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Long unsightly url after redirection but doesn't appear to be an affiliate link.
If you want to make a short Amazon link manually the only thing you need is the /dp/ID. So in this case, https://amazon.com/dp/B00005NZJA
Full time WFH and dumping your office spaces as fast as you can would efficiently remove those real estate costs entirely.
Kind of fun watching them flail so hard before they'll have to accept the new economic reality.
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Long unsightly url after redirection but doesn't appear to be an affiliate link.
If you want to make a short Amazon link manually the only thing you need is the /dp/ID. So in this case, https://amazon.com/dp/B00005NZJA
I think the tool used to get the a.co put the ref= there and there probably isn't a way to turn it off because it's just a simple thing like copying the link.
I am sitting at a Google desk and there are 5/6 people not here in the desks in my vicinity. I would prefer fewer desks and to actually get to sit next to people rather than being scattered among a sea of mostly empty desks due to people WFH.
I agree, but I think that the way of achieving that is quite dumb. Id rather enforce something around. The first 1-2 floors in some specific buildings on every campus will turn into shared spaces instead of forcing everyone out of their desks. Decisions seem so poorly though recently that the only way I can make sense of many is thinking that they are trying to get people to quit to avoid paying for severances and ta…
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I remember visiting MS (Redmond), in the 1990s (It was at the "Longhorn" launch, if that helps date it). A friend of mine, worked in one of the nearby buildings, and took me to his office (He was doing documentation, or something for Encarta). I was struck by the narrow, dark, corridors, and the small, windowless, offices. My friend said that all MS engineers had a private office. I have since been told that the buil…
Microsoft started to transition to open layout company-wide sometime in the mid-10s. Depending on the org, some team at Microsoft still had private offices for their devs as late as 2017.
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I think he's saying they don't have interesting problems to work on.
Companies like Google have a unique problem. They attract the best engineers, but they still have lots of boring work to be done. So they end up hiring brilliant engineers only to have them work on uninteresting things like financial reports. My company created a whole separate job title which basically equates to "less skilled and lower payed developer" so we can hire more average engineers to do that kind of work w…
When I was at Google (Kirkland), the offices were basically open-plan fishbowls. WFH was massively better. I once worked at a startup (pre-covid) that had an open-plan setup with a significant portion of people using standing desks. They provided one stool for 2 standing desks justifying it because "if you use a standing desk you should be standing most of the time". Pure cheapskate short-sightedness.
Good to see the tech industry bringing us back to the workplace of the 1800's.
Up next: Child labor!
It seems like each day there's an article lately about reasons _not_ to work at Google. Sad to see how they went from an enviable place to work to a place to avoid these past years. (Although internally, things might be better than it looks from the outside of course)
I'd work from a toilet stall for a Google L6 comp band I doubt any Googlers actually care about this stuff
This tends to be an indicator of age, rather than wisdom.
When you're young, you value money more than time.
When you're old, you value time more than money.
I don't remember when I've read this anecdote, I think was about Sun and X11 (or the equivalent), where employees can use the first free deskt they see and they can login from that "dumb" terminal to their actual machine (Could've been some other company, not Sun) - wonder if anyone remembers it (was it mentioned here on hny?)
X-Terminals were a thing before SUN, but SUN had very nice ThinClients called SunRay that could "HotDesk". Your session was tied to a smartcard, as soon as you plugged that in, your session appeared on that workplace. Pull the Smartcard, go somewhere else, plug it in, there was your session. Very cool and almost instant, as opposed to the supposed "alternative" our windows guys suggested, which was smartcard login to…
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If you want to make a short Amazon link manually the only thing you need is the /dp/ID. So in this case, https://amazon.com/dp/B00005NZJA
That isn't shorter though because it doesn't have a.co - and it doesn't look like it works like the google one did or does, or the github one used to work I think the tool used to get the a.co put the ref= there and there probably isn't a way to turn it off because it's just a simple thing like copying the link.