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Re:Dave Clark, The Man Who Built Amazon’s Delivery Machine on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @07:06PM (#21820451)
It depends on how much you value money, I guess. Everyone that reports directly to Dave is probably going to be a VP making 800k/year-several million.
Re:Ask HN: Fun Tech Book Recommendations? on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @04:54PM (#21767165)
Someone recommended this book on here a couple of weeks ago: https://bigmachine.io/products/the-imposters-handbook/

This is a pretty neat book, that explains a lot of difficult concepts in technology in an easier to grasp manner. Things like P=NP and Big O get covered.

Re:AWS Is Now Available from a Local Zone in Los Angeles on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @04:29PM (#21696922)
My understanding is that things like online games could take advantage of it, for the latency. Anything that has high latency concerns would be made better by having a closer endpoint.