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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.
recent activity (1,341 total)
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Existence risk here is HUGE. If GCP doesn't move the needle, Google will shut it down. AWS is a much more living organism and I can't see Amazon shutting it down before their drones take o…
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I'd like to use PyPy but all of my new projects are Python3.
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Everybody's focused on graph databases here but let's talk about Cray! One of the most forward-thinking computer technology companies ever to exist is starting to get out there again. If t…
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Internet pioneers used to invent tools of communication like email, TCP/IP, DNS - now the pioneers are building walled gardens like Facebook, Twitter, Google :-/
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Gandi and Namecheap have quite good security models for normal prices.
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It seems like having a small tool to turn yaml files into basic clojure code for easy rulesets would be an easy extension. It might encourage Bad behavior and of course it couldn't do everything…
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The actual article. The Discover Magazine synopsis doesn't meet Hacker News calibre: http://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/2015/12/mhst1-1512.html …
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I believe this has been done for decades - am I wrong? Even Lava lamps have been used for rng ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand ).…
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I guess I thought this was common knowledge. I've stayed away from working at Amazon for a while now based on stories from other tech people I know. It's not a top-tier place to work outsi…
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I used to use construction 'headphones'. They do nothing but dampen outside noise - no music. It's a pretty good solution ... but a solution to a stupid problem because the right solu…
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I'm really surprised at how many people in this thread are Windows users frankly. I just presumed that most YC commenters were OS X/Linux people with a few FreeBSD, etc.. OSes floating arou…
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bern…
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Everybody's talking about the time situation here, but what about the fact that the world's clocks will gain a second and the site announcing the fact isn't even signed and secure. It …
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OkHI is funded, has a great team and is rolling in Kenya: http://www.okhi.com/ Their mission is to give everybody in the world an address. Something that people in the West take for …
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Can you try to get the juno repo up? It's pretty bad that the add-apt-repository command at http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/tools/lxd don't even work on Ubuntu 14.04.…
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No 911 service here in Kenya :-(
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Get a new 15" rMBP for OS X and take your old MBP and boot directly to Win7 on there.
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That's not a workaround - but yes, these things need to be upgraded. They're probably unmaintained anyway since good networking departments don't want to be working with super old gear…
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I'm all about this but what about third party static sites like everything on Github Pages? We're using Github to host http://kili.io which has all of our marketing material but…
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me too, but I'm in Kenya. Maybe they just did US users first?
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Now with libcloud ( http://libcloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/compute/drivers/ ) you can use multiple platforms in order to get all continents represented. Including…
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Having lived in Kenya for the past year and a half, I can say that this is definitely a problem. Addressing isn't just an issue for people but also for efficient delivery systems. FedEx drivers…
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We should remember though that the earth does not revolve around the sun. They revolve around each other in an ellipse. Practically speaking, the ellipse heavily 'favors' the sun such that …
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Yeah, and what's up with Japan
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'Upgrade' and a sourceforge link don't usually go together :-/ I'm a zsh user but am surprised that you guys are still using sourceforge instead of github.