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by yandie 6y ago
Ex AWS here. I had the fun of digging into the rabbit hole of IAM and its convoluted logic. It's definitely possible to do what your said, but it's super easy to make mistake and the internal documentation is lacking. It took me m
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by yandie 6y ago
Because they are starting a new project from scratch and would have nothing to pin their dependencies against?
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by yandie 7y ago
Big surprise. Contrary to the popular belief, AWS wasn't/isn't built to support Amazon.com. Some fundamental pieces are designed for Amazon.com scale, but most other services are not (ACM in this case)
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Ask HN: What are your startup's software dev suites?
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by yandie 7y ago
No. CC points are not taxable if earned via spending - they're like rebates for spending so they are not taxed. For the same kind of points (Chase Ultimate, for example), you are taxed if earned via: * Referrals * Opening an account (i
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by yandie 7y ago
I'm an Amazon employee here - but my words don't represent the company. Internally we also talk to AWS support. They absolutely don't have much visibility into our accounts at all - much to my frustrations. They only see meta
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by yandie 7y ago
Non paywall and non-ad version: https://outline.com/GAF5BU
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by yandie 8y ago
I agree on most of the points you raised except this one: > * More than any other dating platform they have the tools to combat bots and fakes at scale. I'm not sure this is true. Bots and fakes are still a huge issue on Facebook. T
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by yandie 8y ago
The reason EU fined Google wasn't that Android was not an open ecosystem, but that Google leveraged other dominant services (Youtube, Maps etc...) to enforce manufacturers to install Search and Chrome on Android phones.
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by yandie 8y ago
You'll need your employer to sponsor you for employment-based green card - you can't self-sponsor. However, TN visa is single-intent and meant to be temporary, i.e. you can't immigrate on this visa. This is different from dua
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by yandie 9y ago
This is why: https://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/ Only people with security clearance can access government cloud facilities
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by yandie 10y ago
> If you are an EU citizen living in UK, you should absolutely ask to exercise your rights TODAY; do not delay, do not trust news reports, it's just a bit of bureaucracy but could make a big difference in your future. Make sure you
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by yandie 10y ago
Then you trade availability with consistency. No system can't escape CAP
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by yandie 10y ago
If you're sharing the same instance for multiple users, trying to achieve security among the users is almost impossible anyway. That's why physical separation/virtualization is one of the first thing to focus on when talking
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by yandie 10y ago
I work with big catalog data, and with lots of human input. We have these internal classifications but people mis-assign items all the time. I was horrified when I learned about the state of our datasets. The only reliable features are the
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by yandie 10y ago
I develop mostly on Linux (EC2 instance), but my email and documents are still on Windows. Excel still beats LibreOffice in terms of data analysis (yes, we use other tools such as Jupyter as well, but sometimes Excel is an easy route to com
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by yandie 10y ago
I got scam phone calls very often in the UK here, mostly about car accidents. I don't even drive, let alone own a car!
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by yandie 10y ago
Can you provide the source of your data about the risk of dying?
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by yandie 10y ago
But they're both in the software domain. Not to argue with you, but I don't see the problem any different from trying to synchronize two commits in a database. The same technique is not limited to Spanner or algorithmic trading, b
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by yandie 10y ago
Amazon is making its system international, i.e. multiple languages :)
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by yandie 10y ago
That's because you're equating freedom movement with the Schengen area. Schengen agreement mandates no border check, but the UK is not part of it, so of course they can have border check
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by yandie 10y ago
Voting is a privilege of being a citizen. At least you get access to a bunch of benefits thanks to the UK (used to) being part of EU. I'm a non EU citizen working in the UK and I don't get any of that if I lose my job. I don'
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by yandie 10y ago
I get 50Mpbs here with Virgin Media - pretty happy about it :D
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by yandie 10y ago
12Gbps? Seriously?
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by yandie 11y ago
Java Map interface specifies: V get(Object key) I was horrified when I realized you could pass any object to get()
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by yandie 11y ago
My fiance is Australian, and so far from what I've heard, Australian system is inferior: * ATM has fees unless you use your own bank's * Transferring money takes quite some time to arrive There's higher rate of contactless pa
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by yandie 11y ago
I haven't visited the US but having been to London multiple times, it's not THAT multi-cultural (maybe by British standard). It's definitely the most multi-cultural place in the UK, but compared to Australia where I've b
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by yandie 11y ago
My former team (in a big company) push changes to prod at least once a day until 3PM Friday. However, the company has the no-deploy days policy for the holiday period because if things break, there are gonna be very few people in the office
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by yandie 11y ago
As this post is on, Dynamo is experiencing error again: 6:33 AM PDT We are investigating increased error rates for API requests in the US-EAST-1 Region. Source: http://status.aws.amazon.com/
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by yandie 11y ago
> So far not a problem, but the email you get back after sending the password reset request contains a link to a page that allows you to cancel the request (not sure the genius who had this idea) Did you set the recovery email the same a

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