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> wait for you to send them the books I think the story was that in the really early days, orders were fulfilled by hand by humans looking at a screen or a pri
by nlawalker 5y ago
> wait for you to send them the books
I think the story was that in the really early days, orders were fulfilled by hand by humans looking at a screen or a printed page. No one was expecting to see a negative value, so in the fast-paced fulfillment workflow, the negative sign was missed or interpreted as a separator. Your account would get credited and you'd receive a book!
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoFalse version. The negative quantity part was partially true, but it didn't result in you getting a book. Source: guy that wrote the code.
- hasmolo 5y agothis is great, i hope you don't have to work anymore!
- xtracto 5y agoThanks for JACK, Ardour and all your work in open source through the years :) > I was the 2nd programmer at Amazon, Shit... I seriously hope you got some equity haha. Right place, right time.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoI got enough to be able to not work for 10 years, and stayed home to raise my daughter. That was worth far more to me than the US$5B or so my stock would have been worth today, or the even larger valuation had I not left after 14 months. It's been a good life, and I'm infinitely prouder of Ardour than anything I ever did at Amazon.