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Can you provide a link or reference to this path? I can't find much with basic searches and have given up several times on the gpg-connect-agent path while using Windows or Ubuntu. The path on Mac seems okay but on other platforms is way too difficult.

The false Seelbach Cocktail story is repeated here:

> Max “Scoopie” Allen was making an Old Fashioned in the Seelbach Hotel Rathskeller in 1917. Whether someone bumped him or was walking by with an open bottle, somehow champagne splashed into his mixing glass.

NYTimes wrote about this created history:

> Shortly after being put in charge of the hotel’s bar and restaurant operations in 1995, Mr. Seger declared that he had discovered a recipe for a pre-Prohibition cocktail that was once the hotel’s signature drink.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/02/dining/seelbach-cocktail-...

For the many of us who have built businesses dependent on S3, is anyone else surprised at a few assumptions embedded here?

* "authorized S3 team member" -- how did this team member acquire these elevated privs?

* Running playbooks is done by one member without a second set of eyes or approval?

* "we have not completely restarted the index subsystem or the placement subsystem in our larger regions for many years"

The good news:

* "The S3 team had planned further partitioning of the index subsystem later this year. We are reprioritizing that work to begin immediately."

The truly embarrassing that everyone has known about for years is the status page:

* "we were unable to update the individual services’ status on the AWS Service Health Dashboard "

When there is a wildly-popular Chrome plugin to fix your page ("Real AWS Status") you would think a company as responsive as AWS would have fixed this years ago.

They were PRs that required approval and merge from the Github project maintainers. Here is a search to see some of their work:

https://github.com/search?q=%22Upgrade+Apache+Commons+Collec...

Exactly. The 0366D6 against the hover background of f6f8fa provides a 5:1 contrast versus the old 2:1 contrast.

http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

Precisely right. It will be fascinating to see if Lightsail creation can be automated via Terraform or Cloudformation, and the $0.09 per GB for outgoing bandwidth can be easily subverted with this new pricing structure.

Changes made by large companies that relied 100% on DYN:

* us-east-1.amazonaws.com: split between internal, UltraDNS, DYN

* spotify.com: all internal nameservers now

* reddit.com: all Route53 now

* github.com: all Route53 now

* netflix.com: all Route53 now

* paypal.com: split between UltraDNS and DYN

No changes made:

* twitter.com: 100% with DYN

Short version: banker provides liquidity to the markets and buys up junk bonds from panicked sellers at 40 cents on the dollar. Banker then sells the bonds for more money as the panic dissipates. Some people wonder if important banks like GS should still be making volatile bets like this.

The most important question: how do I find an apartment to rent in Stockholm city center without Swedish connections and without spending more than 1/3 net pay?

So if they sold at their true price via the Google-style reverse auction, they would have $9 * 10 million more to use for business growth. Instead lots of hedge funds and high net-worth individuals that are big clients of GS and JPM made an easy $100k this morning.

A few tips from setting up SPF/DMARC/DKIM for a SAAS service:

* SPF: limit your record and all includes to 10 DNS lookups (e.g., "A MX include:_spf.google.com" is 3 DNS lookups plus all of the lookups inside the include.

* DMARC: to see a strict reject policy, check out Yahoo:

  $ dig +short -t txt _dmarc.yahoo.com
  "v=DMARC1\; p=reject\; pct=100\; rua=mailto:dmarc_y_rua@yahoo.com\;"

* Mail forwarding: if your app sends mail as the logged-in user, make sure the user's actual email address is not in the FROM address as Yahoo does not authorize you to send FROM: xxxx@yahoo.com

* DMARC emails: use dmarcian.com to parse and process the auto-generated emails

* SPF: use the ~all for your first day of testing and then lock it down to -all after testing is complete

* DKIM: OpenDkim appears to be the most widely supported Linux software package.

* DKIM keys: setup a TXT entry you control and ask client to CNAME it. Then setup key rotation.

If elite status results in a free upgrade on 20% of your flight segments, and you fly 50 segments per year: 10 upgrades to business class > $560

July 2009: Ballmer told the crowd, "I don't know if they can't make up their mind or what the problem is over there, but the last time I checked, you don't need two client operating systems. It's good to have one."

May 2010: Om Malik "Android Has Won — Time for Chrome OS to Move Along?"

> ... if you want to fund anything, you have to describe it as a weapon.

In 1955, the NY Times led with "United States has Secret Sonic Weapon-Jazz"

  http://thereisjazzbeforetrane.blogspot.com/2009/08/us-has-sonic-secret-weapon-jazz-nytimes.html

Why did they fund jazz like they funded abstract expressionism? Jazz was the ultimate display of democracy and integration, improvisation and the exchange of ideas.

riofs (https://github.com/skoobe/riofs) seems much faster than s3fs and deserves a spot in any benchmarks.

I went down a similar road with etcd and fleet but abandoned it earlier this summer after testing failure scenarios with etcd. With a cluster of 5 etcd nodes in EC2, I started hard-killing etcd EC2 instances and noticed fleet inconsistency (e.g., nodes being restarted, not able to see the entire fleet).

Can you expand on the etcd growth pains you've been through?

AWS Aurora seems to go at the problem differently. They spread the disk out over three AZs in 10GB chunks. So if the instance powering the Aurora db engine crashes, a new one spins up quickly and begins pulling from the same disks.

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/faqs/

Rent-stabilization is a flawed, lottery-based system that helps out a select few while sometimes having the unintended effect of helping out the wealthy:

  http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140430/new-york-city/rent-stabilized-apartments-are-being-occupied-by-millionaires-records-show

A more equitable system would involve direct tax credits to all in need instead of relying on an antiquated system that helps out a few lucky enough to win the rent lottery.

So 5mbps is 625KBps or 0.000000625 TB per second.

50 TB / 0.000000625 TBps = 80000000 seconds = 925.92 days

AWS Import can probably import at 100MBps or ~6 days.

From 2014-11:

“Networking is a red alert situation for us right now,” explained Hamilton. “The cost of networking is escalating relative to the cost of all other equipment. It is Anti-Moore. All of our gear is going down in cost, and we are dropping prices, and networking is going the wrong way. That is a super-big problem, and I like to look out a few years, and I am seeing that the size of the networking problem is getting worse constantly. At the same time that networking is going Anti-Moore, the ratio of networking to compute is going up.”

http://www.enterprisetech.com/2014/11/14/rare-peek-massive-s...

Lowlight: Windows OEM rev down 22% year over year

Highlight: cloud rev (Office 365 + Azure) up 88% year over year

Sakai continues to put out releases on a fairly orderly schedule, but it's lost several of the core, founding institutions as their IT departments move away from customized FOSS software hosted in local datacenters to SAAS software hosted by commercial providers.

For example: Indiana University was a core member of the Sakai Foundation that was rumored to have a $1mm+ budget devoted to heavily customizing Sakai for IU purposes and for running the software. IU seems to have moved away from the customized open-source approach to a consortial "buying club" approach to try to have influence in the commercial, higher-ed market. 10+ higher-ed institutions (many of them public institutions) have put $1mm each in a pot to try to better control their software destiny:

http://mfeldstein.com/unizin-indiana-universitys-secret-new-...

Isn't Canvas a classic case study of the Andreessen bundling/unbundling theory?

Canvas dominated the higher-ed market with a single, lean, focused, simple product. They unbundled the sprawling, unfocused Blackboard suite. Now Canvas is in the next phase: re-bundling.

  1/The flip side of unbundling: Later on, the unbundlers tend to try to rebundle in the image of whatever they unbundled.

  2/So Yahoo adds an ISP and Google adds email/IM/sports-scores/stock-quotes.

https://hbr.org/2014/06/how-to-succeed-in-business-by-bundli...

https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/481554165454209027