beastcoast

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by beastcoast 9y ago
yes, they were acquired in 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AbeBooks
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by beastcoast 9y ago
I used to do Accounts Payable for a large tech company. Any invoice >$5,000 had to be matched to a PO. POs had to be approved by an appropriate level. Payment information was maintained by a separate team and POs were linked to that paye
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by beastcoast 9y ago
We used to have "vocally self critical"
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by beastcoast 10y ago
This. Amazon has embraced SOA for a long time, and the organization is literally built around independent teams owning services. As the owner of a service, you have a charter, and other teams that want to use your service are encouraged to
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by beastcoast 10y ago
Soap.com (Quidsi) is an Amazon subsidiary.
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by beastcoast 10y ago
As a tall person, I can't drive more than 30 minutes without needing a break for my legs. Stop-and-go traffic is especially hellish because I have to keep my feet on the brakes the whole time. Not a pleasant experience by any means.
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by beastcoast 10y ago
There really needs to be a Government organization that can investigate these claims, that employees could report incidents to instead of HR. Like a beefed up Department of Labor that is responsive to employee needs. Tax the corporation to
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by beastcoast 10y ago
Amazon is in the middle of a top-down migration off of Oracle. despite owning AWS, there are still a huge number of dependencies still running on Oracle.
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by beastcoast 10y ago
They already have: https://flex.amazon.com
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by beastcoast 10y ago
The book "Turing's Cathedral" is a well-written account of IAS's early years, focusing on the events leading up to development of the first computers there by Von Neumann.
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by beastcoast 10y ago
Nowadays I find myself using excel as a ghetto tool for data munging: compare 2 lists with match(), copying tables from web tools and filtering them in creative ways. Text to columns is your friend. Also copy stuff into Notepad++ if I need
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by beastcoast 10y ago
This is my perspective as well. Beyond our slightly cultish tenets/leadership principles (seriously, they quote Jeff like he's our holy leader), Amazon's really just a federation of loosely coupled teams. You and your team ar
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by beastcoast 10y ago
I believe that is referring to share of total income, which means the rich are getting a bigger piece of the pie while the middle and lower classes are getting poorer or stagnating. In other words, inequality is increasing. The article doe
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by beastcoast 10y ago
I've seen that situation exactly.. Large product with SVP support that gets built for AWS, (nearly) launched and then shot down by Jeff himself :)
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by beastcoast 10y ago
My understanding is that AWS was built from the ground up and is not a fork of the actual code that runs Amazon. This is apparent in that Amazon has internal competitors to DynamoDB and SWF. I'm sure there are other examples. To add to