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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 not just that it's compressed - the OS is also intelligently handling which memory should be on hardware vs. virtual. Effectively a lot of the memory concerns have been offloaded to th…
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A lot of that is on the OS vendors (and security requirements drive some inefficiencies that didn't used to be needed either).
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Agree that the whiteboard thing is often not applicable but it's so nice when a developer has efficient code if only because it indicates that they know what's going on and also that there a…
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I know it'a a bit of a pivot but the following would make me move: 1/ eSIM activation outside the US
2/ The family plan is weird. My wife and I don't want to manage two separate b…
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Oh ... they don't care about the taxes their workers are paying :-)
Apple probably got a nice little abatement for 20 years so they're doing ok.
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Agree - but in the US so much more could and should be done at the primary and secondary level before we even talk about the tertiary one. It's actually pretty good compared to other developed c…
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Yeah I'm pretty nervous about engineers in charge. Merkel is interesting because her dad was reverend in the East. My reading of her is more that she was smart and there were good options in ph…
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It's bifurcated. Big Tech used it to increase the labor pool local to their existing development centers. The consultancies used it to drive down unit costs.
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In narrow terms this is bad for Indian entrepreneurs since it drives up engineering costs for them. It's good for Indian tech employees though since they can demand higher compensation. In broad…
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I'm an outsider (not Catholic, raised Methodist) who just happens to be attending church this year; I'm not a member. The church is interesting because it's an immigrant church which i…
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That's the ethos of the entire tiny home movement. Large houses consume a lot of time and mental energy just to maintain them and to walk from one side to the other. I noticed it a lot moving f…
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Yeah, also Hetzner is smart enough to realize that a lot of people are moving to them who are "Buy EU"-driven and are less price sensitive (certainly the most valuable ones are). Hopefully …
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Pinterest is so bad it's one of those sites I just skip over on search results. But it's been that way for years - nothing new.
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Sunscreen for the face should just be daily. My dermatologist recommends it even in Berlin in the Winter. And then, this is most critical, use mineral or at least creamy sunscreen (sprays barely do a…
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A bit OT but if your house is so big that you can't even hear the laundry buzzer it seems like the size of the house itself is a stressor.
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A bit OT but you may want a side loader. It's obviously not ideal to leave it overnight but the few times that's happened to me there isn't any mold. I'm guessing you have a top …
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Yeah I think that happened to me yesterday. We had a new priest (actually retired and visiting) and the homily was 10x more engaging than the normal ones. I fear that the rest of the congregation di…
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I'll answer - too many bots and most communities don't demand high quality comments. I still use it though - it's my only social network (although I don't think it's really a…
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Are there any keyboard stores where you can try a lot of these out?
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I went back - really don't like the wobble of the Kinesis keys. Ironically I prefer just an Apple keyboard since it matches my laptop (making going back and forth easy).
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It's sort of a small country but bigger than Finland, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, Qatar. It's actually right about in the middle in terms of population.
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And people will still say 'Just painting a bus lane for a few miles cost $20MM!!! Uggah duggah' :-/
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This is real and there's no way to get these problems down to zero. However I do believe that the best first step is to make sure the government has more employees and fewer contractors. It wil…
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In some cases yes. Tor for instance was created by the USG and is not easily controlled by the USG.
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Yeah I hard disagree with their statement. I've come to observe with having kids (and also moving to Germany and seeing other kids shaped) that so so much is taught. There is a ton born into a k…
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PayPal was a counterparty so if one side didn't pay or there was a dispute then PayPal was stuck in the middle. Visa and MC are just payment networks and have minimal risk. The only risk I thin…
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Cards are really slow and expensive to distribute and (tech forward) people would also prefer to just use their phone or watch. This is the kind or project that will take years to work and almost eve…
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If true they would have told the Russians and the Chinese and yes everybody will know after the fact. But for various reasons they might not want to disclose ahead of time in case Trump gets talked o…
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'flooding'??
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Only in theory - they went through years and decades of hell already so it's not like people are going to try to emulate it just in case it works. Anyway, countries like America "contain mu…