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That's what got me off my lazy butt to write this thing.

Indiegogo would charge ~7% for the same thing.

Had they not squeezed me out, no doubt I'd still be hanging on trying to turn things around.

But you know what... maybe I need the money right now to do some things I always wanted to do.

And the APIs for everything I clicked were... they were paltry.

I've been nearsighted all my life, and once you hit 40 years old you stop being able to see things up close.

I don't make commissions on placement or anything like that, just a good thing to do.

Because Bezos had gone to buy something on the site and had seen the problem himself.

And you know as well as I do how surprising that is, because they don't "get" much of anything, really.

I mean, yeah, they micro-manage really well, but I wouldn't list it as a strength or anything.

Everything Steve says about Amazon is true, only, it was much worse.

You don't know me, my life, my past, my future, my dreams, my fears, my hopes, my goals or a goddamned other thing about me.

Beverages are an easy thing for the bean-counters to get approval to cut, so when times get tough, they get cut first.

At a certain point you stop being able to just act like a regular person and have everything turn out fine.

The American citizenry tends to be OK with this kind of thing as long as it happens far away from us.

So font selection becomes this life-or-death thing: it can lock you out of the product completely.

I did start this post -- if you'll reach back into distant memory -- by describing Google as "doing everything right".

**** the business models, projections, and funding rounds and just "do the right thing".This appears to be a royal ****-up.

But nothing compared to the lost goodwill for Airbnb, YC, the startup community, and the "new order" in general.

To function well in society, it's beneficial to understand a little about how they work, and how to make them do things.

It presents an excellent opportunity to fix things in a way that never could have been imagined before.

A consultancy or something where you get to work on different things in different places on short engagements.

It's different when you are younger and everything is new, you just chalk up a major tooling change as just something else to learn.

They even managed to time things well: the weekend of my grandmother's funeral, after A had been told about it, they dropped their little bomb on me.

The two are basically the same thing, because platforms solve accessibility.

The faster you get things done, and the more thorough and error-free they are, the more ideas you can execute on, which means you will learn faster in the future too. Over the long term, programming skill is like compound interest.

If you lose your ability to feel joy and excitement about programming-related things, you'll be unable to do the best work.

You also start to get a long view on things, where all these new things coming out don't really seem to offer any advantage to you that keeps development fun.

They don't give a single **** about charity or helping the needy or community contributions or anything like that.

We do mean well, and for the most part when people say we're arrogant it's because we didn't hire them, or they're unhappy with our policies, or something along those lines.

Maestro's funding is a feeble thing compared to the gargantuan Microsoft Office programming platform: it's a fluffy rabbit versus a T-Rex.

Disagreements are one thing and can be deliberated in civil manner, but downright unencumbered hate and allegations is another.

Document everything, save all of your emails, chat logs, download and archive all Github comments on everything that you've worked on, as well as everything else you can.

Nobody can make any real forward progress until very serious quotas and throttling are put in place in every single service.- monitoring and QA are the same thing.

Something I thought slightly peculiar given that he was supposed to be investing his own, significant funds along with B. Plus, I don't believe that he actually did any measurable work during the time period that would justify it based on what I knew at the time.

And their operations are a mess; they don't really have SREs and they make engineers pretty much do everything, which leaves almost no time for coding - though again this varies by group, so it's luck of the draw.

Would you?Well, the first big thing Bezos realized is that the infrastructure they'd built for selling and shipping books and sundry could be transformed an excellent repurposable computing platform.

They prioritize launching early over everything else, including retention and engineering discipline and a bunch of other stuff that turns out to matter in the long run.

If you're delaying on this point out of some idea of wanting to "try to fix things first" or "not wanting to be the bad guy," you're just shooting yourself in the foot and downing blood thinners to keep the wound from clotting.

From the time Bezos issued his edict through the time I left, Amazon had transformed culturally into a company that thinks about everything in a services-first fashion.

One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right.

But when your service says "oh yes, I'm fine", it may well be the case that the only thing still functioning in the server is the little component that knows how to say "I'm fine, roger roger, over and out" in a cheery droid voice.