Softwhack

The following is a vast departure from my otherwise technically oriented posts, but the topic has been on my mind lately, and this is my blog after all. :) Let me preface this by saying I am a native English speaker in America, so my writing is necessarily from that point of view (write what you know, after all). The inexplicable nature of the human heart combined with the ideas of the mind are at odds with the frailties of expression found in any written language. This is my premise, and good luck proving or disproving it. There is no perfect way to always express precisely what is desired to be expressed, for any and every writer, no matter the medium chosen.   Writers may be inspired more often than not to approximate a perfect linguistical expression of their ideas, but that is not something born solely of the language; instead, those near perfect moments are born of the writer’s ability to communicate within the confines his chosen language.  The quality of a written languag

Jeff Bezos is the wealthiest man on the planet.  He has so much money, I doubt he could find enough ways to spend it all...unless he declares military war on some poor nation, which I don't think he will be doing in the near future.  Since its inception in 1996, Amazon has grown from a feisty book-centered marketplace into a global behemoth that has a better software, hardware, and customer service model than any other platform on the planet.  That's a bold statement, I know, but look at what it has grown into and then ask yourself:  Where will it end?  Because I don't think Amazon's services and growth will ever end. Everything at Amazon, internally and externally, is a service and has been for a long time, and because of that, has grown at a tremendously stable pace.  The model of 'everything is a service' is a fantastically versatile model in software engineering, but is rarely accomplished, so I appreciate all that Amazon has proved can be done with it.