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AdamN
4,134karma·1,341submissions·August 27, 2009
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AWS/Amazon Q - Berlin
Formerly Seattle, Nairobi, NYC:
* AWS Reliability Services (Fault Injection Service) - Region Isolation, AZ Power Outage and other tools for Chaos Engineering * AWS Developer Tools - building software teams to build software for other developers to build software * CTO at Factr - a geo/temporal research aggregation tool for international organizations and media * Founder of Kili.io - a public OpenStack for African markets based in Nairobi. * CTO at Yipit - Built the team and was initial dev (Python, Django, Ubuntu, AWS) * Way back when, I was the CTO of Forsalebyowner.com (acquired by Tribune Interactive).
Get in touch (adam@varud.com) if you have any interest in African technology, governance, Amazon, or anything in between.
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If an activist speaks up about a group of people being marginalized, they're speaking 'for' those people. 'About' would be if it was descriptive speaking (perhaps an anthropo…
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LOCKSS is a technology and I could imagine it being part of a plan - but archivists still need to consider what entity owns the data and has rights to give access to it, what jurisdiction governs the …
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Treasury Direct, "the one and only place to buy and redeem U.S. savings bonds and other securities directly from the U.S. Treasury", will support only ID.me for authentication going forward.
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There's a difference between an archive and a backup it's true. If this really is intended to be archival they need to come up with a plan with the Library of Congress, the US Archives, or …
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Not if I was that rich, no. Fundamentally Sergey does not have faith that an accountable government merits the money.
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The majority of the population doesn't even have access to a functioning computer. So yeah maybe somebody truly talented can figure their way out of that hole after a few years but that's w…
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The book is worth a read - lots of misadventures and musings.
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Oh the text definitely has breadth, depth, and nuance ... just not sure how correct it is.
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My rule: ORMs first, if there are performance problems it's probably the db structure so don't be afraid of reworking the underlying database. In some cases though SQL gets you the specific…
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It's not even clear that for most sufferers that there is a physical impairment at all. I went to a Tinnitus clinic in Berlin and was surprised at how little is known about it even now and how m…
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The New Yorker has a whole style guide. Most people aren't writing "née" or "reëlected" very often but the New Yorker keeps those formats and even has a custom typeface. Yes …
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[not an expert so I could be totally wrong] I was also just talking about the physical space. Even if the machines on the entire line have to be replaced it still probably makes sense for a company t…
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One of the good things about these attacks is that it publicizes failings and gives data to good actors inside the government to drive reform. Surely other operators (Intel services of China, India, …
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The lines that would have made consumer-level stuff are being reduced in favor of the higher profit margin/demand products. That means more supply of those other products (but still not enough) …
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They didn't know their air speed (because of the pitot tubes being frozen). I think the report says that there was a path to safety if they had kept focused but it wasn't as easy as just fl…
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There are two usecases: 1/ general purpose, 2/ customer controlled. Mistral is focused on the second one and every customer, whether it's Boeing or Airbus or Nokia or Glencore, will wan…
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It's sad that this was heavily downvoted on HN but times really have changed in this community. What you said is just straight up true and not derogatory or misleading.
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The eyepieces (and editing views) on that equipment shows the other aspect ratios so they know what will be in and out for the other 99%. Anyway plenty of art is only consumable by the 1%.
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Which is true. He didn't shoot in 35mm so if you want to get the full shot on the screen you must go to an IMAX theater.
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Paid journalism is still often good (Bloomberg, FT). But yeah if you're just going to free sites it's the same as the free newspapers they used to give out for free in the subway - a few sa…
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It's sort of a cool idea. "Pre-RAM" without the tracking/AI integration so it can be used for clandestine activities in a dystopian future.
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Politics and tech have gone hand in hand for generations. Just think about Stallman and free (as in beer) software or encryption export controls or much of the history of computing. There is no adva…
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Like 20 years ago
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Probably going to the school above is a good start.
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> all high end watches are mechanical. No, most high end male jewelry are mechanical watches (and much of women-oriented jewelry as well). High end watches are such a solved problem we don't e…
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German culture is thorough, not efficient.
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I did Philosophy and Physics - each of which I have fond memories of.
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The standardization process should weed out 'footguns' that are prone to accidentally (or maliciously) lowering the security bar.
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Yeah they're a media conglomerate and their customers are advertisers. They have unstoppable traction with Instagram and Whatsapp and a legacy model with Facebook. There really isn't much …