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Comment · 4 months ago
And started their career as a sysadmin. I don't know Dana at all, but some of the best kernel and networking people I've met got their start as sysadmins.
Comment · 5 months ago
Somewhat unrelated, but the number of times I have invoked Ableton as a metaphor of challenging the status quo is quite high. I was a Cubase user before Ableton showed up and completely upended the DAW world. And they've kept going.
This is just what I've been looking for. I never warmed to Max for Live for mods. But the extensions SDK I can get behind.
Comment · 1 year ago
Saw him play many times across multiple genres across 3+ decades from straight up classical to world music to electronica/tablatronics. Unfortunately never got to see him perform with John McLaughlin. He must have been 68 the last time I saw him live but still as good as ever. RIP!
Comment · 3 years ago
Kris and I got to know each other a bit over the years. I still remember our first meeting vividly. We met for dinner at a Mexican restaurant in Capitol Hill and spent the evening talking containers, Linux, Kubernetes, and Open Source. This is a tough loss. I will take small in the fact that it happened doing the thing she loved.
Comment · 3 years ago
I've had a Tesla (Model S) since early 2020 and once the initial allure wore offI've missed driving a BMW and once the i5 is here I'll be backing to driving BMW. The supercharger network is by far the reason I've stuck with the Tesla this long, but there's enough options now. The build quality, the drive quality, service quality, all of it is subpar. The Model 3 is a zippy car but the lack of an instrument cluster is a deal breaker for me.
Tesla deserve all the credit for getting everyone else to wake up. But they are so so at making a car I actually want to drive.
Comment · 4 years ago
I used to use a phone as my backup camera when I was out doing bird photography. After a while I gave up. In variable light and high dynamic range conditions phones just don’t hold up (they do a better job with video). If you’re taking snapshots, nothing better than a phone.
Comment · 4 years ago
I sold all my DSLRs over the past 18 months and jumped into the deep end. The lens systems are better, the cameras are better. I love having a histogram in the viewfinder. There's very little reason and battery life has never been an issue (it is for video but that's a different story).
Comment · 4 years ago
I have a 9 year old who’s learning all about synths via a combination of the synths in garage band and my OP1. Great combo IMO
Comment · 4 years ago
I’ve been a long time Spotify user but the difference in quality is very perceptible (to me at least) and I find myself using Apple Music a lot more.
Comment · 5 years ago
lukehoban says it best in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28711903 where he talks about the three things CloudFormation provides.
The Cloud Control API is an API to the resource model. It unlocks the ability for AWS teams to contribute to the resource model without having to worry about the rest of what Cloudformation does. As a service owner interested in contributing to other systems like TF and Pulumi, now I just have to contribute to one thing. In the medium/long term it's going to be a lot more efficient way to evolve how we all use AWS resources in our favorite Infrastructure-as-code systems.
Disclosure: Work at AWS (but not on the CloudFormation team)
Comment · 5 years ago
That's not correct. There were Principal and higher engineers 13 years ago when I joined. 5 years ago, just EC2 had a fairly large number.
Comment · 5 years ago
Amazon has long had a VP-level engineer track (Peter Vosshall was the first IIRC). Colm is very rightly one.
Comment · 6 years ago
Haven't looked in any detail, but as I clicked around the thing that jumped out at me was how many in the "lower comp, higher returns" category were from healthcare/biotech. Wonder if there is a way to slice and dice by industry/segement?
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