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The title for this feels really broad. Cloud providers offer so many products with so many nuances that I'd posit it's practically impossible to do a satisfying pricing comparison …

Amazon’s policy is even better than that (IMO). They know that no one reads things before meetings, so it’s accepted that everyone will quietly read for the first part of the meeti…

This isn’t the complete picture. It’s true that the vesting schedule gives you only 5% of RSUs in your first year, but employees’ cash signing bonus is increased to offset that. So…

The point is summarized well by one of my favorite aphorisms (often attributed incorrectly to Mark Twain): "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Isn’t AWS fairly widely reputed for having lowered its prices dozens of times since first launching? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/new-research-from-tso-logic...

You can always do both. That’s what I’m doing, and it has served me well so far (just graduated from MBA with solid job placement and I have a few courses to go for OMSCS).

> a wise businessperson would see this as a signal that their product offering doesn't actually match demand, and work to fill that demand This is not necessarily true. It depends …

Only if it's a very competitive market, and even that effect will only happen over time. Product differentiation introduces pricing power for individual firms, and depending on the…

Reminds me of a similar article that measured a similar kind of question about the wait times for NYC subways conditional on how long you've been waiting ( https://erikbern.com/201…

I can understand the rationale for why Amazon would build something like this. Amazon owns a large chunk of the market of ecommerce in instances when customers already know roughly…

I completely agree. Almost all of this article appears to have little to do with being a Data Scientist in particular and more to do with some good practices for writing code in ge…