westernmostcoy

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by westernmostcoy 11y ago
The culture which may launch a lot in some parts, but does not uniformly ensure quality and is well documented as being difficult to work in. Amazon is far too large to give Jeff credit for 100% of the output, despite his name being on the
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by westernmostcoy 11y ago
Well, a notable difference is that the only party preventing Amazon from streaming to Chromecasts is Amazon.
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by westernmostcoy 11y ago
This currently goes to a landing page that makes it look like you need to sign up first to read the article. That's not actually true, clicking 'full text' on the right hand sidebar will take you to what may have been a bette
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by westernmostcoy 11y ago
Totally agreed. She's even responding to the more aggressive posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3cbo4m/we_ap... Not a fun job, but definitely a fantastic step forward.
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by westernmostcoy 11y ago
Yep, wasn't as highly voted when I posted this (or my sorting settings are wrong -- I'm never sure what 'best' does). Thanks.
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by westernmostcoy 11y ago
Given the concerns over lack of communication, I wonder if that was the right move. I can see how hard this would be to manage on-site communications with everyone mass-downvoting anything from /u/kn0thing or /u/ekjp tho
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by westernmostcoy 11y ago
Why did this apology come out today and not before Pao spoke to news outlets about this topic? Why wouldn't you try to talk to your upset users quickly and directly? http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/tech
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by westernmostcoy 11y ago
What specifically are you objecting to? That specific question? Writing code on a whiteboard? How would you interview software engineering candidates?
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by westernmostcoy 12y ago
>> If you're an engineer you should never go work there-- the management is all non-engineer types. > As an engineer, your manager WILL BE a former SDE. If you are a manager, however, then maybe your manager may not have been
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by westernmostcoy 12y ago
Stack ranking is very present and very real at Amazon, but if you have a politically capable manager you will find yourself (as non-manager) able to ignore it. That doesn't mean that you or your manager are necessarily doing a great jo
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by westernmostcoy 12y ago
Unbelievable: "Perhaps it’s time to suggest that the post-Snowden pendulum has swung too far in one direction—in a direction of fear and mistrust."
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by westernmostcoy 12y ago
I massively dropped my usage of Dropbox after their security issues (and not getting responses to my emails to them on the topic), and eventually closed my free account around the time of the drop-dropbox.com push. I'm not against a th
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by westernmostcoy 12y ago
There actually were "Fuck Kevin" stickers all over DEFCON a few years ago.
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by westernmostcoy 12y ago
This looks like a neat program :) I look forward to seeing more cool stuff come out of it!
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by westernmostcoy 12y ago
This is pretty cool. This title as posted on HN (not in the article) is silly, though. The Linux kernel does not have "interns", this person is an intern for GNOME's OPW (Outreach Program for Women): https://gnome.
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by westernmostcoy 13y ago
That outage notice you've linked includes a promise to improve communication. Also, how'd you find that link? If you happened to just have it laying around, that's fine but it would be better if they had these things linked s
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by westernmostcoy 13y ago
It's not really a free market to end consumers. To change cable companies, I have to go for some WiMax/Wifi type ISP (lower quality in most cases), DSL (also lower quality in most cases), or move my residence to somewhere in the s
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by westernmostcoy 13y ago
I'd certainly be interested!
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by westernmostcoy 13y ago
> I don't really like Seattle very much. Their airport uses TSA. [..] So does SFO. Don't all airports in the US use TSA? Also, literally every other city you mentioned has Uber available. Speaking specifically to Seattle, we al
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NSA Wrongly Says Warrantless Mobile-Phone Location Tracking Is Legal(wired.com)
2 points by westernmostcoy 13y ago|0 comments
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by westernmostcoy 13y ago
Link to the AUP in question: http://aws.amazon.com/aup/ This does not immediately look authentic. Why would a letter like this be "signed" by the CEO instead of a member of Amazon's legal department?
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by westernmostcoy 13y ago
Announcement on kvm mailing list: http://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg95768.htm...
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OSv, probably the best OS for cloud workloads(osv.io)
27 points by westernmostcoy 13y ago|8 comments