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by mryan 14y ago
> A developer doesn't need to have skills if the developer has the resources to obtain others with the needed skills. A person who does not have any development skills is not a developer. The ability to hire developers does not make one
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by mryan 14y ago
I doubt that many European government organisations would be allowed to use a SaaS app provided by a US company, purely for data protection reasons. There are rules surrounding where personal information may be stored - due to, among other
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by mryan 14y ago
As I understand it, PIOPS lets you specify the maximum throughput you are willing to pay for. It has no bearing on the latency/throughput you will see below the amount of IOPS that have been provisioned - you will still see latency spikes.
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by mryan 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Amsterdam, London, Remote. I am a sysadmin who loves to efficiently solve business problems. With a DevOps background, twelve years of sysadmin experience, and a passion for problem-solving, I am keen to help HNers achieve th
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by mryan 14y ago
Fashiolista - Amsterdam, NL. Python/Django developers, DevOps. Full time, on-site in our office in the center of Amsterdam. We are a funded startup looking for Python/Django developers and sysadmins with AWS experience... or ideally someone
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It says so right there on the page: > 19:09, 25 October 2012 TexasAndroid (talk | contribs) deleted page Tom Preston-Werner (A7: No explanation of the subject's significance (real person) (TW))
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by mryan 14y ago
I sincerely doubt many reasonably interesting articles can be accurately summed up in two words.
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by mryan 14y ago
Just curious - what is your motivation for using a survey to gather feedback? Personally I feel most value from these discussions comes from the comments, where people have the opportunity to iteratively improve other people's ideas - somet
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by mryan 14y ago
The point still stands - although you are in control of one variable in this equation ("iron sulfate doesn't reproduce"), it would still be impossible to predict the consequences. Iron sulfate does indeed lack reproductive capability. But i
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by mryan 14y ago
The negligence in this case is stunning. His 'hack' was to write a Perl script which scanned a range of IPs, looking for remote access accounts that did not have a password. So, the compromised machines were: - connected to the public inter
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by mryan 14y ago
That does not answer the question of whether it is legal for US citizens to use this service, just that they are registered with the relevant authorities in the UK. As I understand it, online gambling is illegal in the US, no matter where t
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Excellent point! An alternative to Kickstarter would be to approach these companies directly, with a demonstrable prototype, and secure a letter of intent to purchase. Armed with these letters, it might then be possible to get a business lo
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The point I was making is that this particular flaw is indeed the same as the UPS flaw when considered at a high level - modifying a URL caused sensitive data to be disclosed. In practical terms, of course the nature of data that is disclos
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by mryan 14y ago
> Ideally, we would be able to ship BluRays to a data cente Amazon will accept delivery of hard disks and load the stored media in to S3/Glacier: http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/
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by mryan 14y ago
This is exactly the same thing - an obvious security oversight that resulted in private information being disclosed, simply by modifying the URL. The fact that the results are so different is irrelevant - the attack vector was essentially t
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by mryan 14y ago
Anyone interested in interesting applications of quadrotors will probably like the work of the GRASP lab: https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/
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by mryan 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Amsterdam, London, Remote. I am a sysadmin who loves to efficiently solve business problems. With a DevOps background, twelve years of sysadmin experience, and a passion for problem-solving, I am keen to help HNers achieve th
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by mryan 14y ago
Fashiolista - Amsterdam, NL. Python/Django developers, DevOps. Full time, on-site in our office in the center of Amsterdam. We are a funded startup looking for Python/Django developers and sysadmins with AWS experience... or ideally someone
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by mryan 14y ago
> You know what? I don't trust Google enough to allow them to lock me out of my own systems, and I'm surprised other obviously technologically inclined people do. This is a common misconception of Authenticator. It is an open source imp
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by mryan 14y ago
I would argue that this does count as a major player getting behind Linux. While Valve might have additional longer term goals in mind, their plans to support vanilla Ubuntu will only benefit gamers who wish to run Linux. IMO the question i
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This is a year-old bug report which resulted in a comment thread filled with memes. Not quite Hacker News-worthy IMHO. The only useful lesson here is that there is a huge difference between "rm -rf /usr/some/dir" and "rm -rf /usr /some/dir"
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by mryan 14y ago
> They don't give their source away, but they give their service away. github is not open source - they have a closed source service that is available for free, with limitations. Unless you meant that they are building a business based
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pgbench will only stress your disks if the test database is too large to fit entirely in memory (controlled by the scaling factor option). bonnie++ results would also be interesting.
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Ah, that makes sense, thanks for the clarification.
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I have no vested interest either way, but barman does appear to support compression and backup maintenance - it has a built in command for running all maintenance tasks, including compressing backups and moving them to archival storage. Thi
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by mryan 14y ago
> The problem is that they have not been built for you. As well as not being built for you, it was also not built by you. I believe NIH syndrome is responsible for the glut of half-finished programmer tools that litter the SaaS mark
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Would you be willing to share some links to your research? I find this area fascinating, and also believe this is going to be a big market in future.
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I seem to recall reading a $999 3D printer being announced at a hardware conference recently, but I'm afraid I can't find the link. The Cubify ( http://cubify.com/cube/store.aspx ) is $1299, so I don't think it will be long until we have a
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Seconded - this is a bit light on content. Hopefully the post-conference talks will be a bit meatier.
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It's a relatively common thing for criminals to do, and is known as a 'long firm': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_firm 1) Run a legit business for a few months 2) Build up credit history with suppliers 3) After a while, buy a huge amou

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