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I want to apologize for my earlier downvoted comment by saying that, I only said what anyone in a software organization would say. eg your boss.

If you dont know how to run DNS, then your the wrong guy to be running it.

Dont come out in public and whine about hackers. Its your job and yours alone to know how DNS works and what to do.

Its not even mildly interesting anymore than TCP/IP is interesting. So do your job.

Thats what my boss would tell me and thats what your boss should tell you.

Its not mean what Im saying. Its the truth.

Dont care about DNS, its your problem, fix it and stop whining about hackers.

Real journalists put people on the spot.

Their (the subjects) feelings dont matter. Go watch some 60 minutes Mike Wallace interviews.

If they can charm their way through the interview they win. If they cant well then we can all think about that.

But dont for one second think that a real journalists ideal should be to play host to technology bozos.

If being polite were a journalistic trait Nixon would still be in office.

This really only strengthens AWS, a self service cloud that anyone can manage.

IBM is chasing a dying consulting model "we know best". But they dont.

You yourself with the knowledge can outscale IBM using AWS.

IBM's business is profiting from enterprise ignorance.

Your mileage may vary...or be nonexistent.

What "countermeasures" has the US "installed" to prevent suicides? Just because they aren't occurring in a sweatshop makes them no less real.

In all sincerity please dont refer to Java and Android in the same sentence.

As far as Google is concerned, Java does not run on Android and you might be bearing witness to something that Google disclaims.

I dont think the media "gets it wrong", although they do endemically, I think that media is reflective of ourselves.

If we dont see a threat, we dont react. If we dont see a threat the media wont react to it either.

This can operate in reverse, if we see a threat but the govt tells us its not a threat, the media will try to soothe our anxiety.

Maybe what the media fears is being drowned out by the mill of a thousand voices, none of which have any credibility, and so they follow the "dont throw pearls to swine" rule of not getting in the way and wasting their breath.

In the world of Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Jesse Ventura, Rand Paul, who wants to hear facts?

The "media" as we call it, is adjusting to the ability of our collective digestive tract to consume what they have to say.

And their adjustment is to say screw it. Its just (expletive ommitted)

I wont discredit your experience, however, I have been a consultant in several 64 bit shops, linux and solaris who had 64GB servers who could not scale above 8GB due to OOMs.

Also remember that if you are on linux doing that 28 GB heap you are living in the world of memory over-commit, which means if you actually tried to use that memory, you will probably segfault.

Again if you have done it great, no shop I have worked in, has been able to do it with app servers and keep their servers up reliably. Its a constant source of pain and I think JVM GC is not sufficient to scale at the level of current hardware.

I look at this a little differently, Im not going to opine on the character of the CEO or his employees.

Besides raw economic factors and the trend-happy game industry, I think its worth it to ask:

What on earth are we building? And why are we building it?

Its OK to build games we all need entertainment. Nothing wrong with that. But Zynga games were obsessive click factories which were as far as anyone can tell designed to be addictive.

As an engineer, I have worked at places that had so called "projects" designed to "get more clicks".

That may include a lot of web shops. Usually for ad revenue. But if you think about that from an engineering perspective, what a woeful, sad day it is to have your boss come to you with that mission.

Its the day you realize that what you built has no real value to the user, and is a self serving mechanism to get meaningless clicks out of your robot users.

In the old days we made software that people wanted to use and we didnt care how many times they clicked on a cow.

Or on an ad.

It seems the implication of the article is to say that we have potentially drawn the wrong conclusion on "which straw" broke the camels back.

And that if we drew the wrong conclusion that somehow this might impact or could have impacted the rationale for developing nuclear arsenals.

It's also popular in the US war college that officers attend, the statement that "Wars cannot be won by air power alone".

But beyond these details, whether the history is exactly right on what caused the Japanese to surrender, there is no doubt that the conclusion of WWII precipitated an arms race and a space race as Nazi scientists and technology were divided among the superpowers.

Nothing would have stopped the advancement of war making technology, no convenient conclusions about the strategic causes or effects.

Technology will advance whether we want it to or not. And whether or not its in out best interests as we perceive them in our posited "future".

There are many use cases for which EC2 is exactly perfect and not overpriced.

As a consultant recently I was tasked to build a service which (rather not say), I had good data on requests per day, total data storage, factored in ELB, etc.

The cost was less than 2K a year. Now consider that the company refused to buy hardware or pay anyone to support it because they had a full staff of sysops maintaining their (rather not say) at great cost in their own data center.

2K is absolutely nothing to a company. Most of us are not Netflix or Dropbox. Don't pretend you have those kinds of problems if you don't. It could have cost 3x that per year and they still wouldn't have noticed it.

AWS for manageable workloads is dirt cheap at scale. I think you'd have to be nuts not to use it.

Twist isn't solving a fake problem anymore the many services trying to solve the problem of hailing a cab.

That said, sometimes I think it would be nice if a lot of these micro solutions could be aggregated into macro solutions ;)