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Google doesn't have billions of developers publishing Android apps, not even close. They shouldn't need to make these irreversible, algorithmic decisions on the Play Store. They choose to, and there are engineers and product managers and etc that individually choose to support those efforts.

They might put that they worked on, say, Google Play, which would certainly raise concerns. I'd need to figure out what they worked on before making any sort of offer. If they didn't say what products they worked on, the resume would go right in the bin (of course).

I would be very hesitant to hire anyone with Google on their resume for the same reason. Maybe they're good, but maybe they're one of those engineers willing to trade in ethics for bucks. (I'm thinking specifically of those engineers that write the code used to terminate accounts without sufficient recourse).

I'm really happy with Kagi. Being able to block and boost results is a killer feature. They're also more willing to show that they couldn't find results for searches. Compare that to Google, whose engineers designed it to (seemingly always) exclude the most specific term in a search to return irrelevant results.

Or... release the documents to journalists, anonymously. Then the public interest is served and you get to keep your job (if you still want it).

> A scoring system for scholastic ability that disadvantages those that start off with little knowledge, even when they do well by the end of the course, is ridiculous on its face.

This is one reason I did poorly in school and eventually dropped out. Teachers chose (either independently or by arrangement) to weigh all grades equally, whether they were at the start of the class or the end. So if you did poorly at the start, you might as well give up, you'll never dig yourself out of that hole.

Zoom asked him to delete the tweets instead of immediately firing him. He had his opportunity and chose termination.

This page on Okta's site links to their "Zoom Partnership Overview": https://www.okta.com/integrations/zoom/#overview

> Sometimes this may even be against their constituents (or anyone else) so a degree of secrecy is important.

Important to whom, other than themselves in the next election?

This is hardly increasingly common nor is it something gen-z is accelerating. It's been going on since well before our grandparents were born. You're just seeing it happen more publicly now that we're all on the Internet together.

Is that part of the official app? There isn't a way on their mobile site, except using browser bookmarks (of course).

Edit: nevermind, I see it hidden in the site's share menu.

Folks suggest quitting social media all the time, to the point it became part of a meme (quit Facebook join a gym etc).

Complaining that games use dark patterns while posting on a site that uses even worse patterns. That's a paddlin'.

I'm no longer doing android development, thankfully (never again!) -- I don't relish the thought of having to ask house guests if they or anyone they know have ever been banned from Google. I don't understand how Google can staff up their Play store with engineers given this keeps happening.

Kagi is working on this with its "lens" feature. I think it works pretty dang well. Most results I get when using the discussions lens come from Reddit, but you can block or reduce the ranking of sites, making this less of an issue, if it is even an issue for you. I suggest trying it out and joining their discord to share feedback (they're responsive).

If Sitel is so bad, I wonder why Bradbury approved their use? Maybe he just feels responsible but is not willing to admit it.

It's crazy to me that David Bradbury is still shoving Sitel under that bus instead of claiming responsibility for his failure. Is he hoping for a golden parachute here or is the organization so rotten that they cannot admit fault?

I always give the user the benefit of any doubts when it comes to Google or any other company that uses "AI" support. I don't care if the user did it to themselves, a person at the company should be able and willing to fix it.

> Wave didn't have any momentum at all, it was dead mere weeks after release.

That's what happens when you make a collaborative tool invite only and severely limited the number of invites you can send out. What a truly bizarre choice.

Hey, it worked for recycling. Can't blame them for trying.

It's possible, we just don't know. The prosecution doesn't seem to be saying. Really, my point is (by example) if regular medications require 4 confirmations or overrides and this one requires 5, that's a problem.

> but knowing my comments will, despite immense reverence, or correctness, be ignored by the silent masses

lol? This is your reply to people literally begging you to share your story? That other people won't read it? We can't all get the audience we want.

Not naming and shaming enables terrible people to do continue doing terrible things. I've never understood (unless there is an NDA, but sometimes even then..)

There was the global load balancer outage in November that took many services offline -- ironically the services that make use of a global load balancer for higher availability. But besides that GCP has been reliable as a whole.

That part of the article makes me wonder how often they are asked to override alerts. Is it something that they have to do for every medication? For commonly prescribed medications?

I did a tiny amount of searching to verify this but came up empty handed. Guest additions (what I think you meant) is GPLv2, so it should be free for use.

> I'm not sure the issue here, that sigterm is sent before removal from the load balancer?

That's exactly the issue. It'd be better for the orchestration system to handle removing the service from the LB in response to a configuration change than to wait for e.g. health checks to fail.

The SIGTERM method means you have to modify every service to accept SIGTERM (no big deal) for some amount of time (fiddly configuration detail) and in the mean time wait for the LB to see the terminating pod's health check fail so it can stop sending it traffic.

If we flipped it around a bit, having the LB remove the traffic before sending a term signal, we could be more assured that poorly behaving pods (pods that die too quickly or too slowly) don't result in user-facing issues.

I used to but the number of projects I use that enforce CLAs is ever increasing and I don't want to run to a lawyer every time I open a PR. My employers have been more than happy for me to contribute but lawyers aren't free (and I haven't worked somewhere with staff lawyers, yet).

1) It looks like I misread subtext. I took it to mean the lawyer did not want to assist Boies in defending Weinstein. I suppose it's a little different if they're just some random unrelated lawyer at the firm. Still, the author made a huge leap from point A to point B.

2) Sure, firing them is your right. I just think it is perfectly acceptable to hold people accountable for their actions even if they felt morally obligated to perform those actions. And I fully support those that choose not to associate themselves with anyone, for any reason.

It's quite a leap from someone not personally wanting to represent an alleged rapist to not wanting someone to have representation at all, but the author made that leap easily within only a few paragraphs. The rest of the article goes in to the real point they're making (anti-CRT yadda yadda) but the original premise is so shaky that I just can't take it seriously.