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by skuhn 12y ago
The particularly annoying part is that nc or socat or whatever is not required in any relatively modern ssh. My .ssh/config for use with a bastion or jump host: Host *.prod.blah.com ForwardAgent yes ProxyCommand ssh -W %h:%
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by skuhn 12y ago
Maybe not right now, but soon. Box lost $167mm in FY2015 ($158mm in FY2014). They expect to lose $140mm in FY2016. Their IPO only raised $175mm, so at this rate they will run out of money in FY2017 or shortly after. It's a mystery to m
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by skuhn 12y ago
If it were simply little Uber cars driving around and nothing else, I would not take issue with it.
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by skuhn 12y ago
I can't imagine getting enticed away from a job by this kind of maneuver. All of these people are already, without exception, aware of Snapchat's existence. They probably also know that Snapchat, like everywhere else, is hiring li
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by skuhn 12y ago
Snapchat may see this as "playful", and I doubt they gave it too much thought. I see it as putting their business interests before their users's privacy, and I think it's a breach of trust (however minor). The core probl
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by skuhn 12y ago
At least when I was at Yahoo (many years ago), there was zero apparent desire to even continue to operate in that type of service space. I guess Yahoo wants to be a media company and sell ads, not provide APIs to do nerd stuff for free. I w
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by skuhn 12y ago
I think the biggest issue with current CM systems is that they aren't made by people with any experience actually administering large scale infrastructures. The focus to me seems all wrong. Ansible has a blue million modules, but so ma
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by skuhn 12y ago
You cannot record your phone calls without permission from the other person in a two party consent state (such as California).
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by skuhn 12y ago
Pipes is a dead product, it's just waiting for someone to remember to turn off the light. Even in 2011 it was on life support. It's a great example of how even when Yahoo hits on something interesting, they will neglect it and fai
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by skuhn 12y ago
haproxy 1.5 supports SSL, and some people do use it as a frontend now. A single core process won't be able to keep up with SSL handshakes though, since one core can only do around 500 RSA 2048-bit sign/s. Session resumption will h
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by skuhn 12y ago
One thing to consider is that EFS is priced at 10x the cost of the most expensive tier of S3 storage ($0.30/Gbyte vs $0.03/Gbyte). If they are just static assets, you would do better to put them in an S3 bucket, set appropriate Ca
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by skuhn 12y ago
imgix launched the Chester Face feature, which we're providing to our customers as an AFaaS (April Fools as a Service) option: http://blog.imgix.com/post/115195342369/new-imgix-feature-ch... Chester Face is
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by skuhn 12y ago
I think that people are starting to realize that a one-size-fits-all approach to images isn't really feasible anymore. If you serve gigantor images that look good on retina or 4K screens to low res devices, you just wasted a lot of ban
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by skuhn 12y ago
QfG V was such a let down for me, easily my least favorite of the Quest for Glory games. It was particularly disappointing because QfG IV was so incredible (although it had the worst of their many awful combat engines). However, I'm st
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by skuhn 12y ago
It's on my list, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I am quite excited to see what Ron Gilbert does with Thimbleweed Park, which is purposefully old school in concept.
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by skuhn 12y ago
> Center of the Universe There is a very real problem across many creative mediums these days (big budget movies in particular) that the stakes have been constantly raised to the point where there's very little room for smaller, per
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by skuhn 12y ago
As a backer of many Kickstarter projects, I would much rather back a project led by a creative person than a business-oriented project manager (in other words, a producer). A lot of Kickstarter video game projects have failed to deliver on
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by skuhn 12y ago
I hear this opinion expressed a lot by people that don't play many video games anymore, and I don't agree with it either. There are a ton of modern games with really compelling narratives. Along with the ones you mentioned, there&
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by skuhn 12y ago
I doubt that Backblaze decided to go this route on a whim, particularly because it's really their only option for cost efficient large scale storage. MD is terrible for this use case. There's no mature, open source object store wi
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by skuhn 12y ago
This seems like a colossal mess waiting to happen. I'm glad that I read their plan, so that I can completely avoid it. The allure of Ubuntu LTS releases (currently 12.04 and 14.04) is the extended support cycle -- practically speaking
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by skuhn 12y ago
> In Netflix' case, this doesn't even count their vast replicated CDN infrastructure between your device and S3. There is part of your answer. They only pay S3 outbound on cache misses, not on cache hits. That will lower their
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by skuhn 12y ago
Post-Diablo, and it never got to a point where I deployed it at scale and found issues: it flunked out before that. Haven't tried ceph, although I look at it every few years. It sounds promising but it also sounds really complicated to
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by skuhn 12y ago
You can do significantly better with the right vendors and some negotiation -- this is specifically a pricing ballpark, not rock bottom deals. It's not outlandish at all to say that in terms of raw storage you're going to be close
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by skuhn 12y ago
No, the SSL cert does not use RC4. RC4 is a block cipher which is used to encrypt data transferred between your browser and the server, akin to AES. Backblaze does need to step it up in terms of their SSL configuration [1], particularly if
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by skuhn 12y ago
Yeah, my solution is a gross oversimplification -- my math is just back-of-the-napkin stuff, you can actually do much better on component pricing (I certainly don't pay $5000 for a 1G top-of-rack switch) and there are other variables t
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by skuhn 12y ago
Right, just a unit problem -- the pricing is still correct. I seem to make this mistake a lot lately, since everything is billed per-gig or per-meg, but you only really care about per-TB units. Oops.
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by skuhn 12y ago
I completely agree. I sometimes take flack for "hating" AWS (and I do hate some aspects of it), but I think it's a great platform for incubating your service or proving a concept. Every company I've been at in the last
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by skuhn 12y ago
It's not trivial, but it is fairly easy to beat S3 on storage costs alone, let alone the other factors. I personally wouldn't use Backblaze's storage pod, so my numbers are based on equivalent components (and don't refle
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by skuhn 12y ago
CCO in this case means Chief Creative Officer. Since he's not listed in the S-1, isn't a member of the board, and hasn't been quoted as speaking on behalf of Etsy in any articles I could find post-2011, I presume that his Lin
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by skuhn 12y ago
DICE has barely been able to release a non-Battlefield game since EA bought them, despite a much more varied output before acquisition. I imagine that isn't too great for employees at the time who didn't want to make pew pew simul

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