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by kevan 5y ago
>adjusted the estimated useful life of our servers from three years to four years and the estimated useful life of certain network equipment from three years to five years Another sign of the slowing advancement in CPU power/perform
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by kevan 5y ago
Anyone have insight on whether this level of performance incentive compensation was more or less common 20 years ago than now and how to credibly negotiate for them as an employee instead of leaving and contracting on value pricing? I'
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by kevan 5y ago
As much as everyone loves to complain about red tape, building codes have a lot of useful info. Even if you're not going to pull permits (at your own risk) it's useful to be aware of what code requires and why. Specific examples f
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by kevan 5y ago
I'd guess those exterior walls are 6-12" thick poured concrete, similar to this[1]. You can see in the 6th picture almost all of the missing wall is still there and intact, it's just lying flat on the ground. In the 12th pict
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by kevan 5y ago
An interesting contrast: for as long as I can remember (I've been at Amazon for 5 years) we've had burner AWS accounts available for testing/prototyping stuff that get auto-closed after a week. Many devs, myself included, als
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by kevan 5y ago
My guess is something related to service mesh/discovery. If that goes down, deployment infra also depends on it, and you don't have a solid black start protocol then you're in for a very bad week.
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by kevan 5y ago
No one will argue that opaque identifiers is a sufficient security control but it's (slightly) better than nothing, at least it would've stopped a naive enumeration approach to scrape everything. Don't get distracted by that
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by kevan 5y ago
I'd implement a good cost attribution strategy before trying a gatekeeping approach. Companies generally have at least semi-functional mechanisms for managing department budgets. Once there's a clear picture how much each service&
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by kevan 5y ago
Some of the moments I enjoy the most are where I sit in a room with product and design for an hour and we riff on a design. The feedback loops between disciplines are where the magic happens and talking through things in person usually resu
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by kevan 6y ago
I don't think you could anonymize chat messages with any level of confidence. Not an expert in this but my team generally has to treat free-text fields at the highest level of data classification because they could contain anything. Th
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by kevan 6y ago
For anyone looking to research that, this[1] video aggregated some source studies. tl;dw: estimates are between 2-17 metric tons of CO2 emissions to produce a new car (SUVs are more). And during operation an average car emits 5.2 metric ton
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by kevan 6y ago
Fair, it wasn't a great example. >We don't explicitly tag all our premises True but we should aim to tag more of them in business writing. It's helpful to clearly state them so 1. You as the writer are crystal clear on the
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by kevan 6y ago
>>this area is most likely to value efficiency Agreed. The general style values simple sentences which helps reading speed and comprehension, especially for audiences that don't share your native language. And it reduces fluff. A
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by kevan 6y ago
Make a dark web[1] site? Basically make it impossible to link what you're doing to who your infra providers/internet connections are. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_web
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by kevan 6y ago
If I remember right from The Everything Store Amazon hasn't had a COO title since a rough experience with Galli in 99-00.
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by kevan 6y ago
Smart grid is a buzzword but this is exactly what it's good for. Spreading peak usage out. For example, today I get a discount on my electric because my power company has the option to turn my AC off for X time during hot days to lowe
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by kevan 6y ago
> If you can describe an acceptable algorithm with enough detail in words, you can code it. I wouldn't take that for granted. It's easy to gloss over details and edge cases when talking through an algorithm and it's not ap
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by kevan 6y ago
The difference might not be as large as you think: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/14/opinion/bluet...
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by kevan 6y ago
>[Musk] hailed Tesla’s structural battery as a “revolution” in engineering —but for some battery researchers, Musk’s future looked a lot like the past. >“He’s essentially doing something that we did 10 years ago,” says Emile Greenhal
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by kevan 6y ago
Enter "windowed user-uptime"[1], which helps differentiate between these conditions. [1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi20/presentation/hauer
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by kevan 6y ago
An example of this from my experience: I was working on a side project and ended up doing 2 major version upgrades on a core JS library (maybe routing?) before I even completed the MVP. Definitely not what I wanted to spend my time on at th
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by kevan 6y ago
>> If you don't know what you're doing you will shoot yourself in the foot. Can confirm. My team of mostly fullstack devs that prefer backend ran into lots of issues with too much freedom in Mithril.
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by kevan 6y ago
Disclaimer: I work at Amazon, views are my own. Delivery trucks: 100,000 trucks at $70k each = $7 billion investment over 5 years. [1] Datacenters: 80% renewable energy by 2024, 100% by 2030 [2] For boxes, I'd agree that there's a
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by kevan 6y ago
Yes, I use one daily and haven't had any issues.
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by kevan 6y ago
Seems like you're looking at this through the lens of a single system that could submit a query to a single database and get all the data it needs. From that perspective GraphQL is definitely an extra layer that probably doesn't m
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by kevan 6y ago
Heads up, ACLU donations are only tax deductible if you donate to the foundation side[1]. [1] https://action.aclu.org/give/make-tax-deductible-gift-aclu-f...
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by kevan 6y ago
A bit of a translation barrier so I'm not positive but the company advocating this appears to be an agency that builds things for multiple clients. For that case it makes more sense to split out capabilities like that so they can easil
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by kevan 6y ago
In a world where a critical mass of companies that want top talent support full WFH I don't think this will be a huge issue. Google and Amazon already have offices around the country and Amazon's premium for SF/NYC vs all oth
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by kevan 6y ago
Silent reading time in my experience. 5-10m of a 30m meeting, and up to 30m for longer design reviews or program docs. I personally love the format but I know some people get tired of writing so much.
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by kevan 6y ago
Think about where you need fault boundaries (e.g. cellular, zonal, regional, global) and match your account structure to that if possible. In practice that usually means one account per cell/zone/region per environment (test/

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