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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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"Spices were the first foods to be subjected to capitalist and imperialist processes of production and distribution." Wheat and other staples have been used for such purposes for thousands o…
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Amazon Alexa | Seattle, Sunnyvale, Boston | Engineers & Data Scientists | ONSITE Alexa converts natural language into great experiences. The Machine Learning team that I'm on has lots of gre…
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The big secret is that bio-equivalent and generic drugs sometimes aren't effective! http://cmlnetwork.ca/generic-imatinib-is-it-really-the-same/ http://cml-iq.com…
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Germany has very strong privacy laws which is one of the reasons Amazon dropped an AWS region there. Customers are paying a premium for the jurisdiction.
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Have fun! Often doing things that are actually fun are the cheapest - like buying an old wind-up record player and some 78s from the Salvation Army and having a picnic with your friends (or a date!)
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Anything that doesn't spark joy in your heart - read Marie Kondo's “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing”
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NHTSA testing, unlike IIHS tests, doesn't test hitting a pedestrian as I understand. That should be part of the test.
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I really like https://appear.in/ Web-based, supports notification, Slack integration, custom urls.
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Yeah, but having worked as a dishwasher in a restaurant means I wasn't doing much else besides leaving school, getting to work, coming home smelling like fish, showering at 11pm and getting up th…
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a rhetorical question - very useful for getting one's point across.
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They're already examining him for the ability to suppress fear (terror?) that would stop mere mortals
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It will be awesome if the Space Gray keyboard/mouse are only available with the iMac Pro and not independently. Then they'll be must-haves :-)
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Would definitely choose iOS over Windows any day of the week. Luckily, I can get both macOS and iOS so no worries.
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I went to grad school in the middle of a startup. Probably cost me a million dollars. I learned so much, met great people, and met my future wife. I wouldn't have made a different decision any…
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Are there concrete recommendations for being able to use a credit card (i.e. for an airline purchase where cash is tough) and maintain maximum privacy? I know Apple Pay helps vis-a-vis the merchant s…
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When you say 'freedom', you mean 'liberty'. Read up on the words and the Federalist Papers - you'll enjoy it.
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Amazon has to lower tax bills wherever possible - it's their fiduciary duty. Nonetheless, the governments can and should be far more aggressive about this. And Seattle, Oregon, and the US at la…
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If you upgrade early and often, life will be tough but consistently so. If the operation is big, roll the patches. If you know there's a problem ... it should never take 3 months to fix. If it…
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The comments below point out that the numbers or the math may be right or wrong but one lesson for people choosing a career: 1. Industry matters big time! 2. Reputation of the teams your on matters bi…
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Cool Tom Clancy premise but the CIA and NSA are looking pretty tarnished with their core data processes leaking publicly. This costs them a ton of political capital. They have channels to give the v…
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The rich have better lawyers on their side and get better terms. Still, the rich get screwed too. They just have more resources to handle it (or they become unrich).
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And regulated - you have to be approved for margin trading by the brokerage.
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The problem is the article is just wrong. Speed camera tickets go down very quickly after being installed because people know that they'll get a ticket: http://www.nydailynews.com…
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Weak article - nothing really about driving on other country's roads (Germany is an excellent example). In Germany, the autobahn is unlimited speed but in other areas, it's quite strict and…
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The USMC have had a few more years to work their principles out.
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You should check it out and see. The implicit precursor to "right, alot" is that you're trying things that might be wrong. Don't just try things for kicks, have some intention th…
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Soldiers die all the time during training exercises, let alone actual deployment. Dehydration is definitely a cause: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2362942/Soldiers…
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They should do the responsible thing and give it to ARIN. They don't 'own' the IPs and really have no right to sell them. With that said, they basically built the Internet so I won…
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Only on HN would somebody compare the United incident to Rosa Parks in the segregated South.
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The whole visa system should be abolished and anybody that can afford a plane ticket should be allowed to live and work in the US.