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All systems fail, eventually. But with thoughtful site reliability engineering and sane DevOps practices, sometimes you can fail gracefully, learn from mistakes, and make IT systems more resilient.
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Perfect tag line! 
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I took it that you were making a pun about failing gracefully! And that they were trying to sugar-coat failure! Made me laugh!
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Oh, man. I'm no where near that good. Thank you for thinking so though.
(Definitely going to remember that for the future, so I can use it.)
TTFN - Kent
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I believe there is a unicorn waiting where the rainbow ends to help you carry home the pot of gold.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Microsoft is planning to introduce a new light theme into Windows 10 with the next major update. Sadly not Windows 10 Light
Yeah, just after they showed that dark themes are better.
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A research team—including many of the original researchers behind Meltdown, Spectre, and the related Foreshadow and BranchScope attacks—has published a new paper disclosing yet more attacks in the Spectre and Meltdown families. The result? Seven new possible attacks. Some are mitigated by known mitigation techniques, but others are not. That means further work is required to safeguard vulnerable systems. I think someone at Intel might be about to melt down at this point
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Amazon wants to make sure Java is available for free to its users in the long term with the introduction of Amazon Corretto. Does it come with free two day shipping?
Because when you think Java, think of the place you've bought all your books about Java. Or something.
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Researchers found a way to give high-performance computing data systems the flexibility to thrive with a first-of-its-kind framework called BespoKV, perhaps helping to one day achieve the HPC goal of performing at the exascale, or a billion billion calculations per second. It's called a cache?
OK, not exactly, but it kind of sounds like, "shove a key-value database in front of your existing data" to me.
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This borders on fraud.
Kent Sharkey wrote: it kind of sounds like, "shove a key-value database in front of your existing data" to me.
There's no "kind of" here; this is exactly what it is. They should be laughed out of the room for "inventing" something which has been around for over 50 years.
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The concept definitely isn't new, but to be fair to the BespoKV research team, it does look like they're doing something novel in the way they're applying this to HPC systems. This isn't apparent from the ScienceDaily article, though.
The original research paper covers everything decently:
http://people.cs.vt.edu/dongyoon/papers/SC-18-BespoKV.pdf[^]
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..a key-value list in local memory only, from what I read. No MapReduce.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Much-hyped selection process ends in the least surprising way possible. Cities that paid for this expansion also bought...
We debated whether or not to include this, but it is pretty big industry news.
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The Virgina package seems reasonable. Most of the promises are about infrastructure and the direct subsidies seemed tied closer to performance than the NYC deal. Using space right on the DC Metro will alleviate some traffic problems (though the DC Metro is considered fairly awful.) And the Virginia/Maryland/DC area has a strong tech talent pool.
The NYC package, however, is nuts. New York is essentially paying Amazon $3 billion, but who the hell wants to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world? At least in Virginia, you can live in a decent place with a commute that isn't my cup of tea, but which isn't pure hell.
(I'm curious about the debate:
Should we include this?
Sure.
Okay.)
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Joe Woodbury wrote:
The NYC package, however, is nuts. New York is essentially paying Amazon $3 billion, but who the hell wants to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world?
Millions of people already do. That's a large enough local base that they can recruit without having to spend a small fortune on relocation offers.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Throw away line. However, my experience has been that a large population doesn't ensure a qualified talent pool. The problem is the professional staff below upper management level. They tend to be specialized enough that you can't just get anyone, but not paid enough relative to cost-of-living to attract the best talent. I saw this in Los Angeles and figured it would be similar in NYC.
That said, I think Virginia was an excellent choice by Amazon and likely where they intended the full "HQ2" to be, but New York simply offered so much money, they decided to do a split. With that in mind, they may be able to staff the NYC office with talent peculiar to that region, but I doubt it. It's still worth keeping a presence in NYC, but I doubt it will be an HQ2.
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Yeah, capitalism is great! Big rich companies can get a lot of money paid by small tax payers when they announce to build a factory at a specific place.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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It's socialism in reverse - enormous state subsidies to the already enormously wealthy.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Computer scientists from Aston University have developed a way to drastically improve the battery-life of mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets, by minimising the power consumption of mobile apps by as much as 60 percent. To levels of, "works in theory, just needs a complete rewrite to work" levels of 'improve'
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Another exploration of the blindingly obvious.
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Nice to know that my old alma mater is managing to achieve things, since I left.
... But let's not get into discussions about why it achieved bugger all while I was there, eh?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Did they try to switch it off and on again?
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Removing FaceBook tripled my battery life
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Services from Google on Monday became unavailable for up to two hours as user traffic followed a tortuous path through operators in Russia and Nigeria before hitting the Great Firewall of China. "Unintended anomaly" is my next go-to excuse
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