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Dr. Gurnett is one of the principal investigators on the Voyager I & II projects; his group was the one to discover the heliopause boundary.

I was curious whether or not the Sride project was failing. We were about to do a migration once some key integration things were done; doesn't look like they'll finish those.

Or scenarios where you can use EFS to stage data 'for something else' (i.e. shared image / upload content that stages to a CDN, etc.) Keep in mind (and this comes from hard experie…

.... kind of. A reservation is all about planning capacity. If you know (e.g.) that you need two web servers "hot" all the time to serve a base level of traffic, you can pay for th…

To the "free chapter" idea - I think the website has a pretty good prospectus, and compared to other tech books / publishers, it's certainly well worth taking a flyer on it for a m…

Nice! As much as Wordpress gets bad pub, there is certainly the open ways in which security is handled and patches are distributed. Far better in most ways to commercial CMS (and e…

Use it to build web scrapers hunting for AWS Keys on GitHub, to spin up more instances to scrape for AWS keys to..

The great thing about USENET was (and well, is) that news is a protocol so you could choose from a few different clients if the UX for one was horrible. Not a panacea, but it was n…

... And at this point "Internet" companies are far more ingrained in the mainstream economy than they were in 2000. There will be some companies that will be hit, but things won't …

It seems that by the time a career path / financial instrument is widely talked about as a "lifestyle", it's time to get out. 1999: "The dot-com lifestyle", everyone is an HTML/Fla…

I'll note that one positive in the industry is that people put some serious thought into working in a way that was more productive than dot-com crazy and we all took Agile methodol…

1) I was fortunate enough to be in a good place where my wages were not hit terribly hard, but there was a big slowdown in wage growth. 2) I did take a pretty dull "and stressful f…

Doesn't seem global - the CF domains I hsve in us-east seem fine

I decided to load test the app and am now receiving 500 sandwiches / s.

You'll get to see more XML metadata than you thought possible.

^^ Oregon deciding to have Oracle consulting engage on a time and materials contract is the big problem. Hint: always, always do these on bid. No one ever saves money/budget on con…

It helps that ad-driven SourceForge seems to be doing its best to shove people off the platform.

... this is right on. I've seen my own role in "DevOps" as being one that is less task-oriented and more toward bridging skill sets. The drive toward specialization (mentioned by t…

Completely agree on your #2 - even in cases where management sincerely believes that they are "open and honest", if you haven't established trust at all levels the rumor mills will…

Great comment - but what the hell is "salad cream"? (Miracle Whip?)

Simpler: "DropBox is the service that makes your iPad useful."