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Brilliant. Let unpaid volunteers fix and update the documentation for your proprietary systems so you don't have to pay someone to do it. Can someone explain to me why people will inevitably put in countless hours of free labor for Amazon here?
Brilliant. Let unpaid volunteers fix and update the documentation for your proprietary systems so you don't have to pay someone to do it. Can someone explain to me why people will inevitably put in countless hours of free labor for Amazon here?
Another is to consider this as Amazon giving the users a standard, simple way of fixing the documentation issues they inevitably run into.
Brilliant. Let unpaid volunteers fix and update the documentation for your proprietary systems so you don't have to pay someone to do it. Can someone explain to me why people will inevitably put in countless hours of free labor for Amazon here?
> Can someone explain to me why people will inevitably put in countless hours of free labor for Amazon here? Most people is good a heart and they want to help, even when it's bad for themselves or even illegal. "Under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and many state and local wage and hour laws, the use of volunteers and interns is strictly regulated." https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardtuschman/2012/08/…
I've told vendors of documentation bugs - and they've even listened. I wasn't paid by the vendor, I was paid by my employer. Who has a business relationship with the vendor. I sort of doubt this is illegal.
Azure says come in in, the water’s fine. https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/contribute/
Brilliant. Let unpaid volunteers fix and update the documentation for your proprietary systems so you don't have to pay someone to do it. Can someone explain to me why people will inevitably put in countless hours of free labor for Amazon here?
I wish I knew. Reminds me of Google Map Maker, aka "Work for Google producing proprietary mapping data that even you can't get back for free".
Brilliant. Let unpaid volunteers fix and update the documentation for your proprietary systems so you don't have to pay someone to do it. Can someone explain to me why people will inevitably put in countless hours of free labor for Amazon here?
The payoff in this case is probably getting your name into the official docs and leveraging that reputation as an AWS guru into pay/promotions later
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YC does two things that aren't directly making money but are definitely helping their portfolio companies: 1) Special ad positions with front-page placement (currently #22 is "Willing (YC S15) Is Hiring a UI / UX Designer" https://willing.com/designer , a privileged post that can't be voted or commented on) 2) The moderators can and sometimes do intervene by removing certain comments that are critical of YC companies…
Nothing is free. If you aren't paying, you're the product.
Azure says come in in, the water’s fine. https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/contribute/
I know it's been a while, but I still cant get over the azure outage that lasted almost a full day in 2012.
Gah, choke, barf. Crowd-sourcing is not the right way to document a big complex software suite. The right way is to use special software to compile or extract the documentation from the underlying source code. The documentation generator should be conceptually similar to a Jupyter Notebook or a Mathematica Computable Document. Furthermore, the documentation generator should run actual code that throws an error if the…