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I'm weirdly impressed by the "switch to metric/imperial" button that updates the article text. It's just so helpful.

> He told me to my face he "would not have chosen me" and "didn't know how I got in."

Holy shit. Glad that this person got managed out... eventually.

Early investors: people who “invested” hundreds of dollars to play. Legitimate business: “we’re a game studio.” Later investors: newer players who see the earlier ones making money.

To be honest I sometimes get better signal from things like cucumbers than I do with technology. Tech has a real issue with biasing towards people who happen to have worked on a particular topic, and as we all know we get bounced to unfamiliar topics constantly.

This article neglects to understand the massive college-hire pipelines that top companies set up. It's not that companies aren't hiring junior developers, it's that they _only_ hire from their college recruiting pipeline for their entry level roles. It's become a common policy to not make "industry" hires at SWE-1; that's basically the college hire rung.

Tell you what, I would not want to be a brand new developer without university connections trying to get a role right now. If you start looking without top internships and a degree from a school with connections it seems like it'll be rough.

I think this misunderstands the hard part of running AWS. You're paying for the software, sure. What you're really paying for is the hundreds of oncall engineers supporting you at all times, and the culture of ensuring that those services keep working.

I would have scare quoted "responsible" instead of "metaverse", personally.

Mirrors don't solve the problem, they move it.

The GP is talking about Dual EC (the infamous algorithm in question) and abbreviating it DEC.

An interesting exception to this is that American Sign Language (ASL) counts differently from normal American cultural hand counting. For example, three involves a thumb, whereas the normal US/UK idiom is only fingers.

His direct involvement in an atrocity-filled period of US foreign policy is what gets him called a war criminal, not his pithy quotes.

As someone who has interviewed and hired a lot of recent CS grads I can confirm they are way less weird than the fine people I met at the beginning of my career.

Not if you have children under 12.

Yeah, and I bet it’s even harder if you’re a new player to the space without established relationships.

I’m quite sure they could, but mostly just because they could simply walk into your house and tamper with the hardware. You don’t need a fancy zero day when you’re the government.

This makes sense, but I believe it’s incorrect. Overtraining is a fairly serious condition that can take months to recover from, not generic over-exertion of a specific muscle group that requires days of rest.

I don’t know anyone at Amazon who would hire someone they were sure they’d fire. I’ve never heard of it. It’d honestly even be sort of difficult, given the hiring process and the involvement of a bar raiser (veto vote) on the hiring committee who is not on the team.

Now, might you take some additional risks, considering URA? Sure. But I’m not convinced that’s a bad thing. You want hiring managers to sometimes hire higher risk/reward candidates, otherwise you get a whole bunch of identical low risk hires.

This article is an overblown bit of hearsay. Also, new hires aren’t even eligible to be PIP’d out of the gate, so you’d have to set it up quite a bit in advance.

Source: was an Amazon hiring manager for several years.

I think you’re incorrect about a few things.

First, tolerance to substances is more physiological than simply learning to hide it.

Second, consider one drink an hour ten eight hours. You’d barely be inebriated. It wouldn’t be particularly drastic.

Fiat currency is backed by something like “proof of military,” or “proof of governmental power.”

You’re saying we should be in favor of fossil fuels because it will.. prevent war? Gotta imagine the Middle East might have some experience here with regards to the peace bringing properties of oil.

I found myself nodding along with your comment, having worked in a massive company myself.

A company the size of Google is simply not a single entity, so it isn’t surprising for one division to make a “private mode” that another division doesn’t respect.

But isn’t that an awfully big loophole for the corporate leadership? “Well, we’re doing so many things that our left hand can’t possibly know what the right hand is doing.” When really, the teams themselves know exactly what the score is, even if they didn’t hear it from the CEO. It’s plausible deniability by being too big to understand.

And it isn’t unreasonable for a consumer to believe that when “Google” offers them a private mode that Google products might become more private in some way.

It feels like home because of the key of the song, not the instrument. Sometimes the guitar is tuned to play a song where the key matches the lowest string, but many songs are of course played in other keys.

Agreed! The fact that you can directly encrypt with RSA has been the source of all kinds of misuse-related issues.

This post leaves out a key difference between something like RSA and EC, which is that EC doesn’t actually provide an encryption function. You end up using an integrated encryption scheme.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Encryption_Scheme

This is intuitively similar to how TLS works, in which asymmetric concepts are used in conjunction with a KDF and hashing algorithm to agree upon a per-session symmetric key.

I’m also an IDE fan, but I love vim plugins for text navigation. For editing a bunch of files like text, I’m likely using vim.

But for doing proper application work, refactoring, debugging — I’m with you. I might be good at vim but gdb is a whole different beast.

Yikes. I would never work for that person after reading that article.

“I started a company and I’m totally wild about it. It is my life. If it is not your life too then you don’t belong here.”

Founders are supposed to be obsessed with their company. (Though I question that too.) But demanding everyone else at the company be just as obsessed is doomed to hire children and sycophants and drive off professionals who have seen this movie before.

My hope and suspicion is that they’re storing a one way hash of the data to create the signature.

What I think is interesting is that I suspect they’ll eagerly license this to competitor stores. A palm reader does not turn your local Safeway into Amazon Go, and they know that.

Having a slice of every point of sale could be huge; imagine how much better this is than having to use FaceID during a pandemic. (Tap tap, pin, pin, tap is a LOT more friction than “hover.”)

I’d pay for it if I ran a retail store. I wonder if Amazon will ever compete with Visa or other payment providers.

I wonder what percentage play exclusively on iOS though. If big spenders will spend on whatever is convenient it could be easily worth it to stop them from spending on iOS and get the cut back.

No, it’s to address “oh well we CAN’T moderate our platform we didn’t build those tools and we couldn’t find any engineers so I guess we’re just stuck then eh??”