evanjacobs

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by evanjacobs 7mo ago
> There is little market share left for them to win Despite controlling about 40% of US online retail, Amazon only has about an 8% share of total US retail. There’s still plenty of room to grow here. https://www.emarketer.com&
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by evanjacobs 4y ago
AWS S3 Insights | Software Development Engineers | Seattle | ONSITE or REMOTE (US only) The mission of S3 Insights is to help customers understand what data they have and how their data is being used in order to recommend actions they can t
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by evanjacobs 4y ago
My first car was also a 914 that the father of a friend of mine had sitting in his garage. The transmission was shot (no first gear) and the suspension had given out but I bought it anyway for $800 and put about $2000 into fixing it. It was
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“Alexa, speak slower”(blog.aboutamazon.com)
2 points by evanjacobs 7y ago|0 comments
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by evanjacobs 7y ago
Amazon - Alexa for Everyone | Software Development Engineer | ONSITE (Seattle, WA) | Full Time Alexa for Everyone is focused on making Alexa an indispensable part of the lives of people with disabilities, older customers, and family caregiv
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by evanjacobs 8y ago
"I don’t recommend writing a press release at the start of your project, especially one like that." So even though Doom was wildly successful and (according to Romero) was the most ambitious game development effort before or since
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by evanjacobs 10y ago
Alexa Smart Home | Software Development Engineers | Seattle | ONSITE We're focused on making Alexa the UI for the home and we're looking for engineers who want to help us in this mission. This is a unique opportunity to be an earl
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by evanjacobs 10y ago
Alexa Smart Home | Software Development Engineer (all levels) | Seattle | ONSITE We're focused on making Alexa the UI for the home and we're looking for engineers who want to help us in this mission. This is a unique opportunity t
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by evanjacobs 10y ago
I would have liked to see Twitter become the product that Slack is now for many people: great direct message and group message capabilities, fun interface, great API for enabling bot integration, etc.
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by evanjacobs 10y ago
"why should they know about something so far outisde their specialty"
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by evanjacobs 10y ago
There will continue to be lots of examples of preserving the best of analog technology in the digital world. One example is an app that I built that lets authors sign ebooks (Authorgraph: http://www.authorgraph.com ). This idea w
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by evanjacobs 11y ago
This post reminded me of the upcoming book by Matt Ruff ("Sewer, Gas & Electric", "Set This House in Order", "Fool on the Hill") titled "Lovecraft Country". From the description on the author&#x27
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by evanjacobs 12y ago
This reminds me of a story I heard as a kid while listening to a baseball game on the radio. During a game one night, one of the non-starting pitchers was bored in the dugout and started doodling on the baseballs that would be periodically
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by evanjacobs 12y ago
Amazon did in fact try a drive-through facility in Bellevue, WA (a suburb of Seattle) a few years ago where customers could pick up previously ordered items. http://downtownbellevue.com/2007/09/27/amazon-fresh
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by evanjacobs 12y ago
Yep, they mention that it is waterproof in one of the videos on the site. That probably means "splash proof" rather than "submersion proof" however.
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by evanjacobs 13y ago
Kathryn Bertine wrote a book and a series of articles for ESPN in which she tried to do something very similar. After trying several sports, she settled on cycling and gained citizenship of St. Kitts and Nevis. More about her story at: htt
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by evanjacobs 13y ago
In my 10 years at Amazon, I interviewed lots of engineers and I think Amazon's interview process is fatally flawed. Of course Amazon is still able to hire good candidates but I believe it is in spite of this process and not because of
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by evanjacobs 13y ago
The administration has now lost all credibility on this issue. NY Times Editorial Board 6/7/2013 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/president-obamas-d...
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by evanjacobs 13y ago
"Are our shirts any good? No. Our shirts are f king great."
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by evanjacobs 13y ago
I believe that this is the kind of open-ended question that Yabbly is designed to solve. http://www.yabbly.com
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by evanjacobs 13y ago
Wow! One of the best self-aware posts I've read in a long time. Looking forward to reading more and following the progress of Exversion (which sounds like an awesome idea, btw).
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The top five lessons Game Of Thrones can teach us about online security(getcloak.com)
1 points by evanjacobs 13y ago|1 comments
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The "Grouponification" of Reading(authorgraph.com)
1 points by evanjacobs 13y ago|0 comments
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Started in Seattle(startedinseattle.com)
2 points by evanjacobs 13y ago|1 comments
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by evanjacobs 13y ago
One point that I haven't seen raised yet is that a reduction in the # of dynos required to operate a service would provide the benefit of being able to run certain addons that are priced on a per dyno basis more cheaply (e.g. NewRelic).
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by evanjacobs 13y ago
I'm a big hackathon fan and participant and I can sympathize with the emotional high of "hey, we built something really cool" to the low of "the judges didn't just didn't understand what we've built". Most of the hackathons in which I've pa
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by evanjacobs 13y ago
This isn't a good analogy. IMDb was and is literally the best source of movie data anywhere. It is more useful to think of them as Wikipedia for movies since the community maintains the info and includes data that isn't available anywhere e
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by evanjacobs 14y ago
During my time as an engineer working on Amazon.com, we occasionally experienced outages of various lengths. One of the surprising details about these outages is that they really didn't result in any revenue loss. That is, it appeared that
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by evanjacobs 14y ago
I wonder how new this policy is. I've had http://www.readwritehack.com registered with Namecheap since 2008.
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Playing for the Royal Flush(linkedin.com)
2 points by evanjacobs 14y ago|0 comments

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