@JKyll it was insanely boring, things move too slowly. As others said it's a cult. If you don't think/act like everyone it becomes clear you aren't welcome. I experienced this. Also, I was actively pressured many times to contribute part of my pay to Amazon's lobbyist activities. As for the pay, it's capped. I know the cap has since been raised but at my time you could not make more than $160k USD in cash per year and was told it would take years to get near that level. Even though my boss knew I was unhappy he told me I could not transfer to another dept since I was not there long enough. This is not true and against company policy. Management says policy is they think you're good enough to hire so they want to keep you so if you're happier in a different role you should be able to transfer. But clearly my boss wasn't having it ... so I left and make more money now than the old salary cap allowed and I'm incredibly happy with my current job and the people I work with.

Former AWS eng/architect here ... Just don't ever work there is all I can say.

May the Seven save us ...

for the same reason people bitch about java, they don't take the time to understand and use the tool properly

oh man, I was just going to ask you to take over for me at the job I just quit which is full of procedural php

@tomcentrate or undefined

asking a dev is they have a side project is like asking a bear if it shits in the woods

very well said

I find the people who whine about java are the ones least knowledgeable about the use of the language.

love the reference to little old Ed

the lack of curly braces on 1 line code blocks was the source of the major security certificate bug in iOS a while back

is it really/* settled */ ?

@hackedranger I've had server fires and been part of conversations where we calculated things not too different from D2F

we have a commons project but use integer versioning so no need to argue over what's minor or major

I love that this has Jan from Lilyhammer

Bowie and Queen has been my primary dev zone out music lately. Pounding out JavaScript to the Flash theme song is dramatic as hell.

interviewing at a possible new job

This is more annoying than jason vs jay-sawn

want

every Comp Sci test in my time in college was on paper ... late 90's early 2000's

do I down vote if my wife is not?

my old boss used to work as a dev at Wells Fargo years ago, he nearly lost his mind when he realized one of their internal financial transaction processing applications that accepted data as an HTTP Get did not use SSL and the users submitting the transaction requests had to provide their network login credentials which were passed to the web server in plain text ... even if this system is gone and replaced with something secure I'll never bank with them

love Dropwizard, already launched 3 SaaS systems into production with it

also a fan

@Neo- there's a technical reason for always returning HTTP 200 and having the true response code in the response body. Not all HTTP clients are equal like the one in Flash's ActionScript.

was just in that situation, my much needed new laptop vs her needing a new car ... she got the new car of course

aurelia?

13 here and it's not suitable for basic web browsing in my opinion, get the larger screen. Think of it this way, you look at the screen all day so it better be something you like looking at.

find a project on github that interests you and fix an issue or add an enhancement, that's more impressive on the resume in the long run

at every tech company I've worked we've had a deity or two