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I have considered it. I don't see the pattern widely, and I'm watching for it. I've seen teams implode because of it, and other toxic patterns, so it's not that they're not there..…

No, far from it; I'm not HR, nowhere close, but I am senior enough that people sometimes listen to me. I'd like to make things better for people if I can, and part of that is "know…

Like I said, I don't doubt that they happen, but given that you've also left the company and seem to have hit one of these areas of toxicity yourself, I'm not surprised you'd think…

HAHAHAHHHHa hah... hah. ha hah cough Oh, wow, what an amazing take. You owe me a new keyboard.

Our technical staff is probably closer to 100k than it is to 20k. It was 20k when I started over 10 years ago.

That "CYA" response really doesn't feel like "us" to me, at least not the AWS side. I can't speak to the experiences on the store side, nor on the devices side. Over in AWS, we pra…

Current (long tenured, moderately senior) AWS engineer here. I've been at the company long enough it's pretty clear that I'm a "good culture fit", so take what I'm saying with that…

Is this the one? https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gemini-photos-gallery-cleaner/... (There are a lot of "Gemini" bitcoin apps, apparently...)

Indeed it is, as are many of the older, more grognard corners of IRC. Also, IRC is still alive.

In the post-nuclear-holocaust wasteland where only cockroaches survive, the cockroaches will use IRC to rebuild.

translation of the first two paragraphs is "I've decided what I think already and if you say you work at Amazon now and are happy it's prima facie evidence that you can't be truste…

Plus, you know, https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/ We do actually vend a JDK. Yes, it's conservative. It's also necessary.

Yeah, I work adjacent to the Apollo org (and have worked near Pfrheak, too. Hi!). I would love to see a HackerNews commenter's idea of what it would take to re-implement Apollo. I'…

correct.