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> There is little market share left for them to win Despite controlling about 40% of US online retail, Amazon only has about an 8% share of total US retail. There’s still plenty of…

AWS S3 Insights | Software Development Engineers | Seattle | ONSITE or REMOTE (US only) The mission of S3 Insights is to help customers understand what data they have and how their…

My first car was also a 914 that the father of a friend of mine had sitting in his garage. The transmission was shot (no first gear) and the suspension had given out but I bought i…

Amazon - Alexa for Everyone | Software Development Engineer | ONSITE (Seattle, WA) | Full Time Alexa for Everyone is focused on making Alexa an indispensable part of the lives of p…

"I don’t recommend writing a press release at the start of your project, especially one like that." So even though Doom was wildly successful and (according to Romero) was the most…

Alexa Smart Home | Software Development Engineers | Seattle | ONSITE We're focused on making Alexa the UI for the home and we're looking for engineers who want to help us in this m…

Alexa Smart Home | Software Development Engineer (all levels) | Seattle | ONSITE We're focused on making Alexa the UI for the home and we're looking for engineers who want to help …

I would have liked to see Twitter become the product that Slack is now for many people: great direct message and group message capabilities, fun interface, great API for enabling b…

"why should they know about something so far outisde their specialty"

There will continue to be lots of examples of preserving the best of analog technology in the digital world. One example is an app that I built that lets authors sign ebooks (Autho…

This post reminded me of the upcoming book by Matt Ruff ("Sewer, Gas & Electric", "Set This House in Order", "Fool on the Hill") titled "Lovecraft Country". From the description on…

This reminds me of a story I heard as a kid while listening to a baseball game on the radio. During a game one night, one of the non-starting pitchers was bored in the dugout and s…

Amazon did in fact try a drive-through facility in Bellevue, WA (a suburb of Seattle) a few years ago where customers could pick up previously ordered items. http://downtownbellevu…

Yep, they mention that it is waterproof in one of the videos on the site. That probably means "splash proof" rather than "submersion proof" however.

Kathryn Bertine wrote a book and a series of articles for ESPN in which she tried to do something very similar. After trying several sports, she settled on cycling and gained citiz…

In my 10 years at Amazon, I interviewed lots of engineers and I think Amazon's interview process is fatally flawed. Of course Amazon is still able to hire good candidates but I bel…

The administration has now lost all credibility on this issue. NY Times Editorial Board 6/7/2013 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/president-obamas-d...

"Are our shirts any good? No. Our shirts are f king great."

I believe that this is the kind of open-ended question that Yabbly is designed to solve. http://www.yabbly.com

Wow! One of the best self-aware posts I've read in a long time. Looking forward to reading more and following the progress of Exversion (which sounds like an awesome idea, btw).

One point that I haven't seen raised yet is that a reduction in the # of dynos required to operate a service would provide the benefit of being able to run certain addons that are …