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How is this even possibly legal? I know some folks who are trying to build a new service to revamp existing corporate personnel performance reviews and this is exactly the kind of thing that is proving to be difficult.

Seriously. How?!

http://www.hg.org/defamation.html
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Um, no offense, why?

They crushed all the technical bookstores because they didn't have to pay sales tax. Their customer service beyond cheap refunds is abysmal. They understand how hard it is to distinguish between stuff that is only serviced through them, but choose not to fix it. And Bezos is famous for being both an asshole and micromanager.

One-stop? Sure. Efficient? Maybe. Trustworthy? Pardon me for laughing.
Some people don't want to kill animals that don't want to be killed. You may have different ethics but that doesn't imply anything bad about vegetarians.
Look, if you want an iPhone, just buy one. You're describing their business model exactly.

Having a walled garden is great up until the point they start making decisions you don't like. And usually by that point you don't have any control to stop them.
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This was not "indictment" of Storm. We made the analysis and determined that in order to achieve the goals of the business we were not going to be able to take our current system to a 10x scale without a significant investment. Like any complex, distributed computing system there is always the question of when it makes sense to replace the portions of the system that you are not able to reason about sufficiently enough to scale.

Superchief is not an off-the-shelf-framework that anyone will be able to drop-in to fulfill their stream processing requirements. We were running on Storm for 2.5 years prior to moving to SC and during that time we truly developed the understanding of the system and our own workload to be able to build SC. SC builds on many assumptions and understandings of our workload that we did not have when we started with Storm.

For us we decided this was the path that would lead to the quickest and highest reward, and we were able to justify the effort by not only halving our infrastructure footprint, but being able to scale the next 10x. Other companies, eg. Twitter Heron, have made similar realizations.
Assuming Bloomberg didn't just fudge the phrasing, they were probably referring to how Amazon Video requires the Amazon Appstore to be installed first: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/splash/sd/t/appstore

There are no technical or legal barriers preventing Amazon from supporting iOS and Android devices.
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I've heard this POV before, and I'm somewhat sympathetic to it. Sometimes, it's better just to fix things immediately rather than devote a whole process toward fixing them later.

The problem is that the flip side of fixing bugs immediately is interruptions. If, every time you discover a bug, you have to fix it or forget about it, it means that every time a new bug comes up you're going to have a PM interrupting an engineer. Eventually your engineer isn't going to be able to get any work done, and productivity grinds to a halt. It also puts a big damper on doing any large features, speculative features, hard features, or basically anything that requires sustained concentration for long periods of time.

Indeed, as a tech lead, one of the signals I use for when it's time to introduce a formal process and bugtracker is when the engineers on my team start complaining that they can't get any work done because they're being pulled in too many directions at once. If it's not a problem, then there's no need to slow yourself down with process to fix it. But if it is a problem, it's good to have a strategy that captures all the work that needs to be done and lets everyone coordinate who & when they'll do it.
Ok, thanks, I was confused by how they phrased it.
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Yep, you get more of what you pay for. Apply to, for example, single motherhood:

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/Screen%20S...

Gang aft agley, indeed.
I was referring to its exchange value, not the value of the technology.
Here's a link to the paper: http://lanl.arxiv.org/pdf/1509.05363.pdf
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Who is authorized to accept or reject an ad? is this the kind of web we want to live in? More like east Germany with apple getting rid of apps in iTunes store, Amazon banning streaming products and now adds being accepted or rejected by others! WTF
What do you mean by sugar tolerant? I'd expect insulin sensitivity to be higher in someone on an anti-inflammatory diet.
More like "See also: any sufficiently large organization".
Ahh, so the browser isn't interpreting that code.
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This was my experience, with Redmine instead of Fogbugz.
I have both. The Fire Stick Audio cuts out every other day and the stick has to be reset. It forgot my login once and had to be factory reset. It has yet to play a video without some stuttering/frame drops/minor audio-video sync.

And as for practical reasons: I use my Chromecast when the kids run away with the FireTV remote. It's more convienent to use a phone or tablet than it is to find the remote.

Finally, On my TV at the far side of my house, which is not that far, the FireTV can't see my WiFi. I have my AP mounted in the ceiling (POE cable to my switch), with one wall partially between the AP and the TV. Chromecast connects just fine, the FireTV stick does not.

In my experience, Chromecast is a much better product than the FireTV stick.
Amazon, don't buy the hand that feeds you. If Google or Apple do something like that against you, you're done.

We on the other hand have many many many many many other places to buy stuff online... Too many if anything. Amazon is my favorite but I wouldn't sweat it to buy elsewhere.
Whoa - isn't that illegal now? Preexisting condition can't prevent an insurance group from admitting a new member? Or is that restricted somehow?
Will Elasticsearch ban queries for AppleTV and Chromecast?
Reminds me of the time we cleaned out a back storage room at an old job, and there were binders full of mainframe PL/I source code from the early 80's that had gone through paper code reviews, with the reviewers signature on every page.
I will not renew my Prime membership unless this decision is reversed. Though canceling would send a stronger signal.
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> I don't think this move is in Amazon's best interests long term.

Who cares if it's in their interests? Given the power they wield, the more relevant question is whether it's in the interest of the broader market.
> not what most if any designers use

This is because tool builders originally created their software tools for graphics workstations of the 1970s (at PARC, NYIT, MIT, etc.) / desktop computers of ~1990 (e.g. Adobe Photoshop), and on such slow hardware it was impractical to use better models. Also, the early tool builders were not color scientists, but computer programmers with an amateur understanding of human vision.

It’s inexcusable that designers are still using such poor tools today. Hooray for historical inertia!
The BT SIG is doing what you describe in your first paragraph. I can't shake the feeling that we're lobotomising perfectly general computing and networking devices this way though. They're powerful enough to be interrogated and reprogrammed remotely, forth was doing this decades ago.
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"You agree that Company may collect and use technical and usage data and related information, including but not limited to technical information about your device, date and time of Application access, system and application software, and peripherals"

This is more facilitation of censorship than censorship resistant.
Fred's blog is great, but this post is really a link to Bryce's blog post: http://bryce.vc/post/130071493425/my-xoxo-talk

Perhaps just go read Bryce's post, which was Fred's intent.
> Stream processing complex JSON documents and storing the documents to disk at rates of 500k documents/second per server is demonstrably achievable on some scale-out systems

So is it per server or scaled out? I thought SSDs have capped around 100k discrete per second (P/E aka write cycles).

Can you give an example? I've been unable to practically reach more than a scale of 10k/sec/server using a number of technologies and combinations to collect from socket, parse json and write to socket. That's just my specific use case.
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Yes, we do plan to at some point. We want to get a longer production confidence before putting it out there for others and to build necessary documentation that'll make it useful for other teams.
I am not suggesting that you don't need technology.

I am suggesting that FogBugz doesn't offer enough flexibility in their workflow definition to do the gymnastics required for SOC1 compliance. FogBugz is trying to follow best software development practices and as you noted, Jira is a dream-tool for a micro-manager.
It's been a couple of weeks since I did it, but I got it working on my nVidia Shield TV, and I remember the process being something like:

1) Sideload Amazon app APK
2) Sideload Amazon Video app APK
3) Open Amazon app and log in
4) Open Amazon Video app

However, it wasn't a pleasant experience. The version of the Amazon Video app I was able to get working didn't scale well to large screens, didn't work well with remote-based navigation, and didn't seem to do HD. I watched one episode of something, and haven't used it again since.
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While I don't have any real data, for a good look at how it was done before things like Jira and FogBugz, I'd first look at IBM and the military. IBM used to do a lot of consulting for both documentation and process compliance though I don't know much of the details (mostly heard stories from my uncle who works for them). The military did it largely with strict discipline and documenting everything in triplicate if the media is any indication and even then they likely weren't perfect.

The technology layers enable a strict uncaring rule keeper to do the job at all times and enforce things even if they might not apply, it makes the task simpler but it's still some of the same idea, a single bottleneck exists to ensure compliance for something and it gets well documented.
The one feature of Fogbugz that I really like (and the reason I use it) is evidence based scheduling: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html

It takes away a lot of pain associated with giving estimates, especially from a manager's point of view. Devs need to break their tasks down to subtasks of sufficient granularity, and estimate the number of hours/days it would take them to complete each of these subtasks. Fogbugz does everything else, and gives a nice probability distribution chart of completion date that you can share with the stakeholders.
That's a leap. Its 10X better solar flux out there in vacuum than on the ground. Gonna take a lot of losses to cancel that.

And its not a matter of total cost - its payback period. It keeps transmitting for decades after being built. We plant forests, reclaim ocean, terrace mountains - with an outlook of 20 to 100 years, and call it good business. Why not orbital solar?
insulation.

Some housing insulation is also polystyrene, so probably.
I think they are just attracting bad publicity with this. I don't know about Google's product, but when I want an Apple product I always go directly to the Apple store. So the fact that they don't carry Apple TV makes no difference whatsoever in my desire to buy an Apple TV.
Amazon's prices for the dry goods I buy (cereals, energy bars) are now often comparable or more expensive than buying locally here in Manhattan. (The grocery stores I am comparing are on my walk home from my subway stop)

When I was in college Amazon had better prices on these products than my local stores in Iowa.

This is why I'm much less excited about Amazon than I once was.
So, I've been in a variant of the situation. In my version we were the "refrigerator maker" and wanted the data for improved/faster/cheaper service since service costs were eating us alive.

We owned the data. Customers had to sign up for the system, but we got them to do it by offering a lower cost service contract if they did. Since we were a large multinational, we already had an IT department to manage the servers and lots of developers to write code and obviously an existing service team, since that was the whole reason we did it in the first place.

But here's the thing. What I really learned from being the technical lead on that project is that there are growing market opportunities for third party companies to do exactly this and take over the responsibility from the restaurant and the fridge maker. You build the hardware (it's usually pretty cheap and simple) and write the webapp/dashboard, and charge a recurring fee for the service.

It's a lot of work for a one-man shop, but I'm still toying with starting a business in this space.
I do not have to be as careful about consuming sugar as I used to be. I no longer have blood sugar crashes.

I was severely hypoglycemic when I was younger. My condition predisposes people to a non-standard form of diabetes. It may also predispose them to a condition that I am not sure of the name of, where you can experience both hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia, in turns.

You might want to google "diabetes and inflammation." There are articles and research on the connection. I was not specifically trying to fix my blood sugar problems. I was trying to address other issues. The freedom to be more carefree about eating sugary foods was an unexpected bonus. I was never identified as diabetic, but I do have a long history of blood sugar problems, mostly in the other direction, if that makes sense.
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Couldn't disagree more on the integrated wiki point. Issue trackers with integrated documentation pages (wikis or otherwise) make it really straightforward to generate docs as a byproduct of working on tickets, or to resolve support requests by linking to the docs. Eventually you will want an external documentation tool, but Atlassian doesn't have one that's any good (Confluence is by far the worst wiki-like application I have ever used).
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Maybe there's a parallel to the "Do everything on the web!" frenzy. Out of that we got Amazon and Pets.com. Amazon turned out to be worthwhile. A bunch of the others, not so much.
I agree that a good test would have to cover a range of modes, but in this one specific instance demo mode is generally the one that will naturally be the biggest power waster as demo mode for modern TVs virtually always includes "crank the brightness and backlighting to ridiculous, highlight-crushing levels" as one of the settings.
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In that case, I might prefer an authenticator to a keyfob that requires insertion too. The yubikey is slightly more secure since it's actually signing a message from the server rather than sending a password that can be (briefly) intercepted and replayed. But it's probably not 'better enough' to encourage someone not to use 2FA at all if U2F isn't convenient.

If user security has taught us anything in the last 20 years, it's that security features have to be convenient or may as well not exist. I think we'll be seeing a lot more 2FA options in the next few years. In this segment, user choice is a huge improvement in and of itself. I've also been testing Duo push for some internal stuff, which is a phone-based experience that's as smooth as silk. To each their own!
Doesn't the industrial/building automation industry already have solid solutions for your fridge example?

Many buildings already have sensors wired in to PLCs and it's easy to network with the PLC to record and display the signals (for which there are many existing "dashboards" - HMI packages of varying cost and ability).

I don't think it would matter much who owns or maintains the server if you're using a PLC to aggregate your signals onto the network. Many companies are paranoid and would want an in-house server. But it wouldn't be much different to use a cloud based instance.

It's true that existing automation hardware and software are obscenely expensive compared to consumer tech, to the point where renting/subscription might make sense for certain use cases. The systems sufficiently complicated, though, that independent professionals usually manage the setup and maintenance.
This is half Amazon's problem, and half Apple's problem for not giving their computer models unique names. Type iPhone 6s and you get much more clear results.
That's probably the case, but how do you know for sure? Maybe Amazon did create one and Apple rejected it?
Apparently not. Look at Toyota's ECU when they finally were forced to reveal it - total crap. Disambiguating claims of company secrets, from the reality of coverups, is the whole point. You gotta point to one that has any real valuable secret before claiming they'll lose anything by it.

And no they don't have to reveal the source to the OS, that's a strawman.
We will definitely be checking this out. Our experience with another vendor and ES has not been great. From having the whole cluster come down when we're doing batch inserts for initial loads to having 10s timeouts on random queries during low activity windows with the vendor saying "dunno, everything looks good here" (when we measured that this 10s were spent waiting for ES).
Have you considered the possibility that your cow-orkers hate it, and by extension, you?