beastcoast

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by beastcoast 3mo ago
Great short story. The premise reminds me of Simpsons treehouse of horror episode “Time and Punishment” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_V
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by beastcoast 5mo ago
(2025)
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by beastcoast 6mo ago
Lego used to encourage building new things by putting alternate builds on the back of the box, but intentionally not giving you the instructions. Now they do 3-in-1 for certain sets instead, which misses the point of that.
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by beastcoast 8mo ago
My therapist frames this as "family of origin" (FOO) vs "family of choice" (FOC).
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by beastcoast 2y ago
TIL that Lombok and Java are islands in the same country…
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by beastcoast 2y ago
I just did though - got lots of results about the massacre. Not sure what you’re alluding to.
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by beastcoast 2y ago
I’ve been on teams that did generic names, and inevitably you end up with names like “work manager service” - whose work? Then it becomes an acronym, like WPS, and everyone ignores it anyways :)
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by beastcoast 2y ago
Your site doesn’t explain your product very well. I know about GTD but I literally haven’t heard of any of the other products listed in the page. The screenshots are tiny and hard to parse on mobile. The descriptions of each feature include
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by beastcoast 2y ago
Time to get a new TPM. Any TPM worth their salt should be doing everything in their power to catalog and mitigate those risks, and communicate them upwards. Lack of communication in both directions and adversarial conversations with enginee
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by beastcoast 3y ago
The site doesn't do a good job of explaining what this is, precisely. It has several typos ("mailbox's", "corprate"). The "costco (sic) of helpdesk software" - what does that even mean? What's un
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by beastcoast 3y ago
Amazon has decided the worst of all worlds: a return to office mandate (stick) and agile seating plans with no assigned seating (stick). No carrots…
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by beastcoast 3y ago
Away teaming is definitely a last resort at Amazon, and has all the pitfalls mentioned here - much better to do a budgetary transfer so the host team is properly resourced to make the changes, assuming the feature doesn’t make it into the h
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by beastcoast 3y ago
Seems like Blind should get in on this game, since the premise of the app is that it requires a company email address. Use an LLM to extract insights from the comments and give them to prospective job hunters for a small fee, or even just r
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by beastcoast 3y ago
Even worse than that - Amazon spent dozens of engineer years migrating their wiki from PHP MediaWiki to Java XWiki, pretty much for that reason only, and for dubious customer benefit. There was a very epic post mortem at the end of it.
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by beastcoast 3y ago
Amazon is actually better thought of as a collection of independent startups with their own software architectures, roadmaps and P&Ls. There’s commonly used infrastructure but very little is really mandated at the company level.
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by beastcoast 3y ago
Any word on spot color support?
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by beastcoast 3y ago
Click “raw” then it flows pretty well. Reader mode on Safari is fine.
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by beastcoast 3y ago
I’m a big fan of AMZN’s approach: - make an operational plan (OP) for the entire year, which sums up all the HC on your team - figure out your goals for the year - have some senior engineers estimate those goals in # of HC (usually 0.5 HC i
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Mastery-Based Learning(launchschool.com)
1 points by beastcoast 4y ago|0 comments
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by beastcoast 4y ago
Video doesn’t play - is HN capable of breaking Twitter now?
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by beastcoast 4y ago
>1000 services, each with many APIs :) Amazon's warehouses have incredible domain complexity which drives the complexity of the software architecture. It's also one of the oldest parts of the company with a direct lineage going
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by beastcoast 4y ago
Depends entirely on the org. My org actually broke SOA (thousands of services and some intense technical debt) and is now in a years long process of moving toward a centralized service orchestration model. This couldn’t have happened withou
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by beastcoast 4y ago
Turns out Mastodon is “malware”? I can’t even read posts at work; it’s completely blocked…
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by beastcoast 4y ago
I saw this happen personally. I was in the interview loop along with the hiring manager, HM was not inclined but the bar raiser and other people on the loop, myself included, were inclined but as a downlevel (L7 -> L6). Candidate is hire
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by beastcoast 4y ago
I assume the name is a reference to Commander Keen?
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by beastcoast 4y ago
Amazon is notorious for hiring MBAs in its senior most ranks.
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by beastcoast 4y ago
Fresh warehouses are verrrry different than the robotic one you probably visited. I’m not surprised at all that a fresh building would have those problems.
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by beastcoast 4y ago
OneNote (the older one bundled with MS office, windows) has a dock to desktop feature that keeps it always on top. Windows maximize around it. Truly an underrated feature, too bad it’s poorly supported.
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by beastcoast 5y ago
One thing that is extremely useful IME is to learn how to read code, but don't worry about writing code. For example, check out the APIs of a service using its API explorer, and then read some of the code behind those APIs. Most code i
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by beastcoast 5y ago
EDI Notepad was a great tool for this - unfortunately it looks like it was shut down a few years ago :( Old versions should work fine however, unless you're using a very recent standard. (We were using the 1996 X12 standard until 2015

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