Settling for #2 in search and cloud isn't exactly a bad consolation prize.
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If it's going from 3% to 5% that's not as bad as 10 to 17 or whatever.
> Amazon (and possibly also Google?) has it beat in cloud services
No, not google.
Washington state has already been through this shit with Boeing.
I'm not saying it should be banned, but "American pride" being an important part of people's identity is really part of the problem.
This is somewhat true, but your argument has a pretty big flaw.
> When people communicate on a public platform unself consciously, they reveal themselves openly and freely
This simply isn't true. You aren't revealing that you read this content. THe authors aren't always revealing themselves. Those who don't really do themselves any harm because they tend to be well established as white supremacists already.
Richard Spencer doesn't care if someone calls him racist and evil.
This is why people take photos and plaster them online when white supremacists march. People get recognized, that's the point where they can be called out.
> Freedom of speech is a gift and a valuable tool.
These people are radicalizing young men into committing violent acts. They should be banned the same way terrorist content has been removed from other platforms.
White nationalist content should be viewed no differently than content by the likes of isis. I think it's completely reasonable and responsible to ban it from the platform.
It's totally cool for your data though, don't worry about it.
Amazon fucking sucks at dogfooding.
Just atrocious. Though I wasn't in Azure so that might be better.
Amazon made choices on how to do things, years ago. These choices are being remade just because the new hotness is containers and not using uncool java. They have a lot of tooling that works for them, and a lot of it is quite good.
They aren't hostile to new stuff either. It's just that why would you waste time and money trying to shoehorn some new way of doing things when the old way works just fine.
You will still get to do lots. maybe, depends on the team.
I would say don't waste your energy. Learn when to pick the battles. Accept that you will get push back that doesn't make sense to you.
But hte team I was on was mostly using AWS, which meant the tooling was better.
We also had a bunch of people who wanted python instead of Ruby, so they started using python and eventually we were just a team that used python. Cool.
Apollo is probably the worst thing. Brazil, Pipelines, etc... those are mostly fine.
Amazon has done a ton with the JVM. They don't need something new, so they don't bother. That's fine.
They also do adopt other tech as needed to do things. I know people who worked in Go, because it was container stuff.
This was also one of things that gave me pause when considering interviewing with snap a while back. So many former Amazon people. Seemed like a lot of stuff was going with "just copy amazon, make it a bit better". I don't want to write java. bleh.
Anyway, this article is going to have a lot of people saying "oh no that's not right". It is. There are exceptions but overall it's pretty much bang on.
Oh and open source. My understanding is jeff doesn't like contributing back. The company doesn't like contributing back. They keep an iron grip on IP. They are ridiculous about letting employees do side projects. They fight back with every single FOSS contribution and even after some of our senior guys did a whole bunch of work it still required multiple layers of approvals and a whole bunch of hooops and an extra training course and blah blah blah blah. It's really really dumb. I find it crazy that Amazon doesn't get more flak for being probably the worst company for open source around right now.
But MS has tossed out their old CEOs, has tons of interest in making open source work well for them, and contributes loads... still get shit on.
Standard for anything google makes open.
Which is why being "open source" is not enough.
Programmer to manager is just a promotion.
vs 2 principal engineers for the entire org up to the director.
So you can either jump over to management and be a senior manager a few years later and a director a few years after that, or you can stick around at senior engineer for another 5-10 years and maybe move up to principal.
Then you must not be very in touch with technology.
Like, this type of denial or lack of sight into one of the basic problems with the industry right now pretty shockign.
This is such a load of crap. Hey I get paid more, have a more obvious path to higher levels, I'm now actually above the people I used to work with, but it's not a promotion.
Is that what this is?
I guess it's no more exploitative than employing anyone else.
Go to prison for weed. Get out. Realize how fucked things are now that you're a felon on parole.
Fight the welfare state and toss black moms into prison because they lied to send their kid to a better school (IIRC, 5 years. for lying about her address). Meanwhile rich white people are photoshopping their kids faces onto athletes.
Fund schools with property taxes. Oh look, those mcmansion filled suburbs have better schools.
Fight bussing (thanks Biden). Criticize the south for resisting integration while NY has the most segregated schools in the country.
Extol the virtues of the great charter schools and lottery systems, while the rest of the kids are stuck in shit.
High recidivism (shows it's at least a failure), focus on punishment (mandatory minimums, etc...) for things like drug possession, cruel bail system, "tough on crime" judges, legalized prison slavery, heavy use of solitary confinement, outright criminal levels of cruelty, normalized prison rape, stigmatization of felons, etc...
They had prisoners fight california wildfires for slave wages. They justified it as it was voluntary and they were learning a skill.
Felons can't become firefighters in california.
It's all white people.
Sorry to be so glib, but I don't think I've ever seen "homogenous" used by someone who wasn't engaged in at least borderline racist dog whistling. The entire idea of it is based on the notion that people cannot successfully mix together, and therefore should not try.
They might not have imprisoned as many people as the US, especially for petty things.
> The closest thing was more slavery than imprisonment,
> Those punishments are cruel and inhumane
The US has legalized slavery for prisoners.
> At the very least, rehabilitation doesn't work very well.
Rehabilitation is not the focus.
> Prison startup?
Gross. America has too much money made off prisons already.
I don't have any intention of selling my speedmaster though. Maybe if it suddenly shot up to insane prices (it's a limited edition), but I like the watch.
Flagged it, cause why bother.