zwily

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961.
by zwily 14y ago
AWS does not, and has not ever, charged for stopped instances (except for things like EBS volumes, which are billed separately).
962.
by zwily 14y ago
Obscurity is fine as a layer in your security strategy.
963.
by zwily 14y ago
What are you talking about? The last big S3 outage was like 5 years ago.
964.
by zwily 14y ago
They have the 3 times I've tried, and one of them was about 35% off of a $400 item. I think it ends in February.
965.
by zwily 14y ago
Heh, I wish it "ensured stock". Twice now I've ordered for pickup, gotten the email telling me it's ready to be picked up, and gone to the store only to be told that they don't actually have it. (?!?!) It made me swear off ever shopping at
966.
by zwily 14y ago
Before I was a manager, I believed that taking a counter offer was always stupid. Now that I'm on the other side of the fence, I see that it's not always so cut and dry. I wonder how many of the people supporting the author are actually man
967.
by zwily 14y ago
Sure they do... after those things. He said "chief loyalty", not "sole loyalty".
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by zwily 14y ago
If the use case is to only use the instance for several hours or days for some intense processing, then RAID-0 over 24 disks is probably just fine.
969.
by zwily 14y ago
If a developer can convince the local government that their shopping center (or whatever) will be for the common good, then the government exercises the eminent domain.
970.
by zwily 14y ago
Right - just for verification in Letterpress. The occasional false positive wouldn't be so bad, and you can tune your bloom filter so that it's really rare.
971.
by zwily 14y ago
How do you handle the fact that most IRC networks limit the # of connections that can come from a single IP address?
972.
by zwily 14y ago
I think I'd have used a bloom filter for something like Letterpress.
973.
by zwily 14y ago
In my experience they are slightly blurrier at the non-doubled resolutions, but still much, much better looking than on a non-retina MBP.
974.
by zwily 14y ago
You do know that AWS did not go down during Sandy, right? /me knocks on wood
975.
by zwily 14y ago
They've proven that you can sell at that price, but not that you can make money at that price. Time will tell.
976.
by zwily 14y ago
AirPlay can already put your game on the tv via AppleTV. What were you thinking of in addition to that?
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by zwily 14y ago
We've found that when the ELB health check returns non-ok, the ELB will immediately kill any requests in flight to that box. So it's kind of impossible to do a real "drain" with ELB. Are you seeing different behavior?
978.
by zwily 14y ago
Who is saying that maps is awful for nobody?
979.
by zwily 14y ago
Time Machine also uses directory hard links for when an entire tree is unchanged, as a pretty big optimization.
980.
by zwily 14y ago
They've been 16 chars for at least several months.
981.
by zwily 14y ago
Password recovery does not bypass two-factor auth.
982.
by zwily 14y ago
Here's what Scott Forstall said: “We’re unifying your phone number and your Apple ID,” said iOS guru Scott Forstall at WWDC today. “So if someone calls you on your phone number with a FaceTime call, you can answer the call on your iPad or e
983.
by zwily 14y ago
Literally, one line of code? That's a pretty amazing claim. How familiar are you with Google's code?
984.
by zwily 14y ago
Coming with iOS 6.
985.
by zwily 14y ago
Likely never. Amazon has made it pretty clear that VPC is where all the new networking features go.
986.
by zwily 14y ago
We have also had pretty great support from AWS. That comment was unfair.
987.
by zwily 15y ago
We included a spec in our rails app that inspects all AR models and errors if any don't specify any attr_accessible (with a whitelist of models to ignore). This catches anything included by plugins too, which can be helpful. https://github
988.
by zwily 15y ago
Looks like Once has 24 f-bombs. Why is the R rating shocking?
989.
by zwily 15y ago
Postgres' built-in streaming replication isn't master/master. That'd be nice though. :)
990.
by zwily 15y ago
I would have assumed they were asking about HTML entities. Like &, etc.

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