noahm

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by noahm 9y ago
Man, this makes me sad beyond words. It's a great loss for all of us, even those who don't realize it.
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by noahm 9y ago
Yeah, I was really hoping for Detroit. It's got a lot of really underutilized infrastructure at this point and could be really revitalized by a large tech company expanding its footprint there. Real estate prices would be relatively lo
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by noahm 9y ago
Fargate uses the same task definition abstraction as Amazon ECS. See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/l... So yes, you can launch multiple containers in a single logical unit.
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by noahm 9y ago
Sure, but just as with customers, the dissatisfied (ex-)employees are going to be most vocal. Do you really think Amazon could build things like AWS, Alexa, the Go Store, etc, if it was a sweatshop where everybody but Jeff was in hell? I do
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by noahm 9y ago
Almost every account? You mean almost every account that NYT bothered to include in that article. As a current employee at Amazon, that article might as well be fiction as far as I can tell. It describes nothing like what I or any of my co-
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New gTLDs: Are they a success?(news.netcraft.com)
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by noahm 10y ago
If I need a apply for a license to read the law, can I also claim that I need to be licensed in order to be actually bound by the law? Obviously I cannot, but the absurdity of the idea that I can be legally bound by something that is not fr
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by noahm 10y ago
The update from 1password indicated that there was application layer encryption happening in addition to the TLS encryption, so a breach of the TLS protection did not expose any sensitive data. Presumably other sites are in similar situatio
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by noahm 10y ago
It is an awesome time to be alive, but I do wish we'd start doing more interesting stuff with our technology than simply streamlining the ability to buy stuff. Convenience is wonderful, and I make use of lots of modern technological im
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by noahm 10y ago
Or, to elaborate a little further, https://www.iab.org/2016/11/07/iab-statement-on-ipv6/
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by noahm 10y ago
I used to work with a number of LISP machine believers at the MIT AI Lab/CSAIL. They all had more modern computers for day to day tasks, but used the lispm for most of their programming. This wasn't that long ago (I left in 2010),
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by noahm 11y ago
Typical tech hours. 40-50, maybe more during crunch time right before a new feature launch or something. Not really any worse than any other place I've worked. Hours were flexible, too; I'm the type who arrives at 9:00 or 10:00 in
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by noahm 11y ago
At a conference (IIRC it was LISA in 2000) somebody had posted a joke to the bulletin board. It read: "Lost: one version control system, never used. If found, please return to Linus Torvalds" Version control worked by posting your
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by noahm 11y ago
> Re: Paternity leave, I was able to take as much as I needed - it depends on the team/org I guess. Yeah, I'm sure the teams have some ability to be flexible, and if I'd pushed I could have gotten more time. Managers under
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by noahm 11y ago
Agreed, I noticed all those things as well. The article seemed to invent a lot of the new hire orientation stuff. Either that or it's changed quite a bit since I went through it a few years ago, which is certainly possible. And the &qu
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by noahm 11y ago
I worked at Amazon for 3+ years, leaving just under a year ago. "It’s the greatest place I hate to work" pretty much sums up how I felt about the place. The crazy thing is, I kinda want to go back! The scope and scale of the engin
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by noahm 11y ago
Socrata ( http://www.socrata.com ) - Platform/DevOps Engineer - Seattle, WA At Socrata, we believe that data – when made transparently accessible – can illuminate, inform, and inspire. Socrata builds cloud-based software prod
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by noahm 12y ago
Consider also the bar tab from a party for George Washington in Philadelphia in 1787: http://teachingamericanhistory.org/convention/citytavern/
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by noahm 12y ago
Because facebook only has my pictures if I choose to post them there. This is easy to avoid. Facebook only has my browsing habits if I choose to allow content from their servers while viewing non-facebook content. This is also avoidable, al
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by noahm 12y ago
Except that it does work like this on a regular basis. It's not just something that sounds nice in theory. Distros and other major software vendors regularly coordinate disclosure. Have there been failures of the process? Sure, but t
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by noahm 12y ago
Every major linux distro has a procedure in place for discreetly preparing updates for pre-disclosure security flaws.
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by noahm 12y ago
I haven't been involved in distro security for a few years, but all this coordination used to happen via a mailing list. Organizations (distro maintainers, OS vendors, security people representing some of the larger/more security
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by noahm 13y ago
Agreed. I've watched in dismay as their focus has shifted over the years from "#include <beer.h>" mugs and t-shirts with Larry Wall quotes on them to almost exclusively TV and movie merchandise. From my vantage point, i
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by noahm 14y ago
Assuming they use the same data for story targeting that they do for ad targeting, you can see the profile they've built up around you (your account + your current browser) at http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/opt_out/targeting/det...
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by noahm 14y ago
"If the browser doesn’t know the intermediate CA, it must look for it and download it." Is that accurate? Where is this behavior specified? RFC 2246 states "If the server is authenticated, its certificate message must provide a valid certif
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by noahm 14y ago
Actually, one of the conflicts I felt while I was at yahoo related to the fact that the customers aren't the same people as the users. "Customers" at yahoo are the advertisers, and they're the ones who generate the revenue. "Users" are just
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by noahm 14y ago
One additional thing I'd like to see: Really strongly encourage dogfooding. One of the most depressing things I experienced while working at Yahoo was when I'd look around and see all my co-workers using competing email, search, maps, etc p
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by noahm 14y ago
Out of curiosity, which AV company do you work for? I want to make sure I never recommend that anybody purchase your products. Any software that exploits security flaws in OS or other system-level software needs to ring every alarm bell y
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by noahm 15y ago
And that's why it's going to be hard for them to find success turning themselves around. Even if they came up with some killer new product, a lot of people would never know about it, and a lot of the ones that did would be skeptical because