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patch_cableon Amazon Pip Horror Story

I worked with several people at Amazon that were on a PIP and were able to move past it. (They were also people that were both talented enough to be successful in their roles, but needed a nudge because they were not meeting expectations at the time.)

I think we generally do not hear about the cases where a PIP was used and the employee was genuinely not meeting expectations, or when a PIP was used and the employee course corrected and went on to have a successful career.

patch_cableon Ask HN: Recommended Domain Registrars?

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

Just works. Dead simple. No frills. Feels like something from the early 90s. I've been using it for DNS for the last 10 years with multiple domains and no issues.

patch_cableon A Gov.uk site dedicated to porn?

I think it is required to name the bucket after the domain name if you want to use it to host static web content: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/websit...

patch_cableon Penguin is no longer the owner of the copyright to The Tao of Pooh

> varying from literal but incomprehensible (“TAO called TAO is not TAO.”)

Having read numerous translations, that sounds perfectly comprehensible to me.

patch_cableon Phony diagnoses hide high rates of drugging at nursing homes

I wonder what the side projects were…

patch_cableon Hong Kong: Police Raid Tiananmen Square Museum

That’s not what the cultural revolution was.

The cultural revolution took place well after the CCP took over.

patch_cableon Ask HN: What do you intend to do about Apple's invasion of your privacy?

Nothing. It doesn't rank high in my list of things I am concerned about. It would be nice if there were other options to consider besides Android, as I don't really care it as an ecosystem.

patch_cableon Tesla Autopilot thinks the moon is a yellow traffic light

I have one eye and have no problem not making these kinds of mistakes.

patch_cableon Amazon tells bosses to conceal when employees are on performance management plan

There are teams building cool things, used by large customers, where you're paid decently.

It's not really all that dystopian.

patch_cableon Amazon tells bosses to conceal when employees are on performance management plan

> “Should I tell an employee that I entered them into Focus?” the question reads. The response: “Do not discuss Focus with employees. Instead, tell the employee that their performance is not meeting expectations, the specific areas where they need to improve, and offer feedback and support to help them improve.”

> “If the employee directly asks, ‘Am I in Focus?’ you should answer honestly,” the response continues. “However, remind the employee that the use of a specific product should not be their take-away from the conversation, as there are important performance gaps they must address.”

That doesn't sound like mandated secrecy. That sounds like they think the employee shouldn't care what the specific product is called.

patch_cableon Apple's “iCloud Private Relay” broke risk based authentication

The difference between Apple and other anonymizing proxy/VPN services will be the size of the user base.

Websites will have to choose if they're willing to provide a worse UX to Apple customers.

patch_cableon Pentagon cancels $10B cloud contract that Amazon, Microsoft were fighting over

It has been done before: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/announcing-the-new...

patch_cableon The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion?

> If things are deterministic then the apparent arising of the universe would be undue.

Why is that?

> There was your will to post your comment, did you do that without consideration?

Consideration can be deterministic

> Free will lives on a spectrum of total freedom to total bondage, and varies by context and situation.

I think our definition of it varies.

> Total freedom is the goal of the spiritual path. Of course, it's easier to say that there is no freedom and therefore continue in our habituated ways without challenging the notion that maybe we are not entirely free.

The decision to challenge can also be deterministic and does not require free will.

> Knowing that freedom is possible…

Ditto.

patch_cableon WhatsApp's new privacy policy is so bad it might be illegal

“Really good friends” aren’t the only friends worth staying in touch with.

patch_cableon Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing

There is a link in the article to a separate post: https://www.elastic.co/blog/dear-search-guard-users-includin.... I think this is what it is referring to.

patch_cableon Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt

Something like this for alerts? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitori...

patch_cableon Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?

Some older services do. It isn’t the framework used by new services for their consoles.

patch_cableon AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards are still green

Same. If anything, a well written COE has had positive career impact.

patch_cableon AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards are still green

Echoing what Aperocky said, I worked for Amazon for about 10 years, across a number of different teams. Amazon has its share of problems, but assigning blame for outages was not one of them.

During my 10 years, I had multiple opportunities to break and then fix things. The breaking was always looked at as "these things happen" while the fixing was always commended.

patch_cableon Boeing Fought Lion Air on Proposed Max Simulator Training Requirement

If you’re already a private pilot: http://www.atopjets.com/

patch_cableon Having Kids

Yo, right here buddy. No regrets, but yeah, that’s kind of how it is right now.

patch_cableon Dating While Dying

Which I just learned is the inspiration for this children's book: https://smile.amazon.com/Little-Sid-Prince-Became-Buddha/dp/...

patch_cableon Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B

So does Oracle. It doesn't make it good enterprise software.

patch_cableon Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual medical clinic for employees

> Any ailment which steps out of the ordinary will be deferred or ignored.

Why would that be more true for this service than any other provider?

patch_cableon Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze

Humor them or talk about something different.

patch_cableon China Detains Former U.S. Air Force Pilot Flying for FedEx

Tiananmen Square is a major tourist destination in China. It’s on the subway signs. No one is pretending the square doesn’t exist.

patch_cableon Ask HN: What people skills do you wish you learned earlier in your career?

No matter how we live our lives, we're ultimately limited in how much we will experience by our natural life spans.

I see every interaction with someone else as an opportunity to peer into another life. A life I didn't live. A path I didn't take. Even if that path feels to you completely pedestrian, there is still a whole life there that you didn't live.

Even if they haven't examined or reflected on their life, you can (with respect, and perhaps best silently to yourself :-) ).

patch_cableon DRM enabled Google to have an open source browser still under its control

The streaming service is not DRM free. You can still purchase and download DRM free mp3s.

patch_cableon Myequifax.com Bypasses Credit Freeze Pin

I think that is mitigated by allowing the key to be rotated freely. The shortcomings over the token based approach are outweighed by being more practical to implement. If the issuing of a new key was an annual process, or even tied to something like drivers license/state id renewal, it would still be worlds better than what we have today.

patch_cableon Lufthansa Sues Hidden City Ticketholder for Throwing His Ticket

Comcast Internet in the United States. I technically have a VoIP phone because it made my internet cheaper than if I signed up for internet alone.