miles932 (u/miles932)

miles932 commented on David Bowie Has Died hollywoodreporter.com/new... · Posted by u/hccampos

SonicSoul · 10 years ago

this is a travesty. In addition to loving his music he also lived in my neighborhood in nyc and I've been naming our internal applications after his songs. Put up a black banner on Ground Control as we speak :(

my favorite is the collab he did with Trent Reznor on I'm Afraid of Americans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPVrFIP0CMs

miles932 · 10 years ago

Yeah, that song rocks pretty hard :)

miles932 commented on EC2 Update – T2.Nano Instances Now Available aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/... · Posted by u/jeffbarr

jsmthrowaway · 10 years ago

And to use 5TB in a month you have to sustain over 15 megabit/sec 24 hours a day. DO is betting on you not doing that (and in aggregate nobody does), because in any other context sustaining 15 megabit is about as expensive as Amazon. Quote a 100 megabit drop some time if you don't believe me.

If every VPS on Digital Ocean and Linode actually used their quota, they wouldn't have uplink capacity to support it and the network would fail. That's overselling. Numbers that high are extensive overselling. Linode has 40 Gbit links (at least they used to), and give 2 TB (6 Mbps) to each small Linode, meaning about 7,000 Linodes actually using the quota would saturate the link. They have a few more than that. Do the math.

The bandwidth quotas are sales stuff so that you will say exactly this in threads like these, and it's amazing how well it works.

miles932 · 10 years ago

You think if every ec2 instance used their available upload capacity, simultaneously, that AWS regions wouldn't fail?

miles932 commented on Show HN: Cloudcraft – Create AWS diagrams cloudcraft.co/... · Posted by u/Rezo

Rezo · 10 years ago

Thanks! I think by focusing solely on AWS instead of trying to create a generic diagram drawing tool it's possible to create a much better experience.

miles932 · 10 years ago

As one of the original guys making those iso diagrams, we asked internal AWS folks to build a tool like this for years. Nice work!

miles932 commented on Google Picks Diane Greene to Expand Its Cloud Business nytimes.com/2015/11/20/te... · Posted by u/scommab

boulos · 10 years ago

Sounds like we should throw more parties ;).

miles932 · 10 years ago

I think this is a top priority customer ask; I'm running it up to our new brass.

miles932 commented on Why Red Hat Acquired Ansible redhat.com/en/about/blog/... · Posted by u/anacleto

miles932 · 10 years ago

Congrats to the unmitigated badasses on the Ansible team! You know who you be!

miles932 commented on Amazon EC2 Container Registry aws.amazon.com/ecr/... · Posted by u/pzb

zobzu · 10 years ago

It;d be nice if someone proposed a comprehensive comparison of google cloud vs aws, including featureset compare, porting-to-and-from compare, and benchmarks.

/dream

miles932 · 10 years ago

disclaimer: I work at GCP

Let's not dream, let's get started! A few challenges (list gets longer every day, some asymmetric features), but I think it's a great idea. Since it's got to be grown/updated constantly, where should it live, maybe a github page? Benchmarks is pretty close via this: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker I'm interested; what parts do you think you could contribute? It strikes me as a thing that's far more valuable if the community does it.

miles932 commented on Google Cloud Shell cloud.google.com/cloud-sh... · Posted by u/mikecb

kaa2102 · 10 years ago

My company is launching a new web design and development service using Google Cloud services. Initially, this was an experiment because we received some Google Cloud hosting credits. We run LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) stacks on virtual machine instances on servers worldwide of our choosing.

After Google I/O, some webinars and testing I learned about how quickly new websites and apps could be deployed, Google DNS for managing domains, App Engine and other load balancing features that can help manage cost.

The ability to SSH into a virtual machine has proven quite useful to enable my team to coordinate and manage projects. I am still open to using other services like AWS but Google Cloud has been great - especially because they also offer customer service for tech and billing issues.

miles932 · 10 years ago

disclaimer: I work at GCP

That is rad! Anything we can do to help? Link to the company?

miles932 commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015) · Posted by u/whoishiring

miles932 · 11 years ago

Mountain View, Seattle, Tokyo, London, Tel Aviv, etc. Full-time (ONSITE or maybe REMOTE) Cloud Solutions Architects, Google Cloud Platform

https://www.google.com/about/careers/search#!t=jo&jid=136565... (Ignore that the job listing only mentions Tokyo...)

We're building a team of senior architects for breaking down interesting customer problems, building up technical solutions that help those customers succeed, and then publishing them for the world. We're the folks building this: http://cloud.google.com/solutions

Feel free to reach out to me direct about it: milesward@google.com

miles932 commented on Kubernetes V1 Released googlecloudplatform.blogs... · Posted by u/Oletros

teraflop · 11 years ago

Yeah, sorry if that came off as snarky; I appreciate the suggestion.

I guess I can understand the cost-cutting mentality that drives Google, AWS, etc. to limit these kinds of offers to "new customers" only. Just remember to consider what kind of incentives you're creating. By effectively punishing developers for being early adopters/experimenters, you're making them wary of signing up early for whatever new and interesting stuff you announce in the future.

miles932 · 11 years ago

Any suggestions for incentive systems that would be motivational for you? We want to help!

Full Disclosure: I work at Google on da Cloudz

miles932 commented on Why “Whiplash” Won an Oscar for Best Editing williamdickersonfilmmaker... · Posted by u/soneca

anigbrowl · 11 years ago

Sorry to be pedantic, but Whiplash won the Academy award for best sound mixing; the award for best sound editing went to American Sniper. Mixing involves the spatial and tonal quality of the sound; editing the temporal and semantic quality.

But either way yes, it is very meticulous, and I think you'd be even more shocked to look at the project files, because each individual sound you hear in a film often involves multiple layers of sound or multiple treatments of a single source sound through different mix busses. As a rule of thumb there are bout 10 edits on the sound track for every cut you see on screen. Thankfully there are some tools available to partially automate the process, but in the it requires a huge amount of work and near-endless reserves of patience.

Source: movie sound is what I (mostly) do for a living, though I haven't won an Acamdemy award for it.

miles932 · 11 years ago

Wow! I was instantly sure that this came down to someone at some DAW making a few million little tweaks on individual drum hits... Thanks for the correction and the detail!