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ej_campbell··on We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub
It's odd personifying Strix as the thing that found these when it's whatever model they use doing the hard work.

Nobody says Claude Code hacked a company, it's Fable.

ej_campbell··on We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub
What distinguishes their response from non-generational companies? Do others fail to rotate their exposed github secrets that have admin access?
ej_campbell··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
Background on the service: https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/reliability-and-cons...
ej_campbell··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
And all your dependencies are co-located.
ej_campbell··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
Aren't you deployed in multiple regions?
ej_campbell··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
Totally ridiculous that AWS wouldn't by default make it multi-region and warn you heavily that your multi-region service is tied to a single region for identity.

The usability of AWS is so poor.

ej_campbell··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
That wouldn't have even caught that, most likely unless they verified they had no incidental tie ins with us-east-1.
ej_campbell··on IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)
32 years ago was 1993. Those IDE's were from the 80's.
ej_campbell··on Stuff You Can't Say in Silicon Valley
The cherry picking of this article is extreme. A company chooses to not employ someone based on a multiple page essay and this article takes a sentence and tries to make it look ridiculous.
ej_campbell··on If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” with a symbol
> When designing anything, if you think that you are doing someone a favor by doing work ahead of time please stop.

And you think that is the right call for the majority of people?

ej_campbell··on If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” with a symbol
Seriously? Typing on glass without auto-correct is painful. Do you really think it was a bad idea for designers to design that feature?
ej_campbell··on If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” with a symbol
Huh? He said he wrote a comment on HN using his iphone.
ej_campbell··on Amazon now has a billion-dollar ad business
I think insight is that these Billions encompass more than their "product listing ads" type business.
ej_campbell··on Houston’s Mayor Was Right to Not Evacuate
Enormous compared to what? We spend 3.2 trillion a year on Medicare, which is 9.9K a person [1]. Imagine if just 1K per person per year (300B) was spent on infrastructure every year to make mass evacuations over a few days possible. Imagine how great normal day to day travel would be once that is in place, city by city.

[1] https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/sta...

ej_campbell··on Houston’s Mayor Was Right to Not Evacuate
Why is that an okay situation to be in? Given things floods, dirty bombs, etc. have a non-zero chance of happening, shouldn't cities, states and countries have the infrastructure to perform mass-evacuations if necessary?
ej_campbell··on Docker vs. Kubernetes vs. Mesos
The Kubernetes folks talk about the differences here and how you could build Mesos apps in K8s: https://github.com/davidopp/kubernetes/blob/87f2590f373306ea...

The limitation of only being able to run Containers I think will be fleeting — as docker and alternatives mature, it really won't make sense to ever use anything else when trying to get the scale that Kubernetes and Mesos is going for by abstracting out the underlying hardware and providing a framework to run sophisticated apps on undifferentiated hardware.

ej_campbell··on California solar power output sometimes exceeds predictions
The headline on the LA Times is spot on. Could that be used instead?

California invested heavily in solar power. Now there's so much that other states are sometimes paid to take it

ej_campbell··on HipChat security notice
One of these: http://sources.hipchat.com/
ej_campbell··on CockroachDB beta-20161013
It'd only be a DOS vector, if the rest of the db bogged down during this type of contention.
ej_campbell··on Google AMP Is Not a Good Thing
Publisher's see AMP traffic since they are in control of ads and analytics used in amp page.
ej_campbell··on Google AMP Is Not a Good Thing
Trackers work in amp too.
ej_campbell··on A Silicon Valley down payment could buy you an entire house in much of the U.S
The folks that are renting don't have that tax advantage.
ej_campbell··on Charts That Scare Wall Street
Another Scary chart: http://dangerousminds.net/comments/spurious_correlations_bet...
ej_campbell··on Next.js – A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps
If you prefetch the HTML of the page, the browser will have it in its local cache, so clicking the link will be instantaneous (304 Not Modified).

Regarding the back button, you can see the mis-behavior here: 1) Go here: https://zeit.co/blog 2) Scroll all the way down to the bottom 3) Click a link 4) Click back

Expected: Page returns to exactly were you left off Actual: You are scrolled to a random blog post

My overarching question is why any type of SPA is needed for a site like zeit.co?

ej_campbell··on Next.js – A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps
I don't understand why you need any client side framework. Couldn't this all be accomplish server side with the HTML pre-fetched on the client if needed for performance? There isn't anything dynamic about the website so it could run with zero javascript and then things like the back button after scrolling through the blog would work.

Why try to outsmart the browser?

ej_campbell··on Google and Box Announce Partnership
Why not just Google Drive (instead of Box)?
ej_campbell··on Fork() without exec() is dangerous in large programs
Only if your app is multi-threaded. Unfortunately, many apps are multi-threaded "under the covers" due to libraries that spawn threads, so you need to be careful.

This post does the best job explaining the issue: http://www.linuxprogrammingblog.com/threads-and-fork-think-t...

ej_campbell··on Binary Ninja – A new kind of reversing platform
> non-commercial version lacks "High-Performance Multi-Threading"

At least until someone uses the tool to remove these limitations from Binary Ninja itself.

ej_campbell··on Amazon Posts Another Blockbuster Profit
Oversubscribed means there's a chance you won't receive the rated speed. Just because tonight's results were good, doesn't guarantee you'll always achieve that.
ej_campbell··on Airfordable (YC S16) is layaway for plane tickets
It seems like you're gauging your customers. Assuming you book 3 months out, that's a 40% interest rate (or so). It's quite sad the most vulnerable would be stuck paying that instead of a credit card loan for 3 months.
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