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by vegasje 10y ago
We're in US-West-2 and our ELBs are dropping 5XXs like there's no tomorrow. This is definitely cascading.
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by vegasje 10y ago
Seems like my next laptop won't be a MacBook Pro. Can anyone recommend a good Linux laptop that will offer up to 32gb of RAM and have decent battery life?
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by vegasje 10y ago
Any areas specifically come to mind?
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by vegasje 10y ago
What's the recommended way for US users to get Xiaomi devices?
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by vegasje 10y ago
Do you happen to have any articles or data to back up that claim? I don't disagree, but I'd love to see the rate changes over time.
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by vegasje 10y ago
The catch is capabilities: http://tutorial.ponylang.org/capabilities/ Once you get your head around them it's not so bad, but to a newcomer it's quite daunting. In my opinion the code becomes less immediatel
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by vegasje 11y ago
I was seeing this a while back until I disabled a plugin I had installed. I can't remember which one it was. Try disabling your Chrome plugins and try again.
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by vegasje 11y ago
Have you played with this number at all? 10 phrases per day seems awfully low in my mind. If I was to download this extension, I would want to use it for a day or two before paying for an upgrade. I imagine you hit 10 phrases quite quick
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by vegasje 12y ago
I'll be more interested once Lambda can access resources inside a VPC. There are only so many things you can process off of S3...
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by vegasje 12y ago
"People have been losing jobs to tech since the dawn of civilization." I hear this all the time, but we really need to think about the _length_of_time_ these technology transitions of the past took before the human labor became ir
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by vegasje 12y ago
I ate cheese every day for most of my childhood all through my early adult years. It was quite literally my favoriye food. Snack, meals, I had it all day long. During a 2-year period, I started getting sicker and sicker to the point where I
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by vegasje 13y ago
Yet another business that took the approach of "customer adoption first, actual business model second." It's so frustrating to see this play out time and time again.
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by vegasje 13y ago
This is quite amusing, as it was one of the biggest complaints I had when coming to an RoR shop from a Java shop (please don't immediately take this to mean that I advocate Java over anything else). In my Java shop, we used the service
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by vegasje 13y ago
That makes a lot of sense. Were the majority of your systems using this "durability chain" so to speak -- memcached -> Cassandra -> Postgres? Additionally, in retrospect do you find this type of chain to work well, and wou
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by vegasje 13y ago
Does anyone know how the different storage systems are utilized, and why each system is utilized for that purpose? The presenter mentions using memcached, Cassandra, and PostgreSQL, and mentions the same type of data when discussing each (
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by vegasje 13y ago
As stated in the Wikipedia link, there is a very clear difference between basic income and guaranteed minimum income. Basic income is a supplement that is not reduced by any work income earned. A guaranteed minimum income promises a suppl
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by vegasje 13y ago
This is insanely impressive. The quality of the gameplay alone deserves praise, but the sounds and effects are also top-notch.
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by vegasje 13y ago
As mentioned in the article, you are correct in saying that users don't know what they want. However, they darn sure know what they _don't_ want, which is why many of the complaints are completely valid.
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by vegasje 13y ago
Here's the Markdown template if anyone is interested: https://gist.github.com/vegasje/5454527
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by vegasje 14y ago
I'm really glad to see that Watsi got some more attention after their original HN debut (here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4424081 ). These guys are making it so easy to help people in need.
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by vegasje 14y ago
It would be even better if you integrated some way to fund sustainable projects related to the health and wellbeing of these people. Saving someone's life is an amazing thing. Helping a community develop programs to saves lives into the fu