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naitoonon All Banks Are Vulnerable

Finally someone talking some sense in the subject of bank runs. Known stuff but it’s good to see it clearly said on a mainstream publication that also publishes politically motivated opinions on the subject.

naitoonon My Family’s Slave

I think this qualifies for Adult Protection Services, in the sense that there's a social disability due to the prolonged lack of exposure to the real world:

http://www.napsa-now.org

You may want to Google for the one in your region or city.

PLEASE report it.

naitoonon What type of software will you refuse to develop for ethical reasons?

Although this is difficult to avoid because of its pervasiveness, I'm trying to avoid working in projects whose value proposition imply consistently distracting people from doing focused work.

Also, I'd not like to work in companies that use information that I consider BS in their publicity. I can cite RedBull in this case, with their publicity about turning you into the greatest multitasker of the office, when it's pretty obvious to me that multitasking has never worked and that it's totally delusional. See http://mywings.redbull.com/in-en/need-to-focus .

naitoonon Don’t Let Facebook Make You Miserable

To avoid FB making me miserable, I only follow people whose posts tend to be interesting. The tools are there. Just use them.

If there's something I can ask FB to do is to make it still easier to manage privacy of posts, and to unsubscribe to second-degree stuff like "X liked Y" or "X reacted to Y".

naitoonon How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon

It really depends on the team. But yeah, you have to go through a hiring loop with the team you're moving to.

Some teams can have harder interviews than others. I can confirm that first hand.

naitoonon How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon

That's right. You need to interview with the team you want to move to.

I don't think it's ridiculous. After all, different teams may have different hiring bars and specific skills you have to be proficient on.

naitoonon How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon

As someone who is already in Amazon and moved teams, I recommend you to keep your interviewing skills sharp, specially if you see that the project you're working on is going nowhere and might be cancelled. You wanna be ready to interview so that you don't get moved to a random team. I was in that situation and it really sucks. I had to start over getting used to interviewing, failing 2 or 3 interviews before I landed a job with another team. A really complicated time for me.