ragona

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by ragona 6y ago
> But benevolence is transient and brittle. I don't want to depend on it. Yup, exactly.
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by ragona 6y ago
Let me be clear, I do not. I think the U.S. government in its state can barely run itself. It appears to be actively working to be as net harmful to the general populous as possible. I genuinely believe in Amazon and its humans. But at some
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by ragona 6y ago
I think power is an interesting example because everywhere that it is privatized it tends to be a mess. Shit, PG&E burnt down half of California... what, on behalf of its shareholders, trying to cut corners and make them a buck? Who the
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by ragona 6y ago
The bit of this that I think is easy to overlook is that if this is the status quo indefinitely I assume this is a very long term problem. Amazon is a baby, it's a new-ish company in the grand scheme of things. It's a huge, huge b
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by ragona 6y ago
> Fantasyland I love that in a comment about fucking space aliens and competent governments the thing that made you call it fantasyland was the latter. Okay, the French have an incredible train system that goes down sometimes when the un
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by ragona 6y ago
I don't know how to think about the idea that the government is totally useless for technological problems. If we just accept that I think we're probably just doomed to be overtaken by more advanced societies. Agreed that we can&#
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by ragona 6y ago
Yeah, this stuff isn't secret. Note how if you encrypt your S3 bucket it uses a KMS CMK; that's an dependency between S3 and KMS, and yep it's the same KMS. This is true for probably over a hundred AWS services that rely on K
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by ragona 6y ago
I'm curious how many companies would survive it at all. Sure, you could _migrate_ off of AWS if AWS was still alive. Could you restore your data and start your business from scratch if you lost everything? I suspect many rather large b
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by ragona 6y ago
I love this. Imagine, your company hits $1T. POTUS gets you on stage. They tell you you did SO GOOD. We're really proud of you. We're gonna make you a statue in the Hall of Really Good Capitalists, and we have the best news. You a
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by ragona 6y ago
Well I'm glad you thought my argument was strong! Yes, that is what I believe. I see a path where after Amazon creates something that becomes a de facto public good they hand it over to a highly competent government agency full of the
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by ragona 6y ago
> how much faith do you have in the perpetuity of that benevolence None! Literally none. This is a huge risk for our country, and we should thinking about what it means for the next 1000 years, not the next 10. Bezos appears to truly, tr
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by ragona 6y ago
The data center operations team is probably still in the building. But the software engineering teams which is what I’m familiar with are all working from home. We don’t have to go to the data centers anyway usually.
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by ragona 6y ago
Disclaimer: I worked at AWS from 2012-2020. I am not a current employee. > I came to think of Amazon and Google as the providers of the very infrastructure of the internet, so embedded in the architecture of the digital world that even t
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by ragona 6y ago
Oh that’s neat, I did enjoy it. Thanks. It makes sense to me. Lying is work. Humans usually take the easiest path. Sometimes lying is less work than actual work and then humans lie.
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by ragona 6y ago
Oh I don’t. All digital security problems are eventually physical security problems.
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by ragona 6y ago
Regarding your last sentence, I think that’s true for, well, basically the entire world. Our security sucks in general. Humans aren’t as mean as they seem, or maybe they just generally suck at it.
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by ragona 6y ago
Hey the images turn out great. That’s really cool!
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by ragona 6y ago
Yeah Roblox is nuts, when my son talks about a “new game he’s playing” he’s usually talking about Roblox.
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by ragona 6y ago
Ha hey, Greensock was and was and is the best, and it’s still going strong for Js. Frankly we could probably get half the experience of flash if we all just went and worked with that library!
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by ragona 6y ago
They were! We had much better build and art pipelines than many of the PC games I’ve worked on. And the metrics data tracking and ugly anti user behavioral stuff was years ahead of itself.
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by ragona 6y ago
Yeah that’s a huge oversight. AS3 was in fact the highest paid language in the industry for some time, and it was all of the social games. Then we all mostly jumped ship to mobile or PC or VR or whatever. But it was a very significant indus
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by ragona 6y ago
Major FB games were all AS3, which was a very standard language. If you’re familiar with C# or Java you’d be totally unsurprised. In fact, Adobe hoped it would become the new JavaScript. The history of ECMA 4 was fascinating[1]. 1: https:&
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by ragona 6y ago
YO, same, I bet we hung out on Kirupa at the same time haha. I worked on flash games at Disney, PopCap, Sony and Amazon. That was the shit for a while for 2D games. But I actually went from social to mobile to PC games and found myself less
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by ragona 6y ago
I didn’t really find anything I felt like specializing in for the first decade-ish of my career. I was working on games, I don’t think 3D math is that cool, and I wasn’t excited. I was tired of coding games over and over. I don’t think I wa
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by ragona 6y ago
Even better, WSL isn’t required these days. There is a full version of ssh in the standard cmd terminal. They didn’t launch it with a big splash or anything, but it has saved my butt before.
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by ragona 6y ago
Exactly, it’s always both. These conversations always suppose a degree of coordination and agreement I’ve never seen at a large corporation.
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by ragona 6y ago
I’m guessing they’re referring to the fact that the CEO is very wealthy [1] and has self-funded the company, and suggesting that he’s not as concerned with the financials. 1: https://www.forbes.com/profile/adam-dangelo
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by ragona 6y ago
I think that’s a little lacking in nuance. The team they have putting this together say to me they’re putting their money where their mouth is, at least. That paper has a fucking legit list of contributors.
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by ragona 6y ago
Very similar.
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by ragona 6y ago
Did you read the article? > “Well, I'm certainly not talking about any kind of scenario where tomorrow someone just flips a switch and there are no police. What I'm talking about is the systematic questioning of the specific ro

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