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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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That's like every language. The language you work in (typically) has all sorts of libraries that are lower level. And even if not it's not like you're code is 'running', it&…
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That's overall market share. Agree Windows use is high but in general the more tech-forward the company is the less Windows there is at it.
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Famously not so in Flint.
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Sometimes (often?), one very dedicated and focused person is better than a team of 20+. In fact companies would do well to recognize these situations and accommodate them better.
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they use Windows because it's ostensibly cheap and there's momentum. I don't think any modern tech company is majority Windows.
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Yeah, the most important, least readable, and oldest code. It's exactly the stuff that's expensive to maintain.
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Yeah those types of second order problems are really tough in low-intelligence bureaucracies. 1/ Lead is good for pipes!, 2/ lead is bad for health!, 3/ ok we've ripped out half t…
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Funny. If you say that kind of thing in some of the German subreddits they'll run you out with pitchforks - "Germany has the best water in the world!" is the refrain.
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Nobody has unrestricted access right now so not sure what they're saying.
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The nuclear energy thing is a lark. The German nuclear base was already old and minimal by the time those decisions were made (unless you're talking about Greens in the 90s - but they barely had…
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Jersey City still was fine and 50 miles can be problematic for certain types of backup (failover) protocols. Regular tape backups would be fine but secondary databases can't be that far away (at…
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Like most of these things it's advocacy and mission creep. It probably started off as a niche thing but as it expanded there are all sorts of groups that would lose if it disappeared: Realtors, …
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In the old Soviet/US rivalry days there was an accusation of cheating that I thought was novel. The accusation was that the Soviet players in the middle rounds were doing subtle not-right moves …
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Privacy (a big issue) is the least of our problems with media ownership by hyper-elite royalty.
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Didn't read the book but I think it's more insidious than what you wrote. The journalists don't think they're writing these stories to amplify the police narrative (they think the…
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Kayak has a flag to limit tickets shown to only those sold by airlines. That's the way to go.
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Yeah - I read that and was like 'yeah' and didn't even realize at first that they were trying reductio ad absurdum. At some point demolition is the best step. Don't agree in demol…
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That was a different era. The velocity of change is 100x now and the expectation for public libraries to do common things is 100x higher as well.
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I don't think it has the hallmarks of social media (aggressive engagement mechanisms, etc...). We've had newsgroups for 30+ years and social media requires more than just message boards. T…
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> they must have been using the ruling PDF to write the story Oh you sweet Summer child :-) The worst is with criminal cases where they can't even be burdened to write what the actual charges …
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Here's the deal for you young'ns. Richard Stallman (rms) had it right on this topic and alot of people had to fight to have the limited stack we have. It's not enough though. All we ca…
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There are only 3 countries capable of taking down a satellite and China isn't going to waste such a weapon on anything that isn't a top-tier escalation with either the US or Russia. Since R…
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Both - and really MCAS was fine but the issue was the metering systems (Pitot tubes) and the handling of conflicting data. That part of the puzzle was definitely a bug in the logic/software.
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This is true but there also needs to be good developers as well. It can't just be great process and low quality developer practices. There needs to be: 1/ high quality individual processes…
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This time accuracy would need to propagate to all their hosts, not just the ones in a single DC. I presume they have hosts in the EU, London, NYC/NJ, Tokyo, Chicago, etc... I imagine 100ns accu…
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Not really. Meta is kind of the most corrupt towards users of the big tech companies imho. All companies want to make a profit but Meta has very few scruples.
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That's a Germany issue. Getting married in Denmark is straightforward and registering a company in Lithuania is also straightforward. There's nothing European about that issue - it's …
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Isn't that why we have government? We have judges to make the final say on right and wrong and what the punishments are for transgressions, legislatures to make laws and allocate money based on …
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The expense report for mileage was another one. Kind of cute and an interesting insight into the time period but it wasn't really needed.
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Or even crazier, a manual shift on the steering column. Nothing weirder than pushing down the clutch and then changing the gear with your hand on a knob off to the side of the steering wheel.