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toomuchtodo
110,930karma·51,752submissions·October 26, 2011
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"We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
In life, everything is a wager. Whether you realize it or not, you are constantly making implicit and explicit predictions about the future state of reality. To live is to predict.
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How long was Amazon AWS "degraded" today?
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When our gear is down, we can actually get into the datacenter to fix it. What do you do when Amazon is down other than sweat?
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Funny thing is, the last couple interviews I've had in Chicago and Silicon Valley, I actually get points when explaining caution is necessary when using AWS for production. A magic bullet it isn't.
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I'm a Model S reservation holder and a TSLA stock owner. I'm perfectly fine with TSLA charging for test drives.
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I've paid $3K to rent an Audi R8 for the weekend. I currently have a Model S reservation. I'm cool with paying $300 to see if I want to spend $80K on a car (0.00375% of the value of the vehicle).
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Awesome product, but still waiting on agents to remotely deploy installations on laptops that never come to a corporate network.
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Shouldn't you be a less careless pedestrian by not listening to music while in the road?
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Most of Google's special sauce in their datacenters isn't available to the general public. That doesn't mean its vaporware, nor does it mean it doesn't contribute to its business or consumer satisfact…
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I much prefer "a computer science and engineering R&D lab that happens to have an advertising arm".
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Cars with 300K miles on them driving fully autonomously are vaporware? Seriously?
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So, I'm going to be that guy. Twilio makes its money on SMS and voice services. Those services are cheap and very easy to develop with using Twilio. Note though that most cellular carriers are movin…
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Same here on a Galaxy Nexus.
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Looks like the freefall duration record wasn't beaten :(
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US taxpayers should be subsisizing a communications infrastructure, not be subsidizing a direct-marketing operation. Replace communications infrastructure with distribution network, and I totally ag…
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Seniors not wanting universal healthcare is insane considering Medicare.
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Why not collaborate?
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55K emails in a thread? WTF? =)
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The logs sit on a ramdisk before being scrubbed; power removed before scrubbing? Logs are lost, but PCI compliance is maintained.
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DevOps here. You scrub those out.
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Backblaze is hosted out of a SF datacenter, where power is much more expensive than other US locations; I assume someone has done the math whether its cheaper to replace failed drives from frequent sp…
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Having a tape libarary/silo is much harder to scale vs building pods of hard drives. Experience: I helped route and process data for the Large Hadron's CMS detector.
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Can you spin all the drives down in a pod once the pod is full of data until a restore is needed?
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I'm sure you guys keep track of read/write statistics as well; have you thought about spinning drives down on full BB pods until a restore is requested (similar to how Amazon Glacier's storage system …
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I think the argument was that the Volt is more complex, but still has a much lower maintenance cost. If Tesla is worried about ongoing service costs eating their bottom line, include the price in the …
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No, it just became a "Falcon 8" while enroute. DUDE, give them a break..... read next line Oh. OH! I have no business commenting on this subject.
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The Model S is extremely simply from a drivetrain perspective. AC motor <-> energy transfer management <-> energy storage Chevy Volt: AC motor <-> energy storage <-> on…
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Stackoverflow charges ~$200/month to have your own QA site on their platform. I'd drop at least a couple hundred bucks a month on my own Kickstarter SaaS site that funds R&D science/technology res…
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Turn around time. You can turn around a self-landing ignition stage much faster than something you have to turn around after a water landing.
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Citation?
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I have seen people photoshop utility bills, proof of insurance, etc. Requirements like this are hilarious.