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by ozzythecat 4y ago
AFAIK, under the affordable care act, you can get health insurance at a much more reasonable price, though I haven’t used it myself and cannot comment if it’s equal to quality of care and cost vs. other developed countries. Everything else
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> Instead we need to examine actual reality to find out how businesses can help their workers meet reasonable expectations. Blaming it on the millennials or work-from-home advocates or whomever is not the answer. I am an armchair layman
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
My children and my grand children
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
- Designing and launching a critical, high availability/throughout system. Finding out that it fails to scale in some way you never anticipated. Designing last minute patches and workarounds to prevent the doomsday situation or patches
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Maybe. But I’ve been quietly saving for retirement. I haven’t been bidding $50k over asking price on houses or giving business to $30 post gentrification burger joints. I live in the same house I bought in 1997. My vehicle is over a decade
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Not at all. There’s a Musk post just about every day or every other day. Much of it is either flaming the guy or praising him. I’m raising the question - why the obsession with this person? If you don’t like him, don’t do business with his
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Good to understand what came before and how computing has evolved. I really recommend “The Innovators” by Walter Isaacson.
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I’m honestly baffled with the obsession with Musk. Many folks here seem to despise him. But we can’t stop obsessing with the guy. At this point, to me it feels like envy. Musk, despite however he is as a person, is wildly successfully acros
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Want: I drive a 2011 Toyota Corolla. It’s a decent four cylinder. Reliable. Runs smooth. Gets me from point a to point b, mainly to pick up my prescriptions these days though I suppose I could have them delivered. Now I was never really a c
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Not a direct answer to your question, because I honestly don’t know. I am more surprised by the attention this gets in press and tech circles. Meta is making a long term bet. It might just one of the biggest wastes in recent time, or it cou
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> Additionally, the "ongoing expense" requirement may be easily satisfied if an OEM has to pay to maintain a server or connectivity, as would be the case with a navigation system or partially automated driving feature that pull
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Brief excerpt from the article: > It’s not enough for a refrigerator to keep food cold; today’s version offers cameras and sensors that can monitor how and what I’m eating, while the Roomba can now send a map of my house to Amazon. I can
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Chew properly, make sure you’re drinking water throughout the day, and have a lunch that has nutritional value. Avoid carb heavy meals or take out food. I usually have some leafy greens mixed with beans and a light dressing. Enough to not f
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I think it has a lot to do with incentives and company culture. Disclaimer: I’m not working right now and taking a lengthy break after a long career at Amazon, so here’s my experience. And I bounced around the non-AWS side of the company fo
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I left a short while ago now. Through savings, reinvesting, and some reckless market timing, I have enough that I don’t have to work. It turned out better than I could have hoped. I eat a proper breakfast every morning. I get 8.5 hours of s
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
It’s actually not stupid. It’s genius. If you can do it at scale without damaging the company’s reputation, you’ve won the lottery. You make big promises to employees, maybe give a carrot to a very select few. Everyone else will either acc
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> The same Times investigation reported the company “intentionally limited upward mobility for hourly workers,” according to David Niekerk, a former Amazon HR Vice President. It’s not just for hourly workers. I was actively coached on ho
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> Amazon’s Project Kuiper will install DoD-compliant laser communications terminals on its internet satellites so they can transfer data from remote-sensing satellites directly into the military’s mesh network in low Earth orbit. I find
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
There’s a hypothesis it’s actually three stars in close proximity, which we see as a single star from our point of view. The hypothesis goes on to state this tri-star system undergoes Chaotic Eras, followed by Stable Eras. During the Chaoti
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Designing data intensive applications
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
> “None of this is cutting edge,” tweeted robotics expert Cynthia Yeung. “Hire some PhDs and go to some robotics conferences Tesla.” And this is exactly the problem created by social media. I don’t care for Musk or any other tech celebri
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
None of this surprises me. I was at that company for over 10 years. Quitting was the best thing I did for myself, and I should have left long ago. Amazon’s real innovation isn’t a cloud service company or a logistics business. The innovatio
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Not a zombie from a debt perspective, but I’d say Amazon falls into a category where many orgs are stagnant or declining. The headline is always AWS and the Amazon.com, but there are entirely separate organizations producing little value, a
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Quiet quitting is long overdue, but it should be the least of worries for many of these companies. I’d say some companies have no reason to exist and are a shit stain on humanity. Many, many years, I came on as an SDE 1 at Amazon. Consider
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I started off doing web development back in the late 90s, at first using Frontpage, then progressing to HTML. In the early 2000s, I was writing PHP and using MySQL. I started doing web dev again around the Great Recession. Originally I was
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
If a product is inherently unsafe for use like this, why does Amazon continue to sell it? Or better, can the government intervene and better regulate its sale so it’s not so easy to purchase?
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
Amazon had tons of quiet quitters. We probably could have coined the term. 1/4 to 1/3 of the engineering teams checked out during COVID. They operate in klo mode, keep the lights on. Leetcoding doesn’t make you an effective hire.
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I did crud apps earlier in my career. I moved on to big tech, where there was again crud but at scale. Sometimes building workflows, but a lot of it comes down to doing X in a scalable manner and keeping costs low. How’s your work environme
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
I learned that I put my faith and trust in some people who were never sincere and were simply using me. Sometimes you flock to someone because you see them being kind, considerate, and overall a strong leader. It turns out that some people
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by ozzythecat 4y ago
It absolutely is a hiring strategy. Come visit Amazons campus around Denny Triangle and SLU in Seattle. The majority of the foot traffic (Amazon employees) are #1 Indian nationals. If you sponsor someone from Bangalore or Chennai, you pay s

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