I recently interviewed and accepted a position at Amazon.
Prior to the interview the recruiters did a great job of preparing me for what to expect.
My direct manager was also part of the interview team, so I got to meet them.
Overall it was a very pleasant experience, which is part of the reason I decided to join.
This was my question as well.
How do you not notice 100's of qps from the same IP, and then go on to say, he was betting $8k/second.
server logs, and basic networking chomps seems like it would have found this much quicker.
In the Orthodox Jewish world, many women wear sheitels, essentially wigs sourced from human hair.
The entire buying experience is very different from what Ben describes in his blog. The women who sell the sheitels provide the whole experience, from picking out the hair type/color/length, etc, to making sure it fits well and that the customer is satisfied. Granted this is a much smaller and niche market, and the products (sheitels) themselves can easily sell for $1,000-$2,000+.
(source, my wife regularly wears a Sheitel in accordance with Halacha).
Maybe Jewish women started being accused of 'making a political statement' and being harrassed in the street because they covered their hair, so they had to make a compromise.
Is that like when Enron started being accused of inflated revenues and 'cooking the books' ... they also had to find a compromise and shred away the evidence! What type of non sensical argument is this?
I'm really sorry about your experiences as an engineer in LA.
I also live in LA and as a sysadmin/network engineer my experiences have been completely different. There are some great companies in LA that do pay well, maybe not as high as in the bay area, but if you're a capable engineer you shouldn't have any problems getting a well paying stable engineering job.
Whatever happened to the old unix philosophies of KISS, and if it isn't broken, don't fix it.
Granted, as many other have pointed out, SysVinit definitely has its pain points and could use improvements, but there are some other init systems people can use without having systemd shoved down our throats. It's been a while since I've played with *BSD, but it might be the time to start seriously looking at it again. Or switch to slack/debian and keep my old-fashioned init system.
