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by wstrange 11y ago
In any cost comparison I have done, Google comes out ahead of AWS, followed by Azure.
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by wstrange 11y ago
Which I am sure the intelligence agencies are having a field day with. Nothing like rolling your own encryption. What are the chances it was created by one of the intelligence agencies?
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by wstrange 11y ago
Competition in the cloud space is a beautiful thing. I really hope we don't end up with Amazon being a monopoly provider. Now if they could all lower network egress pricing I'd be really happy.
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by wstrange 11y ago
Why don't they build in a simple fail safe on the Nest? That is, have a user settable manual switch that fails to "heat on" if there is no response from the main unit. The house would be quite hot - but probably much less dam
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by wstrange 11y ago
Part of the challenge is that PasS platforms have quite a bit of vendor lock in. I can foresee the growth of do-it-yourself PaaS, built on Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
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by wstrange 11y ago
OK for inbox on firefox the icon pic does not show - so you are on to something. It still works (click where the icon is - you can see a faint outline)
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by wstrange 11y ago
Top right corner - click on your account icon, "sign out" This will sign you out of all google apps
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Follow Up to “The Sad State of the Web”(medium.com)
4 points by wstrange 11y ago|0 comments
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by wstrange 11y ago
There is a do-until loop: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_loops.html#id22 Which satisfies the infinite loop issue. Have not looked carefully at the dynamic allocation, but I am guessing (hand waving here....
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by wstrange 11y ago
But isn't in fact Turing complete? It has variables, control structures, loops and exceptions.
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Why I'm joining the Dart Team(medium.com)
157 points by wstrange 11y ago|131 comments
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by wstrange 11y ago
Dart is a pretty nice language, and practically speaking I don't think it's "weaker" (optionally typed) system is a concern. The vast majority of Dart libraries are typed, giving you all of the benefits (compile time ty
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Facebook Has Been Intentionally Crashing Its Android App on Users(popularmechanics.com)
1 points by wstrange 11y ago|0 comments
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by wstrange 11y ago
Network egress costs on AWS appear to be a factor of 10x more than dedicated servers. Google GCE is pretty much the same. That is a lot of negotiation that needs to be done. Will they get anywhere close to that kind of discount? How big a
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by wstrange 11y ago
What I really wish the cloud providers would do is reduce network egress costs. They seem insanely expensive when compared to dedicated servers.
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by wstrange 11y ago
So a single intern single handedly caused billions of dollars in lost productivity :-)
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by wstrange 11y ago
What bother me is the hand waving about fixing the bad effects of inequality without offering any concrete proposals of how that might happen. Practically speaking, how do you reduce poverty, provide better health care and education without
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by wstrange 11y ago
Hmm, I have a different experience. I love the Google cloud console (the new one especially) and find it vastly easier and faster than AWS.
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by wstrange 11y ago
I found this while doing some research on hosting costs on AWS and GCE. Network egress does appear to be very expensive on the big cloud providers. In contrast, compute cycles seem more reasonable for what you get. Still more expensive th
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Why Switching to AWS May Cost You a Fortune(hivelocity.net)
9 points by wstrange 11y ago|3 comments
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by wstrange 11y ago
"In communist societies everyone had very similar income" I really don't think that was the case. In a practical sense, communist regimes were the extreme endgame of inequality. Those at the very top of the chain lived like k
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by wstrange 11y ago
Interesting that the OECD ranks Denmark quite well: http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/denmark/ But they specifically call out inequality as an issue: "..there is a considerable gap between the rich
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by wstrange 11y ago
Can someone explain the advantage of RISC-V vs. other open source architectures (e.g. OpenSPARC?). Are there legal issues that make it more favourable?
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Comparing the Upgrade Process of Dart and TypeScript Apps to Angular 2(antonmoiseev.com)
1 points by wstrange 11y ago|0 comments
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by wstrange 11y ago
Capitalism does a fine job at some things, but there are areas where governments deliver better outcomes. Single payer health care is a good example. We should strive to avoid dogma and choose the best available solution.
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by wstrange 11y ago
Imagine a machine that has all of your intelligence, dexterity and creativity. What work will you do that said machine will not do better? Perhaps we can all become artists - but then again, machines will be able to compose songs, write s
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by wstrange 11y ago
I would not discount the influence of their lobbying efforts. The Koch's helped to drag the debate so far to the right that even the Democrats look like a conservative party. Perhaps their money won't buy them the party they want
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by wstrange 11y ago
That seems inconsistent with what I have read on the subject. Can you provide a link to the data you are citing?
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by wstrange 11y ago
> "we also have social supports for those who are unemployed " Something that the very wealthy are trying to roll back. I think the premise that automation will just shift work to other industries will be severely tested in the
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by wstrange 11y ago
Let's start with the Koch brothers, who will spend $889 million this year to sway the election.

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