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joeyphoenon AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

But you probably have seen the standard example variable names "foo" and "bar" which (together at least) come from `fubar`

joeyphoenon Ask HN: How do I stop political SMS spam?

Similarly, I run my own email domain where all addresses go to the same inbox, so I can give all entities their own email address (e.g. hyatt@myemail.com, dmv@myemail.com). So far every single political email has come to the address that I ONLY gave the CA DMV.

joeyphoenon A practical guide to reducing loneliness

I totally hear you, although for me having a positive human interaction, even if it's just saying hey to the barista, or sharing an idle observation with a stranger while sitting in a park or at a beach somewhere, always brightens my day. It sounds so damn cliche, I know, but it's undeniable.

joeyphoenon MariaDB ColumnStore on Intel Optane SSD

ServiceNow and Alibaba. At ServiceNow, our stack was built on top of MySQL from the beginning. It works for us. We left Oracle® MySQL for MariaDB largely because MariaDB actually seems to work to improve things for its bigger customers. Also, our SVP of Engineering is now on the MariaDB board.