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by jaylevitt 14y ago
I think (I assume) his point was that when you have a complex system that's growing rapidly, it's difficult to predict what the next breaking point will be. Building in extra load gives you a window of opportunity: You discover the breakin
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
See especially Jamie's TEDx talk. "Wouldn’t it be great if the technology we used to take care of ourselves was as good as the technology we use to make money?" http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_heywood_the_big_idea_my_broth... And to bring
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
I bet RCDefaultApp will work: http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
Very few scissors store company-confidential data.
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
GAH! See, I just slipped up and showed my age. I'm thinking of the Stratus VOS filesystem, which did change the modifier when you edited a file. You're right; UNIX/Linux files have an owner , which doesn't change on modification. Whi
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
I take it you have not worked in such an environment before Does AOL count? I built the mail system. It was kind of a big deal. We pushed 4,000 TPS through servers less powerful than an iPhone. I also spent time at Akamai, though I admi
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
Are you sure you linked to the right thread? I didn't see any discussion of the legal aspect at all - other than "can we sue BMW?"
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
In single-server deployments, you're logging in because you're the only employee. In ten-server deployments, you're logging in because every machine is trying to take on a new role or aspect and you're still learning how to automate that. I
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
Are you speaking from knowledge of the anti-competition legislation, or just from the summaries we've seen upthread? It strikes me that we're taking a car blog's throwaway description of the law as a presumed engineering constraint.
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
Sure, if I got a designer tote bag.
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
Frankly, if the only punch Mountain Lion packs is "breaks way less", I am first in line.
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
You're saying it's better for sysadmins to all log in as "prod" or "root"? How do you figure?
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
What? Cite? A quick Google seems to show the opposite.
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
That's some serious newspeak, Mozilla... "Thunderbird is not dead. We have announced a change in the way we develop new features for Thunderbird." ... in the sense of "not doing that anymore".
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
No, what this means for DevOps is that you'd better create a foolproof method to insert your dotfiles into the distribution - and that it's more important than ever to argue for individual user accounts, not role accounts, on production mac
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
Seems unlikely; Scott MacGregor left Mozilla to launch Postbox.
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
Is it possible that most closed questions are "too subjective", but that most unfairly closed questions are "off-topic"? As someone who's had a few questions shunted from SE site to SE site, being closed at every step, I think SE would
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
To my ears - and maybe this is just wishful hearing - it sounded like they were very, VERY strongly pointing the finger at a certain unnamed generator manufacturer, but doing so in a way that incurred no legal liability. That manufacturer i
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
I think it's unfair to expect any of us on HN to understand this metaphor.
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
Are you volunteering to help push through wahnfrieden's REST changes, then?
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
There's no reason to assume that the old addresses in people's address books were the same ones Facebook had as primaries. If my co-worker was in my phone as tom@patientslikeme.com, but signed up for Facebook as tom@gmail.com, and Facebook
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
AWS says no: http://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/xen-securi...
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
_The Halo Effect_, Phil Rozenzweig: http://www.amazon.com/The-Halo-Effect-Business-Delusions/dp/... This revisits books from earlier in the decade (like _Good to Great_), and shows that many of the profiled companies failed. It's a great
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
You're right. I feel sheepish and proud and part of a bigger effort, but I do not feel nothing.
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
Really? My first major software release took the AOL mail system down for 34 hours. My later work kept it up for 8 years. I consider both equal fodder for bragging, self-immolation, and war stories over drinks. I couldn't tell you which tau
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
This assumes that users are computer-savvy enough to (a) expect an unspoofable dialog at all, and (b) know which parts are unspoofable and how they should look. We tried this with "AOL Certified Mail", which had an unspoofable official chro
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
SiteKey is also trivially vulnerable to the attack known as "I bet you didn't remember that this page should show you a SiteKey."
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
This was known 20 years ago; see e.g. the seminal UI book "About Face".
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
According to this calculation (which attempted to probe all the racks in EC2), over 70% of EC2 lives in us-east. http://huanliu.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/amazon-data-center-s...
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by jaylevitt 14y ago
Am I the only one hoping his retirement leads to a second career doing voiceover work?

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