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by tie_ 10y ago
It's a global platform for cheap human labor. I find it completely unsurprising that living off cheap labor alone would not result in a particularly good living standard, especially not in some of the most expensive locations in the wo
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by tie_ 10y ago
First integer overflow to (literally) hit Mars!
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by tie_ 10y ago
Survivorship bias anyone? How many times did a project fail, because it the non-aspects (e.g. scalability) were undernegineered? How many times did it fail because it couldn't ship on time/budget due to excessive engineering? We d
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by tie_ 10y ago
It means that you no longer have to deal with the server configuration - the servers are completely hidden from you. You just give your functions to AWS, and they run them in a black-magic-box of theirs. I've tested it at least to the
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by tie_ 10y ago
Filtering by IP addresses and ranges only gets you so far. What if one of the people who needs to log in logs in remotely? Or if a contractor is behind a dynamically changing IP address? Or if you have too many IP addresses and ranges to fi
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by tie_ 10y ago
Thanks for the great article! It echoes most of my thoughts. And thanks for Dotset - didn't know it exists, but it looks very, very neat. In most but the most basic configurations, however, I found myself missing some of variables, in
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by tie_ 10y ago
Agreed. JSON is the new XML. This isn't to say that I would prefer JSON over XML - I most definitely wouldn't - but it is just as abused lately. I hope we will see its demise soon and something coming out of the YAML line (e.g. TO
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by tie_ 10y ago
I really hope we can go quicker to a time when "lobbying the government" is no longer accepted as a standard business practice, but a strong signal of corruption and foul play. If that would be Gates' biggest mistake (and it
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by tie_ 10y ago
Thank you, Pieter, for your sane approach. The comments here demonstrate aptly the power of your words over the HN community. I lost a father and an in-law to cancer, and your post simply nails the target for me. I wish I'd read this b
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by tie_ 11y ago
Even more people are making good money developing in the language/tooling they know/favor, while it is (comparatively) poorly suited to the problem at hand.
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by tie_ 11y ago
There was something made to ease exactly that pain... sadly it's no longer updated: http://www.websecuritywatch.com/
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by tie_ 11y ago
First, until you reboot your servers, they are not really patched. Second, you are happy about unattended core system upgrades to production machines? I don't think this is the right feeling to have :)
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by tie_ 11y ago
> To me - poverty isn't relative but absolute: if you live on less than $X amount a day, you're poor. I agree that the poverty that we should be fighting against is the absolute one. The complaints about "income inequality
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by tie_ 11y ago
> There is a break in your logic: your conclusion would only make sense if not producing wealth is the only way of becoming poor. I read the strong obligation of stopping people becoming poor as stopping any people from becoming poor,
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by tie_ 11y ago
I disagree with most of the post, but here is one point that I'm particularly at odds with: > We have no obligation to stop someone from “becoming rich”– but we have a strong obligation to stop someone from becoming poor. I don&#x27
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by tie_ 11y ago
Thank you, sir, for the awesome comment!
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by tie_ 11y ago
As much as I agree with your point about being hard, I'd also like to add out that there isn't anything even remotely similar to documentation on how a pure dev person could do this outside of AWS, with the lack of managed cogni
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by tie_ 11y ago
0.2 Full-time employees to build all the automation, scale up (and down!) the stack as needed, monitor, operate and maintain it at an HA level? That is a huge feat, and I'd love to read about how you pulled it off. Please consider shar
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by tie_ 11y ago
It is very difficult to run it at AWS's scalability, reliability, security and automation level. These all cost money and/or time. Not all companies require these features to the same extent, of course, so AWS is not always the
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by tie_ 11y ago
The relationship between client and server is not stateless in the majority of the cases. Most of the implementations rely on authentication state (cookie, session secret). Very few actually do the stateless part right.
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by tie_ 11y ago
> ...set of ideas that are in practice no more than JSON-RPC with a http header. I'd argue that JSON-RPC (as well as XML-RPC) is more useful than REST, as it has a simple specification that any client/server could follow. If y
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by tie_ 11y ago
With REST we cannot truly define a degree of understanding. Such a definition would assume that multiple people know and agree on what would be the full extent of that understanding. The problem with REST is not the different amount of kn
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by tie_ 11y ago
What happened to the "release early, release often" idea? That's pretty much the opposite of "don't put anything in repo until it's perfect".
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by tie_ 12y ago
Nokia HERE's first wearable tech - geo-intelligent kitty collar: http://360.here.com/2015/04/01/unveils-first-wearable-tech/
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by tie_ 12y ago
> Sometimes it's worth the trade...other times it's not. That's exactly what the article disputes - "It's not worth the trade if you had 3 of those already". Sure, you could drown in meaningless (for your pr
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by tie_ 12y ago
Thanks for sharing! These presentations are awesome. As you point out, the topic is not about programming languages or technologies at all. It's about how you handle and benefit from innovation.
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by tie_ 12y ago
3 innovation tokens? The supply is fixed for a long while? People on HackerNews of all places buying that? It's plain wrong. Innovation is good for any kind of organization, if done properly. What the author should focus on is the la
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by tie_ 12y ago
What is killing IRC? Oh, OK, never heard of you. Get in the line behind ICQ, MSN Messenger, AIM, Gtalk, Lync, Facebook/What's App and of course Skype. Get your HipChat bro with you.
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by tie_ 12y ago
> It's just that this GPL thing doesn't even register on their legal radar... Any engineer competent enough to incorporate Busybox into another product would know what GPL is, and what are the most basic implications that it le
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by tie_ 12y ago
> Women would say things like "I worked on a team that did X," while men -- who obviously did the same kind of work -- would simply say "I did X. I find this a very interesting fact, but I see a number of other possible ex

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