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by p0rkbelly 7y ago
They were also on retainer for many republicans. They are an American cybersecurity company.
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by p0rkbelly 7y ago
The industry calls this a "bug-door" and yes, plausible deniability is key. Most of this has been hypothetical possibility. This case does not fit that bill though as the vendor discovered it was being used by another country, pre
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by p0rkbelly 7y ago
You see something greater than 2-million IOPS?
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by p0rkbelly 7y ago
Thought this was a GoT post.
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
Playing Unreal and coming out of the spaceship at 800x600 on my voodoo2 and 400mhz Pentium II (I was spoiled and got the !2MB version!!!) was still one of the greatest gaming moments of my life
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
Amazon was never using Mongo. They used Dynamo, and their white paper on it predates Mongo. Amazon was always an Oracle shop and now have dropped that too. My old company begged AWS for years for Mongo, looks like they finally got around to
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
I think "Line at the Ferrari dealer" is pure clickbait. Additionally, this is talking about a macro trend across an industry, while the current article is talking about 2 employees out of hundreds of thousands. The article from 15
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
How is it not? There is definitely an implication...they even discuss the legality of it. Amazon employees have purchased hundreds of thousands of pieces of real estate over the years, how many articles were published discussing individual
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
Exactly. Plus, the neighborhood has Thousands of new apartments coming to the market already well before any sort of HQ2 search. Seems like A LOT of people are moving there. https://ny.curbed.com/maps/long-island-city-d
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
I looked it up and it appears Amazon's current office in NYC is in Midtown -- meaning 2 employees of several thousand -- bought a condo in a neighborhood just a couple of subway stops away. Probably because they couldn't afford to
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
How does that make them a victim? They weren't forced to sell at any price. That's real estate and the article says they are net new construction. Also, Amazon has thousands of employees in NYC already. LIC is close to Midtown Man
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
It says 2 employees bought a condo....in a neighborhood with probably the most amount of construction in NYC. How is this scandalous? People do buy real estate on their own...
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
That didn't help Oracle's cloud very much...
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
...and I think that's the problem. Despite all the greatness, they are losing the enterprise $$ battle.
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
You must not have been a big Oracle customer =)
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
James Gosling, says that Amazon uses Corretto in production...which is OpenJDK. So most of AWS/Amazon uses that.
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
Cloud also means = Server Licenses and Office365. It's a very broad word for Microsoft. Not purely apples to oranges.
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
It's really about flows as well, not necessarily total throughput. AWS Nitro allows 5G/bit per flow. And then maxes out at 25G/bit. I know GCP does something similar. Also, pretty sure that is false regarding Azure, they have
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
I'm slightly confused as you are both talking about AWS Nitro and XEN. I know Nitro moved off of Xen and was roughly based on KVM. Also, are you talking about Annapurna in it's pre-acquisition form or new one? AWS talks about new
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
There was a GCP Global network outage maybe a year or two ago, where their canary of a canary (Yo dawg, I heard you like bugs, so I I put a but inside of your bug) caused a cascading network failure. It was a bad config push -- brownouts fi
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
I read an article that said a lot of employee's look at their RSU as a bonus of when it vets. But in reality, it's part of their compensation. Not sure what Amazon told employees vs what was in the press "starting wage of $15
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
Do you have any data that isn't subjective? I have subjective data saying the opposite. 8/9 times when I shop Around Amazon has the best price. If it's close, like a buck or so difference, I still choose Amazon due to reliabi
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
I wonder what % of the employees got bonuses though. are 95% of the employees better off, and the highest performers taking home less?
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
I think for Schiff to be right, they would have to be ultimately raising their prices.
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
correct. For companies with heavy RSU based compensation they assume a certain % of growth every year. Say 10%. Let's say Amazon did 50% year over year. You did better than you expected. However, next year you will get less RSUs since
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
You can use PrivateLink for this instead of peering. That way you just hit a local IP address/ENI in your VPC. CIDR Ranges don't matter with that. (not sure about the x-region story) Two different design philosophies, there are be
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
Maybe I was being too Socratic? But, philosophy/logic was never my strong suit. Perhaps that's why I'm an engineer flirting with mediocrity...
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
Gotcha. I guess I was thinking about the new FIDO standard on the new Yubis.
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
Moral concerns can go both ways as well. We don't know what the Pentagon will use the raw compute/storage resources for. I'm sure they are not telling MS/AWS/GOOG either. I do know that the US Military invests heavi
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by p0rkbelly 8y ago
The internet as we know it was invented due to a Department of Defense Initiative... Besides that, if you complete work for the US government just assume the chinese government is going to have access to it eventually ;)

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