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by markbnj 8y ago
Perverse? The poster was simply wondering what a phrase Bezos used in his own public announcement might mean. And I think developments in the private life of one of the world's richest men, CEO of a near-trillion dollar corp and operat
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by markbnj 8y ago
Are you a parent? You're never out of a job :). I'm 58, my parents are in their 80's, and my daughters are in their 20's, so my opinion in this matter is somewhat informed.
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by markbnj 8y ago
Well, from my perspective I've had my own blog since 2005 and still do (wordpress on a cheap vps), but the articles I publish on Medium get way more interaction, views, reads and comments.
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Is it still theft if the thief hides his actions behind an alias?
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I've had a couple of popular medium posts copied by a person looking to boost the visibility of his consulting company site. It's frustrating, but I think ultimately it does the thief more harm than good.
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by markbnj 8y ago
Thanks for the link to that MIT packet storm postmortem. The comments thread following contains a pretty fascinating debate involving some members of the original IETF committee and RFC authors.
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by markbnj 8y ago
You remind me of a business trip to Italy some 25 years ago, when I visited a factory outside Florence and was shocked to see small bottles of wine served in the employee lunchroom for the mid-day meal. I don't know if this practice is
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by markbnj 8y ago
> However, that would be the worst thing I could do for society, because I would be removing that resource (whether it has intrinsic value or not, it is still a resource) from society. I think the author would say that the pile of money
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by markbnj 8y ago
Fair enough. From my perspective I'd say the mall is a success story _because_ it can still fill storefronts with independent operators. Is that a sign of impending doom? Maybe, or a sign of a transformation in progress, and I give you
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I don't get this piece at all, starting with the title. What's shameful, or even mysterious? Malls all over are closing/shrinking due to disruption of the retail business by Amazon and others. In this specific case the mall i
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I don't know, sort of feels like this thing really isn't helping anyone other than perhaps the entity collecting the $5. These folks would probably be better served by speaking with some experts to find out whether there are any f
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by markbnj 8y ago
I kind of feel like the author is referring to Zuckerberg's famous comment about young people being smarter. I don't remember the exact quote, but it was suitably shocking and stupid so it's a candidate anyway. The thing I li
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by markbnj 8y ago
I'm wary of the operator model in general, and we haven't had great success using operators to deploy complex stateful services in our clusters. But to be honest we also haven't had great success deploying them using OTS char
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The same good reasons for running any workload on k8s apply to databases as well, it's just that they are more complicated than stateless services due to the (no surprise) state and the clustering/control protocol things that ofte
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by markbnj 8y ago
It's been twenty years since I lived in southern NH and worked for a company in Vermont, but I don't remember a lot of differences in the landscape, or frankly the culture. Yes Vermont has a reputation for being liberal and progre
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by markbnj 8y ago
I get the multi-tenancy argument, for certain use cases. I'm not sure I understand the point about greater resource utilization. Presumably they mean workloads can be scheduled more densely given a set of hardware resources, vs. contai
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by markbnj 8y ago
Of course it's fundamentally unsound. It's not even a reasonable abstraction for reality.
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My sarcasm probably wasn't clear, but I am merely mocking the author's trichotomy.
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Most definitely not :).
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I am neither a principle engineer at a big "N" company, nor am I a high frequency trader, but I kind of hope I am not an "IT peon" either.
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We hardly have grocery stores anymore even here in affluent north-central New Jersey. Walmart, Sams, and Target came in, and quite a few of the old line stores closed, helped along by the A&P debacle. Then they closed the Sam's nea
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by markbnj 8y ago
Which language produces statically linked binaries that embed their own root filesystem?
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Kristen Jacobs' talk on low level container networking at Kubecon 2018 in Seattle. https://kccna18.sched.com/event/GrWx/container-networking-fr...
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>> Most programming languages pass function parameters by value. If the function alters the value, the results are not passed back to the calling code. But as I've already explained, Python goes out of its way to be different. Py
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It feels to me like the question of how humans react to life-threatening situations is less relevant here than the question of how humans judge what _is_ a life threatening situation. Are you in imminent danger of death if you encounter a t
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It may seem unfair on the surface, but it's a lot less unfair than losing your principle to the same scam that paid out the stolen money as fake returns.
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As far as I can tell the clawbacks are of profits taken, not principle. Since the profits were fictitious they represent money stolen from downstream victims of the scam. It doesn't really matter that Madoff stole it and then handed it
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It doesn't really, unless the founder has signed a stockholder's agreement with other founders or investors specifying a vesting period. Under normal circumstances a founder or founders form a corp, put some cash/equity in, s
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> I understand rejection can feel personal, especially when so much of your life and identity comes from the work you've put into mastering some field, but this doesn't seem like the healthiest mindset. I read it completely dif
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by markbnj 8y ago
Agreed, that's the way disclosure should work and it was very nice to go from reading the news of the vuln to reading the GKE security bulletin stating that all masters had already been upgraded.

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