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by isb 14y ago
CloudFront doesn't retry on 500s. Besides, you can't alias to a CloudFront distribution from x.com apex, so I don't think it would work for you even if that were the case.
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by isb 14y ago
Route 53 alias feature is RFC compliant - we will return an A record for an apex alias. Aliases can be used at non-apex too to avoid following CNAME chains. So, for e.g., the configuration in docs can be improved upon by having www.example
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by isb 14y ago
In my experience, code reviews get contentious when there is subjective feedback involved for e.g. naming or class design. In that case, it helps to discuss and resolve the issues in person. Plain correctness errors or formatting issues get
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by isb 15y ago
For people not following the immigration bill that is being discussed in this article, it eliminates archaic per-country limits on issuance of green cards. It has been incredibly frustrating to see such a common sense "fix" - which is suppo
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Gridlocked Out(nationaljournal.com)
23 points by isb 15y ago|18 comments
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by isb 15y ago
As mcpherrinm described, anycast plays a big part in how queries are routed to a DNS server in Route 53's global fleet. You are right that a DNS server sees the query coming from the resolver instead of the user. So how does it pick the reg
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by isb 15y ago
The ideal setup that I've found is having two people per office that we have at my current workplace: - cuts out distractions: you can only get distracted if you decide to talk with your office-mate. If either of us wants to chat with someo
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by isb 15y ago
Seattle - Full time - H1Bs welcome. Amazon Route 53 - http://aws.amazon.com/route53-jobs/ We are building and operating a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. We are looking for great engineers to join our t
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by isb 15y ago
Seattle, WA - H1Bs welcome Amazon Route 53 - http://aws.amazon.com/route53-jobs/ We are building and operating a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. We are looking for great engineers to join our team. Plea
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by isb 16y ago
The second link although ugly is less "guessable" if you want to skimp on the authorization check. That aside, sometimes an entity might not have a natural key that can be slugified (e.g. an invoice), in which case UUID is better. Also, usi
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by isb 16y ago
Billing websites for public utilities (gas/electricity).
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by isb 16y ago
My wife wants to switch to windows because certain basic things just don't work in a multi-user/fast-user-switching Ubuntu setup. The wireless applet (nm-applet) is plain broken (bug 284596). Audio doesn't work if the previously logged-in u
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by isb 17y ago
A while back I wrote a Fuse filesystem for Mac ( http://code.google.com/p/xtagfs/ ) that does exactly what the blog proposes. The fs just provides the directory structure on top of an existing filesystem and the files are symlinks to the ac