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Linkedin is only useful because of the network effects of having a lot of people on it. Most of the complaints about linkedin are about the people on it (and the tendency of some to use it as a platform for self promotion) Any platform looking to replace linkedin would have the same issues.

Not the case; I work at a bank and we have widescale adoption of Kubernetes and cloud products (in fact most of the major banks do at this point)

If you happen to be looking for a DevOps or SRE role, check a large banks job boards, you'll be surprised how many open roles are available.

This sounds awful. if you have a person sharing the same space you live in but turns out to be messy and abhorrent, you'll barely ever get a chance to talk it out with them. Also there seems to be an assumption that both of you work long enough hours that you never bump into each other. Hardly a well thought out plan.

I wrote a set of internal use systems using Lambda and API Gateway. I'm in two minds about it; its handy but at the moment I dont think its mature enough for a critical live system.

I'd like better ways to collect execution data for debugging and more visibility all round. With those it would definitely be a contender.

Is it really a good idea to name your open source module after a trademarked name ? Xeon is the brand name for Intel's line of server and workstation processors and they dont strike me as the kind of firm that would take co-opting of a brand name lightly.

This is a non-story. A number of firms make the same kind of product. The one thats linked isnt even the same brand as the one in the video.

This is for user submitted content; not items put up for sale by a developer.

From the linked document

In the event you are a developer who submits User Content to Oculus, you acknowledge and agree that our agreements with you as a developer may supersede this section of the Terms.

Benchmark from Intel i7 desktop

  CPU                 : 8 CPU GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)   i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz 3910MHz
  L2 Cache            : 8192 KB
  OS                  : Linux 3.16.0-55-generic
  C compiler          : gcc version 4.8.4 (Ubuntu 4.8.4-  2ubuntu1~14.04.1)
  libc                : libc-2.19.so
  MEMORY INDEX        : 58.235
  INTEGER INDEX       : 52.421
  FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 79.472
  Baseline (LINUX)    : AMD K6/233*, 512 KB L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, libc-5.4.38

If youre on a tight budget and IO is your main bottleneck it may be easier to purchase a number of decent spec desktop PC's with multiple SSD's in them. SSD's have really come down in price while performance and capacity have improved greatly. Same goes for RAM. (Assumption here is that time is less of a concern than cost at the moment and youre not averse to doing some devops work. Also assuming that the processing youre talking about is some sort of batch processing and not realtime) This way you can try a number of different strategies without blowing the bank on AWS instances (and worst case you have a spare workstation)

How is this different from say mounting s3 as a volume with fuse ?

No support for EMV at the moment on this either. They actually recommend carrying the EMV cards as well which sort of negates the point of having this.

8000 seems like an awfully high number for whats effectively an e-commerce website. Be nice to know some more details of whats happening behind the scenes.

I think the site may have been hosted on an 8-bit homemade computer :)

The really interesting bit for me is that theres a plugin module with a FPGA that can be programmed by the end user.

Which means simple apps wont even have their traffic leave the switch. I can think of a ton of uses for that, especially from a security perspective.

TV shows may have the same intro sequence, but the overlaid credits are always a bit different.

Hence any compression applied will always produce different results between episodes of a show. This would make any de-duplication extremely difficult.

As with Uber & AirBnb this seems to be trend of moving the people providing the actual service from employees to independent contractors. Its a situation where both the consumer and the contractors are less protected and taken care of.

I find this a step backwards; but it remains to be seen if this is just a harbinger of change or just a passing fad.

That's a terrible name. The man committed genocide and numerous other crimes against humanity. Using that legacy to try and get a laugh is horrible.

The parent post is a joke, the article metions the collectors last name is Freitas aged 62

If Amazons international experience is anything to go by this will pose a serious threat to local retailers.

Here in the UK Amazon offers prime with unlimited next day, which has led to sharp cuts at high street retailers. Its not quite same day but its simplicity and low friction means its mostly simpler to just order through Amazon than to walk down to the local store.

According to Geekbench the current CPU in the iPad Air (the A7) scores about the same as a Core 2 Duo from 2006 (the E6600). Nothing to sneeze at and definitely getting close to the low power Haswell CPU's in systems like the Macbook Air. But I reckon it'll be a few generations of A series CPU's before they reach the point where they can challenge Intel for the crown

Its a dev board; not really something you'd use in production. Its a small run of reference hardware for devs to get started on; by the time its ready for release OEM's will have much more affordable kit for end users to buy.

With a lot of people out there looking for jobs it pays to be vigilant when dealing with agents you've never met before.

The article provides a brief rundown of how the scam works.

A WAF is like insurance, most of the time you wont need it, but its good to have when the s*it hits the fan.

While you can rely on your app to have its own security, it never hurts to have extra (unless latency is a concern).

I'd start with an open source version and move up to a commercial product if its necessary.

After reading the article it really seems like the quote was taken out of context. As it stands its incredibly vague, the person quoted could be talking about anything. Without more specifics and some context I'd call this a simple attempt to grab attention by the author.

Now I feel old; last time i looked inside an iron all I found was a thermocouple, a cheap bulb and the heating element;)

There is a possibility that this is an attempt to build up a media cover and public support for rolling out some sort of state sponsored "security" system for Russian citizens akin to the Great Firewall of China.

Are SoC's getting so cheap that this kind of scatter shot approach is cost effective ?

In all honesty I believe this is a fabricated story. Mainly 1) its not cheap 2) Irons are hot and can have water in them for steam. Not ideal for electronics 3) Irons aren't in use all day. Hardly a great attack vector, a mobile phone charger would be much better

Would have been simpler to say they wont take any international candidates

The biggest problem was they were introducing new servers with similar or better specs than servers existing customers had. And instead of dropping existing customers prices, they kept them static. So a lot of people found themselves looking at a bill 600% higher for the same server just because they were an existing customer. Who in their right mind would pay 6x times more for the same service ?

They could stop the customer churn by simply changing the price to match the new offerings.

At the time I switched to a new server type I even asked their customer team if the new pricing would be offered to existing customers and the answer was a flat no.

Speaking as an enterprise customer on long upgrade cycles, RIM/Blackberry badly judged the situation vis a vis their enterprise customer base.

The new Z10 was not compatible with their large install base of Blackberry Enterprise Server. Anyone still running BES at the time the Z10 was introduced was likely to be a shop interested in security and control of the mobile platform their end users were using.

Which is why businesses like my employer and many others kept buying BB OS7 devices (did you notice they didnt break numbers out and actually mentioned BBOS7 as a significant portion during their investor call ?)

TL;DR: They thought all their enterprise customers would upgrade fast, they guessed wrong.