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throwawaySlu

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    Comment #27574604

    >the onus is on you to supply the reasoning why intrinsically hard problems requires documents over slides. I think I've provided sufficient examples on why this is the case, and I…

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    Comment #27573204

    > I am however saying that the true reasons when and why it works better are misunderstood. There is no irony here. You provided a deeply dense document arguing in favor of slides.…

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    Comment #27566326

    I want to point out the irony that you wrote a lengthy, dense document, despite your argument in favor of slides. And you’re asking for a debate (or saying you’re open to one). Im …

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    Comment #27558026

    I read the link you shared. There is something to be said about expressing an idea with sufficient clarity in fewer words, without jargon or “officialise” or more information that’…

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    Comment #27548162

    Amazonion here. The purpose of doc writing is for the author to dump their ideas and convey the critical pieces of information. It lets the reader consume the information at their …

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    Comment #27408376

    I’m at a company where we have tons of Java services. Services scale out horizontally, are fronted with load balancers, and there’s some minimal JVM tuning. Some services have thre…

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    Comment #27114246

    I’m a Principal SDE at Amazon. Amazons weakest link are its managers, especially at the L6 and L7 levels. Competent L6 SDMs are far and few. I’m now working with the nth L6 SDM as …

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    Comment #24027031

    Presumably, they’re making enough profit through Kindle that no one at Amazon thinks it’s worth investing in a completely new Kindle reader. It’s also possible that people who read…

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    Comment #23951896

    I mean if I had to do a chargeback, honestly I probably wouldn’t ever shop with Amazon again. And I work there.

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    Comment #23923817

    Hahaha ... yes. :(