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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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I'm sympathetic to the airline execs who feel this way - they're right (technically). However, they're missing the forest for the trees. Their processes are so bad that this type of th…
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"The security properties of a collision resistant hash function, ensure that a modification results in a very different hash." I really appreciate the clarity of this post. The author is bu…
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I wanted to try Flask but it didn't have Python3 support when I looked into it. Django+Django Rest Framework are awesome. We do actually use templates for some emails so it's one of the tim…
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No biggie. We use Django Rest Framework to drive the API on top of Django and React as the front-end single page web app. Works great!
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Not really - maybe related to some other crime but that would have all been figured out in the immunity offer beforehand.
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Get out!
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That sounds amazing! You can get a PO Box at a USPS location and then creep on everybody else's PO Box mail???
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She's really trying to say that the government manages the physical grid monopoly with no overlying network. Networks pay for access. Otherwise there are multiple fiber runs and waste.
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Wow!
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I'm kind of confused. For example, if you have a glass sphere and then you take all of the atoms out of the sphere so that it's a complete vacuum, isn't that some sort of absolute zero…
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quicksort would be fine too :-)
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People should also read Down and Out in Paris and London - a fantastic book about being a poor vagabond in England and France.
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If you're security minded, don't use Dropbox for syncing (or at all - it's kind of a mediocre service these days).
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https://djangopackages.org/ does that for Django packages. Most big Django packages have an underlying big Python package.…
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So rarely is speed actually needed. If you need the speed though, just write a library in C/Fortran/Go and call it from Python. That way you can do all your business logic where it's …
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We'll never know the value of 3 overpasses being made more earthquake resistant or the other safety improvements (typical NYTimes that they don't even research the issue). I hate these arti…
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You should be looking for another job unless you absolutely love your organization. Just look, you don't need to accept any offers.
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This would need to be done in Python itself, not Maya. I'd be strongly in favor of it though.
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Suggestions: 1. Do a list results view like Google - you're competing on so many levels that you don't want to challenge standards unless you have massive justifications that you're UX …
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Magical - they're beautiful in a way that is 'magical' Reinvent - well it certainly seems like a reinvention of the wireless headphone. What else would it be? Not possible before - wit…
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Urban myth ... https://books.google.com/books?id=EtnyT44_c1EC&pg=PA44&lpg=P... …
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That's not relevant, if I have 10 cars and you need a car ... then all that matters to you is that you need a car, not that I have 10 cars sitting there doing nothing. People sitting on IPv4 add…
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Where in Africa? I was setting up IaaS in Nairobi 2 years ago (couldn't get enough funding unfortunately). We should connect adam at varud.com
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That was the theory with the first clocks to go on ships ... but then John Harrison realized that smaller can be just about as good for a significantly more useable product: https://en.wiki…
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Ansible is just a program - I'm not sure where the confusion lies. You can use Chef (Ruby) to deploy Python apps after all ... the version of Python used by Ansible is totally irrelevant to the …