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by brown9-2 11y ago
Amazon retains new workers in part by requiring them to repay a part of their signing bonus if they leave within a year, and a portion of their hefty relocation fees if they leave within two years.
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by brown9-2 11y ago
Amazon is a retail business. They can only earn money from razor-thin margins by pushing to keep costs down so hard. This is why it is fundamentally unfair to compare Amazon to Apple, Microsoft, Facebook or Google. They are in different bus
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by brown9-2 11y ago
Note how in the conclusion of the article it mentions that Amazon is already running out of candidates in the Seattle area.
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by brown9-2 11y ago
how do you trust the hosted CI company not to look at your code One can probably assume that they are not relying upon the secrecy of their code for security.
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The New American Slavery: Invited to the US, Foreign Workers Find a Nightmare(buzzfeed.com)
8 points by brown9-2 11y ago|1 comments
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by brown9-2 11y ago
Because the ad networks don't completely trust the publishers.
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by brown9-2 11y ago
I agree that a third party calling the police might be overkill but "these guys are elite, their demo was badass" has to be the worst possible justification.
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On Interviewing Software Engineers(zdfs.com)
114 points by brown9-2 11y ago|99 comments
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by brown9-2 11y ago
They also invented GIMP.
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by brown9-2 11y ago
Readers aren't coming to the site because of the technology that powers it.
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by brown9-2 11y ago
Journalists focus on the tools because so much of the initial Vox PR was about their tools. It's become a part of the established lore, even if it really doesn't make all that much sense.
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by brown9-2 11y ago
We put up with this for a year, and then all of us, quit again. Why did you even stay for 3 months?
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by brown9-2 11y ago
A bit ironic: instantarticles.fb.com is a CNAME to fbinstantarticles.wordpress.com.
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by brown9-2 12y ago
Does anyone else find the use of "acquisition" a little weird here? I don't think anyone ever talks how "easy this software is to acquire" when they talk about features.
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by brown9-2 12y ago
in effect, allows Facebook to use its patents against users of React defensively but not offensively Was there any language in the license that bound Facebook to defensive use only and not offensive? Because otherwise this seems to be rea
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by brown9-2 12y ago
My understanding of JVM scaleout is that the servlet container is responsible for multiplexing incoming connections onto free capacity, which isn't how most docker shops work. No, not really, typically you would just run N of your JV
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by brown9-2 12y ago
Sometimes technical things are complicated, because people don't work or communicate in tidy ways. You could make similar complaints about many of the foundations that make technology possible. Take for example a protocol that enabled
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by brown9-2 12y ago
The employer has to weigh two options: - people will be less encouraged to leave with the current standard of expiring options. - people who have checked out mentally will not be forced to stay with the company for financial reasons.
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by brown9-2 12y ago
I'd be curious where this is illegal in. I don't think they are saying "we have zero policies whatsoever", but exaggerating the level of trust. For instance I am sure that new parents are given a fixed amount of paid lea
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by brown9-2 12y ago
Why was it hard to debug?
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by brown9-2 12y ago
One thing that felt weird to me about Spring Boot when I looked at it a year or so ago was the idea of enabling features based upon which libraries are on the classpath. Has that turned out to be useful in practice? Seems like a simple meth
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by brown9-2 12y ago
Yes, a lot of organizations already design their backends in this way without necessarily thinking to use a brand new term to describe it. Cockcroft defines a microservices architecture as a service-oriented architecture composed of loosel
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by brown9-2 12y ago
Riemann has no concept of persistence, unless you forward events to some other system.
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by brown9-2 12y ago
and history is replete with examples of federal agencies declaring their own authority over things which were obviously not envisioned so What about in this case? Would you argue the Title 2 declaration is within or not within the FCC&#x2
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by brown9-2 12y ago
What are you using to execute commands on thousands of hosts in parallel?
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by brown9-2 12y ago
Cutting storage is also foolish, as we are in the era of Big Data and Data Lakes and storage is vital to these concepts. Whether or not the layoff rumor is true, this doesn't feel like the most insightful of articles.
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by brown9-2 12y ago
It's not the kind of company where managers or departments hate each other, and use their roles to conduct political warfare. It's not the kind of company where bad mistakes are frequently made, and no one is held accountable. T
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by brown9-2 12y ago
Did you miss the part about misrepresenting who was who and the purpose of their contact?
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Personalization at Spotify using Cassandra(labs.spotify.com)
3 points by brown9-2 12y ago|0 comments
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by brown9-2 12y ago
Tellingly, the FBI's press release says that the bureau's conclusion is only based "in part" on these clues. This leaves open the possibility that the government has classified evidence that North Korea is behind the at

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