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Great short story. The premise reminds me of Simpsons treehouse of horror episode “Time and Punishment” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_V

(2025)

Lego used to encourage building new things by putting alternate builds on the back of the box, but intentionally not giving you the instructions. Now they do 3-in-1 for certain set…

My therapist frames this as "family of origin" (FOO) vs "family of choice" (FOC).

TIL that Lombok and Java are islands in the same country…

I just did though - got lots of results about the massacre. Not sure what you’re alluding to.

I’ve been on teams that did generic names, and inevitably you end up with names like “work manager service” - whose work? Then it becomes an acronym, like WPS, and everyone ignores…

Your site doesn’t explain your product very well. I know about GTD but I literally haven’t heard of any of the other products listed in the page. The screenshots are tiny and hard …

Time to get a new TPM. Any TPM worth their salt should be doing everything in their power to catalog and mitigate those risks, and communicate them upwards. Lack of communication i…

The site doesn't do a good job of explaining what this is, precisely. It has several typos ("mailbox's", "corprate"). The "costco (sic) of helpdesk software" - what does that even …

Amazon has decided the worst of all worlds: a return to office mandate (stick) and agile seating plans with no assigned seating (stick). No carrots…

Away teaming is definitely a last resort at Amazon, and has all the pitfalls mentioned here - much better to do a budgetary transfer so the host team is properly resourced to make …

Seems like Blind should get in on this game, since the premise of the app is that it requires a company email address. Use an LLM to extract insights from the comments and give the…

Even worse than that - Amazon spent dozens of engineer years migrating their wiki from PHP MediaWiki to Java XWiki, pretty much for that reason only, and for dubious customer benef…

Amazon is actually better thought of as a collection of independent startups with their own software architectures, roadmaps and P&Ls. There’s commonly used infrastructure but very…

Any word on spot color support?

Click “raw” then it flows pretty well. Reader mode on Safari is fine.

I’m a big fan of AMZN’s approach: - make an operational plan (OP) for the entire year, which sums up all the HC on your team - figure out your goals for the year - have some senior…

Video doesn’t play - is HN capable of breaking Twitter now?

>1000 services, each with many APIs :) Amazon's warehouses have incredible domain complexity which drives the complexity of the software architecture. It's also one of the oldest p…

Depends entirely on the org. My org actually broke SOA (thousands of services and some intense technical debt) and is now in a years long process of moving toward a centralized ser…

Turns out Mastodon is “malware”? I can’t even read posts at work; it’s completely blocked…

I saw this happen personally. I was in the interview loop along with the hiring manager, HM was not inclined but the bar raiser and other people on the loop, myself included, were …

I assume the name is a reference to Commander Keen?