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Re:Short-Lived Certificates at Netflix on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @09:01PM (#15546519)
Somewhat related: Vault has a PKI backend that can help facilitate this. You'll need to create some tooling around it, but we've had great success rolling it out at my company.

https://vaultproject.io

Re:Chicago-based RXBar sells to Kellogg for $600M on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @09:29AM (#15498938)
Did you buy them off Amazon? I find that RXBars from Amazon have typically been sitting in a warehouse for many months at a time and are often stale.

Every bar I've bought in-person at a traditional grocery store has been significantly fresher and has a much nicer consistency.

Re:North American Object Storage Service Impact on Sunday August 06, 2017 @01:03PM (#14942133)
Not surprised to see this, I've run into many issues with Meraki devices over the past 2+ years.

Their support team is amateur at best; at one point I had 6 Meraki engineers working on a DHCP problem (yeah...DHCP) and their recommendation after several weeks of troubleshooting - do a factory reset.

I have dozens of stories...don't even get me started.

Re:DevOps is a culture, not a role on Thursday May 25, 2017 @11:58AM (#14418099)
This train of thought can be dangerous - especially once your business grows to support more than a handful of customers.

Can you name a profitable organization that has successfully eliminated ops/devops? I've yet to find any example of this.

At a certain level of scale, silos can be a very beneficial thing.

USB is asynchronous - need to introduce timing logic. Optical is by most marks, a cleaner interface.
Re:Ask HN: How would you improve GitHub? on Monday June 27, 2016 @05:03PM (#11989463)
Related: My favorite user style.

https://userstyles.org/styles/37035/github-dark

Re:When You Dial 911 and Wall Street Answers on Sunday June 26, 2016 @10:17AM (#11980877)
I have a related experience to share.

Two weeks ago I called 911 after hearing a loud car crash within a few blocks of my apartment. Took out my phone, placed the call, and listened to music for ~6 minutes before I was able to talk to someone. Once the 911 dispatcher took all of the information I had, the call was transferred (another ~3 minute wait). The original dispatcher introduced herself to my local dispatcher as "911 north".

FWIW, this is a city in the top 30 by population.

Re:Show HN: Let's encourage ad blocking on Friday March 04, 2016 @07:20AM (#11223275)
People block ads because they can. It's that simple. Morals and philosophy have little room when all it takes is a few mouse clicks to disable virtually all ads. The barrier of entry (or de-entry, if you will) is incredibly low.

> Ads support the entrance of new products into the market.

It's going to be difficult for this trend to stop until there are some technical hurdles built. Until then, I think it's unrealistic to say we should subject ourselves to ads because "historically the market has worked that way". It may have worked that way in the past, but times are changing.

Re:Amazon Echo Dot on Thursday March 03, 2016 @12:13PM (#11218244)

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