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Comment · 2 years ago
This appears to be resolved. AWS posted an update to their status page, which matches some of the observations in this thread about it being ISP-specific:

[RESOLVED] External Connectivity Issues

Between 11:43 AM and 1:30 PM PST some customers may have experienced connectivity issues between an external provider outside of our network and AWS destinations. This issue impacted connectivity originating from California. Connectivity to instances and services within the Region was not impacted during this issue. All AWS Services have been, and continue to operate normally.

Comment · 3 years ago
from the article:

> Based on the learnings from the Protocol Buffers rollout, the team is planning to follow up with migration from Rest.li to gRPC, which also uses Protocol Buffers but additionally supports streaming and has a large community behind it.

Comment · 3 years ago
Not only that, but the layoffs actually happened on February 15.
Comment · 8 years ago
I am a YIMBY who lives in the western neighborhoods of SF and would love to see them upzoned. I always think it's silly that there are perfectly pleasant pre-zoning 5-8 story apartment buildings down the street from my place that would be illegal to build under current regulations.
Comment · 8 years ago
Do you have stats to back that up? A lot of the recent polling I've seen implies the opposite, especially for younger generations.
Comment · 14 years ago
What are the advantages/disadvantages of serializing links in the body JSON (i.e. HAL) vs. using the Link header?
Comment · 14 years ago
http://onesocialweb.org/ had the same idea (and a fair amount of code!), although it seems to be a bit dormant at the moment.
Comment · 14 years ago
finagle-http (https://github.com/twitter/finagle/tree/master/finagle-http) provides pretty much everything you need to build an HTTP web service.
Comment · 14 years ago
Github displays the username/avatar for a commit based on that commit's Author field, not the user that pushed the changes to the repository.
Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 15 years ago
I thought the preferred pejorative for Leland Stanford was "robber baron".
Comment · 15 years ago
Depending on the application, there are some options for process-internal multi-machine shared state - Erlang's mnesia distributed database, for instance.
Comment · 15 years ago
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Comment · 15 years ago
Tiny correction: His name is Mark Otto; "D" is the middle initial.

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