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I really liked that talk! Lots of relevant information and I can definitely relate, working at a Amazon. Wouldn't say that we are hurt by all of the same problems (we have solutions that work very well for some of them), but we definitely are aware of them.

Amazon uses your Amazon history to target Amazon ads to your interests. That's not the same thing as giving your Amazon account information to a third party.

I agree. As an Amazon SDE this makes me quite excited for the future!

I understand the point you're trying to make about the stress on frugality at Amazon and I agree with you, but your specific points are more accurate for past Amazon. These days Amazon has become significantly more accommodating.

The door desks are more of a tradition. You can request more expensive automatic standing desks easily. The soda/food is not subsidized day-to-day, but we do get coffee and tea (and if you stay late due to work you can get reimbursed for dinner depending on your team). The hardware is perfectly fine as well. I have 2x 1440p monitors and an i7 13" Retina MacBook Pro as well as a cloud desktop (courtesy of AWS) with scaling hardware as I need it for development.

I might give it a go. That was one of the first things I thought of!

Now that you mention it, I don't know. I originally read it as left associative because otherwise it becomes somewhat of a blanket statement.

I feel like this could be abused to remove competitors' content from Google results. Couldn't this be a problem?

Next up AT&T + Comcast merger... 'Cause why not?

I guess that makes sense. I was thinking of it as a maze that someone would using a pencil on paper, but if it were a real maze with high walls it would make sense that you wouldn't necessarily know when you've reached a side.

Is there a reason why it will continue searching "down" once it hits the right edge (and "left" if it hits the top edge)? I'm just curious.