<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>crdb</author><text>&amp;gt; For reasons that seem baffling in retrospect, Amazon understood this long before any of its major competitors&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t think Amazon really &amp;quot;understood&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s more that (according to &amp;quot;The Everything Store&amp;quot;, anyway), accidentally, some emergency servers were reprovisioned as servers on demand for a bunch of frustrated devs who couldn&amp;#x27;t get resources the traditional way. And then demand just exploded and they thought why not sell it and see what happens.&lt;p&gt;It is true that Bezos appears to have a knack for spotting great products that appear accidentally in his org tree, and spinning it out as a separate team (e.g. the A9 team, Kindle...) but it might be that he thinks like a VC and backs everything that looks interesting instead of letting the bureaucracy kill it, and hindsight is 20&amp;#x2F;20...</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reviewing Steve Yegge&apos;s Prediction Record</title><url>http://danluu.com/yegge-predictions/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>shalmanese</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s especially important for blog posts like this to have a very obvious timestamp on the page somewhere. This is a contemporary post but I couldn&amp;#x27;t verify that until I went into the archive view.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Reviewing Steve Yegge&apos;s Prediction Record</title><url>http://danluu.com/yegge-predictions/</url></story>