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by mseebach 9y ago
Surely, there are people out there who overpay for AWS resources. But the truly deluded are those who purport to understand the sheer width and breadth of organisations and their wildly different requirements and priorities well enough to t
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by mseebach 9y ago
In an attack where DNS and CAs are compromised, immutable caching is going to be be least of our problems, frankly.
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by mseebach 9y ago
I don't, as such. But a grandparent made a claim of their position: "It's not the position of the FSF who actually wrote the license."
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by mseebach 9y ago
Web dev, possibly mobile app dev. Not the shining cutting edge, you'll struggle to compete, but the "boring" bread and butter stuff (think "utility company app for meter reading" and "replacing that brittle&#x2
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by mseebach 9y ago
For me, I started out with BASIC and a library book and a supportive dad, then HTML and Javascript, most likely based on random online guides (this was late 90's), online communities (likely newsgroups and IRC, and I spent a lot of tim
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by mseebach 9y ago
But they can't compromise the device without the victim knowing about it. Not all abusive relationships are violent or even directly coercive like that.
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by mseebach 9y ago
No, they're saying that the people actually having to defend the position, the people with actual skin in the game, (Apple legal) believes this. The opinion of the writer of a legal document carries only tangential weight next to the a
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by mseebach 9y ago
So that's a nice optimistic vision, and if I had any faith we could keep it to that, I'd be for it. My vision includes scope creep and lots of greedy ambitious good-at-politics less-good-at-actually-doing-work types grabbing the s
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by mseebach 9y ago
My fear for a tech union is whether it will deny someone like me the kind of opportunity I was very fortunate to enjoy roughly 10-20 years ago. At lot of us here got our starts under scrappy circumstances and with lots of hustling. I am ver
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by mseebach 9y ago
The comment only very tangentially touches on the subject matter of the GP. Crucially, it seems to suggest that Maven is at a higher "phase of evolution" than Gradle (which is anachronistic) which is the opposite of both the GP an
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by mseebach 9y ago
No, but replacing "programming-in-configuration-files" (whether those configuration files are XML or JSON or something else) with programming in an actual programming language (see eg Maven -> Gradle) is , IMO.
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by mseebach 9y ago
No, it has nothing to do with first aid training or security, that is simply a misrepresentation of the situation. In London, Uber operates under a regulatory framework that requires these things, and it works very well and has for years. I
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by mseebach 9y ago
Luckily, without constraints on supply and demand, those things will quickly balance each other out. And if your rent went up, supply didn't. Supply , not gentrification, is the problem in the SF/NY/Londons of the world.
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by mseebach 9y ago
The effort required to get someone new spun up on your project isn't trivial (unless what you're doing is trivial...). There is a lot to understand, both "hard" knowledge about the tech stack, product, specific features
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by mseebach 9y ago
Rent control is an instance of "chang[ing] the laws of supply and demand". If you need it, you didn't provide a solution. The "build, baby, build" solution would keep supply in line with demand, and prices would be
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by mseebach 9y ago
There's probably a corollary to that: first you have to get comfortable, but to get really good (fluent) you probably have to get pretty self conscious. It seems to me that most adults learning a new language will retain a fairly heavy
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by mseebach 9y ago
No, they have the power to "call for" it, which is what they have done (and the article says they've done).
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by mseebach 9y ago
It's not the least alarmist. The EU Presidency is an real office that has a real function, and the leaked document literally says in the first line "From: Presidency".
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by mseebach 9y ago
Wild guess: Roughly about the time they began being used in IFE systems?
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by mseebach 9y ago
I remember about 20 years ago, you could crash any Windows computer you had the IP address of by sending a particularly crafted package to a certain port. Oh, those were the days.
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by mseebach 9y ago
> definitely shouldn't affect the avionics No, and the flaw you're busy exploiting also definitely shouldn't be there. (Yes, the IFE is probably airgapped. Probably.)
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by mseebach 9y ago
For now, my project isn't very sensitive to taking a couple-of-seconds warm-up hit. But I'm aware of the issue, and it seems that keeping your classpath lean works wonders. I'll be investigating further, but my tentative plan
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by mseebach 9y ago
I really liked it. Easy to follow instructions and an active community where all questions I could come up with were already answered. Took me an afternoon after getting almost nowhere with Cognito in three days. The thing I spend the most
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by mseebach 9y ago
> seriously consider using Cognito for your user management. Can you please expand on that recommendation? I tried and found it profoundly opaque, and eventually gave up in favour of auth0. I specifically wanted to use the hosted login&#
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by mseebach 9y ago
AWS Lambda is a very small interface. I'm only getting started, but I'm planning to keep all my application code in a separate project with no Lambda dependencies, test that as I would any application, and then have a thin wrapp
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by mseebach 9y ago
If they are blocking access to private email, it probably because of a regulatory requirement (common in finance) that they absolute must monitor and record everything going in and out. If that the case, and they didn't make that clear
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by mseebach 9y ago
None of the commercial Unixes survived Linux and the BSDs outside of increasingly specialized niches (well, I guess Darwin did). Oracle was the specific mechanism by which Solaris shuffled off this mortal coil, yes, but the last decade of i
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by mseebach 9y ago
It's a pretty damning point against MySQL that there's a default setting that you have to know to change, or else the DB will happily throw away your data. A lot of the evangelism against MySQL is rooted in a deep skepticism again
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by mseebach 9y ago
In practice, the $50k customer will typically be getting something tangible that the $20k customer isn't. Perhaps they have a custom feature developed, perhaps they have special on-call/on-site support, perhaps they pay a much d
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by mseebach 9y ago
You may want to get them "confused" (or, to use a more positive phrase, excited), but crucially, you don't want them to get sticker shock. Most software is essentially free on the margin. You don't want to leave $20k on

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