Is there any company in the same hardware space you'd consider a good actor? Or even less bad than Apple?
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Bizarre to reference a Blind thread from 2019 discussing Uber layoffs to back up a claim that engineers are reading the previously linked articles in the future and speculating about "whether they're next."
About this API in particular, who is it targeting or what type of apps are expected to come out of this? Email clients that leverage Fastmail-specific features?
As others have said, development is a full time job. It requires focused time and you need to remain current and have context for the state of the project. If a CTO is spending all of their time in the code, they are not doing the tasks of a CTO. If that doesn't matter and doesn't cause issues, you probably don't need a CTO.
I've worked at a company with a CTO who was an extremely talented developer but really that's all he wanted to do. He'd avoid meetings like the plague, never managed anyone despite have several senior direct reports, and would only really engage with others when technical issues came up where he could jump into the weeds in and help solve the problem. Essentially he had the title "CTO" but in reality all that meant was he was a superadmin developer who could work on whatever technical problem he wanted with nobody to report to.
Similarly, I still use old.reddit and will continue to do so until they force that new monstrosity on me.
Honest question: what do Twitter's army of engineers and designers actually do every day? The site is slow, the UI is god awful, and the spam is - as this tweet points - appalling.
We became rivals, both trying to convince the rest of the class that ours was the ultimate controller and amazing for giving a competitive advantage in Punch Out!, Rad Racer, and other games.
Secretly we both knew both controllers were completely useless and never worked, but we never dared admit it.
From what I recall almost every "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ad's premise was a feature or task that the Mac did easier or better, leaving the PC deflated or envious.
Each round had one or more interviewers and I never met the same people twice. I can only assume none of them had context from the previous rounds because so many of the situational and culture type questions were basically identical. I couldn't even fake enthusiasm after the third round.
Moving forward I will kindly be declining participating in any interview process that has more than three rounds. Besides being draining, it's a pretty good indicator of bigger problems in the company itself.
Coming right out of the gates with an ad-hominem attack like this is extremely unprofessional and also reckless.
Despite all the patting themselves on the back, when they implemented this they only added an "all-races-welcome" tag to listings that allowed all races. Landlords who discriminated against others based on race were still very much welcome on the platform.
I found it really puzzling that someone so educated who seemed more familiar with technology than the average person couldn't see - or more accurately feel - the impact the internet was going to have. The second I went online and tried a random chat website, I knew that what I was witnessing was rudimentary but would become revolutionary, and most people around me felt the same.
OP is clearly an adult capable of making their own decisions, so this regulation wouldn't help them.
So what is your point?
TikTok on the other hand seems to know me better than I do myself (or care to admit). I go out of my way to not open it because I know 30 minutes of my time will vanish in an instant.
- Received a clearly counterfeit product (not even a good attempt at a fake)
- Received a product that looked nothing like the description with a note included offering me a $10 Amazon Gift card for providing proof of giving the seller a 5 star review. I reported this to Amazon and no action was taken.
- My last order, the product never even arrived. No response from the seller despite repeated attempts. (In Amazon's defence, a refund was quick and painless once the 2 week waiting period ended)
In all of these cases, the sellers had thousands of 5 star reviews. I feel a turning point will come where Amazon will either have to do some major housecleaning to fix the gaming / fake reviews, scams, and counterfeit products that infest their entire business, or customers will reach a breaking point and leave en-masse.
- Restrict and tax short-term rentals.
- Introduce a scaling speculation tax on three or more properties to remove the incentive for small-medium size investors to hoard. It will return supply back to the market.
- Limit residential real-estate purchases to citizens and permanent residents (i.e. taxpayers).
- Remove barriers to development to increase supply. Ignore the NIMBYs.
- Cap rental increases.
- Introduce a vacancy tax.
- Limit immigration until the housing issue is resolved.
- Eliminate "blind bidding" from real estate sales.
I doubt any government has the political will to truly tackle this though, especially when most politicians are landlords and speculators themselves.
I bet 1,760 chickens cost roughly 5-10% of the cost of a Clydesdale, but I know which one I'd prefer to pull a cart.
Source: worked for a major game developer at one of their SE Asia studios for a while.
It's not without its flaws, but Singapore has an extremely effective public housing program run by the government's Housing & Development Board (HDB) where 89.9% of Singaporeans are homeowners.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/664518/home-ownership-ra...
The "just build more" supply argument doesn't hold water when you have an unlimited source of demand from institutional investors and speculators that use housing as a place to park their money.