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by ATB 5y ago
Prime Video | Engineering (all types, but FEE ideal) | Los Angeles & Seattle We are a new team in Prime Video building out customer-facing experiences in the Mobile, Living Room and Web apps. Because we're just starting out, we&#x2
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by ATB 6y ago
PrimeVideo.com is the website (in addition to apps on mobile and living room devices like TVs and consoles) where customers outside of the US, UK, Germany, and Japan can watch Prime Video. In the aforementioned four countries, customers can
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by ATB 15y ago
Isn't your own blog's title "brevity is for the weak" ..? ;) In all seriousness, the post was pretty typical stream-of-consciousness self-discovery stuff. It's wordy by definition.
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by ATB 15y ago
> "In general Microsoft doesn't allow free DLC. You can ship bug fixes and there's a tiny amount of title update space you can shove content into, but large amounts of content are meant to be deployed through paid DLC" That is incorrect
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by ATB 17y ago
Henry F. Carey; East European Quarterly, Vol. 29, 1995, "Irregularities or Rigging: The 1992 Romanian Parliamentary Elections"
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by ATB 17y ago
"the Romanian revolution was practically bloodless compared to what could have been" Compare it to the revolutions in the other Balkan states around 1988-1992. It was by far the most violent. How many died in Hungary? In Bulgaria? In Poland
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by ATB 17y ago
"Those three countries - along with Romania (and sometimes Slovenia) are the case studies for Eastern Europe. They're where the transition from communism went remarkably well and lacked any sort of violence" The Romanian revolution was extr
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by ATB 17y ago
This article blames the author for not having a Kindle version of her book. That is a very simplistic view of what it takes for some authors to be able to sell Kindle editions (I used to work in that exact field) -- * their contract with th
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by ATB 17y ago
According to that graphic, the previous highest peak of long-term unemployed in the US was in the early 1980s, with around 3m unemployed. The current high peak in 2010, which looks like it may be decreasing now, is just over 6m. According t
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by ATB 17y ago
This is a very popular essay which tends to get posted around the web quite often. Yet it suffers from many not-so-obvious flaws, as analyzed in the popular linguistics blog "Language Log." The commentary is written in a calmly analytical s
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by ATB 17y ago
An intriguing coincidence? http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2004/20040319h.jpg
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by ATB 17y ago
encoding the type in the filename isn't a bad way of ensuring the type never gets lost The most likely way of losing the type is surely if a user accidentally (or maliciously) changes the filename extension. That is why Windows pops up an
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by ATB 17y ago
DISCLAIMER: I haven't worked at Amazon for some time now. The author makes a number of unsourced assumptions about the business models involved, as well as his moral rights. You'll have to decide for yourself if those are correct: "The US K
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by ATB 17y ago
I think what codyhilton was trying to say (correct me here) is that the 'no scratch on the car + no remote possibility of injury' claim is about accident prevention , not dealing with the actual impact. As the five or so replies show, safe
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by ATB 17y ago
High-speed train competition is a fascinating topic (if you're a.. uh.. trainspotter :)) For about a decade, Germany has been trying to sell the 'Transrapid' mag-lev trains and tech to China. Transrapid was sponsored by various German gover
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by ATB 17y ago
Not to repeat what was said above, but many of us (I suspect) immediately think of THIS when they see someone write "M$" -- http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/215178115_ExTPi-L-2.jpg That term simply doesn't come across well in a discussi
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by ATB 17y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something, but the iPhone instructions ( http://www.google.com/mobile/products/sync.html#p=apple ) tell you to add an Exchange (ActiveSync) account in your iPhone settings, rather than modify your existing Gmail account.
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by ATB 17y ago
"I find it surprising that so many Hacker News readers are focusing on his (lack) of academic degrees" The focus of the linked article is not his (lack) of academic degrees, but rather a pattern of lying about his degrees and achievements,
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by ATB 17y ago
This clone is advertised as costing at least $209. Kindle 2 currently costs $299. As far as I can tell from the sparse details provided, content is added to this via a sim card. If you've used a Kindle before to get content, it's readily ap
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by ATB 17y ago
I worked at Amazon until very recently. Some thoughts on the article: "Amazon — where workers famously had desks made of wooden doors nailed to two-by-fours in the company’s earlier, money-losing days — remans in some ways as cheap as ever"
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by ATB 17y ago
From reading the earlier articles, I believe the player in question was -- * Going to PvP-specific areas only (i.e. areas where 'hero' player characters are meant to fight 'villain' player characters) * Using 'in-character' communication to
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by ATB 17y ago
It's interesting to see PR in action, especially as Proggit, HN, and several popular blogs have been sounding the HTML5-induced death knell for Flash in the last week or so. Translating the double-speak is actually good fun in this case. Wi
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by ATB 17y ago
So far, I don't see a lot of people asking the really tough questions of what this non-competition for employees (especially engineers / developers) actually means. * If some of the top companies are implicitly not competing for you (as an
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by ATB 17y ago
The popular linguistics blog "Language Log" had some interesting commentary on "Politics and the English Language" written in a calmly analytical style (interspersed with some judicious jibes) that I think many YC.HN readers will find rathe
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by ATB 17y ago
"Steve Guttenberg," unless there is a much more intellectual seventh _Police Academy_ sequel uncovering his secret time traveling invention, probably didn't contribute very much to the printing press. "Johannes Gutenberg," in spite of not a
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by ATB 17y ago
Every time the failure of US car makers come up, somebody blames the CAFE Act, environmental laws, having to deal with government regulation, etc. It turns into a veritable blamestorm. The problem is that consumer preferences lead to lots o
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by ATB 17y ago
The popular linguistics blog "Language Log" had some interesting commentary on "Politics and the English Language" written in a calmly analytical style (interspersed with some judicious jibes) that I think many YC.HN readers will find rathe
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by ATB 18y ago
Antonio, on HN, you wrote -- "I hate how being harsh has become fashionable. Whatever happened to manners?" on your blog, you follow up by saying -- "I stand behind those words. Acting bitter on the Internet seems to be increasingly gatheri
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by ATB 18y ago
No professional sniper would ever aim at the head (Oswald notwithstanding). Given the very long range that a sniper would have to cover, and the resultant drop and wind issues to consider, aiming for a small, often rapidly-moving target suc
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by ATB 18y ago
automakers must be liberated from CAFE fuel economy laws that arbitrarily dictate what kind of cars they must sell, forcing them to sell millions of small cars that have no chance of profitability given consumer preferences This is baffli

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