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by mmt 8y ago
Although what you point out may be technically (and marketingly) correct, it's not a stretch to consider the current, cloud-computing AWS to have started until the availability of S3 and/or EC2. More importantly, for these service
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by mmt 8y ago
> it's a PITA to change Pain/annoyance is a recurring theme in this sub-thread as far as reasons go for not switching or not using UTC in the first place. I strongly suspect, however, that this is one of those situation where t
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by mmt 8y ago
> You are talking about a decision that was made 18-20 years ago. Hang on.. what are we talking about? According to Wikipedia, AWS was launched in 2006, which is only 12 years ago, and GCP was launched in 2008, only 10 years ago. You cou
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by mmt 8y ago
I can't understand either of these two sentences, not even who the "you" is supposed to be. I'd hope for a more substantive reply, if anything.
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by mmt 8y ago
Possibly the CFO, CEO, or board, if it's so expensive that the company goes under. Typically, this is only an issue at startups, where "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" doesn't apply, especially if one extends &quot
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by mmt 8y ago
Someone has started, at least for AWS, as this was on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17551796 Interestingly, many of the comments are asking for support for GCP, although the response seems to be that
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by mmt 8y ago
> People downvote what they don't like, regardless of its merits or worthwhileness. [...] > Voting on HN is very often about popularity or trying to downvote what you don't like Well, yes and no. I certainly agree with your
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by mmt 8y ago
> how do I know the data on the drive is not corrupted without reading it? Are there best practices to continuously compare the replicas in the background? I assume you're talking about already-written sectors becoming unreadable or
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by mmt 8y ago
The short answer is alignment of incentives. The longer answer is that, although Amazon does provide many tools, as I'm sure anyone who has attempted to use them for cost analysis and/or forecasting has found, they are, at best, d
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by mmt 8y ago
Although I wouldn't go so far as to insist on switching brands (especially since, as another commenter pointed out, there has been so much consolidation, there remain only 3), I agree that replacing with at least a different model, or,
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by mmt 8y ago
> Yes, definitely. In that case, as I said, I see your point, and I think we merely disagree on fundamentals, which is fine. > If the parent comment that I disagreed with had come with huge disclaimers that it was only intended as a t
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by mmt 8y ago
Are they positioning their "B2" product solely as a backup solution, rather than something closer to an S3 competitor? If it's the latter, "data loss" seems an appropriate characterization.
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by mmt 8y ago
> Correlated failures are common in drives. This is why, when I was building DIY arrays for startups (around the same time Backblaze published their first pod design [1]), I went through the extra effort of sourcing disks from as many di
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by mmt 8y ago
I don't know what an "absolute type of planner" is, but I consider myself an engineer and a pragmatist. I'm well versed with realities. In reality, with business, there's no such thing as "priceless", only
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by mmt 8y ago
Unfortunately, this tends to contradict the notion that "programming is a social activity". There are, of course, many situations where that notion does not or need not apply, but I would expect it does to the vast majority of the
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by mmt 8y ago
OK.. I think I now understand what you're trying to get across, and it may have to be one of those "agree to disagree" situations. In the spirit of HN furthering of mutual understanding, I'll try to summarize your positi
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by mmt 8y ago
If you still have a reference to that study, I'd be interested to have it, since all of my own cost comparisons have been done for employers, which means I haven't been able to release the details. I'm also curious as to how
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by mmt 8y ago
> I made that number up Perhaps it would have been better not to specify, then, as it was a source of confusion in contrast to "huge". However, $5k a year is roughly $400/mo, which would pay for a 10x10 office at $4/s
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by mmt 8y ago
> You can thin the profile and increase the # of chassis, compromise on redundancy, etc No, I wouldn't suggest more chasses, as that's almost always more expensive (it's tough to break even on that $1k minimum buy-in on a
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by mmt 8y ago
> if giving people their own offices is worth the huge financial hit... I would think it's only a huge financial hit in places like NYC and maybe the most expensive parts of SF. Elsewhere, even class A real estate isn't that
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by mmt 8y ago
> "I thought this was great but maybe engineer X was on to something when he said Y could be an issue" ...said no trend-follower, ever. Less flippantly, I do believe this might have been the case when the average tenure of engi
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by mmt 8y ago
> For the cloud, I say "it's expensive" (10x more than a bardebone server). As do I, although there seems to be some kind of mass delusion in effect that causes disbelief of this. I'm careful not to quote a single m
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by mmt 8y ago
> complaining in a court of law about some harm you suffered Even in that case, at least in the US, one must do the equivalent of bringing the solution. Lawsuits have to ask for some kind of relief, be it monetary, injuctive, or both [
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by mmt 8y ago
Agreed. Sometimes, even if every new/trendy thing really is harmful in some way, some may actually be either minimally harmful or not truly applicable. A trivial example of the latter (that I've personally experienced) is a comp
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by mmt 8y ago
Except that's not the only datum they have. These aren't banner ads from a third party that's only getting a single keyword "printer". They also know which printer it was, when it was bought, and presumably they co
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by mmt 8y ago
I'm still failing to understand the distinction you're trying to make with a local filter, if it exists only in addition to, and is generally overridden by the global filter. > I would expect email from LinkedIn to be far more
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by mmt 8y ago
> And that's not even taking into account the cost of the brain power to make sure your hardware stays up and running. Although, as I said upthread, I agree that AWS is very likely ideal for this particular deployment size, let me t
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by mmt 8y ago
This is the main "sweet spot" for AWS (or "cloud" infrastructure in general): small scale. I am generally a strong proponent of using ones own hardware in a colo or on-premises, instead of or in addition to the cloud (pr
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by mmt 8y ago
> "To:mmt" would be a local filter (or a localized signal in the filter - implementation detail) You imply that this distinction doesn't matter, but I assert that it matters very much. The difference is that a local filter
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by mmt 8y ago
Even the success of such an experiment as you describe (which I believe I've previously run, unsucessfully, i.e. it took more than one mark-as-spam of a popular, otherwise-legit sender to get it reliably in my Spam folder) wouldn'

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