andrewguenther

Related: If you happened to be there at Maker Faire 2011 and have pictures of the iFixit booth, please let me know!

Maker Faire has a really special place in my heart. In 2011 I ran the iFixit booth where we not only ran phone repair workshops, but we also did a teardown of a car...live. A volunteer was kind enough to lend us his VW Golf, which he was also going to need to drive to work the following Monday. We were the last exhibitors out as it took us until around 2AM on Monday morning to get the whole thing back together and drive it out. We got two Editor's Choice awards and the Education award that year. One of the best weekends of my life.

Sadly, we never got to do anything like that again. Over the next couple years, large corporate sponsors started taking up more and more space until most of the main hall was just a bunch of ads. We were never able to get a space to do anything like that ever again. I really hope that the return of Maker Faire is also the return of makers at Maker Faire.

Yeah. It was really rough to see how Maker Faire declined as time went on. I attended from 2009-2015 and corporate sponsored space consistently grew every year. The venue never got bigger, it just pushed out...makers.

Spinlaunch is a joke. No payload is built to withstand those kinds of forces during a launch and the added weight to reinforce them to do so makes it uneconomical.

They are even offering to pay companies the extra cost to reinforce their payloads to try and get customers and they still can't get anyone to do it.

Netflix is one of AWS largest customers.

No more limits on subnet routers is huge! Amazing!!

Are you equating what the IA did here to "sharing with friends"?

Yes, this is the exact issue being described

It's real. Or at least Elon says it is. He's been talking about this for days and retweeted the thread.

That's not at all what the shared responsibility model means...You are responsible for your application's security, not of the underlying infrastructure. That's why it is shared...

Security, compliance, flexibility...

Bonus points if your link to customer care auto-populates the fields necessary to get the ticket where it needs to go and can attach relevant diagnostic information to the resulting ticket.

Super excited to see an open source implementation of this!

I built a similar service for AWS back around 2015 to do web-based pixel streaming applications. That service's legacy still lives on today in many descendants, but I was always bummed that no team was willing to invest in making it generic. Everyone who needed it either forked it or re-implemented around the original design.

Warms my heart to see something like it on the outside. It's a super powerful concept. Great work!

For NIST, yes. For FedRAMP, no.

No no no no no. This is not true. Google Workspace is FedRAMP compliant for government customers. It is NOT possible to configure Google Workspace in a FedRAMP compliant way as a regular customer. You can't even get NIST 800-171 on Google Workspace without additional tools.

So the Army uses it but if you're a government contractor you can't use it because you can't get a NIST 800-53 or CMMC compliant configuration on Workspace...

Before anyone tells me that Workspace is FedRAMP compliant: Yes, I know, but they do not expose the controls necessary for non-government users to be compliant.

Title is mostly correct. Cyberpunk 2077 currently has the highest number of concurrent players on Steam of any single player game.

Hah, I just replied to your comment as well. I appreciate that you pointed out that this isn't a problem unique to YC. At some point, people are just chasing prestige. Considering YCs rapid growth over the last few years, I'm not surprised this is happening, but given the nature of the business it could be a long time before the patterns become apparent. There are more live YC companies today than there are exited/failed ones. I worry the time it will take for issues in the process to become apparent may be too later for them.

100% agreed. I think it speaks MUCH more to the conviction of founders to apply a few times and then get in on a similar, refined idea. Then your lessons learned come off more as what you've learned about building a successful business vs how to build a business that YC will accept.

I think part of it is that the incentives have changed. A lot of people don't see Google as "I've made it" they see it as "great, I can work anywhere I want after this." I think we're starting to see that in YC as well: "I'm in the YC network now." It isn't about the business you get in with, it's that you, as a founder, are now part of the YC network and the opportunities that opens for you as an individual rather than what it means for your business.

My read of the post wasn't that they so desperately needed YC's approval to think that their business could be a success, it's that they just wanted to be in YC.

This story just really doesn't read like the triumph of will it was meant to be...

My takeaway from this is that the founders wanted to get into YC. The business doesn't matter, they just wanted to be in YC.

The business morphed around what they thought would get into YC, not what would actually make a good business. I have a ton of respect for YCombinator, but they are not all knowing oracles who get it right 100% of the time. The fact that the immediate response to each rejection was "pivot" I think speaks volumes to the founder's goals here.

I beg of you, please reconsider the SSO tax (https://sso.tax/). This is becoming a big pain point for small orgs trying to become compliant that a small change like this can be huge in decision making. If I look at Pipedream, Airplane, Temporal, and Retool none of them will even list pricing if I need SSO, I'm suddenly a 40 person company with "Enterprise" needs. If you want an easy differentiator, including SSO in your Team tier is a simple way to do that.

NAT Gateways also support bandwidth, availability, and performance properties that most customers just don't need. AWS networking services which charge by GB processed are always a cost disaster waiting to happen.

I built my own NAT AMI[1] that costs <$4/month and has zero bandwidth charges and is good enough for most people.

[1]: https://github.com/AndrewGuenther/fck-nat/

Is this feature available in Gitlab CI? I'd love to use it if it is...

Can we add a (2018) tag on this? AMP is all but dead at this point now that it doesn't get preference in search results...

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2021/04/more-detai...

AMP no longer gets preferential treatment in search results as of mid-2021, which is the primary reason most publishers implemented it. I haven't seen many AMP pages since then.

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2021/04/more-detai...

Pretty common for Google. Gmail was in beta for five years, Google Docs and Calendar I believe were also in beta for similar lengths of time.

https://patents.google.com is great for this

That's true. You could still do IAM role authentication via web identity which would be much safer than a user and could still be automated.

At a minimum, you should include enabling MFA for the IAM user. Generally, I'd suggest against using IAM users entirely. Ideally you would use an IAM Role via federation or SSO. For my personal accounts I use AWS SSO even though I'm just one person since it enables me to do all my work through role-based authentication and is still protected by MFA on top.