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Another job at work
I’ve been saddled with another task at work: helping to write game reviews. Sometimes, one of my sentences makes it through the editorial process intact, although often my notes, ideas, and comments...
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Finally a legitimate payment and subscription solution for indie game companies
I missed the public announcement on this so I’m almost a month late, but this is great news for indie game developers and those trying to put together subscription and micropayment systems for games....
View ArticleSlaving away with Perl
A friend said, Java’s boxing / unboxing drives me batty and I waste tons of time on it He was referring to operations in Java 1.4 (and earlier) like: Collection c = new ArrayList(); c.add(new...
View ArticleYet another beta
I got into another beta at work. I’m trying out Amazon Fresh, which will be a lot more useful to me when I’m living in West Seattle again, but anyone in the Seattle area can register for that service....
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No, really
So, Sandesh moved on to an internal tools team, and Paul is getting his hands on S3 code. Aaron is moving out of his team leadership position and voluntarily going back to being a designer. Jim and I...
View ArticleSomeone actually understands Amazon
As an Amazon employee, I learned this in orientation, in all-hands-meetings, and through doing my job. I’m impressed, however, that Scott Wingo of Seeking Alpha actually gets how Amazon does business....
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Got my Kindle
I received my Kindle 2 yesterday. Becky liked how lightweight it was, but she prefers the button layout of the Kindle 1 — at the least, she’d like a previous button on the right side, and she liked...
View ArticleStupid interview questions
I’m listening to a co-worker perform a phone screen (interview) with a candidate to work at Amazon. I think my least favorite question so far is, “Write a program to generate prime numbers within a...
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Goodbye Daily
While Amazon Daily isn’t shutting down yet, we’re losing our gateway (homepage) placement to another new service offering. This will cut our traffic down dramatically. Bet you never even noticed this...
View ArticleIn defense of Pair Programming
A TechCrunch opinion piece posted yesterday, “Pair Programming Considered Extremely Beneficial,” was very complimentary about Pair Programming, a practice in which two developers work together to build...
View ArticleHow I’m vendoring in Go
I’ve gotten questions about this at work when presenting and teaching people about Go development and there may still be some confusion about transitive dependencies and how to mix multiple Open Source...
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