Sounds like you were a slacker almost certainly getting paid way above average, and got fired way later than you should have.
No sympathy.
Readit NewsThey dont control anything. If they left the network would readjust difficulty after 10 minutes and continue on the same way.
Seriously educate yourself. You're being the guy in the op comment.
It's not about them leaving the network, it's a matter of whether they could be coerced by an authoritarian government to alter transactions.
So they've discussed DoS?
Ahhh... They're trying to sell themselves as security experts.
JustLurking2022 commented on Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions plsfix.co/... · Posted by u/jpdpeters
Seems insane. Surely every single company would fire you for doing that. If you put this in its proper term it is "corruption" and you should definitely worry about the legal implications of doing this.
I'd like to think that but, hiring for a couple open roles posted only internally at a FAANG, I definitely received emails from external individuals inquiring about the role - and found out there's a whole cottage industry around referrals for a fee.
> I just want likable people who will execute on my ideas (or the ideas I’m simply passing on from higher management), or with light discussion, even if the execution isn’t perfect.
That sounds horrible. I want people working under/with me that will question the work, that will try to figure out if it's the right work. It is common for decisions "from higher management" to be made without a real in-depth knowledge of how the system(s) work. When that happens, there may be a (possibly radically) better approach that can be taken.
Software developers are generally paid a lot of money. Not taking advantage of their experience and problem solving ability sounds like a waste of money.
I've worked in both sorts of companies. The constant questioning may work well at smaller scale but kills productivity at larger scales. Putting aside that it inevitably becomes a political exercise as much as a technical one (because the different technical solutions almost always reflect competing priorities), it also requires perfect sharing of information across the organization, which does not scale.
Especially in any sales driven organization, I've seen it cause issues with infra teams questioning the need for certain features. Meanwhile, the answer is that the features are necessary because someone is willing to pay $$$ for them.
JustLurking2022 commented on Design docs at Google (2020) industrialempathy.com/pos... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
Microoptimizing for what the cargo cult believes gets you promoted is strictly worse than microoptimizing for what actually gets you promoted.
At some point, the cargo cult are the promo reviewers and then the two become the same thing.
JustLurking2022 commented on Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus ft.com/content/54671865-4... · Posted by u/henrik_w
Is Google a worker collective just because new employees are thrown a handful of shares?
Depends on who you count as employees - Sergey? Larry?
Most also look like hobby projects more than professional, so I would imagine having a lot of free time is a prerequisite. I don't know anything about the guy but all of the things you listed are reimplementing something that already existed, which is faster given at least the requirements are very clear.
One of my favorite things about Rust is that it uses the file system as the basis for a fast, reproducible, and composable developer environment.
I can unzip a directory, cd into it and cargo build it and for the most part it just works.
The fact that we have added shared libraries and environmental variables and so many other magic incantations that we need massively complicated second systems is an indictment of our culture of complexity.
I believe Go also embraces that level of simplicity.
And when it comes to deployment, instead of needing a simulation of a whole operating system (containers), I can just remote copy a directory and just have it work.
Downvote though you may, you misunderstand containers - they are not simulating a whole operating system (that would be a VM), they are using features built into Linux to isolate tasks running on the same OS kernel to be isolated from each other.
So many modern experiences that are built into our improved quality of lives; apps on phones that can know my tastes and preferences, hailing a cab virtually, a bonkers level of selection of goods to all consumers, low friction same-day delivery, far greater access to online services including education and financing, just wouldn't exist (or at least not as quickly) if weren't able to cut down so many old-school structures and replace them with much more efficient and available alternatives. Getting to create a transformation in digital infrastructure and logistics at that level is just nuts. And there's still plenty to do. The money is great too; a far better result for me financially than the startups I worked at.
But all that said; Amazon isn't for everyone. It's probably not for most people. I don't mean that in the "Amazon only hires the best" sense. That's true, but so do the other big tech companies. It's more that you have to be a particular combination of driven and outcome focused with a relentless tolerance or even insatiable need for urgency, hard work, and trade-offs.
If that resonated, and you have an opportunity to join Amazon towards the middle or advanced stages of your career; definitely try to do it. I interviewed several times at Amazon to get in. But if you are at the earlier stages of your career; choose your team and manager very carefully and care a bit less about the company you join. That will make a bigger difference.