MCRed

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by MCRed 12y ago
Parking-- problem is, when you have to source it yourself you can end up working for a company where there is not enough parking in the area. Spent a year dealing with this, couldn't get a spot to rent on a monthly basis, there was mo
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by MCRed 12y ago
I will never work in an open office plan. It's one of the items on my "prima donna" list. Despite the name I'm pretty serious, and while some of this list represents things that others might not be able to avoid, or ev
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by MCRed 12y ago
This seems to be written from the "Engineers are monkeys" perspective. As if they spend their time flinging poo and you really need "solid" boing technology that's already well designed so the poo doesn't mess
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by MCRed 12y ago
Ok, Gotta give him credit- Elon Musk has achieved Steve Jobs level of showmanship, certainly at least with pre-announcement hype. I don't think his presentation skills are quite as good as Jobs but he's getting better. I almost w
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by MCRed 12y ago
Part of there problem is these programs incentivize financial bad behavior and punish those who are financially responsible with higher taxes to pay for it.
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by MCRed 12y ago
It shows the inefficiencies of the courts... whether it helps or hurts businesses or individuals doesn't matter. Not providing an efficient and sufficiently staffed, well run court system is the crime here... and society pays the costs
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by MCRed 12y ago
I think I agree with you, but how do you see this playing out? Or maybe, how has it played out in the past? Certainly I lost trust in the US federal government when I saw that it wasn't obeying its own laws, and not prosecuting itself
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by MCRed 12y ago
Yeah, my comment wasn't bashing drones. I think drones are great (outside government use) .... I just know Amazon well enough, and amazons business well enough to know this is a joke. When I say it's a joke I'm not being pe
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by MCRed 12y ago
The person who warned me about Amazon -- before I ever applied there-- was not an engineer. She was a receptionist. She'd worked in the main office in a low level office job. She told me the company had no respect for employees. I w
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by MCRed 12y ago
I have built something else. Several other else. I do think it's unfortunate that Software Engineers are held in such low regard. Calling me "bitter" is just blaming the victim. I'm here so that other engineers can be f
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by MCRed 12y ago
I'm wrong about the culture of HN? I've been on this site since 2006 or 2007. I've earned 5,000+ karma on most of my previous accounts. Everyone of them was shadowbanned at one point or another. In one case I linked to a sc
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by MCRed 12y ago
One of the Amazing things about Amazon, compared to, say Microsoft, and which has since become a huge red flag for me is the culture is very cult like. Amazon management is very adept and focosed on blowing smoke up the skirt of employees.
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by MCRed 12y ago
And culture comes from the top. Right from Jeff Bezo himself. One of the things that has since become a red flag for me is that Amazon is very cult like.
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by MCRed 12y ago
When you work in PacMed, where the entire company was basically located at the time, you pretty much rub elbows with people across all departments (literally, you're stuffed in there so close) and so you can make sweeping generalizatio
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by MCRed 12y ago
WOW. From interacting with him on bug reports, I'm surprised to read that. I think the problem was he was never a practicing engineer, so he didn't understand things like unit tests, the fact that we need to fix a bug in october
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by MCRed 12y ago
Not true, if you are in the lower %20 you will get fired. That's the pressure to "get rid". Of course they will let you "resign" instead of get fired, and if you refuse they will give you a financial incentive to
737.
by MCRed 12y ago
The practice at Amazon was like Microsoft in function. %20 were "underperforming" no matter how well they did. It was rolled up from team, to group, level, etc. Politics was a huge factor. If a team worked really hard during the
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by MCRed 12y ago
In my experience, similar time there, three managers, none of them knew how to code, and their managers varied- one was decent, one was a DMV reject. But when I say they couldn't code, I mean that literally-- for one example degree in
739.
by MCRed 12y ago
For the record, everything I said was true, and after calling me a liar, he effectively admitted it!
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by MCRed 12y ago
There are people who are low level enough to maybe not have seen this stuff. But I also saw stuff that, like that letter, I consider to be wrong. The latter refers to criminal actions-- I am not a lawyer so I can't say whether what th
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by MCRed 12y ago
If I was lying, may Amazon's lawyers strike me down and take me to court! I would love to reveal my experiences there, and of course, the truth is an unbeatable defense. I certainly have more salacious tidbits than the Ellen Pao tria
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by MCRed 12y ago
Yes. In theory there might not be a conflict of values. In practice, the conflict of interest is very real.
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by MCRed 12y ago
It is a negative because Amazon doesn't have that many resources or talent. They are short on engineers. The people building things like amazon movies are being taken off of key things like product search. Bugs I fixed there were r
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by MCRed 12y ago
Well, they stick around for years. When I found the mail order catalogs they were 3 years old. Amazon.com runs on a lot of 20 year old code because they've never been able to upgrade it, because there's so much cruft. Amazon men
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by MCRed 12y ago
It's an idea that is DOA. It will never work because it will never be economical, nor safe. If you think about it for a few minutes, you'll realize it's a joke-- like an April Fools joke.
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by MCRed 12y ago
I've met no trustworthy investors-- that is to say, people who after 3 or more years, I still consider to be honest. This is over nearly 30 years founding startups.
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by MCRed 12y ago
I was in the same situation. Thought the company was going under. Didn't exercise. The options ended up being worth something when the company was bought by Sony (I never found out how much.)
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by MCRed 12y ago
Oh yeah! There were the VCs who stopped us from doing the google business model. There were the VCS who made us spend half the money they gave us on another portfolio product that didn't actually do what was promised, setting us back 2
749.
by MCRed 12y ago
Remember Amazon Menus? (Scanned menus of local restaurants) Remember Amazon Movie Listings? Remember the "drone delivery"? (It makes no sense on the face of it, and will never happen. But it was a big press release.) Remember Ama
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by MCRed 12y ago
I'm not leaving that out at all. I addressed it with the fire-in-a-crowded theater analogy. But the fact that commerce is involved doesn't magically eliminate the right. Commerce only creates a few edge cases, but is effectively

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