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Re:Launching Route 53 Files on Thursday August 27, 2026 @12:15PM (#49467213)
I left 18 months ago, so my memory is a bit fuzzy, but there was at least an overall style guide, one for each post type (e.g. a launch announcement), and the style for procedures (inherited from AWS Docs).
Re:Launching Route 53 Files on Thursday August 27, 2026 @11:58AM (#49466939)
Speaking as a former Blog Bar Raiser, cperciva has internalized the AWS blog style guide better than most Amazonians. This is spot-on.
A single paragraph in Taylor v. Taintor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_v._Taintor
Re:An IBM computer learned to sing in 1961 on Friday May 12, 2023 @11:30AM (#35917610)
Re:How to Download All of Wikipedia onto a USB Flash Drive on Thursday October 06, 2022 @09:24PM (#33116359)
Was it AvantGo?
Re:What I learned at work this year on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @12:45PM (#18808174)
I think his vision of smartphones has held up well. From page 74 of my hardcover copy of The Road Ahead:

What do you carry on your person now? Probably at least keys, identification, money, and a watch. Quite possibly you also carry credit cards, a checkbook, traveler's checks, an address book, an appointment book, a notepad, reading material, a camera, a pocket tape recorder, a cellular phone, a pager, concert tickets, a map, a compass, a calculator, an electronic entry card, photographs, and perhaps a loud whistle to summon help.

You'll be able to keep all these and more in another information appliance we call the wallet PC.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A2o-6_WCYAAaNw5.jpg:large

Re:Hacker News equivalent for other fields on Friday January 12, 2018 @12:54PM (#16134789)
https://www.pprune.org/ Professional Pilots Rumour Network

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trending.php FlyerTalk

Re:SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @12:26PM (#14745471)
Or temporarily from medication, particularly those used to treat erectile dysfunction and benign prostatic hyperplasia [1][2].

[1] https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/av...

[2] https://www.leftseat.com/viagra.htm

I started with a manually-packaged Python function and credstash [1] to store credentials for non-AWS services. It gets invoked nightly by CloudWatch and has been bulletproof for months. I recently built a microservice [2] for Election Day with Flask and deployed it behind API Gateway with Zappa [3]. Lambda isn't for every use case, but for those it is, I'm bullish.

[1] https://github.com/fugue/credstash

[2] https://topics.arlingtonva.us/2016/11/voter-registration-sea...

[3] https://www.zappa.io/

Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @08:53PM (#12449369)
mailcheck [1] is great for this, especially when supplemented with your users' most popular email domains.

[1] https://github.com/mailcheck/mailcheck

Re:Amazon CloudFront now supports HTTP/2 on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @08:49PM (#12449347)
I just enabled it and received an HTTP/2.0 response without invalidating.
Re:AWS Application Load Balancer on Thursday August 11, 2016 @11:50AM (#12269214)
They do, but it doesn't work if the ELB is in a VPC.
Re:Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @02:48PM (#11996389)
SQLite
Re:Microsoft Flow on Saturday April 30, 2016 @01:41PM (#11602623)
It's not mentioned on the landing page, but Flow integrates with PowerApps [1]. The PowerApps console shows Flows [2], and PowerApps can trigger Flows [3].

[1] https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/

[2] http://i.imgur.com/dKxw9Tz.png

[3] http://i.imgur.com/UjJ7Bcg.png

The NSA has their own fab at Ft. Meade [1] and pays IBM to run one in Vermont [2].

[1] http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/print/volume-9/iss...

[2] http://www.manufacturingnews.com/news/04/0203/art1.html

Re:Show HN: Turn GitHub Usernames into Emails on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @02:07PM (#11291703)
Install Flanker [1] and you can do it locally. Just make sure your ISP/firewall allows outgoing SMTP connections on port 25, and ideally have Redis running for caching [2].

[1] https://github.com/mailgun/flanker/

[2] https://github.com/mailgun/flanker/blob/master/docs/User%20M...

Re:NYC Fire Department Forcible Entry Manual (2006) [pdf] on Thursday February 04, 2016 @10:27AM (#11034501)
I enjoy reading http://www.vententersearch.com/ for this sort of stuff.
Re:Moving the Washington Post to HTTPS on Thursday December 10, 2015 @04:55PM (#10713784)
Google Contributor [1] is basically that.

[1] https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/

Re:When America Dreamed of a Nuclear-Powered Cargo Fleet on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @06:11PM (#10666582)
Savannah is currently docked in Baltimore [1] and usually open to the public on National Maritime Day in May and Labor Day [2].

[1] http://imgur.com/TMXfrKU

[2] http://www.ns-savannah.org/

Re:Cutting a Klein Bottle in Half [video] on Thursday November 12, 2015 @10:50PM (#10557911)
I highly recommend ordering one. The checkout process, packaging, and invoice are almost as good as the bottle itself.
Re:Coliving: Dorms for Grownups on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @12:54AM (#10537827)
The Housing for Older Persons Act of 1995 http://www.manufacturedhousing.org/publications/default.asp?...
Re:Introducing U.S. Web Design Standards on Monday September 28, 2015 @10:48PM (#10294448)
If you're curious, Forest Service signs are specified by Sign and Poster Guidelines Engineering Manual EM7100-15 [1].

[1] http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprd3810021...

S3 and VPC themselves appear to be fine, as noted on the dashboard, but the S3 VPC endpoints in EC2 are not ("we are also experiencing increased error rates accessing VPC endpoints for S3"). I was able to restore my sites by removing the endpoints from the routing tables.
Re:Clarification on “Call Me Maybe: MariaDB Galera Cluster” on Friday September 18, 2015 @09:52AM (#10239172)
I really like jerf's take on it [1]:

    How a project performs today tells you the zeroth derivative of its location.
    Looking at the commit log tells you about the first derivative. How people react
    to Call Me Maybe when its about their product gives you a lot of information
    about the second derivative.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10082099

Edit: username

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