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by stephen-mw 11y ago
I think Flockport is doing some amazing things. When I read the pagerduty bug-hunt post and saw that they were using ipsec between "hosts", I wondered if perhaps they used LXD with some of your services.
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by stephen-mw 11y ago
Without a doubt use Docker. It has the ecosystem, which is extremely important. It also has the support and community. For devops engineers looking to build an entire enterprise around containers, LXD will be a great option when it reaches
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by stephen-mw 11y ago
Someone here on HN encouraged others to check out LXD in a previous thread a week ago. I did it and was really blown away. It really did feel like I was running virtual machines from an extremely fast hypervisor. What mattered to me most wa
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by stephen-mw 11y ago
general purpose SSD offers a good bang for your buck. The "best/most consistent" disk performance on amazon is still (unfortunately) ephemeral disks in a raid set. But if you turn that instance off (or Amazon decides to turn
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by stephen-mw 11y ago
Turning down an optional search of your persons or belongings does not constitute reasonable suspicion. I wish the courts would have sent a stronger message to this point. Clearly Officer Struble interpreted mr. Rodriguez decline as a reaso
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by stephen-mw 12y ago
The thing I don't like about this is that I'm forced to become Facebook friends with someone to send or receive money. That's an unnecessary layer of consideration. I want to send and receive money quickly, easily, and cheapl
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by stephen-mw 12y ago
Here's my anecdotal, one-data-point experience from moving a giant EC2 environment to datacenter: 1. Your operational overhead will increase _a lot_. Be ready to hire on a lot of ops staff if you expect them to do anything but put out
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by stephen-mw 12y ago
This is extremely slick. Nice job!
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by stephen-mw 12y ago
I'm excited about a company that will ensure a good, compatible experience with linux on a laptop. I develop on mac osx and linux vms (vagrant). I want to move to linux but the linux desktop experience just isn't there yet.
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by stephen-mw 12y ago
If anyone is interested, here's a script that will install openvpn on a raspberry pi in one command[1]. I use it along with the openvpn ios app on my phone when I'm on corporate wifi, or I connect to it with my laptop any time I&#
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by stephen-mw 12y ago
I'm long in apple for several reasons: 1. Apple's P/E is way to low for a company that literally sells the best and highest rated products on the market. Historically you pay a P/E _premium_ for these types of stocks, no