then maybe corps should be dissolved. publicly traded corps are here to maximize profit by any means necessary, and there are individuals that work for them, and also those who invest in them. at the end of the day corp is a group of humans with certain interests.perhaps, rouge corps that act against humanity should dissolved and / or be heavily taxed with taxation helping the public overcome the hurdles created by this corp. in reality, politicians are helping these corps grow even bigger.
I'm not defending corps. I'm not defending the people that make them up. I'm not attacking them either per se. I'm just saying that maybe viewing them in a different perspective, from a different level of abstraction, may unlock a new solution space.
When dealing with people, we tend to view them as as distinct entities from their individual cells and neurons when we argue about their behavior. We don't talk about this or that individual neuron causing a human to take an action, if anything, we may discuss a group of neurons, but often, we argue about the entire "brain chemistry", even if it's strictly true that some group of distinct neurons are "responsible" for the action the human takes, then so is the bones in their hands, the fibres in their muscles, because they didn't refuse (to refuse, is to no longer be part of that body). Maybe it's the moral thing to do, for a cell to refuse to be part of the immoral human, but it does not absolve the human from responsibility, and it does not put all the responsibility on the indvidual cells that make it up, humans are complex organism, corps are made out of humans, they are even more complex. Treating them as a collection of humans is what we have done so far, and while we've gained some satisfaction seeing a (too few) very disgusting people getting what they deserved, it's not changed the overall behaviour of the companies, because, killing or changing one neuron won't change a brain, replace neuron with human and brain with corp.
On a higher level of abstraction, the corp as a form of life, maybe a cancer, maybe a rat, or something that could potentially be a positive thing, we may start a new way of reasoning about and with them.
After all, I can talk to you, I know how to do that, but I can't talk to your neurons directly, I don't understand their modes of communication, it's on a different level from me.. This is why psychiatry is behind, we don't know how brains work well enough, we can give medications to take the worst out of them, like treatments for adhd, or schizophrenia, but they don't work on the brain in a coherent way, they work on the individual neurons in a very crude way, and so, the effects are nowhere near perfect, and the side effects can be almost as bad, or in some cases worse than the decease.
At no point has anyone ever said a cooperation is controlled by a single entity. It’s already acknowledged that a corporation behaves according to a culture.
What I’m saying is that culture isn’t its own uncontrollable entity independent of influence from the people that run the corporation. A company’s culture is dictated by the people who lead and make decisions for that corporation. A culture is driven from the top down.
Familiarity with S3, Route53, and CloudFront was a draw for me personally.
AWS is all about abstractions. Some of them are worth learning but increasingly there's a wall of options in AWS and, for me, it's not worth spending time staying on top of all of them. The few services needed for this setup are some of the most popular and will be there in the future.
Amazing workshop recommended along with reading the EKS developer guidelines and watching the content from https://containersfromthecouch.com — Very high quality material overall.
To what Google product are you actually referring? Search, Gmail, Calendar? All of their products? How are you going to design the tables? Do you have any clues regarding what's going on with the current setup?
It is possible to build a crawler and store its data on DynamoDB, but you have to consider multiple issues when dealing with scale such as Google. E.g How much of the data is going to stay in DynamoDB and what is going to be offloaded to say S3 for example? What are you using DynamoDB for? Storing crawled info? Storing meta data of crawled sites? Scheduling your crawling? I would suggest you to look up crawling with Python / Node.js & DynamoDB, it might better answer your questions.
From what I understood, video calls are not mandatory for getting selected. I am not sure how much it affects your chances of getting in, but decisions for on-site interviews should be out tomorrow.
Do you know the slack (if any) for this batch? (2020 winter). I recall last one applicants joined a slack to follow up real time as results pour in. Wondering if there is a link for the same thing.
The Dutch people that I know (and I’ll admit its only a handful) can be very very direct in conversation. That includes areas around sex and relationships. Before rushing to judgment, this _might_ be more culturally-alligned to it’s home country than e.g. the UK or US.
Now that it is available on both iOS and Android app stores, we will be open-sourcing a lot of code in the coming weeks - this is one of them: http://github.com/petejkim/wallet.ts
