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by patsplat 11y ago
To clarify the comment about refunds. Participants would first go to the promoter. But if they were unable to resolve the dispute, they could then go to their bank and dispute the charge. My understanding of this is murky, but in the end
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by patsplat 11y ago
This is frustrating, but not necessarily a conflict of interest. Any type of events business carries a significant risk to a payment processor. Funds are paid up front before services are delivered. If the event doesn't happen there
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by patsplat 11y ago
Don't know the actual contracts here but the notion that a telecom firm has obligations to a government body is hardly surprising. Telecom providers work with government bodies to place and access poles via eminent domain. Even with c
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by patsplat 11y ago
Lower project bids reduce the level of commitment on the part of both the client and contractor. With only $1 at risk, the amount of leverage the client can exert over the work product is minimal. Volunteering is not the same relationship
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by patsplat 11y ago
From the OP: > (Incidentally, I think that representing all these different concepts as a single string type is a mistake. Human-readable text, file paths, SQL statements, and others are all conceptually different, and this should be rep
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by patsplat 11y ago
The original use of my twitter account was to serve as an SMS distribution link for online-gaming invites between a small group of friends. Presently it provides a less spammy equivalent to linked-in groups. Sort of like delicious in it&#x
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by patsplat 11y ago
This seems a potentially shaky basis: > guessing that 50% of those corporate machines, ie 450m, can’t make Google searches
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by patsplat 11y ago
like this... the best way to stop abuse is to waste their time not yours.
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by patsplat 11y ago
Ok then. Build an application heavily dependent on caching. Restart memcached in the middle a production workload. How long does it take to get out from under the dog pile? EDIT: This started out a bit flippant. Wanted to make the point
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by patsplat 11y ago
"Actual numbers" for caching services only have meaning in the context of a particular application.
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by patsplat 11y ago
External audits meant nothing with Enron. Criminal liability is the key.
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by patsplat 11y ago
Agreed why add process when financial and criminal liability would suffice. Add sufficient liability and players will improve their internal processes appropriately.
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by patsplat 11y ago
My primary understanding of Cognito was that it was a great way to turn social or developer login into temporary AWS credentials with a specified role, allowing AWS apis to be safely used client side.
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by patsplat 11y ago
Sometimes it's better to fix the database in production rather than add another database to production.
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by patsplat 11y ago
This is an optimistic counterpoint. However realistically nearly all persistence services such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Memcache, ElasticSearch, etc either have been insufficiently hardened as a public service or flat out are not intend
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by patsplat 11y ago
The current problem with this architecture is the network cannot be used as a security layer. Databases, search engines, etc need ports opened to the public rather than to selected servers.
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by patsplat 11y ago
Funny, I read this as "interfaces are best designed in a declarative fashion".
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by patsplat 11y ago
Wonder how many klocs are underneath that `profile.email.interactions()` method?
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by patsplat 11y ago
Somewhere in here is a pop culture reference that I can't quite put together.
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by patsplat 11y ago
It's useful to "mount" the database to the app process via injected configuration. Application and database servers are different animals. Not sure why a 'hybrid' approach would be surprising or unappealing.
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by patsplat 11y ago
Which version of RVM are we running again?
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by patsplat 11y ago
More accurate TL;DR: Docker and containerized architectures generally would be improved by solving this list of problems.
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by patsplat 11y ago
Agreed. Application runtime dependencies are a common source of communication breakdowns between development and infrastructure teams. Making the application container a maintained build file on the project improves this communication. doc
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by patsplat 11y ago
https://blog.agilebits.com/2015/06/17/1password-inter-proces... This particular attack is worrisome because it doesn’t require “admin” or “root” access, unlike other attacks that depend on the presence of ma
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by patsplat 11y ago
Assumed that Google Maps plus Apple Maps usage ~= 100% iOS users. 1 + 3.5 = 4.5 1 / 4.5 = 22.2%
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by patsplat 11y ago
It's obvious that this analysis is shallow by the failure to mention Google Play. Don't have a particular opinion on the merits of these services, only that leaving out Google makes the analysis incomplete.
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by patsplat 11y ago
Gotta admire their spin on "one fifth of our users went to the trouble of replacing a core OS feature"
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by patsplat 11y ago
I have fond memories of Turbo Basic in my dad's lab
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by patsplat 11y ago
Database is the sticky part of this strategy. If Blue is in production and Green is on deck, how are updates to the Blue database pushed to Green?
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by patsplat 11y ago
Even "past century" is an over-simplification. Inns are estimated to have existed for over 2000 years. This is a very established business model.

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