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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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People talk about DuckDuckGo as great ... but it returns the same garbage results as Google. I want results for a search where I can exclude those with a number of cookies/js links that would hav…
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Ah, you mean randomart: http://superuser.com/questions/22535/what-is-randomart-produ... …
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Pretty simple, wait until the new one comes out and buy it. One will probably come out in September/October if not earlier: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Retina_MacBook_Pro …
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Gandi is great! I'm a long time user and highly recommend them.
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"If you use any Apple iOS devices to read your mail, you’ll be pleased to know that FastMail, with help from the big A, fully supports iOS push." This is huge! I thought it was just Apple …
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Am I the only one who saw sourceforge.net and didn't click because of the fear of going to such a malware-ridden site?
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Factr | New York, NY | Onsite/Full-time Python/React Developer We're a 5 person shop - serial startup CTO, data scientist, media person, developer formerly at YC-backed startup (Submitt…
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Looks like social media is going down: https://twitter.com/Holbornlolz/status/754044391656914944 …
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The UK is not part of the Schengen zone so being a temporary resident of France would not entitle you to enter the UK.
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I wish I could triple-upvote this comment.
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"Apollo: Atmosphere & Soundtracks" is an incredible album and was written for a documentary (no words) of the Apollo landing. I've always wanted to see the original but it is NOWHE…
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Step 1: Go to a good school where you cultivate great connections.
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Learn how to type well (>30wpm). Literally everything else is secondary. You don't have to be the fastest or most accurate typist, but not having to look at the keyboard while typing pretty …
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Probably a bot creating those users for various reasons.
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He's not totally wrong. If the package is signed and the public key is trusted (the bigger 'if' actually) and the package signature passes - then it doesn't matter how it was tran…
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I just hope they run this as a proper research study. The Millennium Villages weren't set up with controls and so there's very little research value to be gotten from all that effort. Thing…
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I started a new project in Django recently and Python3 was obviously the choice. The nice thing is that if a library doesn't support Python3 then it's a good smell that it's bloated (o…
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For companies like this, do a chargeback through the credit card company. It will cost them with higher transaction fees over time.
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Having lived in Kenya for 2 years, I really don't like these arguments. I'm sure the bank has many pieces of modern equipment (cars, air conditioners, etc...). Good IT equipment really isn…
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The only real solution is a search engine that allows the end user to clip the results based on the maximum size of the total page. I've often wondered why Duck Duck Go doesn't do this as w…
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I would wait for the next generation MBP. Should be in the next few months and a 2013 MBP is very solid and capable.
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Finland is experimenting with this as well (Switzerland might too): https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/12/finland-basic-income/ …
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New York has a $1k/week for life lottery.
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The money saved isn't nearly as important as the reduced complexity and exposure gained from a regular spring cleaning.
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One should think of these requires as like .h files and the underlying code as something like a .c file. They're public definitions with potentially changing underlying code. It's good to h…