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by markonen 9y ago
The main KPI for BA's IT function is the percentage of jobs they have moved "nearshore" (to Krakow). Not that I think this is the Krakow workers' fault, mind you; rather this (and the string of similar IT incidents recen
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by markonen 9y ago
The primary benefit to me is dirt cheap egress bandwidth from these additional AWS regions. $10 for 2TB vs the regular EC2 price of $0.09 per GB.
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Amazon Lightsail Now Available in 5 Additional Europe, US AWS Regions(aws.amazon.com)
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by markonen 10y ago
The last Concorde airframe rolled off the factory floor in 1979. It never competed with lie-flat business class seats, and it's not possible to paint the failure as passengers having voted for slower but more comfortable options. The b
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by markonen 10y ago
You're nuts. First and business class comforts are about making the best of a bad situation. At equivalent seat prices, nearly everyone would pick the more than twice as fast option. Boom's business model relies on this, obviously
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by markonen 10y ago
Here's a quote from the Dashboard: > During the beta period [team name] will only be billed for dyno usage when tests run. After the beta period ends, each pipeline with Heroku CI enabled will be billed at $10/month plus dyno u
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by markonen 10y ago
Was very excited about this during the private beta, when the only pricing indication was about the dyno usage (billed by the second). Now, the GA pricing of $10/mo/pipeline doesn't seem like much, but with our small startup
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by markonen 10y ago
One aspect I haven't seen mentioned yet is that there is a geographic dimension to what ends up in search engine caches; their crawlers end up talking to the nearest Cloudflare point-of-presence so any leaked data is also going to be f
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by markonen 10y ago
You aren't typically DDoSed by your authenticated users. Cloudflare can validate authentication tokens at the edge; they also have a feature, Railgun, that can potentially cache portions of those authenticated responses. (No affiliatio
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by markonen 10y ago
As your link illustrates, Multi-AZ is the only real HA option for RDS PostgreSQL, and it doesn't share storage between nodes. So even though RDS uses EBS, you can't really say it is the underlying storage layer that provides RDS&#
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by markonen 10y ago
If you'd seriously cancel your credit cards over this, I'd love to hear how you model that threat relative to all the other risks inherent in using a credit card anywhere (not just online).
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by markonen 10y ago
Once your origin is under a DDoS attack, how would Cloudflare's proxy help?
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by markonen 10y ago
Cloudflare doesn't cache HTML pages by default.
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by markonen 10y ago
Looks to be very specifically geared towards a certain type of database load. The ratio of CPU, RAM and storage is fixed, and (in my opinion) the offering includes tons of CPU/RAM with relatively paltry storage sizes. Additionally, no
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by markonen 10y ago
This seems risky to use in production due to H.264 patent issues. MPEG-1, on the other hand, could seemingly work as a drop-in replacement for GIFs in a variety of cases with no such worries.
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by markonen 10y ago
I have one of these displays at the office (as well as the 4K version) and they both very much feel like an Apple product sans the aluminum casing. So this makes me suspect that the metal case was really supposed to be there when the electr
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by markonen 10y ago
I'm that guy. I should update the post; Amazon "fixed" the retrieval fees in late 2016 and I would've paid less than a dollar had the current pricing scheme been in effect when I did the retrieval.
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by markonen 10y ago
If by apps you mean a watching DVD, which (based on the abstract) was what this studied.
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by markonen 10y ago
The APFS developer preview in Sierra is indeed case sensitive, but we don’t know if that’ll continue to be the case […] in the upcoming general release. I’d like say that it’d never ever happen on the Mac, but since iOS also uses a case-sen
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by markonen 10y ago
I filmed this clip of the Dentsu HQ almost 10 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWX6--sQtsA In it, you see how all the lights automatically turn off at 10 PM. You can judge how many offices still have workers in th
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by markonen 10y ago
Pretty sure pbiggar knows about the talk since he's the person giving it!
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by markonen 10y ago
Here's a TypeScript to C89 transpiler: https://github.com/andrei-markeev/ts2c Very early, but the author seems to be actively working on it.
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by markonen 10y ago
It's $10 a month. They do offer bigger instances. The t2.micro instance this maps to gives you 10% of a CPU and bursts to more. It's not much, but it is predictable and, crucially, not a function of the amount of oversubscriptio
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by markonen 10y ago
This is very interesting. Especially when you have a large volume of trivial requests, the cost-per-request of AWS API Gateway dominates overall cost (the Lambda functions themselves are cheap by comparison). Rolling one's own in EC2 c
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by markonen 10y ago
Just stating a fact about their pricing (in the context of whether Heroku is a competitor or not). Not judging the relative value of the offerings at all. I'm an RDS user, FWIW.
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by markonen 10y ago
In this context it's useful to note that RDS instance pricing is ~50% higher than the pricing for the underlying EC2 instances. That 50% reflects the (pure software) value-add over EC2. When someone like Heroku offers a competing produ
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by markonen 10y ago
Here's a photo from the flight deck I snapped after that flight: http://www.airliners.net/photo/British-Airways/Aerospatiale-...
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by markonen 10y ago
I'm lucky enough to have flown on the Rocket once. A fun added benefit is that in any typical company I will still (after 13 years) retain the bragging rights for highest altitude (55500 feet / 17 km) and speed (Mach 2 at 1330 mph
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by markonen 10y ago
Apple's HomeKit supports Bluetooth-only devices. Seems like a good design choice right about now.
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by markonen 10y ago
Please please please promise that it will always stay optional?

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