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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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Mid-2010 15" MBP with secondary 27" Viewsonic. Sennheiser 595 headphones, Magic Mouse, Full-sized Apple Keyboard. All the other developers have MBAs or Retina MBPs and Thunderbolt Displays :-/
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NY - Python You will work with the best 13 person team of developers in the city. Onsite only. Just email me directly: adam@yipit.com We sponsor visas and will help with relocation.
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* Open floor plan works very well (i.e. everybody in one large room) and is much better than divided rooms.
* Have 4 rooms (with doors) available for talking on the phone, playing games, meeting, br…
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These companies should NOT switch from GoDaddy. Let's just make sure that everybody starts using Namecheap or Gandi (or something else) and if they have the resources available do the move only then.
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I have to imagine that the title was written by a non-native english speaker - or it was a crude joke. In this day and age, I can't imagine a native english speaker using gendered language in this si…
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It seems like it's more like Audi computer vs. Honda computer: 1. Price matters 2. Key metrics like HP are used in sales brochures to most buyers 3. Metrics like 0-60 time or torque will be available …
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This is fantastic news - now if only they would just cut the cord. The US Chamber of Commerce is straight out of the 50s and they need to wake up to the fact that innovative businesses want an open m…
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It's always a challenge to get more posts out but we're committed to it :-)
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The stack is all Python (2.7) using Django (1.3) on Ubuntu (11.04) and it works great. Python is fantastically easy to program and Django does plenty of heavy lifting. We use the ORM in about 95% of t…
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All my new domains are on Gandi. Another advantage is their broad selection of TLDs. Domain names are too valuable to nickel and dime.
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It would take more than a law to block reelection for sitting legislators - it would take a Constitutional amendment. I'd like to see Buffet get that done in 5 minutes.
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You make it out like definitive proof is necessary for escalation. Don't forget the Lusitania, the battleship Maine, the Reichstag Fire. All of them had ambiguous causes at the time but severely esc…
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Skitch ( http://skitch.com/ ) is my favorite Mac app in terms of usability. Of course, I need simple screen capture software (not everybody does).
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@spolsky Why are you so invested in this? If a CEO has nothing good to say, he needs to say nothing. That's his fiduciary responsibility and I'm sure the board has the same opinion.
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1) Working with a few possibilities is easier than 40 hours of openings. Especially if those possibilities are pre-selected. 2) Not if they have a busy schedule. 3) If their schedule is that busy, the…
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Aren't we done with this kind of language for titles?
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Disregard the 'whichever one is best for you' answers - those aren't helpful. The only hard and fast rule is to use a framework. WordPress, Drupal, Rails, Django are all frameworks. I personally use…