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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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It's third now and keep in mind that PHP is 3 times as old as the iPhone so you're dealing with momentum issues also. Most sites more than 5 years old are PHP and the switching costs are too high to …
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I think this issue changes monthly, and people care about it - otherwise it wouldn't make the front page.
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"was" being the operative verb. This was two years ago. Nonetheless, I just looked at those three links and IMHO, the Django docs are more concise and well-organized: http://docs.djangoproject.com/e…
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I picked Django because: * The documentation was better than Rails
* Python is more useful outside of Django than Ruby is outside of Rails
* The Python syntax seemed easier to read Since then, I've …
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Why not use a js ntp library? http://jehiah.cz/a/ntp-for-javascript Then have a dedicated ntpd daemon running. That will be way more extensible, maintainable, and scalability than a custom C progra…
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Obviously a management issue. 40 Perl developers is overkill on many levels. If I were a Perl developer who wanted to live in Amsterdam, I would be scared of a place looking for 40 people - it means …
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That secret key is not the one in our production repository. We overwrite our development settings in other files. Regardless, the Django secret_key isn't used to control systems or access data :-) -…
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Yipit's hiring a new developer as employee #6: * http://yipit.com/about/jobs/ * http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/07/daily-deal-aggregator-yipit... …
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Does anybody know configuration options for managing this BTW?
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One of their prime arguments is about the 4KB bucket available for random numbers on a standard Linux installation. Couldn't/Shouldn't that be raised to 1MB or so for server installations and that wo…
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What about some of the current crop of procedural languages - I've heard alot of trading firms use them.
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Lenovo (IBM) has the best naming convention of the ones I've dealt with. Dell's site is so confusing and abyssmal that I simply could not help a friend buy a PC - had to go with HP. This will be the …
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The configuration file for Nginx is much simpler.
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There's a reputable company behind it - I'm not so concerned. A major project (+$1M product budget), should probably be exporting the data regularly though.
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I think an MS is the way to go. You may even meet a cofounder in the program and drop out. Just getting books is not going to give you the same experience and education level as a year or more on a …
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I should add that these are non-noise canceling and aren't great with lots of noise. Look for closed headphones if you want noise blocking (but not noise canceling).
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I like my Sennheiser HD595
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I'm not totally surprised about Ruby becoming less important - more people are moving to iPhone/iPad development and existing infrastructures (i.e. PHP) are staying static.
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Even for a site the size of Reddit, an outsourced emailer is the way to go. I use AuthSMTP.net but there are probably better ones for higher volume.