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I also saw that concert. Oh yeah, we were in the same row!

The original object size limit for S3 was 5 GB, as noted in my 2006 blog post: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon_s3/ I do not know if this has anything to do with the cliff t…

Wow, that brings back memories. In 1979 I was 19 years old and had just started studying CS in community college. Through a lucky break I got a job at a consulting company and my f…

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I understand the risks of inactive accounts, but as I have pointed out here before these binary policies do not address the all-too-common situation where someone is forgetful and/…

> Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! Are you referring to the universe or to S3? Corey and I were chatting a few weeks ago during his most recent visit to Seattle and I shar…

Bill Gates and Paul Allen were doing something similar decades ago. According to https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35442969 (but well known before that): > Paul Allen, who would la…

> Under many cosmological theories, the integers under 2^63 are adequate to cover the entire expected lifetime of the universe; in this case no extensions will be necessary. Pessim…

At the first day on my first professional programming job in 1980 or so, my new manager told me that I would be writing a brand-new 6502 macro assembler, in 6502 assembly language,…

Talk about testing in production. You have to die first to see if this triggers, and if not -- your automation becomes the ultimate in legacy code. Seriously, this is a very intere…