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> For those saying "Chaos Engineering", first off, the poster is well aware of Chaos Engineering. He's an AWS Hero and the founder of Tarsnap.

Yeah, but did he win the Putnam?

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For reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

Same thread where Drew from "getdropbox.com" says he also has a "sync and backup done right" idea...

Brilliant! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35103

i like how the guy recovered with "Just the once, though, huh?"

2007 HN was highly entertaining

Further context for those of us not in North America: "Putnam" refers to a undergrad mathematics competition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lowell_Putnam_Mathemat...

He did, but that particular accolade didn't seem relevant. :)

> He's an AWS Hero

I don't pay much heed to AWS Heroes. My city has an "AWS Hero" who hoarded the organization of the official AWS meetup for themself, and who is infamous for making liberal use of Cunningham's Law [1] for everything.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law

I don't pay much heed to AWS Heroes.

Honestly, I don't either. There's a handful of us who are technical and a huge number whose contributions are primarily marketing.

And Colin isn't anything like that. At all. So aim that anger where it should be directed.

AWS Hero, Microsoft MVP.. something about those sorts of recognition seem to attract certain types of people - types seeking the limelight - often not particularly good, ethical, moral, or pleasant types.

This sounds like a legit complaint. Does anyone call them out on this?

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