jasonallen

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by jasonallen 8y ago
If you or anyone affected is interested: I'm hiring in AWS both in Seattle and Vancouver, BC. Email me at alljay at amazon.com.
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by jasonallen 9y ago
A dev on my team wrote the following Excel 2000 credits (it was a flying carpet-like game). Afaik that was around the time BillG put his foot down and mandated no new credits. Enterprise customers felt these credits were both a sign of wast
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by jasonallen 9y ago
As an excel developer in the 90's, this brings up great memories. I wrote the Doom Excel credits in Office 95. I wish I'd had thought of doing this instead. Kudos.
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by jasonallen 9y ago
It reminds me of an old story about Microsoft Windows. Back in the early 2000's, compiling and building Windows from source code took many hours on very specialized build hardware. Meanwhile there were thousands of developers who contr
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by jasonallen 10y ago
Pretty interesting. Too bad the synths are generic and no beat. I'm pretty sure with more work this could substitute most electronica I listen to when I code.
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by jasonallen 10y ago
I'm confused by what you mean. I'd argue that onboarding new customers should be your core competency, the focus of your main product. What am I missing?
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by jasonallen 10y ago
I've worked at Microsoft, Amazon, and several other places. These clauses are pretty standard. I'd say it would be unusual to find a place that doesn't make you sign these (or similar) clauses. My experience has been that it
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by jasonallen 10y ago
I think that, over time, both paradigms are required. For the quick lookup/command, "ask" is best. For longer interactions, like driving directions, or cooking instructions, etc... a "conversation" makes more sense.
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by jasonallen 10y ago
Amazon lost the phone and tablet wars, so they shifted their focus to the voice assistant market, and are now ahead of competitors with their Alexa skills SDK. It's great to see Google now step up too. I expect Microsoft and Apple foll
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by jasonallen 10y ago
Feels like Typescript is building (or has built up?) more momentum than Flow.
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by jasonallen 10y ago
yeah, that's what I mean. Provide a service that reports back leaked working credentials so that the service provider can lock down the account.
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by jasonallen 10y ago
I'm always amazed at how efficient AWS is at detecting private keys on the internet (checked into github, etc..), and then proactively locking down accounts. I wonder how long it will be until we see a similar service from consumer acc
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by jasonallen 10y ago
When this becomes real, the next question becomes "why own the car"? What's the benefit of having it sit in a parking lot for 8 hours until I'm ready to go home. Seems like the future will become more Uber-like, where I
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by jasonallen 11y ago
Good writing has similarities to good UI in that you have to relate to your audience. I'm a fan of this topic and appreciate your thoughts on it. However I found your article too long for my taste and attention span. Your complaints ge
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by jasonallen 14y ago
I want to like this, but it conflicts with Michael Pollan's rules for eating ("don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food"). Their chicken strips contain titanium dioxide. I'm no expert, but wikipedia says we proba
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by jasonallen 15y ago
Interesting post. A couple of observations: 1. I think programming is a multi-disciplinary task. Notch is obviously among the best at "writing a lot of working code". He's pointing out that he could improve in software design. I've work wit
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by jasonallen 15y ago
Agreed - Stallman was right all along. What's working against Stallman though is that his doomsday predictions are being delivered in piecemeal fashion. Each slight erosion doesn't seem too bad by itself. Only in retrospect does the magnitu
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by jasonallen 15y ago
Paul, branding us as "dumb" for reasoning this way seems beneath you. Where, in this line of reasoning, do we diverge? 1. Monsanto is a despicable company. 2. By "working closely", Cloudant implicitly condones Monsanto's ethics. 3. By annou
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by jasonallen 15y ago
Any idea when this will trickle down to github:fi?
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by jasonallen 15y ago
Yuck. Does anyone know if they were forced to put out that press release or did they actually write that on their own volition?
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by jasonallen 15y ago
Am I the only one who sees the victimization going on here? MG says "AOL promised not to interfere" and yet now "they may break their promise to us". Meanwhile Michael went and created an investment fund that clearly conflicts with TechCrun
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by jasonallen 15y ago
Great news! Mozilla is finally accepting Chrome's good innovations. Now for a unified search bar...
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by jasonallen 15y ago
I suspect it's because of paid DLC. The ol' razor and blades model - give the game away for free and reap the profit on bought game content (e.g. 'hats'). The margins on those make gillette envious.
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by jasonallen 15y ago
You assume the person living in the expensive city doesn't benefit from doing so. Folks living in San Francisco choose to do so because they find the trade-off worthwhile. I choose to live in a relatively high cost-of-living area because I
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by jasonallen 16y ago
I'm an engineering director at Zynga's new Seattle office. Your skill set matches our open job reqs. Email me if you're interested.
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by jasonallen 16y ago
I flew the concorde NYC->London in 2000. The actual flight experience was underwhelming. The seats are narrow and you can't really 'feel' how fast you're going. I never heard or felt anything when we crossed the sonic barrier. As for th
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by jasonallen 16y ago
Twilio runs on Amazon EC2. Tropo runs in the Voxeo network, which has been around for 10 years and has many customers including much of the Fortune 500. Tropo can handle a much greater call and SMS volume, so if you need volume or expect p