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by edutechnion 9y ago
Can you provide a link or reference to this path? I can't find much with basic searches and have given up several times on the gpg-connect-agent path while using Windows or Ubuntu. The path on Mac seems okay but on other platforms is w
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by edutechnion 9y ago
The false Seelbach Cocktail story is repeated here: > Max “Scoopie” Allen was making an Old Fashioned in the Seelbach Hotel Rathskeller in 1917. Whether someone bumped him or was walking by with an open bottle, somehow champagne splashed
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by edutechnion 10y ago
For the many of us who have built businesses dependent on S3, is anyone else surprised at a few assumptions embedded here? * "authorized S3 team member" -- how did this team member acquire these elevated privs? * Running playbooks
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by edutechnion 10y ago
They were PRs that required approval and merge from the Github project maintainers. Here is a search to see some of their work: https://github.com/search?q=%22Upgrade+Apache+Commons+Collec...
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by edutechnion 10y ago
Exactly. The 0366D6 against the hover background of f6f8fa provides a 5:1 contrast versus the old 2:1 contrast. http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
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Renewable energy sources suppress nuclear energy in affluent nations(journals.sagepub.com)
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by edutechnion 10y ago
Precisely right. It will be fascinating to see if Lightsail creation can be automated via Terraform or Cloudformation, and the $0.09 per GB for outgoing bandwidth can be easily subverted with this new pricing structure.
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by edutechnion 10y ago
Changes made by large companies that relied 100% on DYN: * us-east-1.amazonaws.com: split between internal, UltraDNS, DYN * spotify.com: all internal nameservers now * reddit.com: all Route53 now * github.com: all Route53 now * netflix.com:
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by edutechnion 10y ago
Short version: banker provides liquidity to the markets and buys up junk bonds from panicked sellers at 40 cents on the dollar. Banker then sells the bonds for more money as the panic dissipates. Some people wonder if important banks like G
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by edutechnion 10y ago
The most important question: how do I find an apartment to rent in Stockholm city center without Swedish connections and without spending more than 1/3 net pay?
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by edutechnion 10y ago
So if they sold at their true price via the Google-style reverse auction, they would have $9 * 10 million more to use for business growth. Instead lots of hedge funds and high net-worth individuals that are big clients of GS and JPM made an
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by edutechnion 10y ago
A few tips from setting up SPF/DMARC/DKIM for a SAAS service: * SPF: limit your record and all includes to 10 DNS lookups (e.g., "A MX include:_spf.google.com" is 3 DNS lookups plus all of the lookups inside the include.
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by edutechnion 11y ago
If elite status results in a free upgrade on 20% of your flight segments, and you fly 50 segments per year: 10 upgrades to business class > $560
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by edutechnion 11y ago
July 2009: Ballmer told the crowd, "I don't know if they can't make up their mind or what the problem is over there, but the last time I checked, you don't need two client operating systems. It's good to have one.&q
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by edutechnion 11y ago
> ... if you want to fund anything, you have to describe it as a weapon. In 1955, the NY Times led with "United States has Secret Sonic Weapon-Jazz" http://thereisjazzbeforetrane.blogspot.com/2009/08&#x2
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by edutechnion 11y ago
riofs ( https://github.com/skoobe/riofs ) seems much faster than s3fs and deserves a spot in any benchmarks.
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by edutechnion 11y ago
I went down a similar road with etcd and fleet but abandoned it earlier this summer after testing failure scenarios with etcd. With a cluster of 5 etcd nodes in EC2, I started hard-killing etcd EC2 instances and noticed fleet inconsistency
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by edutechnion 11y ago
AWS Aurora seems to go at the problem differently. They spread the disk out over three AZs in 10GB chunks. So if the instance powering the Aurora db engine crashes, a new one spins up quickly and begins pulling from the same disks. https:&
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by edutechnion 11y ago
Rent-stabilization is a flawed, lottery-based system that helps out a select few while sometimes having the unintended effect of helping out the wealthy: http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140430/new-york-city&#x
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by edutechnion 11y ago
So 5mbps is 625KBps or 0.000000625 TB per second. 50 TB / 0.000000625 TBps = 80000000 seconds = 925.92 days AWS Import can probably import at 100MBps or ~6 days.
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by edutechnion 11y ago
From 2014-11: “Networking is a red alert situation for us right now,” explained Hamilton. “The cost of networking is escalating relative to the cost of all other equipment. It is Anti-Moore. All of our gear is going down in cost, and we are
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by edutechnion 11y ago
Lowlight: Windows OEM rev down 22% year over year Highlight: cloud rev (Office 365 + Azure) up 88% year over year
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by edutechnion 11y ago
Sakai continues to put out releases on a fairly orderly schedule, but it's lost several of the core, founding institutions as their IT departments move away from customized FOSS software hosted in local datacenters to SAAS software hos
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by edutechnion 11y ago
Isn't Canvas a classic case study of the Andreessen bundling/unbundling theory? Canvas dominated the higher-ed market with a single, lean, focused, simple product. They unbundled the sprawling, unfocused Blackboard suite. Now Canv