primax

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   by primax 5y ago

   The Economist always publishes their articles as from 'The Economist'. This is standard practice, not something new and 'allowed'.
2. 212.▲
   by primax 5y ago

   This feels a bit like the old reddit post about how now one would ever use Dropbox because you can just roll your own FTP server. Good points though on OS tracked features.
3. 213.▲
   by primax 6y ago

   We are saving a fortune in lockdown. Our eating out has reduced considerably, and we are buying way less stuff generally.
4. 214.▲
   by primax 7y ago

   Consultancy firms get a lot of (mostly justified) bashing around here, but I learned as much if not more from my couple of years at Deloitte than I did in a decade at startups.
5. 215.▲
   by primax 7y ago

   No direct experience in a given tech is ok sometimes, if they have transferrable experience (i.e. ansible to chef, cloudformation to terraform et al). Having no experience on any cloud platform and being sold as an expert however is a diffe
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   by primax 7y ago

   I would agree if Wipro, Infosys, Tata, Cognizant and HCL were in the business of offering up skilled people that they have promised to clients. But every single one of my clients who engages these companies has a story where they were sold
7. 217.▲
   by primax 7y ago

   Not to mention the many other benefits to exercise, and weightlifting in particular. Like everything else in life, if you neglect your body it will fail on you eventually.
8. 218.▲
   by primax 8y ago

   The holocaust? That's nothing! Check out these guys, they're preparing PR to say bad things about their new competitors.
9. 219.▲
   by primax 9y ago

   I'm a consultant in AWS, mainly doing cost optimization. My favorite that most people miss is the S3 VPC endpoint. Putting an S3 endpoint in your VPC gives any traffic to S3 it's own internal route, so it's not billed like pu
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    by primax 9y ago

    This is one of the ways to use AWS 'the right way'. Without serious optimization, using AWS as a IaaS provider is going to cost more. AWS provides a ton of building block primitives you can use to build with at a price point bette
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    by primax 10y ago

    This is just the next phase of evolution, and like all phases of evolution there are winners and losers on a grand scale. I personally don't think we'll tend toward monoculture. Different needs, goals and cultural biases will prom
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    by primax 10y ago

    http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/Introduction....