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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.
recent activity (1,341 total)
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That's really disingenuous. Clearly Biden Jr. was getting paid more than he would have but he probably did have unique insights that would be worth quite a bit of money to Burisma. But the accu…
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Depends on whether it landed in the C.
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You'd have to make that case. Even the naive answer would be 'no' but I can't think of a reason why a narrowly focused business is better than a government-backed enterprise when …
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Doesn't seem speculative in the least - they have some pretty strong indicators of a problem. It's great that we're getting some tech-literate investigative journalism going - and good…
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This is why, although I know there will be problems with it, we should get AI and blood tests more accessible for individuals. Accessing the healthcare system for "I know I'm not 100% but .…
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Two interesting meta-points. Candidates didn't necessarily want to be Doge - it really was a loss of independence and potentially wealth for already wealthy individuals from powerful families. …
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Grey failures are harder for large systems to handle. If a chunk goes hard down that's usually easy. Something like voltage oscillations that trigger cascading failures in a sequence can lead t…
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The argument is mutually exclusive though. People going 80 in a 60 will be considered the same as those going 40 in a 20 and the punishments won't diverge between the two when they should. The …
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Perhaps the uplifting responsorial to this would be "An Ending (Ascent)" from his Apollo soundtrack.
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I'm working on nothing of importance (well actually it's a notable product from Big Tech). I'm looking to start something new but want to stay in Berlin and want to work on core techno…
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Apparently archivists had a realization that clean and dry hands are the most precise for handling delicate objects and that actually mistakes are made with any sort of glove. It's only dealers …
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The US credit card system is not highly fragmented - there are just 3 big players and maybe 2 smaller players. There are tons of banks but that's not an issue for chip and pin. Anyway Europe al…
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That's what they were saying. America had the first credit cards and therefore had trouble moving to chip & pin partly because the existing system worked without it.
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Active support of a criminal enterprise. I believe it's not just a state crime but also federal.
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Yeah Signal isn't the issue - it's the phones. In the end Signal was probably easier and faster to use while a bit more secure than WhatsApp but one has to presume that a chunk of those pho…
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What's wrong with recycling the bottle caps and not having them all over the place because they're small and otherwise fall onto the streets, sewers, and trails?? It's really not a pro…
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You can only be so proactive. At a ginormous company, the pace of change is glacial. You can push really hard and get buy-in from leaders with hundreds of people under them and still get blocked try…
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These are my favorite types of marketing - what I'll just call 'part of the actual stack'. Would be great if there was a Berlin office so I could join!
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That's what the MBP product line is for. More ports and performance for more expense and weight/size. I know it seems like a champagne problem but the Pro really can get annoyingly heavy wh…
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Well now I live in Berlin and I'm not sure if I've experienced a power outage in 3 years. I remember a Swiss guy from Zurich that had only experience a one minute power outage in his entire…
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There are quite a few little differences like screen brightness, number of displays in can drive, faster unified memory, etc... https://www.macrumors.com/guide/macbook-air-vs-macb…
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Currently at AWS in the Q org. Looking for scope either via an innovative startup as a founder, a mid/late-stage startup as a CEO-direct, or as part of a multinational looking to build a signifi…
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This seems pretty wasteful. Going without electricity for a day really isn't such a burden and a freezer can last pretty long or if it doesn't there's rarely much of a problem with was…
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It's also why thinking critically about the initial 'mode' is important. The fewer mistakes that have to be embedded into the distant future, the better.
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I've always wanted turboprop planes to become more common for long haul flights. Many people would gladly pay for premium economy with spacious seating in the entire cabin if the price was compe…
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We would call those qualifications to be a Sr. Principal Engineer or higher even ... not an SVP in charge of 1M+ people. Hegseth is way out of his league.
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So no colleges and universities on resumes?
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I dunno - I'm in Berlin and my kids go to a private school for English education. I don't think somebody who couldn't afford it and wasn't a native English speaker would be gettin…
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It's funny, I don't even look at the Kagi logo anymore. I just see search results and occasionally notice that I"m using Kagi because I see the token in the request url.