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I used to work in AWS, and had a less-than-positive experience with the amount of hours I worked in Amazon. I hope that reduced-hour work becomes successful inside Amazon and out, but I worry that those in the position will sleepwalk into working far too many hours, as is what happened with me.
I disagree that it's unfair to expect apps to work without reading. Some apps, sure, but I think a taxi application ought to be usable without being able to read. Consider
1. The user is drunk, and can't understand meaning of the text.
2. The user is preoccupied with other tasks, and skips over the words.
3. The user is illiterate. Functional illiteracy is prevalent in the United States, and being unable to recognize the characters of one's own language continues in many countries, too
My company invests in ensuring many of their products are usable for the illiterate. I doubt it's the only company that does so.
I have to +1 this. Not only is it easier to navigate, AWS always manages to run pretty smoothly, while Azure's website makes my 2014 Macbook Pro slow to a crawl. It often takes up to a second for a CSS :hover effect to appear!
There is a mention of the 66 parent merge from Linus himself:
When I opened that page and emptied my cache, I got a lot more than 8MB...
http://imgur.com/a/qt0Zd (59.9MB)
I don't think JavaScript is really to blame for this though, the problem here is they're dumping a whole bunch of full sized images when they could have used thumbnails.