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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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We use Ansible (system 2.7) but our code is written in 3.5. I'm not sure what you're talking about since never the twain shall meet. It's BAD to use the system Python for any of your …
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Not sure why supervisor matters, it's just a program. It's the same thing as Homebrew running Ruby - totally doesn't matter what version they're using.
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We're a Python shop but all of our Ansible work is just YAML. Ansible is a program more than a library so it's almost irrelevant what version of Python they use. Now, of course it's h…
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Just a quick poll. Is anybody still using MacPorts or anything else? If so, why?
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I'm going to ditto the positive comments. Kudos to the maintainers - not just for the package itself but for growing it. They successfully went from a hacky page with some scripts, to a big gia…
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> Again, you can't dismiss the civil war as 'partisan' because one political party wanted slaves and the other did not. 'partisan' is not a dismissive word and you can cer…
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In NYC they have a big giant binder with all the registered voters in the precinct. You sign when voting so can only do it once (unless you vote out-of-precinct). It's extremely old-school but …
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It shouldn't have the NYTimes logo and it should be op-ed, not opinion in that case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed …
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@ones_and_zeros is right, it's hyper partisan. The content (as thin as it is), is true ... but for the NYTimes to use a game produced by GOP Games, who only produce satire of Trump, is really le…
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You walk four hours each workday? Why not bike?
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I agree, and smart of pg to stick to the most defensible reason not to have the death penalty. Even in a world where we know the killer is a killer though, it's unethical to do it.
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Try out https://factr.com - we're building out a concept called Streams which will help with digests and finding all the information on a given topic.…
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Any (Linux/UNIX) stack works. We're not big enough to be doing much training language-wise so you'd have to be excited to learn more Python or JavaScript if you don't know those w…
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Yup! https://factr.com
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Factr | New York, NY | Python3/ReactJS/AWS Factr helps international organizations (UN, etc..), teams, and individuals find and share the information they need so they can make better decisi…
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Is anybody selling those tokens?
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The difference of a fixed percentage on a variable cost is very minor. If you're recommending a $100 monitor with a 4% affiliate fee, that's $4. A $150 monitor is $6. Making good recommen…
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I'm American and there are people from all over the world casually weighing in about America on HN. That's totally OK. Let's not have a double standard and let's be free to have …
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People generally say Azure suits the enterprise, AWS suits tech-driven companies (i.e. those where the CEO knows what an API is), and Google supports special/hobby projects. Google is probably a…
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I wish this was retroactive :-(
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Just cmd+shift+v pastes without formatting ... which is often just whatever is in the target. The explicit 'with formatting' paste is hard to remember though.
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I'm pretty sure Mountain Lion no longer gets security patches. They're kind of vague about it. Basically, they only really support the previous release of OSX (macOS) and that's it.
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I used to love Sendgrid but they seem to be slowing down development these days. Their interface hasn't changed much in the past few years and their Python libs/docs are ok but not great. I…
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Until the 20th century, no human had been on either pole of Earth either.
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Just to clarify my own comment, I would want to see attributes like TTL made part of the queue, not part of the job.
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Workq would be far better if it followed the AMQP ( https://www.amqp.org/ ) or SQS ( https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/ ) specs and terminology. There's already a lar…
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I just wish we could access the OED (or the Shorter OED) in an open way. The iOS app is apparently terrible. I would gladly pay.
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PEP 495 - Local Time Disambiguation (folding) handles this in Python 3.6 quite elegantly: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0495/ It adds an extra attribute 'fol…
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What about precision? There is the Date object with day-precision and the Datetime object with microsecond precision ... but nothing else. There's no canonical way in Python with any library th…