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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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On the CLI, you'll see the error just above the prompt and then the stack trace above that. It makes sense since the user is always reading up the terminal in reverse order.
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Having recently moved to Germany from Seattle ... it really is nice to not have to worry about this stuff. This is especially true since I have leukemia and take medicine daily. At some point I'…
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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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What's the history of black being a national color for NZ?
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IMHO what you should try is excluding all sites with excessive third-party cookies, sluggish performance, and too many ads. That will slice the index down by 80% probably but it would be a really nic…
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Why is there no OED app (just the Shorter one ... which is awful)? How much would it cost to open source the OED and put it inside a proper foundation? That dictionary was built by volunteers and it…
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SIPC is just the framework. The primary thing is that customer assets are held in custodian accounts and not intermingled with the brokerage assets themselves. This is different than a bank which ca…
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Wouldn't a hack of the custodial holdings just mean their customers lose their money but the business is otherwise a going concern (for that few moments until everybody stops paying them)?
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wut?
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Half-assed happens in both scenarios. If you have something shippable by the pre-ordained date or shortly thereafter, it ships. Whether you use an adaptive or predictive approach, the outcome is the…
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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&#…
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That's the same price as new 40' boat - which seems about right.
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One thing I noticed long ago when looking at opium paraphernalia in NY flea markets was how much flair people invest into their drug consumption. Alcohol is no different and damn I love a manhattan i…
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I like the idea of a 'metric pound' at 500g. Definitely smart, similar to a 'metric ton'.
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scammer plays a dial tone after the 'hang up' and while dialing.
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Captivate screens behind each seat with 'educational' content and pre-roll/banner ads. "We're giving kids extra education through new technology and they also learn about the…
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I tried setting up my Mom's computer a few weeks ago. I can't imagine anybody using Windows these days, truly awful CX.
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This PEP doesn't really stop functionality for nearly 3 years and even then it's only with the newest Python version so people can stay on the older version for another 2-3 years of further …
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+1 Change their flag to the Ukrainian one (or the UN or whatever else) if they want to show they're on the side of humanity.
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I'd watch this - seems like solid YouTube content
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There's also the lifecycle cost of the fuel and the power station itself to account for. This is higher for nuclear than for solar/wind.
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I'm not sure how true this article is, hopefully some others in Africa can speak to their personal experiences. For me, when I lived in Kenya English was the lingua franca for official/busin…
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Chestnuts are also perfect for a Winter risotto. The undertones of cooked down shallots with the texture of Arborio rice and the flavor of chestnuts are a perfect combination.
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+1. Why focus on earnings when revenue growth is high?? Obviously you don't want to go out of business and unit earnings need to be reasonable for when you shift from growth to extracting value…
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KUOW ftw!
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100 sheep per day ... with a flat blade since you don't have sheers yet ... while doing all the other chores required to maintain yourself ... accounting for the time it takes for the sheep to gr…
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Your online social milieu is likely getting poorer over time. In the olden days, online meeting grounds like Twitter were elite locations. Now they're commons. I notice this the most on Reddit…
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The lightning to 1/8" adapter is <$10 and very small. Works 100% of the time.
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You're aggregating capabilities pretty broadly. While it might be true that a short person might be able to walk farther and get some special thing, or a small person might be able to get into a…
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Reminds me of a CS professor telling me that a COBOL programmer will never go hungry ... and it's still true :-) MS stack will be high quality and used by clients with $$$ for the rest of your ca…