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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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New isn't always better. Lots of these types of accidents are because there was a repair or update that caused the failure.
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I was transferring to myself (different bank). The message from the sending bank triggered a push notification from the receiving bank which I approved and the money moved instantly. This works for …
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I used RfP (Request for Payment) today for the first time. It was ~11k USD between IBKR and Chase and the transfer was instant with verification on both sides. It's interesting to see the evolu…
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You're making a nuanced point but it's correct. Good managers can give a little motivation (mostly by talking about and finding the right areas to work on for those people that don't o…
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Roblox is hostile to these controls - best not to even enter the ecosystem.
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There was a low-level Google internal service that worked so well that other teams took a hard dependency on it (against advice). So the internal team added a cron job to drop it every once in a whil…
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Yeah he was the consummate neurotic New Yorker writing for the New Yorker and now in death he has been woven directly into the New Yorker.
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A friend of mine's kid (maybe 10 years ago) started crying when he watched regular TV for the first time. He literally thought the TV was broken when the commercials came on with the volume cran…
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Just a nit but it's the New Yorker, not the NYT.
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Home prices are probably higher now than they would be due to the limited supply due to people being locked into house.
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How is Bitbucket these days in comparison? Is it no longer even a player?
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Not so much different from how people work sometimes though - and in the case of certain types of pscychopathy it's not far at all from the fact that the words being emitted are associated with t…
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> Those are still feelings reserved only for real human beings Those aren't feelings, they are words associated with a negative outcome that resulted from the actions of the subject.
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It's compounded with multiple teams and ownership. So one team's bugs necessitate another team's workarounds.
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Yeah you want to focus on the outside corners of the port and be gentle with the inside contacts.
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The moat gets mighty large when the government regulators start making it bigger. That's one of the advantages that the Mag 7 has now - it's not just the scale but it's also the compli…
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IMHO the best way to deal with that situation is to mark the bug as wontfix. Better to have a policy of always fixing bugs but be more flexible on what counts as a bug (and making sure the list of th…
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Yeah, Joel Spolsky is adamant about this with the "Bugs First" approach and he claims most of the delays and garbage that Microsoft released during the early years of his career were centere…
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They would have to include the UK and it would actually be a good European project (not just EU) to maybe bring them back into the fold.
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Also I'm sure there are university labs that can do similar things as ASML ... the bigger problem is doing it at scale in a repeatable way that can be sold as an actual product and also not infri…
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Not just effectiveness, but speed.
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I think that's a good thing and VC getting back to it's roots. I'm glad that scientists doing AI are getting big money and don't know exactly what the product will be rather than …
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The reason they don't believe in the luck part is because the person suggesting it is just saying, "in addition to everything else you did, luck played a critical part". But the succes…
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Yeah there was this great cartoon many years back where a guy is on his computer and the FBI is looking over his shoulder at his screen. A character named 'Facebook' is pushing him aside an…
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lol you've 'talked' about switching. I'm really surprised that any startup would be on Teams in the first place. I get enterprises but for startups I would think other tools make…
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If the deal is in California's and OpenAI's interests roughly than there is no corruption. Sure they're using their big weapons but there's not a major principal-agent divergence …
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monetization is straightforward - the only question is who gets the money and which business models succeed.
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Depends on the type of engineer - NYC for fintech is also a top spot, Boston for robotics, etc...
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Yeah this is always my worry about the global warming debate. It's a crisis for sure but there are so many local initiatives that can be taken around ecosystem protection that are cheap and don&…