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by spartango 14y ago
A curious question is that of whether the need to upgrade computer components over the years is slowly starting to decrease. As normal users become more oblivious to performance improvements (above the 'good-enough' threshold). We aren't
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by spartango 14y ago
If your application needs to be up constantly, then it should probably be at least multi-AZ scaled, if not multi-Region. Multi-AZ applications are not affected by this outage, and multi-AZ events are very rare. Living out of a single AZ is
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by spartango 15y ago
This place is actually pretty legit. They've got a location in the Stanford Shopping center in Palo Alto, and its rather impressive. I'm sure the founder is exaggerating the "innovation" in his descriptions, but who says someone can't start
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by spartango 15y ago
I think this comes down to an issue of balance: Places which have nothing but cubes and sealed-off workers do miss some of the "creative" or "interactive" benefits of open, collaborative workspaces. At the same time, places that strictly "o
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by spartango 15y ago
Interesting observation about Sun: I got hired into Sun (in the 2000s), not by a brainteaser puzzle or bureaucratic game but with a bit of cleverness and discussion. Yes, Sun was big and not totally uniform, but I'll say that Sun got some
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by spartango 15y ago
Reddit historically had an extremely poorly designed backend, resulting in lousy performance and thus the outages that people experienced at scale. This has little to do with AWS vs AppEngine, and more to do with suboptimal code being force
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by spartango 15y ago
Follwers of a school doesn't necessarily mean that those people actually attend that school; particularly for prestigious schools, there are plenty of people who aspire to or admire the school, but actually aren't part of it. Its a worthy d
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by spartango 15y ago
Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=172Wne1t_2Q All in all this is an awesome idea, and its brilliant to see it actually getting implemented. It's not perfect, but few things are at first.
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by spartango 15y ago
The mention of python in this is somewhat foolish from a performance standpoint. It's not that python is slowing them down or speeding things up...they ultimately are hooking into a pile of C code to get "c-comparable" performance. If you'r
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by spartango 15y ago
I bet Amazon has also tried to acquire Dropbox on more than one occasion. And that would seem to be a more reasonable acquisition. Clearly dropbox has a vision for its own success though.
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by spartango 15y ago
Interesting. Although I wonder why the topics are so heavily biased toward the humanities... One would think that a view of the sciences would be equally important.
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by spartango 15y ago
This is in the pipe.
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by spartango 15y ago
Emails will be sent out when the problem is more fully handled, as usual. HN is a decent place to get some info, but you should consider posting to the AWS developer forum as well, b/c there are Amazon people constantly checking on things a
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by spartango 15y ago
Gruber: "Sour Grapes"
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by spartango 15y ago
This is not actually true. If you Stop an EBS-root EC2 instance, the EBS Volume can be safely detached and moved along to other instances, or you can restart the instance and your data will be ok. Additionally, There's no excuse for not
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by spartango 15y ago
I know at least my university does.
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by spartango 15y ago
Something to keep in mind: HVM is generally slower(even with VT-x) than paravirtualization...It's not by a huge amount, but you'll definitely be seeing higher IO latency. While this is a neat hack, you're paying more and getting poorer perf