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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 need another team to determine when the Mythical Man Month applies or not /s
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You're missing the part that they may have taken zero classical mechanics classes. Even if it's something you learn in week 3 in that class, if you've never taken it you have no idea w…
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The EC/girocard thing is real though - those POS devices usually don't work with my American Visa - just my Deutsche Bank "EC" karte.
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These days most merchants are large or small and just use Square or some POS where they don't even know what's happening so not sure this is really an issue anymore.
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Sort of a weird question but who's using Intel anymore? Most tech people are using Macs on the laptop side, AWS is going Graviton first, RaspberryPi/small form factor is ARM, and then of co…
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SCSI drivers on Dell servers not working with FreeBSD is why I moved to Linux in the early 2000s
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You didn't notice Brexit - a distinctly Tory-enabled change that wouldn't have happened if the Lib Dems or Labour had been in charge?
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Based on a book by Dan Drezner, sanctions aren't impactful. However, the threat of sanctions is. In order for the threat to be credible you need to follow through with actual sanctions wheneve…
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I'm a big fan of my b&w Brother laser printer even though I don't do big jobs. It always works, is fast, and cheap.
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And that's better how??
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> you cannot simultaneously have lower congestion and higher demand for taxi How so? If a taxi used to take 20 minutes and $20 and now it takes 15 minutes and $18 the demand for that form of trans…
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There should be nothing to leak. The record of verification should be a signature saying what was verified and how and when and nothing about the underlying documents/images/data off of whi…
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That's sort of the boogeyman way it's been interpreted but the other way of looking at it is that those items really are carcinogenic. And it's not the 'give a rate 100x the amoun…
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The ease of the truck moving through the city with less traffic and easier parking would have more than made up for the toll cost. Same for taxis where the cost compared to the increased demand (sinc…
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I'd like to see some of the leading benefactors donate to cities that demonstrate this level of civic service and professional delivery. There's no reason that governments can't receiv…
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The expectation would be at that point that Biden is asked to pardon (or commute the sentence of?) Assange. That's the political solution if the judge were to not accept the plea deal and remand…
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If the US does not get Boeing under control, trust in all US companies will go down further. It makes a ton of sense, just from a self interested financial point of view, for the US to fix Boeing wit…
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Inside industrial settings I would presume stuff like this happens all the time. In fact, people even die sometimes. Even when a refinery blew up in Texas a few years back it barely made the news. O…
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Buffet has a statement to the effect of, "Don't lose money" and that really is the core tenet of investing. Missing some monster hits is fine and normal and preferred to putting money …
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Adobe has some top-tier software though and they keep improving it. It's like a senior leader at my company said - "Oracle's a terrible company but their stuff works". This was d…
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Best statement ever, "... using it should be as incomprehensible as my motivation for creating it in the first place!"
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They're already following realpolitik by keeping coordination between the two countries active. The problem with Soyuz is that you no longer have a usable escape plan up on the ISS once it's…
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> You need to be a welder, plumber, vet, horticulturist, builder, metrologist Not sure how commmon this is anymore. The age of the family farm with a mix of livestock, rotating crops, and woodland…
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It also takes less context potentially - allowing a more junior engineer or somebody who doesn't know much about the language/library to implement the change.
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No need for the condescension. Many of the people here don't even live in the US anyway.
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It's likely that you live in an area with similar mortality risk from air pollution. Is there a reason not to move to an area with lower risk from air pollution?
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This is true in the Pacific Northwest too - very depressing.