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That's why I said it's not the most comprehensive. However, there have been multiple investigative reports. Enough to make it a pattern. And again, nearly anything is a better source of truth than tweets by employees paid to tweet positive things, which was my original point.

That is such an over-generalization that I don't know where to begin... no, not all communication is in the mold of paid PR.

And, paid PR is not how you correct falsehoods. How about independent research? For example, if Amazon actually was interested in transparency, they could let a 3rd party survey a representative sample of warehouse workers and make public the results. That would be true transparency.

This is how all marketing works, though? You create a message that focuses on certain facts (proof points) that paint you in the best possible light (although, I'm not sure how much credit I should give Amazon for not breaking the law and paying minimum wage...)

I'm still not seeing why Amazon should be commended for what they're doing here, it's just form of social media marketing.

Undercover reporting and a survey of 241 workers: https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/whats-it-really-like-wo...

It's not the most comprehensive data, but I would put more stock in this than in paid tweets from employees.

If they really wanted to address the issue in a transparent way, why not conduct some independent research and release results to the public? E.g. an anonymous survey of a representative sample of warehouse workers.

What gives their statements the appearance of fact? Do you think press releases are factual because you know a PR agency was paid to write them?

It's good they're transparent, but are you arguing that whatever the reps say is inherently truthful because Amazon is transparent about their role?

I don't consider paid statements to be a good indicator of anything except that Amazon is trying out different PR tactics.

As an Indian, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to make of your analogy...

Except flying cars would require an entirely new transportation infrastructure. Self-driving cars adapt to what's already in place.

That would be the end of uber... not immediately, but it would seal their fate.

Even in the game Monopoly, the whole point is to show how bad Monopolies are!

Agreed, I remapped it in vim 1 year into learning it because my pinky was starting to hurt.

* Evernote for web articles I find interesting (I love the web clipper), and for random notes

* Sometimes Google Keep for other random notes.

* Wunderlist for long term todos

* Apple Reminders for "remember the milk" type reminders

* Trello for work & personal projects

* Mint for budgeting

* Google calendar for calendar things

* Dropbox for cloud photo storage from my phone (may switch to Google photos at some point)

* Backblaze for offsite backup

Yeah, Disqus and Facebook comments were the issue for me, although I don't know if I'm better off being able to see them or not :)

I used to do that, but it would sometimes break functionality on certain sites, and the whitelist is a bit of a pain to manage. I've had good success with http://disconnect.me

Really? Because it is one of the most liberal cities in the US.

Source: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/08/08/chart-of-the... , also I lived there for 25 years.

The main developer of south was responsible for bringing schema migrations to Django's core... don't know how similar it was to south's codebase, though: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/mar/22/kickstartin...

Europe means different things in different contexts... there is still a continent called Europe that the UK is a part of.

You seem very thin-skinned

It isn't that complicated to figure out... it seems pretty obvious to me that people's life priorities change as they get older.

Interesting notes. Regardless, 4chan's stance on identity is still far from Google & Facebook's real name policies.

Absolutely, which is why it's an interesting hire.

I'm interested to see if this is part of a movement by Google towards a different notion of community & identity than Facebook.

Moot has very different position than Mark Zuckerberg when it comes to identity online: http://venturebeat.com/2011/03/13/4chan-moot-christopher-poo...

I guess it depends on what your definition of "wasted time" is?

True, my 5 year old cousin loves using google inbox to improve his productivity.

I see that you clarified in another comment.

However, it's not uncommon for tech companies to say that they're like a "family", but what it really means is that they want you to long hours, weekends etc, because you know, family obligations.

I had the exact same reaction - if you told me a company was family oriented, I would imagine that means they foster a good work/life balance so that you can spend time with your family.

That's not to say that companies shouldn't provide opportunities to bond with your coworkers, but I think I'd want to work for companies that appreciate people have lives outside the company.

I suppose I enjoy arguments about word usage, but at the end of the day, the battle he's fighting is already lost.

Also, anecdotally, I've rarely heard a software engineer call themselves just an "engineer". They usually prefix it with the word software, or use the word developer.

"If the author thinks that Twitter's main function is finding out what your friends ate for dinner..."

...except for the fact that he says the opposite in the article.

Damn journalists, using their education to write an informed article!

I use evernote's web clipper for that purpose, works pretty well for what I need it to do.