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Man, this makes me sad beyond words. It's a great loss for all of us, even those who don't realize it.

Yeah, I was really hoping for Detroit. It's got a lot of really underutilized infrastructure at this point and could be really revitalized by a large tech company expanding its foo…

Fargate uses the same task definition abstraction as Amazon ECS. See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/l... So yes, you can launch multiple containers in a…

Sure, but just as with customers, the dissatisfied (ex-)employees are going to be most vocal. Do you really think Amazon could build things like AWS, Alexa, the Go Store, etc, if i…

Almost every account? You mean almost every account that NYT bothered to include in that article. As a current employee at Amazon, that article might as well be fiction as far as I…

If I need a apply for a license to read the law, can I also claim that I need to be licensed in order to be actually bound by the law? Obviously I cannot, but the absurdity of the …

The update from 1password indicated that there was application layer encryption happening in addition to the TLS encryption, so a breach of the TLS protection did not expose any se…

It is an awesome time to be alive, but I do wish we'd start doing more interesting stuff with our technology than simply streamlining the ability to buy stuff. Convenience is wonde…

Or, to elaborate a little further, https://www.iab.org/2016/11/07/iab-statement-on-ipv6/

I used to work with a number of LISP machine believers at the MIT AI Lab/CSAIL. They all had more modern computers for day to day tasks, but used the lispm for most of their progra…

Typical tech hours. 40-50, maybe more during crunch time right before a new feature launch or something. Not really any worse than any other place I've worked. Hours were flexible,…

At a conference (IIRC it was LISA in 2000) somebody had posted a joke to the bulletin board. It read: "Lost: one version control system, never used. If found, please return to Linu…

> Re: Paternity leave, I was able to take as much as I needed - it depends on the team/org I guess. Yeah, I'm sure the teams have some ability to be flexible, and if I'd pushed I c…

Agreed, I noticed all those things as well. The article seemed to invent a lot of the new hire orientation stuff. Either that or it's changed quite a bit since I went through it a …

I worked at Amazon for 3+ years, leaving just under a year ago. "It’s the greatest place I hate to work" pretty much sums up how I felt about the place. The crazy thing is, I kinda…

Socrata ( http://www.socrata.com ) - Platform/DevOps Engineer - Seattle, WA At Socrata, we believe that data – when made transparently accessible – can illuminate, inform, and insp…

Consider also the bar tab from a party for George Washington in Philadelphia in 1787: http://teachingamericanhistory.org/convention/citytavern/

Because facebook only has my pictures if I choose to post them there. This is easy to avoid. Facebook only has my browsing habits if I choose to allow content from their servers wh…

Except that it does work like this on a regular basis. It's not just something that sounds nice in theory. Distros and other major software vendors regularly coordinate disclosure.…

Every major linux distro has a procedure in place for discreetly preparing updates for pre-disclosure security flaws.

I haven't been involved in distro security for a few years, but all this coordination used to happen via a mailing list. Organizations (distro maintainers, OS vendors, security peo…

Agreed. I've watched in dismay as their focus has shifted over the years from "#include " mugs and t-shirts with Larry Wall quotes on them to almost exclusively TV and movie mercha…

Assuming they use the same data for story targeting that they do for ad targeting, you can see the profile they've built up around you (your account + your current browser) at http…

"If the browser doesn’t know the intermediate CA, it must look for it and download it." Is that accurate? Where is this behavior specified? RFC 2246 states "If the server is authen…