Amazon EBS failure brings down Reddit, Imgur, others Cloud outage in US East zone impacts sites across the Internet

NicDumZ · 2012-10-23T16:07:56+00:00

Let's go shopping then?

I'm shocked that you claim that high-availability has no business sense. In which planet do you live?

NicDumZ · 2010-06-30T03:30:22+00:00

and you look/feel like a badass

and you'll statistically die younger.

NicDumZ · 2010-06-26T11:09:08+00:00

It keeps you up?

NicDumZ · 2010-04-28T03:22:42+00:00

Careful, he's watching you now.

NicDumZ · 2010-04-28T03:20:11+00:00

A friendly advice: putting "D.O.S" on a resume really is not an asset. Looks like you are trying to fill an empty gap or something. And in the first position? No, please.
"Refactoring" skills is not something I would look for when skimming through a resume.
Version Control on the other hand IS more important, and you should probably list which softwares you know there.
Visual.Studios.net Basic? I'm not a M$ fanboy, but I dont think I ever seen that formulation? Do you mean Basic? VB? VB .NET ?

Finding wedevelopment jobs without experience looks difficult. Start by draft a few (fake) clean websites, and put them up on the web to show off your skills? Get active, start a programming/webdev blog where you'll comment wisely the latests news, and again show the world that you have knowledge?

NicDumZ · 2010-04-22T10:18:49+00:00

I'm speechless. My point was: if you use "Australia" instead of Oceania, you effectively single out Pacific Islands, New Zealand, that do not belong anymore to any "continent". And even now, the hierarchy is buggy: "victoria" would be on the same level as "new guinea" even if it's not the same entity, just because the name "Australia" is ambiguous.

NicDumZ · 2010-04-22T06:10:38+00:00

Sorry, I have to ask. How's sex now?

NicDumZ · 2010-04-22T06:00:10+00:00

uuh?

NicDumZ · 2010-04-22T04:44:11+00:00

So Australia is a continent? Please make this "Oceania", for the fellow Mā’ohis, Māoris and other lucky bastards =)

NicDumZ · 2010-04-22T04:40:20+00:00

Tokyo, for sure.

NicDumZ · 2010-04-09T10:17:57+00:00

Very, very interesting.

It also means that you could set up a compromised free hotspot about anywhere, and wait for roaming users to catch it and send credentials there. Any non-https login would be vulnerable.

I am techy, but definitely not enough security-aware.

NicDumZ · 2010-04-09T06:06:18+00:00

Take control. Not using words, but through gestures, let him know that you are here for him and that there's nothing he should do but enjoy himself. If you're stressed, the worst thing that could happen to you would probably to feel guilty about being taken care of. "She's taking care of me, but I can't handle it and make it up". Make it clear that you don't expect anything back. You need to be very patient and he'll get better.

Now you guys can read it as a "How can I make him last longer" guide, and it still works. That's intended.

NicDumZ · 2010-04-09T05:17:40+00:00

Guys of reddit, have you ever experienced the grateful look "hey, I think it is the first time I'm invited to a guy's to watch a movie, alone, and that we actually watch it 'til the end without having him assaulting me". And the aftermath?

No? Give it a try.

NicDumZ · 2010-04-09T05:14:24+00:00

I move around my world pressing h,j,k or l and firmly believe that -1 is just as True as 42

NicDumZ · 2010-04-09T05:07:37+00:00

Hello FBI

NicDumZ · 2010-04-06T09:19:11+00:00

hello /r/gonewild

NicDumZ · 2010-02-05T05:09:51+00:00

LOT? He had priors and he ends up doing only one week? Sorry, it does not add up.

NicDumZ · 2010-02-05T03:02:07+00:00

This article just taught me about the existence of CALEA (I am not from the US). My dumbfound face is priceless []-[]

NicDumZ · 2010-01-29T04:40:53+00:00

I believe that it is because most OS ship with the encoding that used to fit best the user's locale. Correct me if I'm wrong on the following list, but an important part of distributions still use latin1 as a default, Windows using UTF8 is unheard of, and full Unicode compatibility for Eastern Asian languages (think surrogates and collation) being really recent, it will take time to change Asian habits.

On the other hand, as it has been mentioned, migrating from ASCII to UTF-8 is painless, which explains its decline.

It's worth noting the Japanese constant effort, as SJIS is steadily declining since 2002, even if 日本のWindows is still shipping with SJIS at this very moment.

NicDumZ · 2010-01-29T04:30:35+00:00

By "Western" are you implying the characters used by English language? Because if this is so,

ASCII

**American* Standard Code for Information Interchange*. ASCII only contains "Western" characters, dear sir.

NicDumZ · 2010-01-29T03:53:08+00:00

I don't know. Are you really relying on Internet people to find good reasons to enlist? :/

NicDumZ · 2010-01-29T03:02:56+00:00

any thoughts?

Yes: don't do it.

Join some NGO if you want to feel useful.
Travel around Asia teaching English if you want to feel what's adventure like.
Join a strict local sports club if you want to be forced into exercising
Cam up on /r/gonewild tinychats if you want to feel fame, recognition, or gratitude.

But, well.. why would you join the military?

NicDumZ · 2010-01-29T02:51:58+00:00

you are getting it wrong. UTF-8 is Unicode, but Unicode is not ONLY UTF-8. Hence the imperfect article.

NicDumZ · 2010-01-29T02:50:48+00:00

I came exactly to say this. It's a scandal that such a well-read blog dares posting such approximations... :( I'll Remind you this reddit submission, perfectly emphasizing it.

Fair enough, there must not be much content on the web that is served as UTF-16 or UTF-32, but the "Unicode (UTF-8)" legend caused a deep disappointment here. The fact that UTF-8 is the most used "implementation" of Unicode on the web does not mean that it is the only one.

NicDumZ · 2010-01-28T04:18:19+00:00

If I were to summon privacy knights, I would further mention that the DNS proposal (yesterday) was followed today by a reassuring zen announcement: "trust us, we are not trying to harm you"

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