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3 Skills I Learned Working at Amazon That Nobody Talks About
Everyone wants to work at Amazon.

I did. For 5 years.

These work for product. For founders. For program managers. For general managers.

I'm convinced anyone in tech would be better off if they learned these 3 Amazonian skills.

1. Make yourself write out your thoughts. There's a lot of chatter about magic documents (like PRFAQ's), but I will tell you there's nothing magical about them.

Hypothesize: write what you think will work.

Measure: find out if it did.

Activate your learning loop w/ writing
2. Sweat the details more the higher up you go.

So many business leaders elsewhere think they are above the spreadsheets now. The manual processes. The kludgy backend systems.

Not at Amazon.

We obsess over details. We measure everything. No detail is too small not to matter.
3. Learn how to expose your assumptions and write tenets.

There's a lot of talk about Amazon's customer obsession, but that's really just a tenet that they've exposed publicly.

A tenet is your thinking in advance about how you make hard decisions. It's a principle for choosing.
If you can write a good tenet, you can run a good business.

A tenet is one simple sentence that tells clearly how you choose between two opposing tensions (e.g. end buyers vs. vendors at Amazon).
A good tenet is not obvious in advance. It's written with attitude. It's a teaching tool. It's designed to help you spread your thinking at scale.

Master tenets, and you'll be able to run AND scale a business.

Bonus: you'll also think better and be surprised less often!

One last piece of wisdom: always add the Amazonian "unless you know better" to your tenets and your thinking.

Be humble, write out your thoughts, invite debate.

Let the best idea win!

These 3 skills are what I'm using for the foundation of my new project: Rocketsugar.io. The best part? We've built our idea and website with an hour of meetings...total.
I so disagree. You can totally dance to metal. First, there's headbanging and moshing which are absolutely kinds of dance, as is air-guitar playing (a kind of... interpretive dance; I guess?).

These may not be what most people think of when they think of dance, but most people also don't think of growling when they think of singing, and yet growling is a form of singing - and in fact one that is connected to traditional forms of singing like the Kargyraa technique in Tuvan throat singing [1] or the Sufi zikar [2].

And if I had a penny for every time I've been told "that's not music" for any metal band I liked to listen to, I'd be a penny gazzilionaire.

I digress. You also can dance-dance to metal. Why not? It's got rythm to spare. If we don't see anyone dancing-dancing to it it's only because metalheads are ... to be kind, self-conscious.

It's just a matter of what we're used to I think.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvan_throat_singing#Kargyraa

That's when they start to growl as they whistle. Mental.

[2] Particularly Kemal Zikar; for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GZnVKcSzMM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRnjV013f5I

Bonus Sufi zikar mosh pit (with genuine respect):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5goISKPSH8

And with headbanging:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW34HM7RCgo
These morons are trying to pump a certain crypto-token by instilling inflation fears, but since inflation has been a non-issue in the US since the 1970s, they are now trying to shift the focus to the money supply as if it had any relevance at all.
The NYT has done worse than every other journalistic organization solely because they spread the lies that got the US into the US-Iraq War.
Only in very simple solution spaces. In general the solution spaces are pretty big and taking a while to mull it over is worth while. Especially for novel problems. If the problem is similar to something you thought about previously or have already encountered them of course it can be responded to. Even the smartest chess grandmaster will play better with more time. And for hiring, I always prefer people that have a great answer in a day or so than an ok answer immediately which they are happy about.
This is why I hate these stupid OSS naming schemes. Screwing with capitalisation serves no function other than as a shibboleth - signalling that the devs belong to the free software tribe.

I avoid software with dumb-ass case-sensitive names precisely for this reason. Look at the confusion, the time wasted on this topic. Why should it matter if it's octave vs. Octave? Normal users aren't case-sensitive, they just want to get on with their task. It just points to devs with the wrong priorities.
You come across as underestimating the scale of the economy and the lengths people already go to in the name of greed today.

You speak about regulation as though it's some new idea. It's not. There's oodles of regulation, layered over a few centuries of people gaming and exploiting the system and the system coming up with new ways to identify and stop it. People are more clever than you give them credit for and are more likely to simply game the system you describe to leverage things even more.

You say by making it harder to be greedy people will stop being greedy. I say it's more likely they'll find new ways of being greedy before they give it up. Then you're back to square one, but with a more complex system that costs more to simply maintain the status quo.
I hate (sic) that some people attempt to dramatise what are purely technical decisions, like choosing the OS or the framework.
According to the README, the goal of this project is to "eliminate your shell script's dependency on Unix while still keeping its familiar and powerful commands". Changing the interface would add an unnecessary learning curve, since the target audience is already familiar with the conventional command-line style switches.
When you choose to join an organization with clear rules, you should follow them or leave, not stay and flout them. The pope decides what the doctrines of the Roman Catholic church are, not individual priests. Centuries ago, the German priest Martin Luther founded Protestantism because he thought the Vatican had corrupted Christianity.
> works well in iOS

Many people would disagree with you.
I think the term "software engineer" is sort of meaningless. I know someone who builds ssis packages and while he does know T-SQL, he is relatively unfamiliar with transactions, cannot describe how a balanced tree index works, and will not complete an SQL query without using "nolock".

I have never seen him produce a working program in any dot net language, or for that matter any procedural language except maybe visual basic for applications (excel macros maybe). I think he tried to learn php but gave it up. He also calls himself a software engineer. He makes some good money tho, he's in management.

I rarely see this with other engineering disciplines. Its always the computer programmers lol

Just 2 cents from the peanut gallery!
Alright, thanks for that anecdote. I was wrong about that then.
>My base case going forward continues to be that with the combination of sizable broad money supply growth, along with public opinion pushing the pendulum back away from globalization, consumer price inflation is likely to be higher in the 2020s decade than in the 2010s decade.

The biggest news is that Fed changes its inflation targeting goal. It's now average inflation targeting 2.0%. This means that Fed allows inflation run above 2.0% for some time until average matches the goal.
> "use a parser" amounts to "write a entire parser yourself, then use it"

"Use a parser" is a common answer, besides being the accepted one, and with good reason: it'll work. The world is not short of HTML parsers (although, who knows, perhaps PHP may have been short of very good parsers back in 2009). Whether they use regular expressions for tokenizing is an internal detail.

Serializing XML from the resulting memory structure, DOM or otherwise, closes the loop, and this remains a conventional and commonplace means to normalize some incoming HTML-like mush into something that can be spliced/interpolated into XML and a strict receiver will probably accept it.

> Pot, kettle.

Oh look, personal abuse! Good-day to you, too.
Yes, but the money supply is rarely reported in per capita terms. (It's not that it doesn't make sense, it's just unusual.)
Author claims ENFJ is opposite of ISTP in MB. I thought it was the groupings (first two, second two, and/or/? combination) that formed opposites, not the individual letters.
It really depends on your choice of modified gravity. Normal MOND isn't extended to relativity, and your choice of how to do that is going to make some big differences. I found [this](https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0212293) paper from a pro-mond researcher that found a non-relavistic model couldn't account for the behavior of dense galactic clusters like the bullet cluster, and there are plenty of papers by less sympathetic researchers that agree.

I couldn't find any non proof of concept papers that tested relativistic extensions of MOND for bullet-cluster-esq situations. Those proof of concepts tended to disagree greatly with reality, but thanks to the weird effects of (for instance) mass current models you'd expect to need a pretty accurate simulation to avoid compounding error. It certainly hasn't been ruled out.

That being said, while we haven't ruled out that some super weird interacting effect doesn't cause the apparent mass, we know that under a broad range of DM models the bullet cluster is normal. If you assume that apparent mass shows where actual mass is, pretty much all of the weird behavior goes away. It does suggest that so-called "hot" dark matter is unlikely, but that was indicated by cosmological surveys as well.
Why are so quick to judge someone you don't know anything about?
That can't be enforced much of the time because there is no regulation to enforce the identity and details of the project founders.
Any links? Need to a get a suit and would love to save.
brilliant! source? or did you just make it up?
Well, since I've learned at least four assembly languages, and wrote my first toy lexer at least 25 years ago, probably in Standard ML, by this standard I seem qualified to comment.

It doesn't matter what the parser looks like under the bonnet. What matters is the utility it provides.

One might otherwise similarly offer the advice to mine your own copper and grow your own silicon, these being equally essential activities for anyone seeking the ultimate in mechanical sympathy.
2012. We're all machine elves now.
+1, I was all sols on the company but then remote roles are US specific :(.

Any plans for EU remote roles?
I've wondered what the effect our modern digital economy has had on consumer price inflation.

Normally, an increase in money supply would cause consumer goods to increase in price, since more people are able to buy them and there is a limit on how much of any particular physical good is available.

This isn't the case, however, for digital goods. If there are suddenly 100 million new people who want to buy a Netflix subscription, it isn't like we are going to see the price of a Netflix subscription go up because there isn't enough Netflix to go around. The marginal cost for a new subscriber is practically zero, so there should be no price increase caused by a shortage.

It would be easy to see that inflation would be essentially zero if ALL goods people wanted to buy were digital ones... no amount of demand can eat up the supply, since supply is practically infinite.

Of course, in the real world, some goods are digital and some are physical. If you gave everyone $5000, some of that would go to Netflix subscriptions, which wouldn't effect consumer prices, and some would go to buying TVs to play Netflix on, which WOULD cause inflation.

I am curious how much of our current "low inflation even with an increasing money supply" is caused by our increasing spending on non-exclusionary goods.
"I will lie to manipulate you into fucking me, and also I think I'm smarter than everyone".

You charmer, you.
I'm not saying Bezos didn't earn anything. But not billions.
It's odd that we have such fine-grained words for this practice, but this is coppicing, not pollarding. Coppicing is done near ground level, pollarding higher up the trunk of the tree.

A testament to how important agroforestry was to the English people, I suppose.
For that matter, I'm not sure how well nomadism AFAICT is really handled within the US. Systems are not really setup for people to not have permanent addresses with respect to things that require them (drivers licenses, passports, W-2s, state taxes, etc.). Pre-pandemic I spent literally months away from home but I had a clear permanent address.
Shut up and take my vote.
Find it comical that Wall Street and Fed are keeping gold muted while everything else has gone parabolic. Tells you where their priorities are in this cycle.
These organizations would be expected to have some marginal cost increases from running data centers and physical hardware cost increases and they would calculate passing these on to consumers. Or as an excuse to. But I guess that is covered by your example and understanding that their physical costs being non-digital goods. So, fun thought exercise.
How on earth do you manage 1000+ tabs? With some kind of add-on software, no doubt, but I would like to know your workflow.
People have to buy Dollars and Euros because governments require people to pay taxes in those currencies. If you don't pay then they'll seize your assets by force.
Impact is really about being in the right place at the right time with the right skills.

If you don't have the skill to find another place and time - and it is a different, distinct skill which can depend on social and economic capital for the search - the one chance may be all you get. It doesn't necessarily speak to your capability or lack of it. For most of us, it's luck.
Unless a HR department is doing something wrong, the test results aren’t the point of the tests. It’s the conversation following, where possible employees are confronted with their answers and results that’s the point.

It’s just easier to get there when you use a disguised relationship tests from 1980ies magazines. Not only does it touch on relevant areas, most people that you’d use the HR resources on secretly love taking those things and then talking about themselves.

As with most things, it can obviously go wrong or get used in the wrong situations. HR is a department that’s there to help managers, but they really shouldn’t waste their resources testing people for a position as a software developer. If your company is doing that, something went wrong. Maybe HR found a way to keep themselves busy, or you’re not bolstering a management culture or people who can make hiring related decisions without consulting HR.
I enjoyed reading your responses in this thread very much!

Do you have a “favorite set of constructs”?
Absolutely; I'm not disputing that in general, psychology is harder to pin down - any experiments are on something vastly complicated that is really hard to isolate. As a formal discipline, psychology is still relatively young, and so it's going to take a long time to get the kind of insights everyone is excited about.
He seems to be saying people have told him as much, or he's heard as much. It’s not like he’s stating it strongly either, I think mostly he’s just making conversation.

To even bring the word delusion is delusional.
Are you objecting to something someone suggested?

Without the force of state or a private army it’s pretty difficult for anyone to leave anything to someone after they kick the bucket.
How to Go From 0-1000 Users in 30 Days
This is called, on Twitter, "making up a guy and then getting mad at that guy".

Please don't.
> [...] most annuals that we use for crops have perennial versions. [...]

> One take-away is that agriculture as it has been practiced is about the dumbest way to grow food. [...]

One very useful technique in modern agriculture is crop rotation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_rotation

You grow each year a different crops, because they have different fertilizer requirements (and some even fix Nitrogen) and also helps to reduce some plagues. It's also possible to plant different crops in succession, so you get multiple harvests in the same year.

For these, a perennial version is bad.
That's an artificial distinction. There is no sharp line between "punitive taxes" and just taxes.
My Favourite recipe - sardines on toast

- red onions sliced and cooked in brown sugar and vinegar (quick pickle), cook until the onion is cooked down.

- Toast up a piece of sourdough

- Spread with mustard

- Add slices of tomato, sardines and red onion pickles on top, add some parsley or basil if you like.

You can also had some capers if you're so inclined.

or drizzle some lemon juice and/or olive oil on top
Euros and dollars are worth a lot because very powerful governments with big armies and police will force you to give them a lot of euros and dollars.
I wonder if the Court of Claims would cover trading losses from the Fed’s actions

I should look up the judges to get a feel for their predilections

I wanted to see S&P 12,000 for a moment
And it is perfectly fine to require any app available on the Apple App Store to offer Apple Payments as the default option. Anyone who wants to stick to Apple payments should be able to do so.

It is not ok to block any other option or even mentions of external options when you are also the gatekeeper of the only marketplace.

The monopoly Apple has in this case is on distribution of software to iOS devices. They are leveraging this monopoly power to maintain a monopoly on payments.

Antitrust laws say this leveraging should not be allowed.
I have been using Hey and I like it. I plan to keep using it.
You could have easily called ahead to check stock of the item you were in search for.
`sh` might be what you are looking for.

https://amoffat.github.io/sh/
...and the wiseguys that run things there, er, 'dere, would not be happy...

But kidding aside, I feel that the restriction may be an overreaction. Lawyers and accountants can sometimes overcompensate when it comes to stuff they don't fully understand.

I had a friend that wrote a 99-cent iOS app (I don't think he made enough to cover hosting and licensing fees), and his accountant was a bit "over the top." He insisted that my friend could get into serious tax jeopardy over the App Store stuff, and insisted that he pay about a 50% tax.

Hearing about it was painful. Sounded like the guy needed "help," but I'm told that otherwise, he was an outstanding accountant.
I really liked her article on understanding Japanification, which I probably found linked from HN too. I'd never heard of her before but I immediately added her to my favourites.

https://www.lynalden.com/economic-japanification/
With Crypto people are just being people. They jump on bandwagons on all kind of hype trains are ride it but when the music stops harsh awakening begins.

Bitcoin was not the first electronic currency or even first cryptocurrency but it was the first one decentralized and with open transparent database of all transactions not anonymous, criminal and anarchist let's destroy government thing.

Egold and DigiCash failed because of the things aforementioned but cryptocoins will fail because of the wild "pump and dump" schemes going on over and over again. And I hate to see celebs and CEOs like Elon Musk jumping on it only because it is fun. Musk could talk about technology behind Bitcoin but he chooses to promote DogeCoin/s because of the memes and lolz.

I would personally prefer US banning cryptocoins and then bringing some act and approving them one by one.

This is nothing Satoshi envisioned for Bitcoin; wild market speculation and manipulation construct it was meant to be "A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System".
Poke around more on this site, it's not parody, he's just... well, go see for yourself.

Or even better, save your time, just move on.
Other models actually did settle for higher numbers of factors, but higher numbers were usually found to have categories that could be reasonably collapsed into one of the Big 5.

Fwiw, my understanding is that most psychologists believe that with further study, these categories will map to actual functioning of the brain and nerve systems. For example, "Neuroticism" will somehow map to the excitability of certain nerve systems and "Agreeableness" will somehow map to functioning of our mirror and mentalizing systems. "Conscientiousness" will map to inhibiting functions, "Openness" will map to approach/flee type emotional functions, and "Extraversion" will map to systems like dopamine release on securing rewards for behavior.
> I have tried hard to understand what makes Peterson such a radioactive personality on the left

It's not just the "Left". Peterson has two characteristics that irritate me whenever he arises in conversation.

His arguments, which are generally in the form of a flimsy comparison to an actual scenario/event/situation, a breathless demand that we just hear him out and not look into the comparison too deeply, then a demand to consider the implications as if the relationship was completely equivalent. The logic is so tightly circular that the only thing he has managed to almost convince me of is that pi is exactly 3.0

The second thing is his fans. They feel he is persecuted because others (whom they label "The Left") don't agree with Peterson. They will extol the virtues of this or that book, horrified that someone might have found a flaw in the argument that White Privilege doesn't exist or that people with sub-80 IQs have no benefit to society. They will then claim that this supposed flaw is actually a strength, as proven by this argument in book B or at this timestamp in this video.

As to why "The Left" can't cancel Peterson... is because "cancellation" is generally a target audience deciding that they will no longer purchase, listen or otherwise interact with a party, brand or product. Peterson's audience aren't people who organise against people like Peterson. The most positive thing one can say about him is that he hasn't betrayed his base - he knows they enjoy his pap-philosophy - and he is happy to make some extra-curricular dollars by selling it.
IMO Flutter competes with Electron, not necessarily Qt. Flutter’s key advantage is that it compiles natively and has less runtime bloat than Electron.

It does not offer platform-native UI widgets like Qt, nor does it have Qt’s breadth of features. But not every app needs that.
Yeah, that is why I intentionally said "practically zero" instead of actually zero, because there are some marginal costs. They are just orders of magnitude less than what they are for physical goods.

But yeah, I am just curious how that math all works out on a macro scale.
Any IP packet that is valid on the Internet would be invalid and dropped on the critical infrastructure network. The only packets that could pass between the Internet and the critical infrastructure network would be those that are intentionally bridged by rewriting the CRC-32. This should not be done at the IP level, but only by application level bridges.

It would prevent inadvertent connections between the Internet and the critical infrastructure network.
I discovered computer science in preparatory classes (a French thing that comes before engineering school, you can think of it as the first years of college) in France where it was the default programming language (I believe they now start with Python and include Ocaml only if you take some options).

Interestingly, it was the students with previous programming experience who had the most difficulties learning the language.
I have not found the reverse to be true, the Ocaml compiler is very strict, but it makes you attentive to details and types in a way that transfers well to other languages.