snockerton | 6 years ago | on: MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy
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snockerton | 7 years ago | on: Microsoft Azure data deleted because of DNS outage
It appears that the SLA guaranteed uptime for Azure SQL Database is 99.9% or 99.99%, depending on tier. That equates to the following allowable downtime per month (which I think is what they base SLA fulfillment on):
99.9: 43m 49.7s
99.99: 4m 23.0s
Sounds like they need to cough up some money for their four 9s customers...
snockerton | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)
When is such an awesome company like GitLab going to get serious about compensation and actually fix their calculator for regions outside of SF? I know firsthand that this is preventing many experienced people from even bothering to pursue opportunities there.
snockerton | 9 years ago | on: IBM has decided to co-locate its US marketing department
For affected IBMers... find a new remote gig!
snockerton | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)
Impressive lulz in this post. Do you require an outrageous sense of humor as well?
snockerton | 9 years ago | on: KeepassXC – A cross-platform community fork of KeepassX
Looks like someone was willing to spend some time on an audit of the original KeePass:
https://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/22/keepass-audit-no-critical-...
snockerton | 9 years ago | on: Anti-patterns and Malpractices in Modern Software Development (2015)
This is the same CYA attitude that I have been assuming the last 2 years because it's such a frequent occurrence.
The only issue is that I still get blamed. I don't know how many times I've repeated this scenario:
1. I highlight gap / issue in code.
2. Team says, "Need to ship; we'll accept the risk"
3. During go-live, fecal matter hits fan because of aforementioned gap in code.
4. Everyone acts surprised.
5. I point out that I mentioned it 2 months ago.
6. Everyone makes excuses / claims they don't remember it that way / moves on to burn down another project.
7. I'm left to clean up a mess / have taken a hit to my reputation.
Not sure what I'm doing wrong...
snockerton | 9 years ago | on: “A Honeypot for Assholes”: Inside Twitter’s 10-Year Failure to Stop Harassment
If drawing the line on what is and isn't harassment is subjective, perhaps they should focus on building better mechanisms for individuals to take filtering / blocking into their own hands? One could argue that Twitter has these features already, but apparently the "privileged class" (celebrities) are incapable of leveraging them?
snockerton | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: How much job hopping is acceptable?
Looking at tenure in isolation of any other context is meaningless. I've interviewed candidates with multiple 6-12 month positions on their resume that turned out to be great contributors, and other folks with 5-10 year positions that were horrible.
snockerton | 10 years ago | on: If You Think Free Money Kills Work Ethic, Your Definition of “Work” Is Horrible
Was hoping for good read on economics, found guy whining about his parents' views.
snockerton | 10 years ago | on: AWS Lambda: a few years of advancement and we are back to stored procedures
Usually Massimo's stuff is quite well thought out and practical when it comes to adopting new models in the Enterprise, but this article has a "I'm annoyed by this platform because it doesn't work how I want it to" sentiment throughout. He seems to miss a lot of the potential value that the serverless architecture model brings to the table.
It's pretty well established that Amazon's usual approach is to provide a "toolbox" of services that can used to build any number of app architecture permutations, without all the typical fluff and polish expected by large business customers. I for one, as an engineer, appreciate this model since it's much more accessible and lightweight.
snockerton | 10 years ago | on: Jenkins 2.0 Beta
I agree that the lack of an easy, declarative deployment capability is one of Jenkins' biggest flaws and doesn't get near enough attention.
snockerton | 10 years ago | on: Silicon Valley startups rein in spending and prepare for layoffs
General macroeconomic scare mongering has an upside in that perhaps some fat will be trimmed. Those with a product or service with real value should remain standing.
snockerton | 10 years ago | on: Why we moved away from GitHub
+1 for GitLab - a platform that actually feels like a hacker's tool. Not to mention they have an open source edition (CE), unlike GitHub -or- BitBucket.
snockerton | 10 years ago | on: 'Solar storm' grounds Swedish air traffic
I'm guessing the military isn't affected because they shield their equipment properly? Seems odd that this wouldn't be a standard (even for commercial) in this day and age.
snockerton | 10 years ago | on: Codex Sinaiticus: the earliest manuscript of the complete New Testament
Fascinating stuff for history buffs. There's a great subreddit for this kind of thing, /r/AcademicBiblical, that has similar gems for those interested...
snockerton | 10 years ago | on: VMware GPL Enforcement Suit in Germany Continues
I should probably know this, but can anyone explain to me why other service providers like AWS don't have to release the source code of things like their brand of Xen running EC2 hypervisors?
Does it only apply if you resell / package the source code as a deliverable product? Where is this line drawn between software downloaded as a binary vs. software delivered to you in a hosted fashion with an API or similar (i.e. SaaS)?
snockerton | 10 years ago | on: How Amazon and Jay Carney Lost the Game of PR – And How They Could Have Won
Why is this on the front page? This is Hacker News not The View.
snockerton | 10 years ago | on: Httpie: A CLI http client
I concur - I've tried to like httpie, but always end up going back to curl since its syntax is permanently ingrained in my fingers.
snockerton | 10 years ago | on: Teen says he hacked CIA director's AOL account
I wonder if the AOL disk is still sitting in his CDROM tray at home.
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My solution has been to place an Apple bluetooth keyboard -on top- of my 15" MBP keyboard and that seems to work pretty well, but wow, it shouldn't have come to this...