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by slyall 4y ago
He has 3 children. Aged 15, 13 and 11. If I was one of the kids, I would have taken $100m directly.
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by slyall 4y ago
You need a big team to maintain the platform and provide a controlled access to do stuff (PaaS is the buzzword) and then a bunch of above-average devs that are motivated, trained and incentivized to do their own bits of Infra properly. Poss
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by slyall 4y ago
I've had my pinboard "one-time fee" account for 12 years and it still lets me login and do stuff. They switched to annual accounts in 2015 and have been encouraging people to move but I'm not convinced of the value-for-m
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by slyall 4y ago
If they are looking at $600k places thats less than 3x their gross income. Where I live (New Zealand) a place would be 4-5x their joint income. Certainly affordable. On the other hand they might be looking at what they pay in rent vs what t
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The Software Supply Chain Song (I'm Goin' to Production) – Cute Animated Video(youtube.com)
4 points by slyall 4y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 4y ago
Very few traditional newspapers will link to external sites, even the "quality" ones.
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by slyall 4y ago
International shipping at Alibris is around $US 20 per book.
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by slyall 4y ago
I just checked a book ( The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson in paperback ) for shipping to New Zealand. Book Depository is $NZ 21.19 total. Including shipping a NZ Tax (GST). Discounted from $24.77 Amazon is $26.27 for the b
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by slyall 4y ago
"The AI effect occurs when onlookers discount the behavior of an artificial intelligence program by arguing that it is not real intelligence." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
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by slyall 4y ago
No it didn't. You ended up with each site doing things differently. You'd go somewhere and they would have a magical program with a cute name written by a founder that distributed traffic, scheduled jobs and did autoscaling. It wo
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Can We Stop with Those Horrible “System Overview” Dashboards Already?(betterprogramming.pub)
2 points by slyall 4y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 4y ago
I'm applying for places now. I have a cut-and-paste cover letter that I slightly alter between jobs. Realistically though I'm applying for jobs that match my skills (more or less). It would be nice if you company is cool and savin
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by slyall 4y ago
It happens. Imagine the duty manager has to spend 30 minutes each shift sorting out inventory paperwork because the system is old and slow. Nobody at the store has any influence, the area managers complain but the project for the new system
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by slyall 4y ago
The thing I noticed is that they are not using any other AWS services. No S3, Elasticache, DynamoDB, etc. They are just running applications and databases. This will not be the case with many people using cloud and a migration to bare metal
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by slyall 4y ago
Study identifies reasons for soaring nuclear plant cost overruns in the U.S. "The authors also found that while changes in safety regulations could account for some of the excess costs, that was only one of numerous factors contributin
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by slyall 4y ago
Hence there isn't really much point trying to build anything until the regulations are "fixed". Since costs are rising in (just about) all countries I suspect regulations are not the sole cause of the problem.
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Public Email and DNS Testbed – Test how well your mailserver delivers emails(email-security-scans.org)
1 points by slyall 4y ago|0 comments
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FYI the author of the article is Rose Eveleth and she did the excellent "Flash Forward" podcast. She's recently wound it up but I'd recommend the old episodes (probably don't start with the final season though). ht
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by slyall 4y ago
It's a little weird because while $191k is a lot of money to most people (it is twice what I make) but it isn't a lot of money in the Bay Area, especially for an experienced tech person. More importantly Oxide is only (AFAIK) empl
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by slyall 4y ago
I follow the twitter feed, rarely click on anything but see topics go by and semi-remember them for later (or I sometimes open up the site right-away). 2-3 times a day I go to the site on a desktop browser. Scroll through the first 2-3 page
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by slyall 4y ago
Over here (New Zealand) the newspaper websites never link to anywhere. Especially not the webpage a story is talking about. Pictures get grabbed off websites[1] and credited to "Supplied". [1] - Loophole in copyright laws for repo
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by slyall 4y ago
You are confusing "the day Google died" with "the day the old Google died". For a long time there Google was a cool company that was more than just something to make money. It was doing all this other stuff that didn&#x2
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by slyall 4y ago
A few I follow that don't seem to have been mentioned already. RMtransit - Good videos about Transit topics and individual transit systems https://www.youtube.com/@RMTransit CityNerd - Very drool videos about cities an
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by slyall 4y ago
Route53 registration doesn't seem to get a lot of resources at AWS. They can take years to add new TLDs (I've been waiting for 5+ years for them to do .nz properly). Checkout the support forum. Lots of: * Someone asks for a n
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by slyall 4y ago
You could probably also use fluentd to do the same thing. It can process the logs locally and sent alerts instead of forwarding logs to a central source. How to grep the logs for errors and send an email https://docs.fluentd.org&
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by slyall 4y ago
What percentage of jobs are at companies that are really changing the world for better? Probably less than 25%
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SRE in the Real World for Xooglers(docs.google.com)
31 points by slyall 4y ago|3 comments
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by slyall 4y ago
Location: Auckland, New Zealand Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Linux, Scripting Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonlyall/ Email: simon@darkmere
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by slyall 4y ago
I have an extra colleague that works for a company called [redacted] which looks strange on his linkedin updates. https://www.linkedin.com/company/redacted/
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A List of Tech companies with names from the world of Lord of the Rings(arbesman.net)
1 points by slyall 4y ago|0 comments

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