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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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We are truly surrounded by heathens. A soiled yogurt spoon in the honey jar?!?!? [I'm kind of being whimsical here but c'mon - get a squeeze bottle of honey if you can't handle keeping…
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I remember when Jobs killed the Herald Square Apple Store even though the lease had been signed and it 'made sense' on paper. When visiting the location it's clear it's a dump and…
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Uber?? I think I've turned off notifications for that. Baby monitor I'd prefer radio - is an iPhone really reliable enough??? Car/home alarms I guess make sense but it always seems o…
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In this case though, high reliability electricity delivery is very doable. Many countries achieve 3 9s or higher. Sure there are the issues like the recent Spain/Portugal blackout but even that…
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I don't want the filter. An app sends me a notification like that, all notifications are banned.
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?? This has been called out for more than a decade I think. Within 100 miles of the border CBP has broad discretion and rights are limited in these types of circumstances.
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This is really just the essence of bureaucracy - which is the problem with these rules that sounds fine if you don't think about the implementation of them. Trump himself probably wouldn't c…
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Just a plug for the Max Foundation out of Seattle: https://themaxfoundation.org/ Even where these problems are more solved than they were - the access is not broad enough for everyone…
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I feel reasonably confident that if the focus is on open tooling and sovereignty and not saving money then a shift to Linux can 100% work even at large and complex organizations.
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If you read all the notifications you'll never do your actual job. People who just open their IDE and code are to be commended in some respects - but it's a balance of course.
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This is one of the problems at big tech - people 10-20 years in and haven't lived in the outside world. It's a hard problem to solve.
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I feel like we're well into the longtail now. Are there other SCM systems or is it the end of history for source control and git is the one and done solution?
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I could imagine one Linux kernel running in a VM (on top of MacOS) and then containers inside that host OS. So 1 base instance (MacOS), 1 hypervisor (Linux L0), 12 containers (using that L0 kernel).
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It really should be outlawed almost everywhere. It's the biggest crop in America and iirc the largest consumer of water and insecticides and other chemicals. Natural lawns can be beautiful and …
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And newspapers and magazines. You pay for the magazine and you also get the ads inside.
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Big +1. Company margins are real but they're not orders of magnitude. If you're spending $100MM/year on a corporate product, trying to spend less than let's say $80MM/year s…
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Yeah, people in the US can choose not to have WhatsApp. In the rest of the world you have to be opt out of lots of stuff to not have WhatsApp.
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It will continue to be yearly but now all the OS numbers will be the same (the most important part) and require little inside knowledge to know if it's new or old (only a geek would know that iOS…
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A power plant can be turned off for a month at a time for major maintenance.
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Xcode on Windows/Linux would be wacky and not worth the effort - it's very tightly coupled to MacOS so effectively impossible imho. People targeting MacOS/iOS aren't typically run…
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This is important but I've seen a car hit a pedestrian in NYC and no long term injury and no police. So any stats would need projected, science-backed 'real' numbers to drive policy, n…
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Getting a pedelec bike to 20mph takes real effort unless cheats are involved - it's not really a moped. However there needs to be some honest classification that's global to handle the new …
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Why is that strange? Cyanide seems like an obvious thing to test for at scale. Safety engineering doesn't say 'that doesn't seem likely even though it's dangerous and easy to con…
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That's not statistics as much as sensationalism. Every morning on WSJ at about 7am you'll see a 'live' update about how the markets and futures are in a 'selloff' or &#x…
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keep in mind that for tying around things and binding, that the knot is really there to maximize the friction of the line against the thing - and to do so under various circumstances. Ideally the kno…
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Writing, at a level sufficient to get your point across and be well read, is within reach of most people. The writing is not really an intelligence test. The gap is typically that if something is wri…
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Nobody said that. The comment above said that poor writing is indicative of poor thinking (about the subject).
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I believe Google released a paper about 2 years ago that said the same thing. There is no moat with AGI. Companies will find moats though - they just haven't figured out yet how.
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There's only one Jony Ive and alot of demand from the company with the deepest pockets in town ... UX will make or break any major new AI product - especially hardware. The price is steep but I …
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I think you're being snarky but that plus all the other X stuff is a trustbuster for many people.