mryan

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by mryan 4y ago
In addition, if someone reaches the "I need two hands to open this and both hands are full" stage and can not figure out a solution, it would appear that IQ is still the limiting factor.
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by mryan 4y ago
I am reminded of something I first read on Schneier's blog [0]: Back in the 1980s, Yosemite National Park was having a serious problem with bears: They would wander into campgrounds and break into the garbage bins. This put both bears
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by mryan 9y ago
Some of the jobs listed on the site date from 2013 - it seems as though some housekeeping is required.
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by mryan 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote/Amsterdam/London Devops as a Service Do you want to improve your scaling, resilience and reliability, but don't have a full-time DevOps person on the team? Why not rent one? I work with startups and onli
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by mryan 10y ago
The Who is Hiring threads on HN have been pretty useful - you tend to find likeminded people. If you need any part-time assistance with DevOps-related topics (Continuous Delivery/Integration, etc.), I'd be interested in hearing mo
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by mryan 10y ago
> Anyway it just strikes me as mean-spirited. I doubt the EU leaders really care about immigration that strongly. Freedom of movement of trade, people/labour, capital and services is the core founding principle of the EU - they care
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by mryan 10y ago
There is something Orwellian about referring to this as a 'service event'. I am reminded of 'The Event' from That Mitchell and Webb Look [0]. We don't talk about The Event. https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by mryan 10y ago
You raise an interesting point. The prices seem too high for some commenters. They are presumably capable of doing this themselves on a DO box so they do not think it is valuable enough to justify that price. However, one of the features of
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by mryan 10y ago
My bank (Netherlands) offers something like what you describe, and I would still prefer to be able to use services like Mint. > Planning requires thought, so I'm skeptical that you can automate a budget and then have people follow i
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by mryan 10y ago
> I was going to ask, why do you need to give third parties read access to your account? Tax is not the only reason. How about data analysis services for your personal finances? e.g. mint.com.
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by mryan 10y ago
> This is fixable. 6 months maternity leave followed by 6 moths paternity leave. Make it a law that spouses have the right to that 6 months. This is similar to how it works in parts of the EU. You have maternity leave, paternity leave, a
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by mryan 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote/Amsterdam/London Devops as a Service Do you want to improve your scaling, resilience and reliability, but don't have a full-time Devops person on the team? Why not rent one? I work with startups and onli
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by mryan 10y ago
> Does anyone remember the incident where Amazon just decided that they needed to delete books they had sold to Kindle users and just went in and did so off everyone's Kindle? Yes. Amusingly, the books in the case I remember were Ni
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by mryan 10y ago
> bring up a smtp and imap server and I can put it on the colo box or do it on AWS. Is that all the server will be used for? If you just want to run a Linux server 24x7 you will not be taking advantage of any AWS services, so you would p
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by mryan 10y ago
Apparently the button supports SNS, which can be integrated with Zapier.
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by mryan 10y ago
The FB post you linked to is a response to the general allegations, and not a response to the Senate's request. Thune's letter quotes part of tstocky's post: > In a statement responding to the allegations, Facebook has cla
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by mryan 10y ago
> I don't believe there's evidence to show that she did this for any other reason than wanting to stand out and look special by sending mail from hillary@clintonemail.com Personally, I think secretary-of@state.gov would be a m
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by mryan 10y ago
I use a modified version of the pomodoro technique in combination with David Seah's Emergent Task Planner [0]. The problem you describe is familiar to me - once I am in the zone I can continue there for hours, and taking enforced break
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by mryan 10y ago
The idea of a book that could solve your procrastination problems sitting unread on a shelf is an amusing irony. And I say this as someone who has multiple procrastination books on my shelves. :-)
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by mryan 10y ago
> It is very difficult if you are in the circumstance of having to learn things as you go and having to prodding at things and trying things to figure out how things work. With respect, it sounds like you are describing a problem caused
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by mryan 10y ago
> Any company that doesn't see this as such is a shit company, plain and simple. Nothing is ever that simple. There are perfectly valid reasons for some companies to be unhappy with a contractor unilaterally deciding to work until 2
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by mryan 10y ago
It says it is "extremely unlikely" in the second line. If you read slightly further you will see: > We judge that the odds that the report is accurate hover near zero. It comes from Capitol Hill Blue... > Update, Feb. 21, 20
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by mryan 10y ago
I think Frenchgeek's joke was that closing one issue can introduce new bugs, resulting in a net increase of issues.
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by mryan 10y ago
From the article: > This is why in 2.0 we’ve added the pipeline capability. This 2 year old effort allows you to describe your chain of automation in a textual form. It seems that they have been working on some 2.0 features for two years
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by mryan 10y ago
These are distinct events but the overlap in comments is likely to be significant.
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by mryan 10y ago
Perhaps criminal negligence, rather than hacking? It is an interesting thought - opening yourself to charges of criminal negligence for misconfiguring devices/software would be a big change for our industry.
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by mryan 10y ago
That is an interesting list, but I think notliketherest was asking for a proposal for a BGP replacement rather than generic security advice.
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by mryan 10y ago
My apologies, I misread your comment.
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by mryan 10y ago
> Yes, the other things I could have meant would have been odd, so I'm not sure why you spent time typing them out. It seemed clear that you were either confused about what features were supported by S3, or not expressing your compl
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by mryan 10y ago
Well to be fair, that is not the same as "you can not upload gzip'd content". Your complaint seems to be "S3 doesn't automatically gunzip gzip files that I upload", which sounds like the desired behaviour to me

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