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It was a cool idea in theory. One cable for everything! And then you realize that you still have to worry about power, KVM (or a dedicated IPMI), and any other potential add ons. Emulex worked on getting their chips as on board NICs, which would have been neat for that, but honestly the performance and lack of upgradability couldn't compete with add-on cards.

FCoE (fibre channel over ethernet) was similar. Not only was it an amalgamation of arguably incompatible standards, but it was an unusual use case. If you needed data security / reliability, etc you could go FC. If you needed a cheap data protocol you could go iSCSI.

Absolutely not, adwords already does this with gclid, and Bing with... mkclid I believe, fbclid will be nice to have and be a convenience for those who data warehouse their own ad data.

If this wasn't Facebook this wouldn't be news, gclid has been around for years.

Why prod is down 9 years ago

Because backing up stuff is super easy, but no one actually tests restoring data until they need to do it live.

I ask: 'Tell me about a problem that was particularly challenging'

I'd love for someone to tell me a story about something they couldn't solve (or at least not the way they wanted to).

If they can't come up with something, which is rare, I ask them to tell me about something that was fun for them.

Amazon Snowball 11 years ago

In my last role we would often need to upload large amounts of data for our clients to AWS. When this data got into the terabytes we would ship a NAS box to our customer and then send that to Amazon. On more than one occasion Amazon fubar'ed the upload on their end (why would you move drives around in a RAID 5/6 array?). Maybe since this is AWS branded solution it will be more reliable.

Time in Go 11 years ago

I'm going to have to disagree. DateTime is pretty limited, especially when it comes to timezones. I highly recommend NodaTime instead.

The Varidesk is a very nice (and relatively cheap) solution. It's also surprisingly easy to adjust the height despite the weight. My only complaint is that you still need to put your monitors on a stand to get them high enough (for me at least).

There are two sections for each letter, for example:

Page 1: K is for key. Like your fingerprint, everyone is unique

Page 2: Though programming languages use ...

The first page is for the kid, the second for the parent. I kinda like it actually.

The 'Import from Google Reader' option, while a great idea, a) it needs to be advertised better, and b) it doesn't seem work for me.