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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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Most people on this list have done similar shenanigans on Windows and Linux too. No OS/manufacturer comes without these kinds of edgecases.
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What's your local rate?
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Map and compass seems excessive for most. Even if you live in a very rural area you probably know the surrounding 5 miles by heart (I do at least). More critical imho is making sure your gas tank is…
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Get the Apple Silicon. If it doesn't meet your expectations, return it and get the Intel one. Returns are trivial with Apple if within 2 weeks (might be longer now with covid).
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This is helpful. Would be nice to have this be a large table with all the active states mixed together. I could just visit this page and look for changes since I last looked.
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Definitely not carbon neutral: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2019/12/02/5-reason... …
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Wouldn't it be more correct to refer to Al-Jahiz as an Arab scholar? It's not like we call Darwin a Christian scholar.
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3.5 is the minimum supported version. Make sure the powers that be know that there is little logic in supporting 3.4 or below.
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We all should be worried about these conspiracies. They're growing in intensity and are corrosive.
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Why can't governments receive these donations? Do any benefactors currently give to governments (not via taxes, actually just give)? I know Ted Turner did it with the UN Foundation, although tha…
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AWS Developer Tools | US/Canada Virtual | Front-End Developer | Full-Time | https://aws.amazon.com/products/developer-tools/ [Note on Location: The team is mostly in Se…
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As someone who works at a 24/7 retail company, I can say that if the orders stop flowing, somebody gets called to fix it (even if nobody's boxing it right then and there). B&H has it se…
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My understanding is that making a non–Jewish person work on the Sabbath is also forbidden. Granted, this was just a schoolmate of mine in Brooklyn saying this but I have no reason to doubt the claim.…
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We're talking about lowering the $23MM estate lower bound to a smaller number. That was the reason I asked for numbers. Nobody works hourly and has $23MM.
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I'm actually surprised how many people on this board are given so much and are still so selfish. I suppose I answered my own question.
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Can you give real numbers? How much are you currently expecting your kids to receive post-tax after your death under existing regulations? How much would it be under the proposals?
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The only reason you think long term is for your children and not their wider community or society?
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It's not so much they think they can get away with it as the dehumanization is sufficient to override their moral apprehensions.
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China is the second most powerful country on the planet and the multilateral orgs are a political field to control just like any other. China (and the US, EU, Russia, etc..) will always work hard to …
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AWS Developer Tools | Seattle, Bay Area, NYC, DC, others | Developer | Full-Time | (Remote until post-COVID19) | https://aws.amazon.com/products/developer-tools/ [Note on Lo…
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AWS Developer Tools | Seattle, Bay Area, NYC, DC, others | Developer | Full-Time | (Remote until post-COVID19) | https://aws.amazon.com/products/developer-tools/ [Note on Lo…
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I really like the mStand: https://www.raindesigninc.com/mstand.html It is solid metal with lots of airflow underneath.…
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Solution here is generic knobs that can be assigned to different functions: Temp, fan speed, volume, for those with kids fader control :-)
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The confirmed cases number is effectively useless without models for extrapolating into an estimated infection count. Presumptive cases aren't bothering to be tested, asymptomatic cases rarely te…
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AWS Developer Tools | Seattle (Remote until post-COVID19) | Developer | Full-Time | ONSITE | https://aws.amazon.com/products/developer-tools/ AWS Dev Tools builds the tools …
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Sounds like you need a minivan, not a truck
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AWS Developer Tools | Seattle, Berlin | Developer, PM, UX | Full-Time | ONSITE | https://aws.amazon.com/products/developer-tools/ AWS Dev Tools builds the tools that we all …
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When the splits are that old we call them "schisms" :-)
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:-) Actually CERN would get that $$$
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Which countries have less bizarre and byzantine securities laws?