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wizwit999

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- founder @ Matano

- email me at samroseahmed at gmail dot com

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wizwit999··on Show HN: Parallel Arabic – Arabic reading and writing practice
I like the format but these seem grammatically incorrect written down in arabic, e.g. missing articles etc, I guess you're going for street Arabic but you should have it in fusha, it's easier to go other way around
wizwit999··on Airtable acquires Airplane
An acqui-hire one year after a $32M round, oof.
wizwit999··on Choosing Go at American Express (2019)
I say this as a personal rust fan, but practically if a language like a combination of Kotlin+Go existed, that'd be like an awesome standard business language. Kotlin is good but just very tied to the JVM, Go has a hostile syntax/developer experience. Another way to frame it is like Rust with a garbage collector. Most biz APIs don't really need zero cost abstractions of Rust.
wizwit999··on Summing columns in remote Parquet files using DuckDB
you know there's this great abstraction over files we came up with in the data world called 'tables'..
wizwit999··on GraalVM for JDK 21
ye even less relevant for that usecase with snapstart.
wizwit999··on Removing garbage collection from the Rust language (2013)
yes something like kotlin + go would be excellent
wizwit999··on Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3
Apache Iceberg is kind of this, but more oriented around large data lake datasets.
wizwit999··on A Software as a Service (SaaS) log collection framework
This is nice! In Matano, we take a similar approach but with Rust + serverless for pulling SaaS logs (https://github.com/matanolabs/matano/tree/main/lib/rust/log_...) and storing them in a data lake.
wizwit999··on Big data is dead
Perhaps this is true for business data (though I'm skeptical of the claims), but, for example, for security data, this isn't true at all. Collecting cloud, identity, SaaS, and network logs/data can easily exceed hundreds of terabytes. A big reason why we're building Matano as a data lake for security.

It seems an odd pitch in general to say, hey my product specifically performs poorly on large datasets.

wizwit999··on Launch HN: Matano (YC W23) – Open-Source Security Lake Platform (SIEM) for AWS
Thank you, fixed the link!
wizwit999··on Ask HN: Is there a Jupyter Notebook for terminal/shell
the new warp.dev terminal is kinda similar tho not exactly
wizwit999··on Devirtualizing nike.com's bot protection
I wonder, why doesnt Nike just add ID verification, is the friction too much?

I mean these people queue in lines so I would think not, and the new ID verification apps are pretty seamless (upload a pic of self and ID).

wizwit999··on Twilio’s toll fraud problem
What's in it for the fraudster here?
wizwit999··on Ask HN: What's a build vs. buy decision that you got wrong?
I would suggest you to learn about serverless platforms like Lambda and Cloud Functions. Hint: it's not about the setup.
wizwit999··on Thousands trapped on Pine Ridge burn clothes for warmth in wake of storm
I mean it works both ways, e.g. thousands of sq km of Russia and Canada become would likely become fertile agricultural land.
wizwit999··on Our Reporting at Twitter
Read this article to learn what a hypocrite this woman is on 'free speech' : https://theintercept.com/2018/03/08/the-nyts-bari-weiss-fals...
wizwit999··on Elastic UI – Component library for data-driven web apps
https://cloudscape.design surprisingly practical
wizwit999··on Laid Off Twitter Employee looking for referrals. Recent interview
Why would you post this and ask for referrals, he's clearly not representing himself the best.
wizwit999··on Automating Cloud Security
Good points, I'm building an open source security lake platform for AWS (https://github.com/matanolabs/matano) that lets you ingest petabytes of data and write detections as code, all in your AWS account. We take an IaaC approach so everything from config to detections is managed as code in Git.
wizwit999··on Ask HN: What are some blog posts that you have enjoyed going through?
I can't disagree with this article more and it's exactly why Twitter is ridiculously over engineered. I remember chatting with a Twitter DevOps guy and there's multiple internal Grafana clones instead of just using Grafana.
wizwit999··on I hate living in my tiny house (2019)
His bathroom doesn't have a basin so he goes to the loo and washes his hands in the kitchen sink over his dishes... that's disgusting.
wizwit999··on GitHub Codespaces, Coder, and Enterprise Customers
You can smell the fear.
wizwit999··on Twitter was doing a lot of high ROI engineering work
That's the problem Twitter over engineers every single thing way too much.
wizwit999··on Rust and C++ Interoperability
Well the repeated obfuscation between 'product' and 'code' when someone asked you how an open source project with an Apache License can depend on your project. Realistically, there's no way a project with a fully permissive license like Apache/MIT can use your project.

You say:

> The GPL is a good fit for open source users

As the thread tells you, it's clearly not for the many Apache/MIT licensed Rust projects that cannot use your GPL licensed code.

Again you say:

> With the GPL, we are happy to let open source users use the library for free. Commercial users still will be able to use the library because of the escape hatch of the dual license.

You make this differentiation between commercial and open source users while conveniently ignoring that the most permissively open source projects (Apache/MIT) are practically prevented from using your software.

At least with BSL, projects are honest about what they're doing. Don't play both sides.

wizwit999··on Remix web framework aquired by Shopify
Everyone raised seed funding recently, I wonder what was even their idea of monetization.
wizwit999··on Launch HN: Paigo (YC S22) – Measure and bill SaaS customers based on usage
Heads up, you forgot to handle confused deputy in your IAM Role policy: (In 'Configuring IAM role' at https://docs.paigo.tech/ can't link to a page), which means anyone can pass a role (e.g. for another user) and you'll assume it.

Check out https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/confused-de... for how to handle it. You need to require and use an 'ExternalId'.

wizwit999··on Elasticsearch SQL
Even DynamoDb has one

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerg...

wizwit999··on What happened when my wife died
I would search every cloud.
wizwit999··on China Congress: How one man on a bridge marred Xi Jinping's big moment
This article reads like it was written by the CIA.
wizwit999··on OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries from OpenAPI Specs
It's actually used for the new AWS SDKs but yeah fairly new.
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