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by cothomps 7y ago
Dr. Gurnett is one of the principal investigators on the Voyager I & II projects; his group was the one to discover the heliopause boundary.
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Dr. Don Gurnett, U. Iowa Space Physicist Retires(now.uiowa.edu)
1 points by cothomps 7y ago|1 comments
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by cothomps 8y ago
I was curious whether or not the Sride project was failing. We were about to do a migration once some key integration things were done; doesn't look like they'll finish those.
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by cothomps 10y ago
Or scenarios where you can use EFS to stage data 'for something else' (i.e. shared image / upload content that stages to a CDN, etc.) Keep in mind (and this comes from hard experience in 'traditional' NFS web server
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by cothomps 10y ago
.... kind of. A reservation is all about planning capacity. If you know (e.g.) that you need two web servers "hot" all the time to serve a base level of traffic, you can pay for that up front either partially or in total (a reser
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by cothomps 10y ago
To the "free chapter" idea - I think the website has a pretty good prospectus, and compared to other tech books / publishers, it's certainly well worth taking a flyer on it for a maximum of $20.
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by cothomps 11y ago
Nice! As much as Wordpress gets bad pub, there is certainly the open ways in which security is handled and patches are distributed. Far better in most ways to commercial CMS (and even some open source) where systems seem to run unpatched un
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by cothomps 11y ago
Use it to build web scrapers hunting for AWS Keys on GitHub, to spin up more instances to scrape for AWS keys to..
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by cothomps 12y ago
The great thing about USENET was (and well, is) that news is a protocol so you could choose from a few different clients if the UX for one was horrible. Not a panacea, but it was nice to have that kind of competition.
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by cothomps 12y ago
... And at this point "Internet" companies are far more ingrained in the mainstream economy than they were in 2000. There will be some companies that will be hit, but things won't be as bad as it was when nearly anything net
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by cothomps 12y ago
It seems that by the time a career path / financial instrument is widely talked about as a "lifestyle", it's time to get out. 1999: "The dot-com lifestyle", everyone is an HTML/Flash developer. 2005: Flipp
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by cothomps 12y ago
I'll note that one positive in the industry is that people put some serious thought into working in a way that was more productive than dot-com crazy and we all took Agile methodologies seriously.
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by cothomps 12y ago
1) I was fortunate enough to be in a good place where my wages were not hit terribly hard, but there was a big slowdown in wage growth. 2) I did take a pretty dull "and stressful for being that dull" job with an insurance co. as a
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by cothomps 12y ago
Doesn't seem global - the CF domains I hsve in us-east seem fine
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by cothomps 12y ago
I decided to load test the app and am now receiving 500 sandwiches / s.
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by cothomps 12y ago
You'll get to see more XML metadata than you thought possible.
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by cothomps 12y ago
^^ Oregon deciding to have Oracle consulting engage on a time and materials contract is the big problem. Hint: always, always do these on bid. No one ever saves money/budget on consultants working time and materials.
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by cothomps 12y ago
It helps that ad-driven SourceForge seems to be doing its best to shove people off the platform.
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Securing Digital Ocean / Linode Instances With Dome9(chadthompson.me)
2 points by cothomps 12y ago|0 comments
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by cothomps 12y ago
... this is right on. I've seen my own role in "DevOps" as being one that is less task-oriented and more toward bridging skill sets. The drive toward specialization (mentioned by the author) is leading us toward having &quo
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by cothomps 13y ago
Completely agree on your #2 - even in cases where management sincerely believes that they are "open and honest", if you haven't established trust at all levels the rumor mills will fire up as soon as closed door meetings happ
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by cothomps 13y ago
Great comment - but what the hell is "salad cream"? (Miracle Whip?)
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by cothomps 13y ago
Simpler: "DropBox is the service that makes your iPad useful."
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Static Web Hosting With Amazon S3(chadthompson.me)
2 points by cothomps 13y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Is the Bastion Host Security Pattern Outdated?
3 points by cothomps 13y ago|1 comments
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by cothomps 13y ago
Good question - I was targeted by a CC recruiter and wondered the same thing.
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by cothomps 13y ago
.. and ranting about Spring is about what, 2006?
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by cothomps 13y ago
The first part of that article - the discussion of culture / counter-culture sounded like it could have come from the pen of Thomas Frank: http://www.amazon.com/The-Conquest-Cool-Counterculture-Consu...
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by cothomps 13y ago
... and as a freshman physics student many of these lectures were a little opaque. I really came to appreciate them as an upperclassman / grad student.
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by cothomps 13y ago
Except manny of the CalTech freshmen in these courses did drop - with seats being filled by grad students. (FWIW - the recordings marketed in the "Easy Pieces" series from the lectures are a great last minute Christmas gift.)

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