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mbailey

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mbailey··on AWS CodeBuild – Build and test code with continuous scaling
> 2. We need be able to access resources inside a VPC.

From my initial testing, this looks like an annoying "no". There doesn't appear to be any way to set the VPC or security group in which the build executes, only an IAM role.

(which already makes it a non-starter for my use case with a private npm-enterprise server)

mbailey··on Unison: a next-generation programming platform
Had this same thought, there's a lot of things named unison, including some really popular ones.
mbailey··on Poll: Which 8-bit computer got you into programming
Ah, I miss my TI-99

> YOU SMELL A WUMPUS!

mbailey··on Ballast: A tool for balancing user load across SSH servers
Was actually looking at this a few days ago for a cluster of bastion nodes to secured infrastructure. Ts a pretty interesting tool.
mbailey··on Mt. Gox Resigns Bitcoin Foundation Board Seat
I would suggest not "storing" any coins in any exchange. Isn't it kinda missing the point of cryptocurrency if you're just trading your FDIC bank with one you probably should trust even less?
mbailey··on Buying a laptop, check if it has nVidia Optimus, its purpose is infuriate you
Optimus effectively thwarted my genuine desire for going back to a Linux workstation at work. Traded it in for a Mac after three weeks. Oh well, I'd rather get work done than dick around with X I guess.
mbailey··on Use a VPN or Your Google Searches Are Public
OH WOW HTTP_REFERRER? This is adspam, company is selling VPNs.

Did you know your IP is showing?!

mbailey··on Dots - Modularize your dotfiles
is this just a wrapper around "ln -s dir/.* ~/" ?
mbailey··on So long, Retina
Sucks, but I think it's a good idea to wait a generation for stuff like this; even if it's apple. I got a big IPS LCD from Sony back when they were a new thing. I thought $1500 was well worth it for 1920x1200 in 24". I still use it but it has a similar burn in issue.

Display tech is a shady game, figuring out the actual panel mfg is hard, and years of custom modelines have taught me to avoid being an early adopter on displays. Retina is "teh futar" though, and I welcome it once it's been refined; we've needed higher dpi in large displays and software that can handle dynamic dpi well for a long time.

mbailey··on AdBlock, NoScript & Ghostery – The Trifecta Of Evil [Opinion]
As long ad ad networks contine to try their hardest to track me online I will still unapologetically use these extensions. Maybe that all these things exist should show you where the real problem is.
mbailey··on Snowman Architecture Part One: Overview
Thought the same thing after a quick scan. This is kinda how we do EA already...

However, EA literature often repeats the obvious, maybe we're not the right audience...

mbailey··on Why You Need To Hire Great Developers
Yeah, this is what we're aiming at, making how developers interact with the community as part of our scoring metrics.
mbailey··on Why You Need To Hire Great Developers
Not sure why hubspot is having issues, I'll have to talk to the marketing guys who maintain the hubspot pages... Currently we don't let people claim their profiles, but will in the future. "login" is really just for customers at this point.
mbailey··on Why You Need To Hire Great Developers
Eventually we're planning to do just that.
mbailey··on Why You Need To Hire Great Developers
For sure, we can only evaluate what we can get access to. We're trying to scour as many sources as possible, but if you're exceedingly quiet, you wouldn't be in our system.
mbailey··on Why You Need To Hire Great Developers
We are making assessments of code made public, and combining it with how active people are in places like stackexchange. You can argue that code evaluated from github is not necessarily indicative of a good developer, but it's a good place to start rather than shotgun LinkedIn spam from recruiters.
mbailey··on Why You Need To Hire Great Developers
My company is making a business of identifying great developers (gild.com). It is a notoriously difficult task, even with the wealth of information developers tend to make public about themselves.
mbailey··on Your Cloud Instance Just Died. We’re Sorry.
If a single region is a single point of failure, isn't that "doing it wrong"?
mbailey··on Are technical certifications of any worth?
I am in a technical field (ops) full of them and I have none. I don't see much worth in certs. Ability should be pretty obvious by performance in entry level positions.
mbailey··on Facebook Advertising is Fool's Gold
Was just reading the JTBD literature a few weeks ago. An obvious concept, but so oft ignored.
mbailey··on Half of Americans think Facebook is a fad
Just before I clicked on this, I clicked on another HN article that was on Facebook about Zuck was an organ donar (wat?). I couldn't read it because I fully deleted my account about a year ago. I had a flashback, and realized, facebook is the new AOL.
mbailey··on The NoSQL movement
I love the ad for MS SQL server in the middle of the page.
mbailey··on Your hard drive is too big
I have burned through 8 SSDs in VM hosts. Using TRIM. I am not ready to trust them yet.
mbailey··on Poll: Have you had a SSD fail?
I posted this on the reddit thread as well, but I've used some SSDs in VM hosts, and seen a pretty damn high failure rate. They're great for VM hosts for obvious reasons, but they thrash pretty hard, and I've taken to triple RAID mirroring them, across different brands.
mbailey··on Working around the EC2 outage
Quick answer: have presence in both the VA and CA locations.
mbailey··on How Apple tracks your location without consent, and why it matters
But it's cooler to PANIC!!!

edit: just looked at the article and the image at the top. Ha.

mbailey··on Google +1 Button Discovered
Looks like it's already broken. Just get a red ! button.
mbailey··on Why did Andrew Cooke deleted all his answers from Quora
Why did he deleted indeed.
mbailey··on Is it normal to get hundreds of break-in attempts per day?
Yes. And I'm sure it's been said: fail2ban
mbailey··on Ghoti
Thanks for the anthropological linguistics class flashback.
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