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by kevan 9y ago
It might be good for the company. But the point is you need dollars and cents metrics that prove it is, not just righteous feelings that less bugs is better. Engineers at ground level are often well insulated from the actual business impact
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by kevan 9y ago
>Freight brokers and third-party logistics companies (“3PLs”) are first-class citizens in Shipwell’s platform, which sets us apart from other startups in the space that are actively trying to disrupt them. This is an important differenti
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by kevan 9y ago
Bezos worked on Wall Street for 8 years before starting Amazon. Judging from the early employee stories, if any change happened it was Bezos mellowing after the first 5-10 years of Amazon.
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by kevan 9y ago
The RFP quotes up to 50,0000 employees in 15 years. Any sane incentive package should have hooks in it to make sure most of those jobs do materialize.
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by kevan 9y ago
Casually underestimating the effort to build something by at least one order of magnitude is a favorite pastime on HN. The Dropbox thread is the canonical example.
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by kevan 9y ago
If you have everything in one warehouse you can't do fast delivery that customers demand now. A lot of the big retailers have started leveraging their store networks to do same-day pickup and delivery.
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by kevan 9y ago
Minneapolis has a similar system for demand-based pricing on some of our HOV lanes. It usually works pretty well, but the max price is $8 so the model breaks down a bit during extreme traffic conditions.
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by kevan 9y ago
From colmmacc's link: The option can be used to robustly reset a guard variable, and hence re-initialize an RNG, DRBG, PRF, or other generator where duplicate state across processes would be a security issue.
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by kevan 9y ago
Most of my pain with the React ecosystem happened when people kept rebuilding react-router every 6 months. I managed one upgrade, but after that we gave up and stuck with the old version because it worked well for our purposes.
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by kevan 9y ago
Why do you think this is unique to the valley? At a first glance every major metro area has this, what's so different?
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by kevan 9y ago
Exactly. No matter how good an idea is, if people in the team are sabotaging it because they don't like it you'll have a bad time. A variation on Patton's quote: A mediocre plan executed well is better than a great plan execu
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by kevan 9y ago
>Then I started sitting the other side of the table... I think everyone should get a chance to participate in their company's interview process, even if it's just shadowing while others conduct the interviews. It's one thi
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by kevan 9y ago
Disclaimer: I've done more than 60 interviews at Amazon. My views are my own. When we ask DSA questions we don't care about the data structures or algorithms. We care about the logical reasoning and problem solving skills that ena
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by kevan 9y ago
It's beautiful. I have a sudoku solver that's almost as bad (but not as impressive as yours) written in Scheme when I was first learning how to code. It's good to look back on your past work every once in a while and see how
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by kevan 9y ago
>I'd like to think that conversion of credit applications isn't something a marketer is trying to gamify though If it's in the overall sales conversion funnel it will be optimized. Credit application flow was scrutinized j
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by kevan 9y ago
At my last company we had a similar issue with third party scripts on credit application forms. Analytics is critical for ecommerce sites but it's way too easy to accidentally log sensitive data across dozens of third party services.
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by kevan 9y ago
The safety we get from Swift in our app is worth the problems with the dev tooling, but barely.
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by kevan 9y ago
Mostly reselling. Amazon Logistics is larger-scale company level delivery contracting, usually for defined service areas . Amazon Flex is the Uber for package delivery variant.
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by kevan 9y ago
Basically, yes: https://logistics.amazon.com/
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by kevan 9y ago
The abridged timeline has an amusing series of trips to the hard drive shredder and deleting texts daily.
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by kevan 9y ago
Spaghetti code and cumbersome integration methods are just forms of tech debt. Tech debt in any form isn't inherently good or bad. Just like financial debt it's a tool that can be used to achieve a desired business goal. When misu
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by kevan 9y ago
Tealium was my worst enemy at a previous job. 5 different departments had access to dump whatever garbage scripts they wanted on the website with no auditing by devs to make sure it wouldn't break things. I eventually put in a feature
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by kevan 9y ago
You don't even need a $500k net worth to afford a Cessna. Most guys I know that have them are firmly middle class. They have to make some compromises on houses and cars, but it's worth it to them because they love to fly.
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by kevan 9y ago
The devil is always in the details. You need a unified approach from first-line managers up to directors setting big picture goals for it to work. There's about 20 things we'd like to do as an organization every year. But, to stay
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by kevan 9y ago
Exactly. While nothing can completely stop attackers, there are multiple techniques you can layer to slow them down. E.g: * Credential vaults that allow only-once retrieval on application startup and only keep credentials in memory * anomal
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by kevan 9y ago
Yep, lowers the entry barrier to add it to a project. I think most of the modern frameworks have decent support out of the box but for projects started a decade ago it's useful
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by kevan 9y ago
Out of curiosity, are you watching percentiles or averages in your metrics?
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by kevan 9y ago
Lots of places are Java™ shops, and adding new shiny stuff from the NodeJS ecosystem for frontend work can be difficult. I couple years ago I had to build a weird multi-step build bridge between babel and the Grails asset pipeline. A pure J
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by kevan 9y ago
It's not too harsh, vote for better tools with your usage.
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by kevan 9y ago
The SRE book has some useful discussion[1] on this topic too. [1] https://landing.google.com/sre/book/chapters/addressing-casc...

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