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by srdev 15y ago
Keep in mind that Amazon is a big place, and your mileage can vary greatly depending on which team you are in. Personally, there are some good and bad points with my team (and pager duty always sucks), but overall I'm not discontent. I'
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by srdev 15y ago
blahedo's point was that the technique was not fundamentally a problem from a robustness point of view, and I disagree with that point. It is a problem, and I was pointing that out. Your point seems to be that since Hacker News is a "hobby
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by srdev 15y ago
Except the links do expire, so its not robust. I expect that when I visit a web page, I can let it sit for an extended period of time before moving on to the next page and have it work. HN doesn't work. Furthermore, the technique of holdi
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by srdev 15y ago
Except it doesn't appear to work robustly, which makes it poor design. "Automating boring and time consuming stuff," is all well and good if it actually produces a functional system, but that concern is secondary to robustness.
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by srdev 15y ago
It's not a prison even if you do use it. The defining characteristic of a prison is that you cannot leave it. I can stop using an iPad any time I wish. And yes, important data should not be locked in non-portable formats. At the same tim
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by srdev 15y ago
A closed computing environment isn't a prison. I have the choice of using an iPad or something more open. If I choose an iPad and later wish for something more open, then I can replace it with a more open tablet or a laptop. I find the i
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by srdev 15y ago
Good points all around. How I define a living wage: Enough income for a 1 BR apartment, 3 square meals a day (from a grocery store, not a resturaunt), and health care. Basically, the bare minimum. I'm not skilled enough in economics to be
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by srdev 15y ago
I am fully aware that I'm "lucky" that I have an interest in computer programming -- a highly marketable skill. But when people harp on that fortune, it really comes across as trying to devalue the effort I put into developing those skill
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by srdev 15y ago
Perhaps, but is minimum wage actually a living wage? Would the greater economy adjust to make that wage livable if it was removed? I really don't have the answer to these questions, but I think its important to remember that just because
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by srdev 15y ago
For my part, I feel that while financial institutions were complicit, one only has to look at the savings rate of the average US household pre-2008 to realize that there were systematic problems. Its not just Wall Street tycoons that faile
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by srdev 15y ago
The motto of OWD is "We are the 99%." Despite having good benefits, I doubt very much that union members are in the top 1%.
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by srdev 15y ago
I doubt it. I've used one of the $80 Chinese tablets with ostensibly better specs and the thing was barely usable. It really depends on the details though. 366 MHz doesn't tell us what type of processor, nor whether it has hardware decod
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by srdev 15y ago
Bluetooth? 　-- Don't need it. Only accessory I would use is bluetooth headphones, and wired is good enough. HDMI? -- Don't need it, why would I hook my tablet to my TV? Camera? -- Don't need it, I have a camera and a cell phone. Micropho
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by srdev 15y ago
The first step to solving a problem is to understand exactly what the problem is and know the problem domain. I read your rant, and I'm afraid I did not come away understanding what the problem is. What do you think the problem (or problem
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by srdev 15y ago
Was there an exuberant growth period at 2000? That's about the time the tech bubble burst. I was starting college for CS at the time, and the consensus was that the outlook was pretty grim for tech jobs. Hiring seemed to be slow. Most c
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by srdev 15y ago
Honestly, this is why I cringe whenever I hear code described as "clever." I bring up "clever" here because "magic" seems to be used in this discussion in a manner synonymous with "clever." [1] Developers tend to be intelligent people who
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by srdev 15y ago
Let's not forget that this decryption and re-encryption[1] is going on in the AWS cloud, which is ostensibly shared infrastructure. Its not just what Amazon can see, but what other people who happen to be running on the boxes doing this re
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by srdev 15y ago
That really depends on what you're using your laptop for. For some people it can.
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by srdev 15y ago
Yes, I hadn't considered that possibility. The picture in my mind was some sort of hybrid operation where some of the work was offloaded, in which case you would still have to properly support device-to-site SSL links. So I guess the issue
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by srdev 15y ago
If Amazon does, in fact, act as a MITM, then that's a deal-breaker as far as I'm concerned. Edit: The more I think about it, the more I think it is likely that they are just passing along the connection. SSL is designed to prevent MITM att
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by srdev 15y ago
I found those questions fairly amusing when filling out forms. In retrospect, though, I'm guessing that they expect people who meet those criteria to lie. They're there to give them a legally simple way to throw undesirable people out o
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by srdev 15y ago
I'm a little fuzzy on whether they had to deal with paging or not. At the very least they'd have to mark the pages as dirty, but I think that happens when you mark it as write-able.
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by srdev 15y ago
It doesn't actually patch the import table, but actually finds the functions address in memory. This has the benefit of working for statically linked libraries and run-time dynamic linking (loading). You're correct in all other respects.
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by srdev 15y ago
I suspect that you would still have some semblance of built over such a file-system. Hierarchy is useful for organizing data, and I often find myself using keys that allow me to abstract hierarchy in my NoSQL systems. ex: "/foo/bar/0113"
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by srdev 15y ago
Ah, I was using the term incorrectly. I meant that one must renounce their citizenship in their birth country to be completely free of taxation. Expatriation can be hard. Renouncing birth citizenship extremely difficult if not impossible
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by srdev 15y ago
I'm conflicted on the idea of leaving the country as a solution. Its not enough to simply live and work in another country -- you're still liable for taxes. You have to fully expatriate and renounce your citizenship. This is often very d
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by srdev 15y ago
In my team's case, the only problem we had was having to modify a bunch of decorators that implemented the java.sql.Connection interface. They added a bunch of methods to the interface in the upgrade.
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by srdev 15y ago
To add to mootothemax's post, non-repudiation is often important in financial systems. This is the ability, if a user comes to you and says "It wasn't me that made these transactions, so they're invalid," that you have the ability to argue
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by srdev 15y ago
I've worked on financial systems before. As others have stated, if you're dealing with real money, then you have a big bulls-eye painted on your forehead, and you need to make sure that your system is hardened. I don't know if you're alrea
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by srdev 15y ago
There's several different communication methods between services, including REST, SOAP, message queues, and an internal service framework. Its a perfect example of bonafidehan's post. As for the second question, a page generally doesn't h

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