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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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The other problem is the fish need to go downriver too. The dam extracts energy from the water flow and slows down the river - making it difficult for newly hatched salmon to even get to the ocean in…
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It's depressing that a modern country like Canada would even consider building a major dam anymore :-(
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What is the next physical connector standard after USB-C? Is there one on the roadmap that is likely to happen or is USB-C "The End of History" when it comes to connectors?
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That's their whole disaster recovery plan and why they're so aggressive about digitization. If Russia overruns the physical country, the nation (it's state and it's people) can co…
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The age thing is more about our business culture than our tech culture. There is lots of room for older programmers if they can be buffered from short term goals and the switching of those goals ever…
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If you can afford it, a high end induction stove might be an upgrade you both enjoy without needing gas. Higher end ones have more precision and consistency and easier controls.
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Old cast iron skillets had a collar under them to better fit on the pot belly stovetop.
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I have a dryer in my apt (miele) and it has no externally routed vent. Heat/humidity is ejected to the sewer line. Aside from the lower energy consumption, this seems useful for an Antarctic ba…
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Fellow Deutsche Bank customer??
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Businesses want multiple revenue streams at different layers of the stack with different cycles. Charging developers, printers, consumable producers, hardware makers, etc... means Pantone can make mo…
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The COO never said they weren't a donkey
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I'm in Berlin (moved from Seattle). Want to commiserate over beer/coffee? If anybody else wants to join just reply :-)
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The general issue is that some protocols have a hundred uses and if only one of them is mission critical, then it can't be blocked. SSH surely fits that description. NNTP only has one purpose, s…
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Yeah. Have a few in my backpack, one in the car, a whole bunch at home. I get that you wouldn't have one 3 years ago but most people have N95 nowadays, even if it's just leftover.
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People spend $250k on home audio systems???? Is it even possible to spend that much?
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If the problem with nuclear was just bureaucracy, China would be building 100 of them right now. These are complicated machines and even the second most powerful country in the world is only building…
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Hydro is not green at all. Nuclear is much better for the environment than hydro.
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Launch 2025: BearID
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ORM is a very valuable tool and should be aggressively used. One can always step down to SQL as needed but otherwise, the ORM logic is easier to write and maintain.
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I remember getting beers with somebody in the aughts who claimed that he saw an entire website where the url was the key and the webpage was the value in an Oracle database. Any code was SQL operatio…
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Seems like it's really easy to diagnose - problem with comms over a cable? 1/ is it seated correctly, 2/ are there any obvious defects, 3/ are the specs of the cable and the ports…
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* If it's an actionable error, catch it as low as you can action on it. Otherwise let it propagate. * If it's a useful error for another developer (or yourself) to see, log it. * Use diffe…
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VS Code users are generally pretty junior or solo. Once a developer gets serious they'll usually need to go to a full IDE and that's either a JetBrains product or Visual Studio (xcode for A…
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I think those smaller cars are also more durable. Heavy SUVs just have higher loads and need more complexity to support them ... which leads to a higher failure rate.
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AWS S3 | Software Engineer | Full-time | Hybrid | Berlin S3 is expanding in Berlin! We're a small group building major products within S3 and growing fast! I'm an ex-New York/Nairobi&#x…
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I mean in your mind ... if all the economists you saw in leadership positions in the US were black I suspect you would think that's notable. That was the thought exercise I was asking you to do.
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?? Gas is up in the rest of the world too so it's pretty easy to disprove that it's due to the direct actions of the Biden administration.
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That wouldn't be the implication of a title like that and I suspect you know you're being disingenuous. It would mean that some of our most important decisions are being made by people from…
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The purpose of these drives is not for archive. In fact, individual SSDs in general should not be used for archiving. They are for performance. Since we're probably talking about laptops or ph…
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All of Apple's software is free so you pay via hardware and services. I prefer the Mac ecosystem to the Windows one so there really is no choice. I'd be open to another ecosystem (Linux?) …