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by sumbry 6y ago
SMS refuses to die because it's the serial console of the internet.
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Hey British Airways, Here’s Five Whys It Was Not the IT Person’s Fault(medium.com)
2 points by sumbry 9y ago|0 comments
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The Invisible Force That Warps What You Read in the News(backchannel.com)
1 points by sumbry 10y ago|0 comments
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by sumbry 10y ago
It is pretty common knowledge why they did this. Original plans for the BART had it traveling over the Golden Gate Bridge into Marin County. Due to high winds across the bridge, they wanted a wider gauge to prevent trains from tipping.
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by sumbry 10y ago
If you do the 5 why's and are honest you'll discover the real root cause is not having a backup and restore procedure that is programmatic. All outages are blameless. It's always a process failure or lack of a proper system
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by sumbry 10y ago
If you're seriously worried about the NSA logging things - I'd be more concerned with the device you carry on your person every day, with a microphone, two cameras, a GPS device, 24 hour battery, and probably 10x the processing po
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by sumbry 11y ago
The questions I ask are designed to help me learn about the actual environment I'd potentially be walking in to. Understanding the technical parts are easy, grok'ing the environment is a bit tougher. You're making a decisio
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The long-awaited tech correction is here(businessinsider.com)
5 points by sumbry 11y ago|0 comments
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You can't do anything you want(medium.com)
4 points by sumbry 11y ago|0 comments
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by sumbry 11y ago
Someone once said that the public cloud was never about virtualization but rather automation. I would contend that the container revolution we're going through now isn't really about containers but ultimately distributed system p
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by sumbry 12y ago
We're undertaking a similar project and the latency is almost negligible. In fact the latency is lower bridging between classic and vpc in the same availability zone than between two classic availability zones.
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by sumbry 15y ago
Truckers don't like to change gears. It's much more efficient for them to stay in a lower gear and coast at a consistent speed than it is to constantly change gears and brake.