Simply looking at check out you can see that customer obsession is false. Littering with tiny text and checkbox trying to trick you to subscribe to Amazon Prime.
Not to mention they can randomly ban account for no reason given.
It was at one time maybe, but like all things you have to adapt and move. I think the article got it right, we've shifted from buildings what's best for the customer to building what the customer *thinks* they want.
Yup. "Free two day shipping" shifted from "two days from when you place your order" to "two days from when we ship your order, which may be an additional one-two days".
Even now, I can search for a product, think "Oh, good, something here should work", and hit the "Get it tomorrow" filter. I watch the results change and show a subset of results...
The relationship with a potential employer and a romantic interest have the same dynamics between creepy vs confident/hustling. We all have seen examples of both, but if any have tried to project confidence or to hustle to any significant and meaningful degree you run a non-trivial risk of appearing to cross lines / be creepy.
Often it isn’t one or the other. Steve Jobs was both a heartless ass at times while also being a brilliant hustler.
As most things in life, the perception of someone's actions are dictated by the outcome. If you succeed, your decisions might be considered bold and daring, but if you fail, they make you look arrogant or pretentious.
My Sister is a member of his congregation in Boston, on a day when she was having a difficult time managing the difficulty of being a young mother of 5 while in a chapel during worship services (this happened within the last year or two) in the process of things there was a spill of things of hers into the aisle way. She shot down to the ground to try and gather up all the things now cluttering the aisle way. Of all the members of the congregation who could have stepped over to lean down and help recover the diaspora it was “Brother Christensen” who came over and, despite being in a body ravaged by age and all he’d been through, using support for mere walking. There he was putting in the genuine walk, leaning over repeatedly to help gather things for my likely frazzled and overwhelmed sister.
My sister was vaguely aware that he’d achieved some notoriety. When I went on to speak of the world wide reverberations of his work, it seemed to pale for me to the history my sister had related to me just prior of what this kind, old ‘disabled’ man had done for my sister. An act which virtually anyone else in his position would be excused for presuming that someone else could handle this ‘little’ need.
Thanks Bro Christensen for producing the rebar, the greatly undervalued acts that keep our society actually functional and bearable.
While prices have long been rising here in Utah, they are still a pitance relative to SV/SF you could set up near the University of Utah (or BYU if you’re okay with the oft times awkward happy valley vibe) for what should be very reasonable for a Software Engineer salary.
There’s a solid tech nexus forming whose geographic center is becoming a town between Salt Lake City and Provo called Lehi. Tons of co-working spaces. It’s one of only 4 states in the nation where computer software developer is the most common job https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-...
it, at the very least, has a sizeable workforce that depend on their ability to sling code to make a living.
I’ve heard a lot of heresay, from people who’d know, about how much Northern Utah is resembling the appearance of SV from some decades back during its ascent.
If you know Clojure and AWS I really don’t think it is poorly communicated. There’s a limit to that idiom of simplicity and understanding being correlated.
This was a walk through of the mechanics. The TL;DR is if you are comfortable enough in AWS and Clojure implementing your system in a scalable and simple and wholistic way just got a bunch more accessibile.
I've written a clojure app, used aws and lambda functions and skimming this I really wasn't sure wtf they were talking about. Datomic... Something something lambda functions, deployment. I know that they have an existing ami that uses a cloudformation template to let you set up a datomic server on AWS, this is something similar maybe? I think I could get it if I read in detail but this is definitely poorly communicated, it reads like old Microsoft enterprise sales copy.
SEEKING WORK - Northern Utah (SLC to Provo) or Remote
I've mostly been doing backend work, and most of that in Scala, but Clojure is my first programming language and I have been learning it for close to 10 years.
I've built a wide range of things from an interpreter to update business logic code for an upgrade of a proprietary enterprise application for medical billing/coding software.
A couple Scala/Play microservices (one a financial/mortgage industry calculator and the other to oversee some GUI automation tasks against an old Windows app).
I've created a completely normalized relational schema with over 330 tables.
Presently I'm creating a Clojure/script, Om Next & Garden based library for declaratively creating composite css shapes with their corresponding html.
know - Clojure (first language, one I know best via book learning / theory)
know - Scala (The one I have the most experience in as I've used for most of my almost 3 years of professional programming career)
done-a-bit-of - XQuery, Java
like-to-learn - Rust, Elixir, miniKanren/core.logic, chez/Scheme, Idris
