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bibbitybobbity··on Hire people who give a shit
This article has an exploitative undertone in the hiring process.

The “what will you do to work here vibe” might work for inexperienced fresh grads but is something others will avoid like the plague. It seems like there no employee leverage at scale.

bibbitybobbity··on Forget Google, time to end the Visa-MasterCard duopoly
We shouldn't forget about google. It also needs to be regulated.

This is addressed in the article but the title doesn't reflect this accurately.

TLDR; Clickbait title :sad face:

bibbitybobbity··on Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014
Pointing out that this happens specifically when companies maximizes for prioritizes profit instead of the benefit of their product (which was what allowed them to gain such traction).

It does feel prevalent in large corporations though.

bibbitybobbity··on Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO (2011)
War is not a great comparison to running a business. It's definitely not a great premise for enabling what seems like a hostile work environment.
bibbitybobbity··on Apple's New Privacy Page
I don't think privacy works when I don't trust Apple period. They have done shady anti consumer things like decreasing battery life. This feels like lip service till I see implementation details(and even then I want to see the code).
bibbitybobbity··on What every computer science major should know (2011)
Your website isn't secured with a certificate, FYI
bibbitybobbity··on BlueJeans also runs a webserver when installed on macOS
Deleted, what garbage
bibbitybobbity··on Hijacking HTML canvas and PNG images to store arbitrary text data
Sounds like image steganography. If anyone wants a python example here ya go https://github.com/jermainezhimin/culpriteCTF/blob/master/LS...
bibbitybobbity··on No Cash Needed at This Cafe: Students Pay the Tab with Their Personal Data
Welcome to timeshare, reinvented
bibbitybobbity··on How I stopped being awful at managing: Leadership lessons from a Dev
I've personally experienced the "effective pause" and strongly feel against it. This assumes that software engineers always have ideas on how to fix things and are not autonomous.

In my opinion, it's helps much more to break down/simplify the engineer's thought and the problem they are trying to solve. And then, try to solve it together...