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AdamN
4,134karma·1,342submissions·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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It's true for me also but I didn't think of it as much of a burden. The car would last for about 2+ weeks between charges with the way I drove it and there was also the option of trying to …
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This airline went bankrupt: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/engine-di... …
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That's a second order question - and one worth asking when decision-makers and stakeholders are being intellectually honest. The problem is that Trump et al. are disingenuously saying that we sho…
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I wish the EU would do that. Driving in Germany is impossible without one of the charge cards. I really don't get why credit cards aren't mandated to work on all public chargers.
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Charging infrastructure in Berlin is fine - I had an EV for over a year and charged on the street no problem. The two major caveats are that you really need a card specifically for paying the chargin…
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Seems like those investigators should be the target of public prosecution
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Don't focus on the IT/software stuff - it's missing the forest for the trees. Some people really do need to go to jail, and it's the people at Fujitsu, the Post Office, and the pr…
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I think the work is spiky so the quotes are inversely related to how busy the contractor is at that moment (for small shops). Also, there is the supply/demand of the people doing the actual work…
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This is very true which is why athletes with certain body types will simply never win in certain roles. With that said, I'm pretty confident that a swimmer with the wrong build could, with lots …
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It's unmanned so a self-destruct mechanism is probably the straightforward solution - or disable power and use a parachute
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Took me a while to parse this. Not sure what the relationship is here: 1/ you clearly do think the source tells you something about the credibility (in your case you now think NYT is not highly …
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It's not the opposite. The opposite would be banning the activity at multiple levels (like the war on drugs). Criminal liability is a very thin lever from the government - it obviously is hugel…
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FTP splitting the data and control ports was a smart implementation. It allowed for optimization of the ports (one focused on throughput) and meant that control could still occur even while long resp…
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That's exactly what it is. Criminal liability is a deterrent model with a very high bar that is usually used when other mechanisms are not scalable. The number of people determined to be crimin…
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You need to be precise about whether it's the pre-Google system or the current one (after they went all-in on Google).
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Startups are likely to fail, big tech is likely to fire the developer (or they quit), and poorly run companies just don't know how to train. End result is it just doesn't happen much anymor…
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The important thing for Google is to be part of the short list right now before adoption crystalizes. Over the next year or two a large chunk of early (late?) adopters will firmly commit to one (or m…
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iirc it works well in Kenya because the thermal gradient is really steep and the heat is right near the surface. I don't think that's common around the world. Local expenses (labor, etc...…
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Rule of thumb is double. So if you're average total comp is $150k then total cost for each of those employees is $300k/employee (office, expenses, HVAC, insurance, etc..)
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Why not? I don't have time for many ads and will go to great lengths to get rid of them - especially ones I don't like. With Spotify this is even easier because there are a number of repla…
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iirc Windows already does this - MacOS is just behind the curve here. Perhaps there are security/stability edge cases that make this more difficult than it would seem?
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The US and Iran had been in a cold war since 1979 with flareups the entire time all the way through to the current day.
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What car did you do that on? I drove a 2022 A6 Avant (base model) from Berlin to Sylt and rarely topped 200 before feeling not so confident safety-wise. Would a bigger engine have helped or do you j…
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30-40m each way to work and usually get to drop off my kids at school on the way ... love my Xtracycle Stoker!
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Just as Olaf the snowman sings in Frozen II, "This will all make sense when I am older ... 'Cause when you're older absolutely everything makes sense"
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They work ok as a side feature. It is nice to ask Siri to play music and that wasn't possible a few years ago. But it's a value add for the Apple ecosystem - not a capital P Product.
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Even now 1gbps is plenty for virtually every end user and I suspect it will be good enough for a long time (maybe VR changes things??).
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Second largest cloud on the planet isn't enough scale?
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Countries like France went all-in on nuclear - didn't change much really. Theoretical nuclear is risk free and low carbon but actual nuclear (that was available in the 60s/70s) is neither.
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One of my favorite books on the subject - "Down and Out in Paris and London"