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by manacit 10y ago
This is no different from a myriad of other companies that have private networks on private fiber that span large geographical paths. Google's is probably bigger than most (both in terms of geography and throughput), but it's noth
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by manacit 10y ago
This is interesting, but not altogether surprising. As an urban 20-something, my parents helped me my covering the lion's share of my college costs. Once that was over, it was an unspoken agreement that I was completely on my own. Fort
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by manacit 10y ago
That's what I use http://http.rip for :D
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Introducing rkt’s ability to detect privilege escalation attacks on containers(coreos.com)
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by manacit 10y ago
Anecdata: I am the administrator of a ~12k person "Free & For Sale" FB group for the college that I graduated from. It's very high traffic, people are able to buy and sell a whole host of things very easily. I think Faceb
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by manacit 10y ago
As someone who casually sells their old computers/phones on the internet, eBay is completely useless for something like this. It's frustrating that they advertise it on TV as a place to sell old equipment, actually trying is futil
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by manacit 10y ago
Definitely! Not going to be an exhaustive list, but I can talk about some of the bigger pieces of work. Something that always seemed to cause nagging issues was that we wanted our cluster to have data encryption at rest. Ceph does not suppo
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by manacit 10y ago
This is precisely how I would recommend doing this if I were to be asked. Because git is content-addressable, it lends itself very well to being stored in an object storage system (as long as it has the right consistency guarantees). Instea
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by manacit 10y ago
I'm happy to see this - I could not agree more with these points. I think they are coming at this problem from the wrong perspective - instead of growing from virtual servers to their own dedicated hardware to get better CephFS perform
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by manacit 10y ago
After passing the ProctorU portion of the test, I was flown in and did more computer exams, as well as interviewing with some people in person. In chatting with people while I was there, it sounded like it was very expensive to fly everyone
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by manacit 10y ago
Indeed, organization seems to be anathema to the tech-libertarian crowd around here (or, at least, the vocal part of the crowd). To a lesser extent, it is hard to think about this future when times are good, which they definitely are now. I
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by manacit 10y ago
I completely agree, and I think this is the natural evolution of Amazon (and, to an extent, corporate America). Amazon gets to treat their min wage warehouse employees as fungible, and their process around hiring and firing shows that. Have
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by manacit 10y ago
I mentioned this in the last post about this process, but this is not exclusive to Amazon. I did a ProctorU test for Epic a few years ago that followed the same requirements. I installed LogMeIn, let them poke around my laptop, showed some
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by manacit 10y ago
Yeah, that lines up with what I heard from other people that had worked there, or knew people that work there. For all of the flaws though, they had a fantastic and cheap cafeteria. It's surrounded by cow farms, though, so they have to
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by manacit 10y ago
They are a big company that operates with a fairly proprietary set of programming language and tools (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS ), and they hire a good number of people right out of undergraduate degrees.
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by manacit 10y ago
I still have the original e-mail they sent me, below the requirements section to do it online (OS X or Windows PC, Webcam, Microphone, etc), they say: > If you do not have a webcam, your computer doesn’t meet the technical requirements,
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by manacit 10y ago
Fortunately, I still have the e-mail that they originally sent me. They list the requirements as: In order to take the assessments from your home, you will need: * a webcam (either internal or external is fine) * a microphone * a
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by manacit 10y ago
By all means, this is not unique to Amazon - not that it makes it any better. I did a post-grad interview for Epic (epic.com - healthcare software) in a similar fashion, that was at least as draconian. After passing a 15 minute phone screen
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by manacit 10y ago
I think this could quickly change in the 6 month to 1 year horizon as Amazon (potentially) adds onto this product with other AWS services built into this product. Imagine if you could easily spin up DB instances and create LBs within LightS
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by manacit 10y ago
AWS re:Invent is currently happening, they're announcing all of these products right now (and they are summarily posted to HN)
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by manacit 10y ago
As @STRML said, the difference is that Amazon is using network attached (EBS) storage as the primary instance storage, instead of local SSD. This provides a ton of benefit to Amazon, and some benefit for the user as well: CoW backend allows
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by manacit 10y ago
I am not sure that this belongs on the front page of HN, but the problem seems to stem from the `virtio-blk` driver they're using not supporting TRIM, which causes space to never deallocate once the VM writes to a block. Switching to `
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by manacit 10y ago
Considering his Twitter bio (in his profile) says he works at Amazon, I'm going to lean strongly on this being satire. Honestly it's pretty funny that everyone took this at face value, pretty telling..
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by manacit 10y ago
While I totally agree with you, the Apple TV also includes 802.11ac which is capable of negotiating a link speed far greater than 100mbit/100mbit. Of course, speeds in excess of that are totally not necessary when streaming video, but
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by manacit 10y ago
That'd be a pretty big bummer for anyone who adopted it recently though - I'm not sure if I could justify another $200 just for 4k when there are plenty of <$100 devices that can do it right now.
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by manacit 10y ago
I should have mentioned - I don't mind Netflix (and Plex) not being included. Maybe it's a big jump in my head, but the apps that I want grouped together are the "traditional" (cable station) apps that are usually low qu
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by manacit 10y ago
There is some that I agree with in here, and some that I disagree with. Ultimately I think it's fairly well thought out, though I am personally excited about the new apps for Apple TV. The lack of 4k/UHD/HDR support in the Ap
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by manacit 10y ago
Like goatsi said below, it makes it much harder to duplicate than a metal key, and tracks the times and fob IDs of everyone using it to get in the building. Instead of being able to run to Home Depot and get a key copy for $3 that you can h
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by manacit 10y ago
Renter in NYC here (looks like you're one as well). * I didn't lose the ability to rent my apartment out - that was always against the rules/law. My LL just put in new electronic locks in on my building to make sure it was si
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by manacit 10y ago
There are more than one around the city, but I usually take http://www.nycairporter.com to get to/from JFK/LGA and Manhattan when I don't want to take public transit (usually because I have a lot of luggage). I li

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