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by laluser 7y ago
Another FANG = Amazon? If so, Amazon is pretty restrictive in how it wants employees to communicate about internal activities. Most people err on the side of caution and don't comment publicly.
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by laluser 7y ago
The whole point of owning something like VTSAX/VTI is that you're not overly exposed to any company. They currently own 3,607 different stocks.
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by laluser 7y ago
The VCs just want to keep these companies private longer and longer. It's getting ridiculous /s.
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by laluser 8y ago
Yep, Amazon is testing in other places as well.
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by laluser 8y ago
Given the FAA rules on this (line of sight from operators), there's just no way that this could work. It basically defeats the whole purpose of using autonomous drones in the first place. Even if the rules were modified in their favor,
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by laluser 8y ago
Half of the FAANGs don't even have such a title and the title even among those companies varies quite a lot. Google principal >> Amazon principal, for example.
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by laluser 8y ago
Titles are not standard across the industry. Also, comparing Box, which has had a mostly flat stock price, to FAANG is a bit unfair. Most of the FAANGs have done really well over the past few years, so when you hear about compensation, peop
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by laluser 9y ago
> Still, as an Amazon investor, I do wonder why Amazon has to do everything themselves. It makes me nervous that they are essentially building or their own ride sharing network rather than leveraging existing networks. When Prime Now sta
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by laluser 9y ago
This is not exactly how it works. Managers at Amazon can request headcount all they want, but the request bubbles up and needs to be approved. Sometimes, there are top-level hiring freezes as well. The planning and hiring process is more co
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by laluser 9y ago
These alliance or partnership deals rarely work out in the long-term. Voice shopping is still very nascent. Having two companies in the shopping pipeline can only cause problems and/or miss blind spots. Being vertically integrated is a
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by laluser 9y ago
Can anyone comment on how Waymo might come up with such a figure? Especially in the context of something that hasn't materialized yet (no revenue)? I assume this is towards the high-end of what they expect to get. Also, why would Uber
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by laluser 9y ago
From a tech perspective, we have developed systems that actually work much better than what Uber has to offer for our use-cases. Their systems have been developed to solve for the "real-time" dispatching scenarios. That's not
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by laluser 9y ago
Amazon already has Flex. Source: I'm a software engineer in that team. Uber is way too expensive at this point.
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by laluser 10y ago
Watson winning $1 million on Jeopardy has to be one of the most remarkable marketing campaigns in tech history. I don't think they get enough credit for it. Every time I hear about IBM's Watson, the story is always prefaced with t
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by laluser 10y ago
I'm completely aware of that. My wife is actually a school teacher so her salary is freely available online. I'm only arguing that being called out like this by name in a news article, is pretty...bogus. That's all.
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by laluser 10y ago
Even though they want to use this specific person to showcase an example, I think that it's highly inconsiderate to post this fellow's name in the news article. The way the article is written, it just sounds like they're maki
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by laluser 10y ago
Are they liable for those promises though? I am legitimately curious to know if they are contractually obligated to grow at a certain rate or be at certain valuation at this point in time.
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by laluser 10y ago
This should be a warning to everyone that was affected by this. Even the dependencies that you don't normally think about go down at some point. For DNS, make sure you are using multiple DNS providers.
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by laluser 10y ago
Was this when it was still in preview? Lambda is still pretty new having launched in November 2014. Reliability and features for Lambda are getting better though [1][2]. AWS seems pretty invested in Lambda, so I think it's just a matte
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by laluser 10y ago
I would assume that they were lied to or deceived about the hours that they had to work given the monthly wage that was quoted in the article. I'm also guessing that since most of these workers came on visas, they probably thought that
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by laluser 10y ago
It's the same company.
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by laluser 11y ago
They mentioned Flickr as a source of images.
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by laluser 11y ago
Amazon does this all of the time. They set the terms for what can be sold on their website. If the vendors can't agree to those terms, then they can't sell on the website. This is what happened with the recent e-books debate. Howe
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by laluser 11y ago
Then by that same logic, can't the LPs just leak slightly modified number so they're not identified?
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by laluser 12y ago
This is huge for HBO. Although it will be a difficult battle, it seems that they are fully committed to breaking ties with traditional TV cable providers.
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by laluser 12y ago
I love this idea, it's quite interesting. On the flip side, I made a change in some software at my work the other day to replace the use of a random in a unit test. The use of random was being used to populate some data. This language
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by laluser 12y ago
Why is this surprising? CS is a relatively young major compared to other engineering degrees. Also, I would bet that a large majority of CS degrees have been handed out in the last 20 years. Probably more skewed towards the last 10.
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by laluser 13y ago
What does this have to do with the article?
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by laluser 13y ago
I think what he is trying to say is that it could just emulate the terminal and read whatever is coming to it after it's executed. "Listening" for when the user types in sudo...
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by laluser 14y ago
Like working part-time? What's the difference?

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