tlunter

Recommend taking a look at this blog post: https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat the author has updated a couple times. The changes are subtle and are amazing for your benefit. Not seeing the change is them getting better at easing you into the new functionality, not them stagnating.

Comment · 7 years ago

Funny enough, at my company we did just this. Having local state is a requirement for our uptime and reliability goals, and we have a dumb service that pushes this back to the services via DynamoDB streams, and also dumps the data into S3 in case that service is down.

Comment · 8 years ago

> The RAMCloud project is based in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University.

It's not by Atlassian...

Comment · 8 years ago

I don't think it was GitHub's memcached instances. It was other public instances that with spoofed network requests ended up sending traffic back towards GitHub's network.

Comment · 9 years ago

I don't work there, but it seems naive to think that YouTube hasn't worked with law enforcement or these industries directly to remove these copyrighted works. If your rip is simple or obvious enough, YouTube blocks it immediately before it's published. That seems very different from hosting a site specifically for pirating copyrighted works.

Comment · 9 years ago

Oddly, as the article noted in a single line, they're common among tall, skinny men. I've had three lung collapses so far, but all do to Birt-Hogg-Dube [1]. When I was being checked out in the hospital each time, the nurses/hospital staff all said, "ah, yea, tall and skinny".

In reality, you can live through a lung collapse and do nothing. The doctor will take an x-ray, make sure the pocket of air outside the lung is shrinking and send you home. If it's fully collapsed, you'll get some surgery to repair it and a tube to make sure nothing gets back in. It never seemed as life-threatening as the article suggests. It wasn't fun, but I also never felt like I was near death or anything.

It feels like the author just found spontaneous pneumothoraxes to be interesting, and built an article around it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birt%E2%80%93Hogg%E2%80%93Dub%...

Comment · 9 years ago

But how does the user log into dropbox when they go to the website? They probably store those generated credentials within the 1password vault.

Comment · 10 years ago

mit·i·gate ˈmidəˌɡāt/ verb make less severe, serious, or painful

Don't think they said they solved the problem. They just made it less bad. Some DNS queries got through, but not all.

Comment · 10 years ago

So far, since the top of the comments, you're the only one that acknowledged the volunteer has thoughts too. I think everyone is just looking at the moral part of this and not how the interaction between the volunteer and president would be when he's hesitant but the volunteer still believes it's the right decision. It does call into question what kind of volunteer this is. Someone who's ready to die for the country from the get go wouldn't work out very well.