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by skuhn 11y ago
I wondered about this too, especially since their marketing makes a huge deal about how "We never charge for bandwidth" [1]. It turns out that enterprise plans don't exactly charge per-gigabyte like other CDNs, but the cost d
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by skuhn 11y ago
I don't think that the government should be involved in regulating advertising beyond things like banning ads for jumping off of bridges and other legitimately harmful things. Where I think regulations do make sense is for advertising
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Uh, yes? Versus literally just walking from the taxi at the drop-off curb to your gate, it is quite a bit longer. As you mention, there were some checks added over the years, but it was lightning fast compared to the current system. Ever no
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by skuhn 11y ago
I think the math for Glacier actually gets a lot simpler if you look at it this way: Glacier is only cost effective if you never want to access that data ever again. There are actually use cases like this, when you will almost cert
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by skuhn 11y ago
A job working for a hardware vendor like HP doing local area field support? That will probably be impossible to find. I think the trick is to find a different (yet related) role with a company that is expanding rather than contracting their
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by skuhn 11y ago
Other people have commented on the size of the lawyer / court costs vs plaintiff's award, but the thing that concerns me is the limited scope of the judgment. Since it was brought in WA, the issue of backers outside the state aren
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by skuhn 11y ago
$1.50/gbyte is a huge premium over the price of lower end enterprise SSDs (which should be the dominant cost for this sort of thing). SanDisk didn't give any technical specifics that I could find, but for comparison an Intel S3510
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by skuhn 11y ago
Things did used to work this way. As a result of some early trauma I have always written it as 'rm -rf .??*' to avoid matching '.' or '..'.
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by skuhn 11y ago
I agree that most users don't utilize all of the space provided by any online service, although in this case what they upload is also out of their control. Typically space utilization is somewhat hampered because users won't be bo
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by skuhn 11y ago
The odd thing to me is that these guys live in San Francisco (I met most of them a few years ago). Wi-Fi is not ubiquitous here, Google Fiber will never be deployed here and most of the city only has Comcast as a real option. Their service
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by skuhn 11y ago
This might be more common than you think. I worked at a company a few years ago with ~50 sizes of each image. When we wanted to launch a new page layout (or iOS app, or what have you), it literally required several weeks to render the milli
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by skuhn 11y ago
Once you've built a system that works fast enough to handle image rendering work on-demand, then adding batch or precomputational features is largely just creating requester logic to ask for the image before the real demand arrives.
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by skuhn 11y ago
Commodity CDN's will always have some amount of cache misses. For most services that's fine; there isn't too much additional overhead in serving a static Javascript file a few times. If you're doing computational work fo
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by skuhn 11y ago
This is pretty typical in my experience for StackShare posts. For example: http://stackshare.io/500px/how-500px-serves-up-over-500tb-of... imgix is very interested in open sourcing things we create, and there are a few
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by skuhn 11y ago
My quick and dirty math from a previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9510610 Short version is: not too bad, and we get a lot of utility from OS X frameworks, so the tradeoffs are worth it for us at th
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by skuhn 11y ago
Spoofing user agents will sort of defeat UA-based tracking, but so will using the stock UA for the most common version of your browser. I think it would make more sense to find the most common Firefox UA and switch to that. Probably somethi
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by skuhn 11y ago
An occasional 100 hour work week is tough but do-able. Claiming an entire team got an average of 2 hours of sleep a night for months (meaning that some on the team got even less than that) is outright preposterous. It also reeks of "po
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There's literally no way to operate a CDN-like service from AWS; no matter what discount you get from Amazon, you're paying per-byte instead of 95th percentile billing and settlement-free peering.
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by skuhn 11y ago
I don't know what the Samsung drive looks like internally, and obviously they did figure some way to do it. For comparison, here's a teardown of an Intel S3710: http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/intel-dc-s3710
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by skuhn 11y ago
That does kick it up a notch versus Intel's current top of the line. The P3700 is max 2.0TB, 450,000 read iops, 175,000 write iops, and 2,800 / 2,000 MB/s. It's also $3.25/gb for 800GB vs the Samsung PM1725's $
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by skuhn 11y ago
Density is nice, but I always look at that from a total cost perspective. So the real question is how much will this drive cost. I suspect it will be at least $1.20/gbyte -- not unreasonable considering that the Intel enterprise SSD li
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45k iops is not terrible, but it's not competitive with current Intel enterprise SSDs (S3500 is 70k+, S3710 is 85k). I suspect that Samsung had to make huge sacrifices to the controller and DRAM portions of the drive to fit that many N
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OS X: $0 RHEL 7 Workstation: $180 Windows 10 Pro: $200 In the grand scheme of things, licensing the OS doesn't matter to IBM. They can negotiate site licensing at a considerable volume discount.
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They are now; as I mentioned, they had to learn that lesson the hard way in 2012.
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Baltimore has very serious and endemic issues with crime, drugs, poverty and government -- all of which combine to result in an extremely high murder rate. The numbers have improved since the historic peak in 1993 (353 murders), and Baltimo
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by skuhn 11y ago
All of these services seem to take the same approach: AWS US-East, maybe use two availability zones, call it a day. PagerDuty had to learn this lesson the hard way (circa 2012), as they were entirely in US-East during the catastrophic AWS o
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by skuhn 11y ago
I appreciate the level of detail that PagerDuty went into with this announcement. I presume they wanted to have all of the facts before they notified customers, but it is totally unacceptable that they waited 3 weeks to notify me about an i
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I have only seen dry-pipe water systems lately, since halon is long gone. I did see one system that used HI-FOG sprinklers. Smaller water droplets are supposedly able to extinguish a fire with significantly less water. You're still sad
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Red Hat gave Linus some stock prior to their IPO, which was hardly required but a pretty nice gesture. I don't know of any other public examples of a company making stock grants to developers of major building blocks of their ecosystem
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by skuhn 11y ago
Software that is licensed per-server has a higher burden than just the license's purchase price: you have to actually keep track of those licenses so that you can plan and optimize license capacity (even if you have a site license) alo

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