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Weebly was interesting because before that Square had their own online store (it went through a bunch of names over time) and they existed concurrently for a while, although I'm not sure if they still do. The codebase was a nightmare and the whole team had abandoned it and moved on to other things, which meant it wasn't getting fixes or updates for a while.
The car itself was liberated for its own good. Only the belongings were collected.
Interesting choice of verb there from the Financial Times. I guess this is like the time someone smashed my neighbor's car window and "collected" the money in her center console.
I first heard about the Andon cord in this excellent This American Life episode about a GM factory that tried to learn and copy the Toyota method of production. It's still worth a listen and explains the concept well.
Agreed. Having a boss say do this just seems completely unprofessional and over the top. I can imagine a speaking style that would lead to this, but it's something beyond just "argument".
In fact, in the middle of the meeting he announced, “I don’t need this s—“, and walked out of the meeting.
Keeping the temperature low on these kinds of discussions seems like solid advice. Two interesting things about the conclusion I noticed:
1. The author left before any concrete negative outcomes came to pass. In particular, they may be mistaken that "nobody there really wanted to work with me after that" since they started looking for a job immediately. Sometimes people have a tendency to do too much pessimistic mind reading.
If I was willing to engineer a scene like had just transpired in our all-hands meeting, how could they trust me as a member of their team? I might turn on them next.
I also started looking for a new job, because I realized nobody there really wanted to work with me after that. I was gone a month later, and my boss lasted several more years.
2. The author also didn't stick around long enough after their faux pas to see the outcome of their architectural decisions. Maybe they weren't right after all.
It looks like a poorly thought-out marketing project. For example, how to deal with the Earth rotation irregularity and leap seconds?
Most people don't care about those things though. How does a Casio watch deal with leap seconds? How does a Rolex deal with them? The barrier to adoption is going to be social and not some obscure technical objection by the IAU.
Japan kept up with a system like this until the early Meiji period (1870s). As you can imagine, it led to some interesting mechanical clock designs.
Perhaps a match for the UK market? From what I've read they often don't rinse the soap off of dishes there (I wish I were making this up).
If this is what you get for selling out, just imagine what those of us who didn't sell out can expect? People sell out in order to get better conditions for themselves. Furthermore, this monitoring only strengthens Meta's ability to effectively surveil the rest of us.
Also historically something like a petition seems to always be the first step in any kind of pressure campaign. It's a relatively low stakes (but not completely risk free) way to count support.
People who are focusing on whether we should have sympathy for Meta employees here are missing the point.
Meta employees have some of the strongest bargaining power in our industry. This particular imposition is undesirable to almost everyone. There is no upside in it for employees.
Therefore, if Meta employees can be forced to accept it, everyone will be. And you'd better believe that there will be a flood of companies happy to set this up for your employer at your workplace.
That's why, as someone who wouldn't consider working at Meta for ethical reasons, I'm hoping this pushback succeeds. A win for Meta here throws the floodgates wide open. A loss helps put the brakes on a bit.
Furthermore, collective action that starts like this (and keeps pressure up) is much more effective than a bunch of individuals quitting their jobs. That's why employers would much prefer the latter when they're up to no good.
Regardless of what good things other Israeli companies might be doing, it's clear that the Israeli government doesn't have a problem with these malware / spyware companies.
The US has plenty of guns. The idea that there aren't sufficient guns for some kind of armed resistance is absurd. The issue is cultural - we'd apparently rather fire them off in schools and malls and movie theaters.
What happened was the audience changed. Before, the audience for things about writing code was mostly software developers. Now it's the employing class. The collective wisdom of engineers? It has little impact on the conversation because the audience doesn't care. In fact, it's more than indifference; many are eager to no longer be "burdened" by it.
Not only do they not want to pay our salaries, which is an expense, they're eager not to have to depend on our expertise or judgement as well. That judgement and expertise is a locus of control that resides outside their own hierarchy.
Oh, I’ve read it. Including this gem:
"When you are in prison, it becomes your home. When I heard this morning that Evin prison was bombed, I felt a sharp pain in my heart. When I was released, I left a piece of my heart there."
Racism really makes people dumb.
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman who was imprisoned for years at Evin, told the BBC she felt "sick" with concern following the strike.
It's interesting to see the kind of nonsensical, evidence-free ideological statements that some people use to hand wave away decades of horrifying US perpetrated atrocities.
Ignore the genocide the US is engaged in right now, if it loses the war it started with Iran there will be 50 hypothetical genocides that I made up! Why stop at 50? Maybe there will be 500 or 5,000 genocides! If not for the benevolence of the US, we'd be having another world war every 2-3 years. It just stands to reason I suppose.
I wish printers could have a mode like this to print random images from an album, or a calendar, rather than wastefully draining ink into a sponge every few days.
If nothing else, maybe it could be some kid's high school science fair project idea.
So in other words, while America is starting the most wars, it somehow gets credit for the hypothetical wars that weren't started? The assumption being that the natural state of the world is to have a world war every few years?
Did you not have enough tokens to read the article?
One of Israel's earliest airstrikes was a prison Iran used to hold dissidents
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8621gnknjo
Calling in a massive airstrike on a prison where the opposition is being held isn't exactly the way to support the opposition.
What can those of us who are passive investors do to protect ourselves?
Indeed, not enough people are asking why the Biden administration sat on the Epstein files for 4 years and did nothing with it.
And the author was right on the trigger flagging comments that point out their slop.
Notice how none of the blue voltages match any of the red/green ones (other than the extremes)? That means you don't get to see any pure grays
I assume this is why RGBI color was so common in the 80s.
True thought leaders are asking "what could I build, if I had access to infinite incompetent junior engineers?"
Very few industries have an interview process that's as painful and time-consuming as the software industry. If people are "job-hopping", perhaps it's because they're dramatically undervalued by their employer. I left my first job for a 30% raise, despite really liking my colleagues and leaving behind a bunch of institutional and systems knowledge and starting with a blank slate.
At least as a software manager you get the satisfaction of helping another human being develop in their own career. I doubt making Claude Code less prone to certain kinds of fuckups is quite as rewarding.
It's not just waiting on them, you're going to be reviewing an endless flood of their agentic slop, cajoling or bullying them into sticking with a problem or looking harder for information, all in between glancing at AI summaries of your colleagues' AI generated Slack messages and approving the AI generated auto-replies.
It's interesting that the color maps seem to have shadows "built in", so that you get a 3D bevel effect from just looking at the color map.