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I think this is why AWS promotes DynamoDB so much, because it's one of the few datastores that work sanely with non-VPC lambdas.

I wonder why all the predominant RDBMSes are heavyweight connection based, and why this is presumably so hard to change. There's nothing in SQL that requires this to be the case, a…

I had to do similar a month ago, around $20k as well. It was from my account at BofA to an account at a different bank. I did it all online, and it cost $10 and cleared the next da…

As a sibling comment has mentioned, there are high-skills immigration paths in the US, they just aren't very well known, and have a very high bar to clear. It's not great, but it d…

People keep saying that Node is async native, but the GC is global and synchronous, and that property will bite you on availability even at moderate traffic, i.e. sooner than you'd…

> I feel that if you make the best choice you can given the information you have, you've nothing to regret. You did miss something. Trying to be a gymnast wasn't her choice, her mo…

Modern AWS instance types are EBS-only.

This is an informative and well written article, but seems incomplete in this day and age. In public cloud environments, network attached storage is far more prevalent, so the swap…

If you're in AWS land you can use Kinesis firehose to S3, which is perfect for Spark. Way more straightforward than any Kafka solution.

At small scale just go with Kinesis. The base semantics are pretty much the same between the two, and Kafka is terribly complex to run. The hosted Kafka solutions are too expensive…

My point about Tejon Pass is that it's a steep grade mountain pass with heavy traffic including lots of trucks. There's no equivalent in PA. Highway trucking will be the first sign…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Davis_(Pennsylvania) - 3,213 ft - highest point in PA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tejon_Pass - 4,160 ft Tejon Pass is on I-5 in northern LA Co…

> they aren't biased by the immaculate freeways and roads in California -- Pittsburgh has a much wider variety of challenging driving situations, weather, and conditions than Calif…

The Democrats adopted Romneycare with some tweaks as a compromise effort. They view it as a starting point, not the end goal. Any attempts to move beyond that starting point were o…

I'm specifically not making a value judgment on the approaches of the two parties. Health care is a complicated topic, and there are many approaches of with pros and cons to each. …

People who can't distinguish between the meaningful impact of the differences between the two parties approach to health care are not paying attention or willfully ignorant. Bringi…

The differences between Python and Haskell only affect programmers and people who employ programmers. The difference between the two parties approach to health care affects everybo…

I completely agree. I was just pointing out to the poster I was replying to that with regards to one of the most important economic issues the US currently faces, there are meaning…

Health care is squarely an economic/business issue that affects nearly everybody, and there are clear, meaningful differences between the two parties here.

I 100% agree: people are different and have a continuum of preferences. However, a frequently brought up point is that remote really only works well if the organization is "remote …

Except you won't be able to do that in Denmark anymore per the article that this thread is about. And there's a number of other places in the world where Uber does not have coverag…

> Ditch the defaults and Reddit's median skyrockets. Ditch some of the more popular non-defaults, it skyrockets some more. Start building a list of well-moderated subreddits with a…

A bit of contrary anecdata: I'm throwing a party on Sunday. I don't throw parties very often. The last time I did was a little over a year ago. I created a Facebook event for parti…

These escrow services would be centralized targets too just like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc.

People do lose their physical keys though. And in pretty much all cases, there is a recovery mechanism to get at whatever the physical keys are protecting. This may involve drillin…