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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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Not yet updated with OS X 10.9
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Solaris broke off from BSD and is based on System V Release 4 ... which is partly based on BSD. It depends on how far back you want to prune the tree. They just wanted to stick with the pure BSDs th…
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So sad. We've been waiting for ZFS (or similar) for years now to no avail. It's one of those things that you know Apple engineers are hitting their head about but there's so much lega…
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Let those people go
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People really like Samsung laptops for Linux as well.
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Nairobi, Kenya http://kili.io -- Launching public cloud to the African continent using OpenStack. Amazon Web Services won't come here so we're building it right now. The company…
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The rest of the world isn't where the money is ... so why would he develop for a market that can't even afford a mac?
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I think it's great for braintree if they get acquired by PayPal. Unfortunately, I won't use their service since PayPal is one of the worst run companies I can think of aside from eBay. The…
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Take a sabbatical and come to Nairobi for a few months. Spend some time coding, some time meeting new people, and some time doing a walkabout: adam@kili.io
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What about Andrea Jung on the board? No hyperlink for her profile and she was fired as CEO of Avon last year ( http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-05/avon-executive-chai...…
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Hmm, I don't know. Seems like much of Wikipedia is by smart people for smart people (like NPR). We all think of Wikipedia as the commons but it's far from it. Most people are on perezhilto…
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Don't leave until you've clarified your equity stake and dotted all your Is and crossed all of your Ts. However, you should then cut your losses and get out of there. Half of a job is with whom you …
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Until the .ke top level domain is signed, we can't really trust the identify of any site under .ke that doesn't use an SSL certificate (i.e. the regular google.co.ke without "https"). http://stats.re…
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Exactly why is this affecting non-spamhaus services? Is it just shared dns servers or actual IP traffic being throttled ?
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It's fine to feel down about failure but please don't feel bad about the investors for a second. They invested in your idea for success, failure is part of that investment. If you're this far down th…
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Canonical should grab him for Ubuntu. Even if he was only there for a year, it would be a great transition for him. If things didn't work out, he could always just say the company wasn't ready for h…
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Exactly. You can't light diesel on fire with just a match. You need more heat or pressure. However, the burn from gasoline or diesel on your body is intense. I was once filling an old junker with …
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While you're right, these are YC applications, not GE. The goal here is to maximize the return for YC and the odds are best that that will happen by letting these applications through. These are futu…
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You're not lazy if you bothered to post that link :-P
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I remember being up in the Anti-Atlas mountains of Morocco and the family we had dinner with had satellite TV but no running water. They had news on (Al Jazeera if I remember - but maybe Al Arabiya o…