> Do you really think Twitter is gonna fairly compensate any of the users any time soon?

Yes, if it makes business sense to do so. Like it does for content creatos.

This claim would make more sense if the Mono was heavily optimized specifically for games, which is not the case. CoreCLR is heavily optimized period

Exactly. For ASP.NET they also optimized latency heavily.

Unpopular opinion perhaps, but I consider buddhists atheist

At my last company we used k8s not primarily because of the scaling capabilities, but as a way to safely deploy applications.

I've seen it used this way too.

But that's like buying the mcdonalds supersize family meal because you want the fries. There's better ways to go about it.

At my previous job we used docker swarm for a cluster of a dozen machines. Does not have all the fancy features of k8s but gets the job done to automate deployments

It might not be ideal but getting all of that admin and upgrade tooling for free is often worth it

How come the quipment can be bought from China that cheaply but China is "bad" at producing its own chips?

Buying equipment is one step in a very long, difficult, and expensive journey towards creating and maintaining a reliable and economical manufacturing process. Having worked in semiconductor process development, I can tell you that the people there do a lot more than "Make power points and fuck around"[1].

[1] https://twitter.com/szeloof/status/1549941162571694080

FBA is not a fuction of the unit price though, you say 20-35% which may just be what it ends up in, but its based upon package dimensions and weight.

Ah, nice to see someone with insights to the inside:-)

Why did you leave? low margins?

Tax on the stock vesting(vesting is generous but taxed at 50%) and a disupte about the location for remote work made me look somewhere else.

I have to say the working hours are very nice if you are l4-l6, so is the compensation and all you have to do is clock in and out on the second(no joke, even too early can lead to penalties) and if you are proactive with feature improvements and not shy to do presentations, your promotion will be activelly pushed. Even if you want to change departments entirelly, there will be no hard feelings, you can announce that without hesitation. You can go to l4 from l3, as l4 is where the vesting starts. And no need to be the superstar as far performance goes, just dont be last. If you are last, youre still safe from a sack and a pip does not really happen, theres always someone to help, aka nesting team or something. If you dont perform, its on them. Pick people for help as early as possible and you will be golden.

Of course there are some rather annoying people there too, some even seem to have an allergy to work, but all in all, its bright folks and a good environment.

Once you habe been there as l3, l4 or higher, due to the rather steep initial learning curve(all paid and well designed, even later on, you can chose upskilling, also all paid), you are always welcome back, believe me that, I best not go into details.

I might go back some day, I think it is the best option if you feel like working in a big corporation for a while.

I have accepted an offer from a startup paying much better for the time being, but I always keep Amazing in the back of my mind.

Keep in mind this only applies for l3 to l6, I cant speak for the rest, but once youve been there, you will see why they always welcome people back, the onboarding cost and training for the first few months are vast. I always felt sorry if someone out of amazon would be hired for something like fba dept manager. But yes, seen many people have a one year break without a promise of going back which just felt like they wanna be a stewardess on planes for a while.

Also, this was in Europe, where many employment laws have to be followed to the t.

I would give them a try anyehere in the world, learned a lot there, including how to create procedures for things which have none, theres some pretty important things you can start from scratch, be the creator. They call it taking ownership, which is always rewarded, even if it takes you a month. You get these accolodates and stars and things.

Anything quickly turns into less based on further dilution, no matter the concentration

In homeopathy, it goes from bad->less bad->good on dilution!

The Quartering? The only channel heard I code names for. And God is he sloppy!

FD, I dont watch him anymore as he is becoming increasingly less interesting.

They put a billion dollars into the refunds of xbox red circled units, nd then sfter that billions more into rnd to make it what it is today. they definitely had a long term vision for it