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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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Python 3.4 is EOL anyway so there's no need to do this. Anybody running 3.4 is already unsupported.
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The ignition source is really not relevant, that's the final step in a long chain and will happen naturally at some point. We should just disregard the arson narrative entirely (not that it shou…
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That's super simplistic. Nobody magically 'has' anything. They need to do stuff (like this) to get anything.
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Seems like Kansas City and Salt Lake City are the major nodes in the middle of the country? I like this Internet2 map because it's simple: https://noc.net.internet2.edu/ Which w…
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To me the biggest annoyance of json is there's no standard way to put comments in there. What's the point of a text-based serialization format if it can't carry comments??? It has one …
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GNU coreutils are also available (and useful) on MacOS.
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Glasses are the least risky. If you're using contacts however, you're taking more of a risk with your eyes than surgery.
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They removed USB-A about a year before they should have, but now the industry has moved on. We can talk about it as a mistake in the past, but it would be wack to put USB-A back onto these devices.
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Weird that San Francisco has the entire West Coast. It seems like a new Pacific Northwest bank should be created to better spread the load (Minneapolis is currently the smallest one, maybe that one c…
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AWS Developer Tools | Seattle | Software Engineer/Manager, Product, UX | Full-Time | ONSITE | https://aws.amazon.com/products/developer-tools/ AWS Dev Tools builds the …
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Does this include delivery? That's the missing link I always notice with non-airport car rental.
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> what's a relevant incident in this context? The typical pattern should be to block the promotion but allow the operator to override the block manually. The automated process fails safe (not…
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"Why should they do that?" is the better question. The tenets of Debian include stability. Having packages that may break at any time with no recourse is not stable.
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It's an important distinction that many people forget:
* Hash tables need speed and uniformity
* Cryptographic hashes need irreversibility
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Seems like an annoying password to type.
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AWS Developer Tools | Seattle | Software Engineer, Product Manager | Full-Time | ONSITE | https://aws.amazon.com/products/developer-tools/ AWS Dev Tools builds the tools tha…
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That's not totally true. I remember as a kid going to my grandfather's farm in Iowa and there would be an alfalfa rotation every 6 years I believe. Now they don't bother with that any…
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AWS Developer Tools | Seattle | Developer, Product Manager, UX | Full-Time | ONSITE | https://aws.amazon.com/products/developer-tools/ AWS Dev Tools builds the tools that we…
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This California effect of lax regulation is also credited with the move of motion picture production from NYC to Hollywood in the early 20th century.
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This is 100% true. You need mechanisms that validate and verify that trust (real stock or standard options, documented legal contracts, etc..) AND you need to have the personal trust in the board…
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The real thing you realize here is that Tesla is a software company (and it will eat the world). Getting a hotfix out that fast is the proof in the pudding.
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When it was really cold outside my dog would find frozen poop and gnaw on it. Yum!
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AWS Developer Tools | Seattle | Developer | Full-Time | ONSITE | https://aws.amazon.com/products/developer-tools/ AWS Dev Tools builds the tools that we all use for software…
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AWS Developer Tools | Seattle, NYC, Berlin | Developer | Full-Time | ONSITE | https://aws.amazon.com/products/developer-tools/ AWS Dev Tools builds the tools that we all use…
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Have you examined organic cotton?
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Gentle reminder that Python 2 only has 17 months left...
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What's interesting for me is that I finally deleted my account. I never used it anyway but now I feel empowered to say "I don't have an FB account" and that's ok. I think thi…
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The bigger problem is recruiting. How many offers will be declined in favor of Google, startups, etc...
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Solnitsata doesn't look like it was managed by an empire. Garum was.