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Aug 18 7 tweets 2 min read
Step 1: spam the living crap out of everyone on LinkedIn The title slide for a talk ...
I too have problems hiring due to running into population limits of certain towns.
There are a LOT of people at the #AWSSummit watching this talk. If she doesn’t drop her email at the end with a “reach out if you’re looking to make a change” call to action then it’s a massive missed opportunity to hire. A large crowd watching the ...
“Sometimes at Amazon we like to ghost *successful* candidates for a few weeks before extending an offer— just to mess with them.” —the honest version of this talk
Ah, the Bar Raiser program. Often heard by Amazonians as “we eliminate bias by bringing in an interviewer who’s better than you.” A slide about eliminating b...
Soon: “Alexa, what’s the temperature?”
“It’s 74 degrees. By the way, we’re hiring.”
Yes, your 20 person startup needs a hiring process that can scale to 1.6 million employees. “Implement and commit to a ...

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Aug 18
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Aug 14
Some big tech companies have always been ad companies.

Others (Amazon, Apple, Netflix) adopt the ad model later and steadily see it become a corrosive force.
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The first result on the iOS App Store is often a direct competitor of the app whose name I just searched.
Google has steadily replaced the entirety of the results page “above the fold” with sponsored results for some queries.
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Aug 10
Ooh, updates to Honeycode, @awscloud's low-code / no-code creator for internal applications.
"Tell us your demographic information or there will be no Honeycode for you. We are not kidding." graphical user interface, application with text Tell us more
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Aug 9
If I were completely amoral I'd simply set up a bunch of open source AMIs on the @awscloud Marketplace, charge more for "support" than the instance cost, and call myself something innocuous like "Supported Images."

That's such a good scam that of course someone beat me to it. A screenshot of precisely what I describe in the tweet.
I see a bunch of replies attempting to reinvent my old scam:

Given that I flagged this years ago I can only assume that these clowns are up for @awscloud's Partner of the Year award.
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Whoa! So it goes to the Golden Gate Bridge?

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Now @Caltrain is getting in on our commute action. A picture of my daughter we...
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