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SoMuchToGrok··on Short-Lived Certificates at Netflix
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

SoMuchToGrok··on Chicago-based RXBar sells to Kellogg for $600M
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.

SoMuchToGrok··on North American Object Storage Service Impact
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.

SoMuchToGrok··on DevOps is a culture, not a role
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.

SoMuchToGrok··on Apple Surveying MacBook Pro Users About Headphone Jack and Other Ports
USB is asynchronous - need to introduce timing logic. Optical is by most marks, a cleaner interface.
SoMuchToGrok··on Ask HN: How would you improve GitHub?
Related: My favorite user style.

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

SoMuchToGrok··on When You Dial 911 and Wall Street Answers
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.

SoMuchToGrok··on Show HN: Let's encourage ad blocking
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.

SoMuchToGrok··on Amazon Echo Dot
Check this out: http://jasperproject.github.io/
SoMuchToGrok··on Show HN: Sensible Bash: An attempt at saner Bash defaults
Minus it being bash-compliant. Deal breaker for most.
SoMuchToGrok··on A Message to Our Customers
Open source software can be trusted as much as we can trust ourselves - and that's as good as trust gets. I'll take that any day over trusting one party with a vested interest in making money.
SoMuchToGrok··on A Message to Our Customers
Like you, I appreciate the sentiment - happy to hear Apple speaking up. However this shouldn't change how we use Apple products. I operate under the implication that the device is compromised from the factory. Closed source software cannot be trusted, good faith is not enough.
SoMuchToGrok··on No more 300ms tap delay: touch-action now supported in all major mobile browsers
Apparently Chrome + default android browser = all major mobile browsers.

No Firefox or Safari support yet.

SoMuchToGrok··on Signal for Android: RedPhone and TextSecure in one app
Seems like it would be a natural fit for Firefox over Chrome, but I understand the market share is larger with the latter.
SoMuchToGrok··on The Cost of Mobile Ads on News Websites
Android Firefox + uBlock, no root required.
SoMuchToGrok··on We're heading for AOL 2.0
I'm not certain if forcing businesses to comply with custom-tailored laws is more ethical than businesses forcing customers to comply with restrictions. Neither of these outcomes is an ideal solution.

Getting lawmakers involved is a very poor move, and only opens the door for more foul-play and market manipulation. At this point in time, why are we not content with no solution to this problem? Things take time to resolve - and we certainly don't need to be jumping the gun by getting lawmakers involved.

SoMuchToGrok··on Tesla’s Model S Gets “Ludicrous” Mode, Will Do 0-60 in 2.8 Seconds
Quick ≠ Fast

(Acceleration vs top speed, agility, etc...)

SoMuchToGrok··on Microsoft Now OpenBSD Foundation Gold Contributor
FYI - Gold contributor means the donation was somewhere in the range of $25,000 to $50,000.
SoMuchToGrok··on Why do you not make the code available under a 'source code repository'?
Mailgun + Cloudflare + Gmail
SoMuchToGrok··on FBI: Companies should help us ‘prevent encryption above all else’
And how many of those revolutions were against the homeland of a group that spends nearly $700 billion a year on defense? These are completely different circumstances.
SoMuchToGrok··on A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2015
How are my systems affected?

RHEL - https://access.redhat.com/articles/15145

Ubuntu - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1020285

Windows - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/909614

AWS - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/look-before-you-leap-the-co...

Google Cloud - http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/Got-a-sec...

SoMuchToGrok··on Valve Announces Source 2, and It’ll Be Free
I agree that 5% to the engine developer is a wonderful deal - however, having a working game engine in no way means 90% of the work is done. That's when the really difficult work begins.

Video games need to trigger an emotional response in order to be successful. From visual design, to audio design, game rules/logic, controls, testing, marketing...this list goes on. It's far more than raw tech resources; psychology is a huge factor in game development.

SoMuchToGrok··on In major goof, Uber stored sensitive database key on public GitHub page
Uber needs to accept responsibility and live with their mistake.

"Intruders"? Uber gave their permission when they uploaded the key to a public service (...a key to a publicly accessible database, nonetheless). Doesn't matter if it was accidental...Uber doesn't have the right to inconvenience another company (GitHub) with a subpoena because of their own mistake.

SoMuchToGrok··on Debian: Transition plan to systemd by default
Personally, I'm excited for the change. Waiting any longer to adopt systemd could have had serious repercussions on the entire community (across distros). Big players are already using it; RHEL7 and CoreOS. It's time for a paradigm shift with our approach on managing infrastructure.

Both the sysvinit and systemd crowds have brought up great points - issues that needed to be addressed. The strong willed nature of the *nix communities is what makes them great. Strength in numbers. "Fighting" is a natural process; whether it's a team or a family.

Incredibly excited to see what kind of impact this has on computing as a whole. Time to learn something new.