throwawaySlu

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   by throwawaySlu 5y ago

   >the onus is on you to supply the reasoning why intrinsically hard problems requires documents over slides. I think I've provided sufficient examples on why this is the case, and I have almost a $2 trillion dollar company that agree
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   by throwawaySlu 5y ago

   > I am however saying that the true reasons when and why it works better are misunderstood. There is no irony here. You provided a deeply dense document arguing in favor of slides. You're now stating it was more about "oversimp
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   by throwawaySlu 5y ago

   I want to point out the irony that you wrote a lengthy, dense document, despite your argument in favor of slides. And you’re asking for a debate (or saying you’re open to one). Im certainly not in the mood to write a document after what I p
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   by throwawaySlu 5y ago

   I read the link you shared. There is something to be said about expressing an idea with sufficient clarity in fewer words, without jargon or “officialise” or more information that’s necessary. And Amazon doesn’t disagree with that principle
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   by throwawaySlu 5y ago

   Amazonion here. The purpose of doc writing is for the author to dump their ideas and convey the critical pieces of information. It lets the reader consume the information at their pace, and re-read even after the meeting. The document start
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   by throwawaySlu 5y ago

   I’m at a company where we have tons of Java services. Services scale out horizontally, are fronted with load balancers, and there’s some minimal JVM tuning. Some services have thread pools dedicated to making calls to other services. Aside
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   by throwawaySlu 5y ago

   I’m a Principal SDE at Amazon. Amazons weakest link are its managers, especially at the L6 and L7 levels. Competent L6 SDMs are far and few. I’m now working with the nth L6 SDM as a direct ask from an L7 peer. Like the other SDMs I was aske
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   by throwawaySlu 6y ago

   Presumably, they’re making enough profit through Kindle that no one at Amazon thinks it’s worth investing in a completely new Kindle reader. It’s also possible that people who read on these devices aren’t tech savvy enough to care about how
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   by throwawaySlu 6y ago

   I mean if I had to do a chargeback, honestly I probably wouldn’t ever shop with Amazon again. And I work there.
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    by throwawaySlu 6y ago

    Hahaha ... yes. :(