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If you or anyone affected is interested: I'm hiring in AWS both in Seattle and Vancouver, BC. Email me at alljay at amazon.com.

A dev on my team wrote the following Excel 2000 credits (it was a flying carpet-like game). Afaik that was around the time BillG put his foot down and mandated no new credits. Ente…

As an excel developer in the 90's, this brings up great memories. I wrote the Doom Excel credits in Office 95. I wish I'd had thought of doing this instead. Kudos.

It reminds me of an old story about Microsoft Windows. Back in the early 2000's, compiling and building Windows from source code took many hours on very specialized build hardware.…

Pretty interesting. Too bad the synths are generic and no beat. I'm pretty sure with more work this could substitute most electronica I listen to when I code.

I'm confused by what you mean. I'd argue that onboarding new customers should be your core competency, the focus of your main product. What am I missing?

I've worked at Microsoft, Amazon, and several other places. These clauses are pretty standard. I'd say it would be unusual to find a place that doesn't make you sign these (or simi…

I think that, over time, both paradigms are required. For the quick lookup/command, "ask" is best. For longer interactions, like driving directions, or cooking instructions, etc...…

Amazon lost the phone and tablet wars, so they shifted their focus to the voice assistant market, and are now ahead of competitors with their Alexa skills SDK. It's great to see Go…

Feels like Typescript is building (or has built up?) more momentum than Flow.

yeah, that's what I mean. Provide a service that reports back leaked working credentials so that the service provider can lock down the account.

I'm always amazed at how efficient AWS is at detecting private keys on the internet (checked into github, etc..), and then proactively locking down accounts. I wonder how long it w…

When this becomes real, the next question becomes "why own the car"? What's the benefit of having it sit in a parking lot for 8 hours until I'm ready to go home. Seems like the fut…

Good writing has similarities to good UI in that you have to relate to your audience. I'm a fan of this topic and appreciate your thoughts on it. However I found your article too l…

I want to like this, but it conflicts with Michael Pollan's rules for eating ("don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food"). Their chicken strips contain …

Interesting post. A couple of observations: 1. I think programming is a multi-disciplinary task. Notch is obviously among the best at "writing a lot of working code". He's pointing…

Agreed - Stallman was right all along. What's working against Stallman though is that his doomsday predictions are being delivered in piecemeal fashion. Each slight erosion doesn't…

Paul, branding us as "dumb" for reasoning this way seems beneath you. Where, in this line of reasoning, do we diverge? 1. Monsanto is a despicable company. 2. By "working closely",…

Any idea when this will trickle down to github:fi?

Yuck. Does anyone know if they were forced to put out that press release or did they actually write that on their own volition?

Am I the only one who sees the victimization going on here? MG says "AOL promised not to interfere" and yet now "they may break their promise to us". Meanwhile Michael went and cre…

Great news! Mozilla is finally accepting Chrome's good innovations. Now for a unified search bar...

I suspect it's because of paid DLC. The ol' razor and blades model - give the game away for free and reap the profit on bought game content (e.g. 'hats'). The margins on those make…

You assume the person living in the expensive city doesn't benefit from doing so. Folks living in San Francisco choose to do so because they find the trade-off worthwhile. I choose…