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by justinv 11y ago
In the sense that the poster is perpetuating that there is no good at Amazon at all. That everything is awful and that no one could possible like/want to work there.
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by justinv 11y ago
I'm a former intern from AWS (6 month non-tech internship). Now I work in a completely different part of the company full time. My experience is exactly like what 'onaplane' wrote. Internship was great & very rewarding fr
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by justinv 11y ago
I find that it's a interesting viewpoint when trying to learn to code through self-taught courses/guides. It's difficult to get a feel for what you're supposed to be doing from reading a book/blogs/whatever. So
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by justinv 11y ago
Not sure where you're located, but if you're anywhere in or near the UK, check out Biurko: http://biurkobiurko.com/ Incredibly well crafted (& in full disclosure: made by a friend!)
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by justinv 11y ago
Didn't see that; thanks!
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by justinv 11y ago
Not written by me, but I thought it would provide an additional viewpoint about Amazon in light of the NYT's article. Full disclosure: I work at Amazon in a non-tech role.
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An Amazonian's Response to “Inside Amazon”(linkedin.com)
2 points by justinv 11y ago|3 comments
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by justinv 11y ago
In that case, you're the direct customer. As a rider, I cannot tell Uber I want to pay $20 to get me to the airport, I can accept their prices or not use the service. Uber is setting the prices for their drivers.
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by justinv 11y ago
Diseconomies of scale. The last mile of shipping is the most expensive. In the US, there are tons of last miles that are thousands of miles from very large cities. Switzerland is a tiny country relative to the US, so it's much cheaper
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by justinv 11y ago
Fresh in Seattle was originally included in regular Prime (when purchasing >$50), so the habits of Seattle-ites may change after the price goes up to $299.
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by justinv 11y ago
You can own/invest in Tinder (ish - I say ish because you'd have to invest in a bigger company). It's owned by Match.com, which is owned by IAC ($IACI).
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by justinv 12y ago
To everyone commenting about their tax rates, that information is irrelevant without income levels in each area. If Germany's tax rate starts at 40% from 40,000 EUR and California from $200,000; those are not equivalent.
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by justinv 12y ago
>"If you have not been explicitly informed by us in a separate communication that we detected suspicious activity involving your Slack account, we are very confident that there was no unauthorized access to any of your team data (su
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by justinv 12y ago
You can use Cmd+` to switch between windows within apps.
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by justinv 12y ago
Entered in as public record as part of a lawsuit: https://twitter.com/Cryptomeorg/status/566616227582582785
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by justinv 12y ago
I'm pretty sure that the OP would be coming in on a J visa as an exchange. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-1_visa
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by justinv 12y ago
Well, a tape measure that dropped 500feet killed a man[1], so I wouldn't be too confident about something the size of a toaster not killing someone when being dropped 500ft. Granted a tape measure does weigh less than 2lb (~toaster), b
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by justinv 12y ago
Jeff is the chief evangelist at AWS & all around good guy over there. I'm sure he'd be able to get in touch with any team you wanted to provide feedback on!
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Ask HN: What are some simple things people can do to be more secure (online)?
1 points by justinv 12y ago|2 comments
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by justinv 12y ago
Heads up: WSJ Paywall. If you're not a subscriber, this should work: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd... If not, google the title and you'll get a direct link.
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Sony Pulls World Cup Sponsorship Due to Growing Concerns Over Bidding Process(online.wsj.com)
1 points by justinv 12y ago|1 comments
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by justinv 12y ago
Also, remember that this is from Pando, so there are two sides to a story of course.
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by justinv 12y ago
I do not envy Uber's PR team this week. (Or most weeks, to be honest)
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At Goldman Sachs event, Travis Kalanick compared his company’s woes to Ferguson(pando.com)
6 points by justinv 12y ago|2 comments
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by justinv 12y ago
Also, it was Travis who said “We’re in a political campaign, and the candidate is Uber and the opponent is an asshole named Taxi," Well, it seems we have come full circle. Who's the asshole now?
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by justinv 12y ago
Personally, I've stopped using Uber because of the lack of the company/management's lack of ethics. Lyft comes off as a much friendly, consumer-focused company & frankly, my experiences have been better in a Lyft than an
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by justinv 12y ago
Anecdotally, as a college student on the east coast, I know a ton of people who use Venmo (I use it myself). However, this same group of people uses Snapchat as well.
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by justinv 12y ago
This is very confusing to me. I'd say that maybe that's typical for other situations, but resigning effective immediately because the offices wouldn't be moved sounds very, very odd. I would be really disappointed if a CEO le
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Ask HN: Would you take a job that you may not want?
6 points by justinv 12y ago|9 comments
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by justinv 12y ago
I've been using the beta for a while now. It's still (obviously) a beta, so you will get frustrated every so often if you're using it daily. I love mailbox and I'm still using the beta, but I usually yell at it (mentally

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