rohitnair

Blue Origin is not part of Amazon.

Some features that Betterment offers for example

* automatic rebalancing

* tax loss harvesting

* tax co-ordinated investing - looks at both your taxable and tax exempt/deffered accounts and directs funds appropriately (for example, puts more tax inefficient assets in your tax exempt accounts)

You can of course do this on your own as well, so it's up to you to decide whether the additional fee is worth it or not. Also, not all robo advisors offer the same features - but most offer automatic rebalancing at a minimum.

As per the landing pages of the projects, ES has 1.6k contributors whereas ClickHouse has 803. The contributors page likely only lists the top contributors to keep the page load time manageable.

Yes, there is a base cap of $160K ($185K for HCOL areas like NY and Bay Area), and the rest of the compensation is RSUs. For engineers who are senior and above, RSU based compensation will usually be more than 50% of their overall compensation.

The comments in the original blog post suggests a gap of 60k with the offer. Your comment makes sense only if he was interviewing for a Principal Engineer position or something, but instead was offered an SDE-I position. Plus I'm pretty sure very few (if any) non-Principal SDEs at Amazon actually get 200K in the first year.

In AWS, if anything, it's the other way around. Devs always run their own services at first, and ops teams start helping out once the service reaches some kind of scale where a dedicated ops team makes sense. (source: I work for AWS)

In this case, he did delete the tweet soon after.

> Once they establish dominance or once the smaller players run out of wall street sponsored discounts, the Amazon offers will also disappear.

My experience as an Amazon customer in the US has been contrary. Amazon is actually one of the rare companies that values loyalty and rewards existing customers. Most other startups (even ones outside e-commerce, like Uber/Ola etc. have offers that aggressively target new customers, but rarely offer anything for existing customers) Compare that to the experience of an Amazon Prime account holder. What started as free 2 day shipping now covers free 2 hour shipping, access to lots of media etc. at no added charge. A majority of the offers and discounts are also made available to all customers, not just new ones. Is this not the case in India?

The article already includes a couple of "not queues" that they use for event stream processing, Kinesis being one of them. Kinesis consumers also maintain a watermark to keep track of how far they've read in a stream. Considering that, a Kafka comparison seems like a reasonable ask.

Wireless charging was one of the reasons why I got a Nexus 4. It's a shame the stock wireless charger is so terribly designed though (no adhesion and unnecessary angle). Judging by the reviews it's gotten, looks like I'm not the only one who hates it.