robalfonso

This seems like a situation where they came up with the wrong solution to the problem.

The great engineering leader refers people who don't make it through the technical interview. So the supposition is that "The company is missing out on great developers due to filtering in the technical interview, lets get rid of it"

When it should be "Fix the process so it doesn't filter out people while still testing for technical competence"

We just don't do whiteboards, we usually do a take home assignment/test where the candidate can make use of the tooling/environment in which they are comfortable. We feel this is also most similar to how they are going to work any ways so it is a true test of their work output.

I'd think the ability to set the file to delete after X downloads instead of 14 days would be useful.

This is exactly why privacy and proxy services will still be necessary - it will essentially re-balance what GDPR has unbalanced (no judgement on whether that is favorable or not)

They aren't but the nature of the process is "Everyone gets an opinion" that takes a lot of time. So they spent over a year soliciting opinions, sorting out legal issues etc, and came up with "we need some kind of authorization system on top of whois" but they've got to build it and they have 0 competence in that realm, so it will need to be put back out to committee. A process will have to be devised, a spec written, spec adopted etc. Its a huge slow bureaucracy. 2 years is fine to expect a business to be compliant with something, for a pseudo governmental organization its not nearly enough time.

Privacy still has a place, this would not keep someone from knowing what corporation owns a domain - and will not keep the government or other interested parties from finding that out. Privacy services still act as an impediment to keep ownership private far better than this will.

In the short term WHOIS is going to be limited to just the registrant organization, state, country and a masked email address (Admin and Technical fields will be removed save email). This is short term to come into compliance with GDPR.

Long term ICANN intends to create a privileged group (other registrars, law enforcement, etc) Who will be able to get to the full whois data. So a sort of tiered system. Expect this to take a minimum of a year. The ICANN multi stake holder model means nothing happens fast.

Visa/MC/AMEX make a MASSIVE amount of money on Fraud - it's in their interest to perpetuate it. I've experienced this myself with > 6 figures in CC fraud in a month. Here is the financial break down:

Every time a customer gets a charge due to Fraud, they file a chargeback. If we are able to contest it, all is well, other wise they hit you with a $25-$35 fee PLUS the charge is reversed so depending on margins you are out you're costs on the transaction as well.

If the # of fraud transactions gets bad enough (even if you are working with them diligently to get things under control) and not able to stop it, they will charge you a chargeback penalty fee.

This essentially says you are high risk and so now give us 50,000 or 100,000 dollars or you can't accept credit cards AND you have X days to resolve this and get you're charge back rate to a reasonable level or we will hit you with another charge bigger charge in 30/60/90 days or whatever the risk management department wants.

They may also come back and say now we've told your processor (stripe, braintree, etc) that THEY need to charge you more because we are charging them more to deal with you. So instead of 2.5% of each transaction they are getting 3% for example.

It all adds up to billions across the world economy, it costs them only to deal with it administratively and they are collecting many many times that in fees from the merchants. It is very much a scam and the average customer doesn't realize the massive hit companies can take for the convenience of Credit Cards.

It appears this issue was brought up previously on Feb 21. So you've got a group of people who already raised the issue seeing it happening again.

They may have been more reserved on the first go around but I can empathize with them seeing red now.

Those views are rather strictly tied to the number of 0's in ones bank balance I feel. Even 1% of Bill gates worth is many hundreds of millions. Where as the average person who seeks to leave everything to their children might be in the millions. But possibly even less.

They already make deaf alarm clocks for this. I actually use to use one for overnight alerts because I'm a heavy sleeper and I don't want to wake up my wife with my phone sounds.

I think its the difference between committing to one large choice over the long term vs. the flexibility to have many small choices over time.

Its possible they are perpetually in a "rough patch" Americans do have a mind set of "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" That would lead to this kind of behavior.

It's timely that you mention this - I was thinking of hacking together my own sleep sensor but I'm married and I keep going round and round trying to sort out a system that if doesn't work for two accounts for one in spite of two. It also needs high wife acceptance factor (waf).

Yes, agreed though you must also take into account the idea of the "straw that breaks the camels back".

I would have expected that, however, I think their "cheap" device is what a echo costs. What's dissapointing is that lots of small assistants in you house also opens up tons of possibilities. I think their are some interesting possibilities in the Apple TV that they haven't exploited.

I think they made the wrong product. This is positioned as a Sonos killer.

What I hoped to see was a integrated home assistant, this is a really nice speaker no one is going to integrate with. Unfortunately whatever ecosystem people buy into for home assistant is probably going to tie them to that ecosystem for a long time, google and amazon are getting off to a early start that may be hard for apple to catch up to.

I really wanted to see any one of the following today:

The HomePod we saw, but showing off some slick home integrations (and audio out! - those integrations seemed like an after thought)

A Complimentary apple tv experience. Either new hardware that also had a speaker or some helper hardware (think more expensive echo dot)

A possible answer to the amazon show (an input in to the apple tv making it a video gateway - ie last thing before your tv) which allows on screen overlay (ie: siri show me traffic right now and have it pop up, siri is my wife at work still (shows location)?, siri web search for better HomePod)

None of those happened and anyone of those ideas would be a great start breaking me away from amazon/echo.

It seems like its straight out of their playbook. They've laid some groundwork, perhaps collect some data on things the device gets asked and next year release massive upgrades. I feel its a bit of too little to late, but it is their way.

I'd say its possible you could see other providers, I'd expect to see Airplay and not bluetooth from this.

I think they are positioning as a Sonos killer (price is inline w/ that as well) rather than echo killer.

Thats probably a mistake but it does appear thats their strategy. The "smart" part of the speaker is a total afterthought it seems.

Historically, their strength is UI and maybe they don't know how to find their feet in voice. It would explain siris lack luster performance in comparison to Google and Amazon.

Very much disappointed w/ this offering.

It's not the hardware - it's the software. I went all in on Amazon Echo and Dots. I have them in my living room, office, bathroom, bedroom.

The ecosystem that Amazon provides is far richer than Apple can hope to provide. Google does seem to be better positioned.

Even if the hardware is amazing, I don't want Apple music (I have prime music) the voice assistant is no better and I have serious doubts about the integrations that will be available.

Whats going to make this DOA is integrations, it's not in Apple's DNA and its going to be the best sounding, most beautiful, most seemless voice assistant nobody wants. I hope I'm proven wrong.

This is great, I'm spanish and I never learned to speak (read pretty well). My conjugation is abysmal so I sound like some kind of backwoods hill billy (the spanish version of that). I may give this a go, get conversational. Great project!

Wow, first value wins seems like a really horrible idea, any insight into why that choice got made?

I do see a business case for not selling. .canon for example - you could provide every device with its own domain ie xhshe3u45.canon etc. So there are some cases where it does make sense.

.com is still king. It's going to be a while until the others get real penetration. And some tld's are never going to take off. Either the pricing is completely unrealistic or the tld is so long you can achieve the same thing in a shorter tld.

Finally a sane man in a sea of sycophants! I love coffee, I absolutely do not get cold brew. Its the worst thing you can do with those beans. I read a while ago on a hot day a hot beverage actually helps cool you[1] making cold brew even make less sense.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/07/11/156378713/coo...

Exactly - loaded it up with my site - all blank, thought about it for a second realized we disable Frame loading. That's becoming so common now, any tool using frames is really at a disadvantage.

Without knowing you - it's hard to say.

Ultimately having confidence and being able to demonstrate how your history makes you a good fit is going to combat that perception.

When you tell people about your work history - does it sound mostly like the same kind of problems/tasks? How can you show you did more than that?

Any outside projects you have that show diversity in experience?

Regarding your statement about Pramp - are you failing on the coding part of interviews? Not to get into the validity of white board exercises as a method for filtering candidates - I personally don't think putting people on the spot is a skill set that you actually need to do the work.

Is it possible you are stuck in a rut due to troublesome interviews? As I said above lack of confidence to sell yourself can be sabotaging you.

It's definitely an issue of selling oneself. You either get stuck with an interviewer if your resume is not great or if you don't sell what you can do.

There are people that either via the jobs they choose or the long tenure at a company haven't built a strong case that they can tackle anything other then a small domain of problems.

I had an interview once who had 15 years of managing scientific data (he wrote a parser then changed it when the data set had format changes a few times a year) that parser and platform remained unchanged for 15 years and he had no other duty.

Another interviewee had only built WordPress sites for 4 years. He had no other projects (hobby or professional) to illustrate he could do more.

I see your point regarding a skill set that is maybe just not useful to the interviewer, certainly in 7 years there should be more. People can and do spend time working on very narrow problems though.

For me it actually means the same thing over and over. Had a guy with "15 years" of experience interview one time. He analyzed scientific data, sounded good. When we got into it he'd literally been writing/managing a parser in perl for a data sent with only minor changes. He did this for 15 years. Terrific waste of time. That guy was what I meant. He'd solved a specific set of problems over and over and never grown beyond that.

One challenge I face with applicants is that they actually have 1 year of experience 7 times and not 7 years of experience. You should consider if that's what they are seeing.

Some people are doing the exact same thing they were doing years ago and have no depth. Your challenge will be to paint a different picture. Which is easily possible. It sounds like you are interviewing but maybe not doing well face to face. Maybe you just need more prep and its not a deep issue?