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by skuhn 11y ago
I have encountered this sort of sour grapes reaction to employee turnover a fair amount over the years. I have literally been told that no one who has ever left the company has been someone we needed or should have tried to retain. Whenever
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by skuhn 11y ago
Cert chain is incorrect basically and the browser is fetching intermediate certs to try to make it work. Most of the issues Qualys points out on blog.pinboard.in are not present on pinboard.in itself, so I presume there's a difference
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by skuhn 11y ago
That one quip really embodies the entire case against Gawker I think. Daulerio was found personally liable as part of this verdict, and he had to know what the stakes were when he testified. By making himself look callous, unsympathic and i
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by skuhn 11y ago
Only $55m of the amount decided thus far was due to perceived economic damage. Also, punitive damages will be decided next week, and I fully expect they will be quite high given the way Gawker has presented themselves and the internal worki
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by skuhn 11y ago
I agree that the Anthony Weiner case is similar, but there's also a very different argument in play with publishing those photos. A public official exposed behaving inapropriately or hypocritically is much more obviously a matter of pu
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by skuhn 11y ago
Putting aside the matter of case itself, I'm getting a lot of schadenfreude out of watching Gawker fail to hold itself to the same standards it keeps for everyone else. As of now, two plus hours after TechCrunch [1], BBC [2], Recode [3
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by skuhn 11y ago
My guess is that this is part of the incentive to do this on the other side of the world. While we're hearing about it happening, we aren't getting specifics about particular people because it's just one or two people living
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From a legal perspective, this case only sets precedent in Florida (it was tried at the state not federal level) unless it manages to worm its way up to the Supreme Court and get heard. While there are less important states it could have be
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by skuhn 11y ago
I've encountered a fair number of people who blindly set -eu on every script as a matter of course, as suggested by the author here. While this article goes through a bunch of the pitfalls, in my experience people often fail to account
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by skuhn 11y ago
China, like many countries but more significantly than most, has a wealth distribution gap. The richest 1% of the country own 33% of the wealth. Now consider how many people live in China (1.3bn) and how many people fit into that 1% (13.5m)
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by skuhn 11y ago
Nice of you to call this out. I think everyone understands that not all of the people involved will get mentioned by name in a Wired article. A project like this clearly isn't a four person operation, and hopefully most people realize
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by skuhn 11y ago
Having done the math on this project in a previous life, I would also add that having to run app logic on EC2 instances and the outbound network costs are the true financial killers for S3. S3 raw price-per-gig is somewhat competitive with
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by skuhn 11y ago
Interesting, I've used it a bunch over the years and never encountered a non-black car. Which is actually kind of silly when you think about it -- a silver Mercedes is just as classy as a black one, if that's what you're conc
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by skuhn 11y ago
It might stem from Uber's roots, since all of the Uber Black cars are by definition black. It is pretty annoying when using their billions of other offerings -- not everyone can spot a particular Honda Civic from two blocks away.
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Not surprising, Akamai is always at the top end of the pricing spectrum for CDN services. That price point works out to $0.35/Gbyte. More typical list pricing for US/EU is in the $0.10-0.15/Gbyte ballpark. Prices decline rapi
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by skuhn 11y ago
The equipment is available from various vendors, but the biggest hurdle is finding a datacenter facility that can handle OCP gear. Retail colocation is pretty much 19" racks only and 120V/208V power only. Even small scale wholesal
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by skuhn 11y ago
Agreed. I wish e-mail (and many other services) wasn't a "free" offering from diversified players. I think pure play businesses who gasp charge enough to make a living and a profit based solely on their product's direc
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by skuhn 11y ago
The maddening thing is that they used to offer Mail Plus for $20/yr, and it was eliminated in favor of providing those features to all users (good idea). So this new paid plan is much more expensive and offers much less value. It also
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by skuhn 11y ago
In actuality it just tightened the existing restrictions on remote workers to the very upper echelon of ICs. It didn't really impact occasional work-from-home people much as long as they flew under the radar, but it did impact the sort
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by skuhn 11y ago
You could pay them $50 a year for your e-mail: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN15967.html Doesn't seem worth it to me, but it isn't that expensive in the grand scheme of things. If it makes you feel better about
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by skuhn 11y ago
That $100mm target was not achieved last year. I don't know what sort of revenue Tumblr actually generated in 2015 for Yahoo, but it seemingly wasn't $100mm and it definitely is nowhere near profitable. A few points: - Tumblr was
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by skuhn 11y ago
I get what you're saying, but now you have two divergent nginx releases to maintain. nginx plus isn't simply nginx with an extra module, it is closed source and on a separate release train. For instance, the last nginx plus releas
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by skuhn 11y ago
I disagree that it is not expensive. If you're launching a single instance then yes, it's tolerable: $0.21/hr or $1839 per year (very similar to their non-AMI pricing). Anything is tolerable at a low scale. Now think about se
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by skuhn 11y ago
ATS uses a tornado cache, where the write pointer just moves to the next object no matter what. So the disk cache doesn't work as a LRU in the same way as other cache servers. The benefit is that writing is fast and it's constant
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by skuhn 11y ago
Tag-based cache purges are something I would love to see in ATS. I think doing it correctly would require a complete rejiggering of the cache storage though, and that's not something to be undertaken lightly. Storing externally in redi
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Agreed, it's a good presentation and does a good job of being fair to the various software considered. (I worked on a team closely related to Bryan's team at Yahoo)
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Uh well, it wasn't "decades ago" but it was some old timey stuff. Yahoo used Apache 1.3 as recently as 2012. They also disabled Keep-Alive on Apache, and most properties would use the hardcoded default number of prefork proce
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by skuhn 11y ago
It makes sense, considering that nginx is typically ahead of the pack on support for things like SPDY and H2. Plus if you use OpenResty with its Lua functionality, you can do a lot of fancy things in nginx and reduce your dependency on Varn
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I sympathize with the authors of Varnish and nginx; their software is used all over the place, and they want to make a living at it. I just don't want to support that kind of business model, and I'm never dealing with per-server l
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by skuhn 11y ago
Some people do use nginx as a caching server. CloudFlare, for example, is built on top of it. The reason to do so is because you want the rest of what nginx provides, not to get its caching module. It is an extremely barebones solution that

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