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I suspect only EC2/S3 and their paired services (EBS, IAM, etc) gain enough use to qualify as "enormous" and thus receive wide attention for their failings. AWS has a lot of services:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services#List_of_pr...

Putting that aside, I'm not sure "why aren't people complaining?" is a reasonable way to prove or disprove how buggy software is.

The culture which may launch a lot in some parts, but does not uniformly ensure quality and is well documented as being difficult to work in.

Amazon is far too large to give Jeff credit for 100% of the output, despite his name being on the door or ultimate decision making authority belonging to him.

Well, a notable difference is that the only party preventing Amazon from streaming to Chromecasts is Amazon.

This currently goes to a landing page that makes it look like you need to sign up first to read the article. That's not actually true, clicking 'full text' on the right hand sidebar will take you to what may have been a better link to post here:

http://www.security-informatics.com/content/3/1/5

Totally agreed. She's even responding to the more aggressive posts:

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3cbo4m/we_ap...

Not a fun job, but definitely a fantastic step forward.

Yep, wasn't as highly voted when I posted this (or my sorting settings are wrong -- I'm never sure what 'best' does). Thanks.

Given the concerns over lack of communication, I wonder if that was the right move. I can see how hard this would be to manage on-site communications with everyone mass-downvoting anything from /u/kn0thing or /u/ekjp though, so I certainly don't have any better ideas.

Why did this apology come out today and not before Pao spoke to news outlets about this topic? Why wouldn't you try to talk to your upset users quickly and directly?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/technology/reddit-moderato... http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/07/05/420...

What specifically are you objecting to? That specific question? Writing code on a whiteboard?

How would you interview software engineering candidates?

>> If you're an engineer you should never go work there-- the management is all non-engineer types.

> As an engineer, your manager WILL BE a former SDE. If you are a manager, however, then maybe your manager may not have been an engineer.

Totally untrue. I spent many years at Amazon, with most of my managers being managers by trade and half of them being openly non-technical.

>> All advancement is political and because of stack ranking its really easy to stab people in the back

> The type of "stack ranking" people refer to as being evil is not the same that's practiced at Amazon (it's barely stack ranking at all). And you saying that advancement is political, just shows that you're disgruntled with the company, this is just not true (for engineers at least).

If you are not a manager, you do not have direct visibility into this process and cannot make this claim. If you are a manager, then you're aware that every department is run very differently and should also be aware that some of them are very political.

I'm curious on what you think separates Amazon's interpretation of stack ranking from the "bad" versions, or how it is "barely" stack ranking at all.

Stack ranking is very present and very real at Amazon, but if you have a politically capable manager you will find yourself (as non-manager) able to ignore it.

That doesn't mean that you or your manager are necessarily doing a great job though, or that other people aren't being hurt by the system.

Unbelievable: "Perhaps it’s time to suggest that the post-Snowden pendulum has swung too far in one direction—in a direction of fear and mistrust."

I massively dropped my usage of Dropbox after their security issues (and not getting responses to my emails to them on the topic), and eventually closed my free account around the time of the drop-dropbox.com push.

I'm not against a third party managing my data synchronization, but it was pretty clear our priorities did not align.

There actually were "Fuck Kevin" stickers all over DEFCON a few years ago.

This looks like a neat program :) I look forward to seeing more cool stuff come out of it!

This is pretty cool.

This title as posted on HN (not in the article) is silly, though. The Linux kernel does not have "interns", this person is an intern for GNOME's OPW (Outreach Program for Women):

https://gnome.org/opw/

That outage notice you've linked includes a promise to improve communication.

Also, how'd you find that link? If you happened to just have it laying around, that's fine but it would be better if they had these things linked somewhere customers can find them when new ones are posted (like a page covering service post-mortems) and the timeline is missing little details like the year when the outage happened and a point of contact (it's signed by "the aws team") if you have questions.

It's not really a free market to end consumers. To change cable companies, I have to go for some WiMax/Wifi type ISP (lower quality in most cases), DSL (also lower quality in most cases), or move my residence to somewhere in the service area for another cable company.

I'd certainly be interested!

> I don't really like Seattle very much. Their airport uses TSA. [..]

So does SFO. Don't all airports in the US use TSA?

Also, literally every other city you mentioned has Uber available. Speaking specifically to Seattle, we also have Lyft and the other "popular" transportation-as-an-app services available.

Link to the AUP in question: http://aws.amazon.com/aup/

This does not immediately look authentic. Why would a letter like this be "signed" by the CEO instead of a member of Amazon's legal department?

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