this scenario. There are some really nasty diseases that can spread through human waste, and I would not
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by illumin8 8y ago
Most pools require toddlers and infants to wear special swim diapers that provide some type of barrier to prevent pee (and worse) from getting in the water. Not that they're foolproof, but if you are swimming in a pool that doesn'
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by illumin8 8y ago
The company fully backed their decision. They did not have to fight anyone. This type of product design decision happens all the time. Whenever you're considering component costs, you have to evaluate all of the options. You're mi
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by illumin8 8y ago
I don't believe this applies to any 3rd party products. Those manufacturers have to make their own design decisions.
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by illumin8 8y ago
Contrast this to Amazon: during design of the original Echo at Lab126, an engineering discussion took place where they determined that implementing the mute function in software would be less expensive in terms of component requirements tha
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by illumin8 8y ago
There are a couple reasons. First, Amazon has hundreds of businesses and almost 700,000 employees globally now. Every business has different culture and managers. You are not going to find a consistent good/bad/indifferent experie
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by illumin8 8y ago
It looks like this presentation was delivered by ThousandEyes engineers based on their cloud networking performance benchmarks. You can learn more and download the report here: https://www.thousandeyes.com/press-releases&#x2
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by illumin8 8y ago
Wow, this is an incredible answer from Max on Quora as well: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin...
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by illumin8 8y ago
You presume nobody was burned in the last 5 boom/bust cycles, and that VCs are too stupid to look at history before making an investment.
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by illumin8 8y ago
> The declining hash rate, the declining price, the exchanges going under This has happened every previous cycle. When mining becomes less profitable, the hash rate declines and difficulty declines until it reaches equilibrium. Currently
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by illumin8 8y ago
> all the features people want like chargebacks being stripped out of it. Chargebacks were never stripped out because they don't exist. Bitcoin has always had irreversible transactions, and many people view that as a feature. Your a
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by illumin8 8y ago
For anyone using EC2 Parameter Store, a free service in AWS: > Parameters: > AMI: > Type: AWS::SSM::Parameter::Value<String> > Default: /aws/service/ecs/optimized-ami/amazon-linux/recom
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by illumin8 8y ago
This is how you do it in AWS CloudFormation: Parameters: AMI: Type: AWS::SSM::Parameter::Value<String> Default: /aws/service/ecs/optimized-ami/amazon-linux/recommended/image_id That gives y
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by illumin8 8y ago
I heard it on an NPR interview with him mentioning this, but I can't find the transcript.
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by illumin8 8y ago
Yep, the California AG basically said "Wells Fargo is a criminal enterprise masquerading as a corporation" and I'm inclined to believe him.
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by illumin8 8y ago
I generally dislike languages like YAML or Python where whitespace matters, and can break your code, however, YAML is way more easily human readable than JSON, so I started to appreciate it for readability purposes. I guess YMMV, but after

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