Hacker News: CrossWired

New comment by CrossWired in "CrowdStrike unhappy with Delta litigation threat, says airline refused free help"

CrossWired — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:24:19 +0000

Where does the responsibility of testing OS patches, AV updates and other automatic type installs fall? Systems deemed critical to your primary business must have some level of internal testing and validation in place from automatic external vendor updates. Does that responsibility not lie with Delta's IT management policies, regardless of CrowdStrike's Sales suggestions?

New comment by CrossWired in "Hundreds of subreddits plan to go dark indefinitely after Reddit CEO's memo"

CrossWired — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 22:34:02 +0000

Something is afoot over there. I updated and then removed all comments, like, everything on my account, and then deleted the account a few days ago. And now its back with the previous comment I updated everything to intact. They did some form of rollback.

New comment by CrossWired in "My smart home 2021: A Home Assistant love story"

CrossWired — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 21:10:46 +0000

I just sold, all switches were GE ZWave paddle switches, new house is old wouldnt work, left them all.

Both doors were Z-wave enabled locks, left both of them as I bought updated ones for the new house

Left 2 IP Cams (with manual and details) that were not smart to take down, and planned on switching at the new house.

I took all the Ubiquiti wifi gear, all the home automation hubs and anything I could EASILY reuse.

New comment by CrossWired in "S3 Strong Consistency"

CrossWired — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 13:19:42 +0000

This is a major issue when turning batch data into individual files, especially with dynamic prefixes. You can and will find this edge pretty quick using EMR or Glue which tries to run as fast as possible. The only answer is....slow down your writes or just try again, a bit frustrating.

New comment by CrossWired in "AWS Snowcone"

CrossWired — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 21:39:16 +0000

Also, what type of customers run speed test normally? Those on the more technical side, thus those running the test are likely to have higher level packages from their providers, further skewing the data

New comment by CrossWired in "Calendar Blocking can boost developer productivity in Quarantine"

CrossWired — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 09:54:51 +0000

I'm starting to get more into this practice and finding it very effective. With the kids home due to school cancelations, I've blocked off recurring time throughout the day for dedicated checkins with them, helps with both my and their productivity.

New comment by CrossWired in "People love working remotely"

CrossWired — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 19:09:59 +0000

Actually saw it in practice, I toured KnowBe4's office, their entire C-suite is right there in the open office, a few at standing desk, but all right there in the open

New comment by CrossWired in "Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft"

CrossWired — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 03:35:33 +0000

My kids (7f/9m) work quite well together in it. My 7 year old daughter took to it much more than Minecraft, mainly with her brothers direction.

New comment by CrossWired in "When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approved"

CrossWired — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 19:40:48 +0000

I'm heading down this path right now. How do I obtain my certs while also allowing enough freedom for the dev teams to operate.

We have to deal with the fallout when they screw something up, there has to be a happy medium somewhere.

New comment by CrossWired in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)"

CrossWired — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 14:25:19 +0000

Telepathy Labs delivers interactive voice and chat-bot technology to industrial and enterprise markets. Our proactive, omnichannel intelligent agents make large-scale environments work more efficiently by turning communications into actions.

We are looking to expand our cloud Operations team by solidifying our entire release engineering practice. We run full micro-services with Kubernetes in-house but can also deploy on-prem so experience across micro-service orchestration methods is appreciated. Will also consider these positions in Zurich or Singapore.

Email me: jobs-operations AT telepathy.ai

New comment by CrossWired in "Terraform 0.12"

CrossWired — Thu, 23 May 2019 01:28:16 +0000

I use Terraform to create EKS, works pretty well. I have it setup to use Spot instances with a standard compute node as well as GPU nodes when needed.

https://github.com/JasonCarter80/contoso_aws_k8s/tree/master...

New comment by CrossWired in "United States v. Microsoft Corp"

CrossWired — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 03:05:04 +0000

How does this work if the car was never in the US in the first place, and you are being ordered to turn over a car that was procured, leased, operated and contracted in Mexico entirely, nothing to do with the US, other than the fact that you live here and were ordered by a Judge to go get the car and bring it back?

Isn't this closer to what has actually happened? The account holder indicated he was from Ireland when he signed up with Microsoft, thus the account was created and maintained in Ireland to reduce latency, thus the Fed should invoke the mutual assistance treaty with Ireland to get the data properly.

The example of using the Government agents to do the bidding being bad and FORCING me to do the bidding is proper is completely wrong. If I am being forced to do something by the government, am I not acting as its agent at that point? If the government is denied a warrant for a building, it can't convince the janitor to steal the docs at the end of the night, thats just a run around the checks and balances of the law.

New comment by CrossWired in "Show HN: Go Freaking Do It – Smart contract for reaching your goals"

CrossWired — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 15:17:47 +0000

>> and will keep the funds otherwise.

If I'm possibly going to give my money away, why would I want to do this to some random contract, instead maybe a Charity or somewhere other than directly to the contract?

New comment by CrossWired in "“Use of open source software has been declining rapidly in the private sector”"

CrossWired — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 00:36:15 +0000

>> What's left out of the rebuttal is how Oracle (or really any vendor), often sells solutions to problems that customers don't have.

I interviewed at Microsoft for a field position and the Director I interviewed with basically said this in response to an answer I gave "We don't ask them what they need, we tell them what they need."

It just feels dirty coming from the guy they called to help with their technical problem. I'm there as Technical Consultant to solve your problem, not upsell you a different set of problems.

New comment by CrossWired in "Topicbox – FastMail’s new product for teams"

CrossWired — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:32:32 +0000

I've noticed a few (2-3 per month) getting through with names of people in my address book, but not the email address, so it seems to be doing some type whitelisting there, other than that, its catching everything.

New comment by CrossWired in "How Microsoft brought SQL Server to Linux"

CrossWired — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:36:42 +0000

SQL Server has had its underlying SQLOS since the SQL 2005 rewrite, so the mechanics to port to Linux has been in place for years:

https://blog.sqlauthority.com/2015/11/11/sql-server-what-is-...

New comment by CrossWired in "California consumer groups allow CenturyLink to end dark fiber leasing"

CrossWired — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 13:18:25 +0000

Same here. And they sent me an email that I got a free speed upgrade too 75/75 up to 100/100.

New comment by CrossWired in "Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family"

CrossWired — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 15:06:46 +0000

Love the idea, would like to see:

* Imports from Facebook or CardDav, one at a time is horrendous. * Relate contact to Social Facebook/LinkedIn/Meetup? * Add activity from LinkedIn/Facebook other social sites to contacts * Native App

New comment by CrossWired in "IBM says remote working is great after forcing employees to work from office"

CrossWired — Mon, 08 May 2017 16:34:37 +0000

I work remotely as DBA, the company doesn't even have an office in my State, i've met my boss face-to-face one time last year when they flew me out for a meeting. We have folks in a few Asian countries, as well as all over Europe and the US, and it works great. I can have a call at 5am with the guys in London and Asia some days, and adjust my schedule as needed.

It just works, but then again, I'm not creative, nor coding, or really collaboratively building anything that needs to brainstorm or deeply integrate with others, I'm architecting and operating.

New comment by CrossWired in "Two Indian engineers at Garmin in Kansas shot, one killed"

CrossWired — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 14:42:04 +0000

Lets not try to minimize his racism by allocating ANY of the blame on his possible alcoholism. He's a racist murder, who just happens to be a drunkard.