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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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Anybody tried bar ends on a Peloton? I find that when the instuctor wants you out of the saddle there's not enough resistance to merit the change. This might be because I ride high in the saddl…
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Even in Python, OS differences and architecture differences pop up between testing, staging, and prod. It's annoying and can definitely cause user-facing problems. With Python, some of the reall…
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Yeah I bought one during lockdown and it's great and lower-stick than stainless steel. Better in every way basically.
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That's still 'free'. Every business makes money somewhere and when you're not paying money directly to that business, we generally call that 'free'.
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This is a good example of structuralism. The rules of the game are exactly the same but the rules for determining which piece is next change which strategy is successful.
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AWS Developer Tools | Seattle, NYC, DC, US-based virtual possible | Senior Engineer | Full-Time | https://aws.amazon.com/products/developer-tools/ AWS Dev Tools builds the t…
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1) <10ms should be gray since those are effectively in-region numbers (and it would make the chart easier to understand quickly) 2) Times should be tagged with a theoretical minimum time and how fa…
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Anybody have recommendations for travel somewhere between apple keyboard (the good ones) and mechanical (specifically MX brown that I use now)? I don't care about the technology so much as the t…
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AWS Developer Tools | Seattle, NYC, DC, US-based virtual possible | Senior Engineer/Developer | Full-Time | https://aws.amazon.com/products/developer-tools/ [Note on Lo…
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I believe Mazda was the last without phone home functionality but I that's over as of 2020.
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It's turtles all the way down :-)
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I think they're saying M&S symbol is required for certain areas (not actual winter tires). Most all-seasons have that though.
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[NYC street hawker] Aluminum here! Get yer aluminum here! Only one thousand bucks for high quality aluminum! [brit walks up] I'm looking for aluminium please. Do you have any? [hawker] Sorry can…
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Can duckduckgo or other search engines be customized to only return sites like this, HN, etc... I'm thinking of being able to set parameters like: 1. No tracking pixels/cookies 2. No javasc…
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I'm from NY if it matters. When I hear 'spoonful' in a recipe, I generally think of a regular spoon (one for cereal, but not an oversized one) with a heaping amount of whatever the ing…
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Would be sweet if they had the Voyager spacecrafts too.
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Hmm, maybe it's an American thing but when I say 'travel' it really doesn't include a beach holiday. That would be called 'vacation' or 'a trip'. 'Travel…
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That's their point. If the FAA didn't mandate it you can be sure budget airlines would be taking off and doing routes with one engine broken :-)
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Dear lord I'm getting old ... :-)
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AWS Developer Tools | Seattle, NYC, DC | Senior Engineer/Developer | Full-Time | https://aws.amazon.com/products/developer-tools/ [Note on Location: The team is remote …
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[upvote for reference to Ferrari tractors :-)]
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Based on the other commenter maybe two buttons: start/+30 seconds and power level in 25% increments.
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That sound you hear is the evaporation of billions in pre-IPO Robinhood equity vanishing based on both a poor decision (to disallow buying of a stock that others could still buy) and worse, poor execu…
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There was this great design for a microwave that a UX designer proposed. One button for +30 seconds, no clock, and a door handle. That's it. Everything else is superfluous.
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+1. People can have their own revolutions without it being caused by 'the West'. That's definitely noble savage territory when people say that only the West is capable of creating the…
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Logging is agriculture. This is why the US Forest Service is under the Department of Agriculture.
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AWS Developer Tools | US/Canada Virtual | Senior Engineer/Developer | Full-Time | https://aws.amazon.com/products/developer-tools/ [Note on Location: The team is m…
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Many stronger drugs have acetaminophen in them. I've tried oxycontin and had very little benefit. People should know for themselves what works for their pain but never underestimate the damage …
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Tylenol is really not to be abused. Much better to go heavy with Ibuprofen and remember the old-time drugs like aspirin as well as new ones like naproxen. But really a doctor/nurse is critical i…
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As a driver, cyclist, and pedestrian, I'm reasonably confident that virtually 100% of collisions involving a car and a pedestrian or cyclist involves real mistakes by the driver. I use the 6 yea…