amazon_throw

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by amazon_throw 5y ago
I have considered it. I don't see the pattern widely, and I'm watching for it. I've seen teams implode because of it, and other toxic patterns, so it's not that they're not there... they just seem to be in the minor
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by amazon_throw 5y ago
No, far from it; I'm not HR, nowhere close, but I am senior enough that people sometimes listen to me. I'd like to make things better for people if I can, and part of that is "knowing where the problems are". Believe me
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by amazon_throw 5y ago
Like I said, I don't doubt that they happen, but given that you've also left the company and seem to have hit one of these areas of toxicity yourself, I'm not surprised you'd think so. Who was your last manager? I'm
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by amazon_throw 5y ago
HAHAHAHHHHa hah... hah. ha hah cough Oh, wow, what an amazing take. You owe me a new keyboard.
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by amazon_throw 5y ago
Our technical staff is probably closer to 100k than it is to 20k. It was 20k when I started over 10 years ago.
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by amazon_throw 5y ago
That "CYA" response really doesn't feel like "us" to me, at least not the AWS side. I can't speak to the experiences on the store side, nor on the devices side. Over in AWS, we practice the "blameless post
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by amazon_throw 5y ago
Current (long tenured, moderately senior) AWS engineer here. I've been at the company long enough it's pretty clear that I'm a "good culture fit", so take what I'm saying with that in mind. While I absolutely b
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by amazon_throw 6y ago
Is this the one? https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gemini-photos-gallery-cleaner/... (There are a lot of "Gemini" bitcoin apps, apparently...)
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by amazon_throw 6y ago
Indeed it is, as are many of the older, more grognard corners of IRC. Also, IRC is still alive.
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by amazon_throw 7y ago
In the post-nuclear-holocaust wasteland where only cockroaches survive, the cockroaches will use IRC to rebuild.
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by amazon_throw 7y ago
translation of the first two paragraphs is "I've decided what I think already and if you say you work at Amazon now and are happy it's prima facie evidence that you can't be trusted to be objective about it"
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by amazon_throw 7y ago
Plus, you know, https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/ We do actually vend a JDK. Yes, it's conservative. It's also necessary.
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by amazon_throw 7y ago
Yeah, I work adjacent to the Apollo org (and have worked near Pfrheak, too. Hi!). I would love to see a HackerNews commenter's idea of what it would take to re-implement Apollo. I'll bring popcorn.
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by amazon_throw 10y ago
correct.