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July 20th, 2008

Amazon Says S3 Outage is Internal

Twitter avatars, blog images, and SmugMug photos are all vanishing because Amazon S3 is down.
Hackers? Alas, Amazon probably can’t put the blame on them. They say the problem is internal:
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April 30th, 2008

Would You Apply for This Job?

The following listing looks like your run-of-the-mill risky startup job, doesn’t it?
Well-capitalized start-up seeks extremely talented C/C++/Unix developers to help pioneer commerce on the Internet. You must have experience designing and building large and complex (yet maintainable) systems, and you should be able to do so in about one-third the time that most competent people […]

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