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Well-capitalized Seattle startup seeks Unix developers (Amazon, 1994)

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The newer posts on there are the digital equivalent of graffiti. The original Linux post is clogged with a bunch of junk as well. It's always upsetting to see traffic driven to these posts leading to trash from visitors.

Great expectations ought to demand great compensation. I think this is somewhat fair (even if perhaps slightly pompous):

> You must have experience designing and building large and complex (yet maintainable) systems, and you should be able to do so in about one-third the time that most competent people think possible.

> Your compensation will include meaningful equity ownership.

I think the problem with a lot of ridiculous-sounding job offers we see today is that that they include great expectations, and then "will work for pennies [of equity]" is kind of tacked on as an additional expectation.

-1 for disabling zoom on mobile devices. I expect better from Google.

I downvoted you because you've repeatedly complained about the same thing on several stories for a while now. Pinch zoom gets disabled to remove the 300ms delay on mobile-friendly pages, and that's seems to be what most people want.

If you always want pinch zoom, I would suggest using Chrome -- there's an accessibility option that overrides the page's request to disable pinch zoom .

I upvoted the earlier comment because something interesting is worth repeating. I wasn't aware of the issue or your explanation, so good thing he/she posted in the first place.

I am using Chrome on iOS and I do not see such a setting. Furthermore, I fail to see the advantage of 0 delay on a mostly textual page. Based on the upvotes many agree with me.

It's also possible to set a bookmark to something like

    javascript:document.querySelector('meta%5Bname=viewport%5D').setAttribute('content','width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=10.0,user-scalable=1');

To re-enable zoom. I get as annoyed as the the parent comment with sites that disable zooming not because of the act itself but the bad design and typography choices that seem to go along with it. Make text size and leading choices suitable for the device, set margins so that your text doesn't abut the absolute edge of the screen, and make sure links are large enough to tap reliably. If you feel you can't make those choices and want to include full site or text size links somewhere then they should be obvious and again big enough to tap.

Here's a street-view of the mailing address listed in the post: https://www.google.com/maps/@47.635152,-122.198268,3a,75y,9h...

sounds like a real ass.

Repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3007622

how was this a helpful, informative comment? yes this has been posted before, over 2 years ago with no comments, but you've added no information to this discussion at all.

Yes, that was a poor choice of indicating this is a repost.

If you search the archives for "Amazon 1994" you will find that this has been posted to Hackers News a lot (the one with the most comments seems to be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2044945).

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