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Oh man, please don't ever use Joel Reymont as a language reference - his noisy, uninformed, continuous churn through various programming languages was exhausting back in the day. Just be thankful the hack has gone quiet.

Sounds like you owe the poster more than a beer

Also, see the reactions from companies with big datacenters who have had to internally evolve off Big Netgear in a similar fashion to moving off Big Iron years before:

http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/12/networking-the-last... http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/10/datacenter-networks...

They played with house money and set their own goalposts.

A legendary racket from days past! Leave Cisco with technology and engineers, get generously funded by Cisco, get generously bought out by Cisco, inside Cisco enjoy sandbagged targets and guaranteed payouts, lather, rinse, repeat. Self-dealing masterpieces!

Ditto - would love to hear how he went from Loopt to that kind of wealth!

He got 40M from selling Loopt? Didn't Loopt raise 40M? How does Sam have 10M lying around?

Sequel is the bee's knees

Nice! They should let you swipe left, swipe right the other passengers

So the rides are like blind dates?

Can it be both?

Studying sounds like a strong word here. Author's an administrator, not a researcher. And he's likely bought in to the Uber economy; current openings at Oglethorpe are administrative and adjunct:

http://www.oglethorpe.edu/apps/careers/

Did you mean "a WTF service"?

Inventor of C++'s dream setup is simple and stable.

Federal prosecutors also cherrypick slam dunk cases

Seems like just yesterday!

http://blog.samaltman.com/a-new-team-at-reddit

> I am delighted to announce the new team we have in place. Ellen Pao will be stepping up to be interim CEO. Because of her combination of vision, execution, and leadership, I expect that she’ll do an incredible job.

Go packaging is a black hole of sadness in light of all the experience and research that's gone on in this space.

He had me at "It’s unclear if it’s [generics] an essential language feature"

Why is there so much dysfunction around everything they do?

"JS/CSS Coders Worth Following"

A rails blog doesn't seem like a great soapbox to stand on here.

They don't. They're classic free riders.

Left to go where?

Amazon also runs Netflix racks

Yikes! Don't fall into the title driven career path. Titles are a false currency and a company accreditation that is of non-transferrable value outside that company, for the most part.

The Q4 peak hardware purchase graphs Amazon retail present. Different stacks.

Have you ever seen an AWS outage line up with an Amazon retail outage?

Dogfooding is a myth - Amazon retail's not betting its business on AWS.

Whoa, what makes you think Amazon retail runs on AWS? That's a core founding myth...

This reads like a Burnout Cookbook.

In the following days, they followed up with an offer that wasn't an offer - they would make an offer only if I said yes, but otherwise they weren't going to make an offer. They had the hiring manager call me a bunch of times. They tried to get me on a sell call with the ceo. They disparaged the other companies I was talking to. Meh. Also, they were title crazy - everyone in management I spoke to was either a director or a vice-president or a chief of something.