Amazon staff laid off as tech giants cut costs, according to LinkedIn posts

Re:Amazon staff laid off as tech giants cut costs, according... by bitL on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @12:05PM (#33626533)

It was way before Jobs, IBM was using it ages ago.

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Re:Amazon staff laid off as tech giants cut costs, according... by kenjackson on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @12:17PM (#33626741)

Isn't this part of the premise of the book Hackers? Haven't read it in like 25 years, but that's what I vaguely remember.

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Re:Amazon staff laid off as tech giants cut costs, according... by warner25 on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @02:21PM (#33628950)

I don't recall this coming up in Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, but it was definitely in The Soul of A New Machine, the story about Data General trying to build their first 32-bit computer.

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Re:Amazon staff laid off as tech giants cut costs, according... by kenjackson on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @05:09PM (#33631529)

Thank you... it was Soul of a New Machine. I don't think I even ever read Hackers!

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Re:Amazon staff laid off as tech giants cut costs, according... by kwertyoowiyop on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:47PM (#33628395)

Jobs gets credit for everything in computing the way Churchill gets credit for all the good quotes.

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Re:Amazon staff laid off as tech giants cut costs, according... by giaour on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @02:10PM (#33628757)

I think it was Mark Twain who said, “Hey, Churchill didn’t say that; that was me.”

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Re:Amazon staff laid off as tech giants cut costs, according... by kwertyoowiyop on Thursday November 17, 2022 @11:50AM (#33641672)

Well played, Abraham Lincoln!

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