TruthPrevails

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by TruthPrevails 15y ago
joelonsoftware posts are always great reads!
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by TruthPrevails 15y ago
It's the law of nature at play. The infinite cycle of life and death. Old making way for the new. Apple will go weak one day. Some other company will come to the top. This law of nature cannot be challenged. It is inevitable.
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by TruthPrevails 15y ago
Yes. It has happened to me once already.
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by TruthPrevails 15y ago
No offence taken :) I understand your point. Silk was something I was really interested in. Tough luck. I wonder whether there is still a chance if I can talk to the Silk team manager.
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by TruthPrevails 15y ago
My source is one of my professors. He told this to the class while talking about CDN.
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by TruthPrevails 15y ago
Just now found out that "no college hires" in Silk team. That sucks! College hires are high on energy and enthusiasm. I don't know why teams would not want college hires :(
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by TruthPrevails 15y ago
I came to know recently that Google had plans to use services of Akamai. When agreement could not be reached on the pricing, Google came up with its own content delivery network. Now this acquisition. Puzzling.
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by TruthPrevails 15y ago
This is quite comforting :)
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by TruthPrevails 15y ago
Yes, this is something even I observed as an intern. Amazon environment is very dynamic and chaotic (at least the group I interned in was).
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by TruthPrevails 15y ago
Bad move. A step backward for humanity. All efforts should be made to make knowledge available easily and on large scale.
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by TruthPrevails 15y ago
Sure, I will try to find out about such teams.
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by TruthPrevails 15y ago
My AWS team was good. I enjoyed my work as an intern. However I was warned that work in the group is operations intensive. I could see that myself in those 12 weeks. As an intern I was not given any operations work. Obviously it will change
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by TruthPrevails 15y ago
Thanks for the suggestions guys. Internship experience was quite good. But then it was just for 12 weeks. I enjoyed writing code. Since I have less time to decide now, I might just accept the offer and test the waters. I am inclined to choo
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by TruthPrevails 15y ago
Hello All, I was an intern at Amazon this summer and they extended a full time offer. I read Steve's rant with great interest. Since many people in comments have confirmed the points raised by him about Amazon, I am not feeling good right n
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Ask HN: Regarding Steve's rant
8 points by TruthPrevails 15y ago|4 comments