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Comment · 9 years 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 way too difficult.
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Comment · 9 years 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 is done by one member without a second set of eyes or approval?

* "we have not completely restarted the index subsystem or the placement subsystem in our larger regions for many years"

The good news:

* "The S3 team had planned further partitioning of the index subsystem later this year. We are reprioritizing that work to begin immediately."

The truly embarrassing that everyone has known about for years is the status page:

* "we were unable to update the individual services’ status on the AWS Service Health Dashboard "

When there is a wildly-popular Chrome plugin to fix your page ("Real AWS Status") you would think a company as responsive as AWS would have fixed this years ago.

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Comment · 10 years 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.
Comment · 10 years 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: all Route53 now

* paypal.com: split between UltraDNS and DYN

No changes made:

* twitter.com: 100% with DYN

Comment · 10 years 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 GS should still be making volatile bets like this.
Comment · 10 years 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?
Comment · 10 years 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 easy $100k this morning.
Comment · 10 years 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.

* DMARC: to see a strict reject policy, check out Yahoo:

  $ dig +short -t txt _dmarc.yahoo.com
  "v=DMARC1\; p=reject\; pct=100\; rua=mailto:[email protected]\;"
* Mail forwarding: if your app sends mail as the logged-in user, make sure the user's actual email address is not in the FROM address as Yahoo does not authorize you to send FROM: [email protected]

* DMARC emails: use dmarcian.com to parse and process the auto-generated emails

* SPF: use the ~all for your first day of testing and then lock it down to -all after testing is complete

* DKIM: OpenDkim appears to be the most widely supported Linux software package.

* DKIM keys: setup a TXT entry you control and ask client to CNAME it. Then setup key rotation.

Comment · 10 years 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
Comment · 11 years 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."

May 2010: Om Malik "Android Has Won — Time for Chrome OS to Move Along?"

Comment · 11 years 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/us-has-sonic-secret-weapon-jazz-nytimes.html
Why did they fund jazz like they funded abstract expressionism? Jazz was the ultimate display of democracy and integration, improvisation and the exchange of ideas.

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