I don't use tiktok myself, but from what I've seen their core user group is (mostly young) people doing irresponsible and silly things to get views on the platform.
I don't think showing how irresponsible you are is the best way to convince an employer to hire you. Maybe this will work for certain positions like "social media manager" that some companies have, but as a general job board it will conflict with the main use of tiktok.
Readit NewsCuriousNinja commented on TikTok launching jobs service for Gen Z axios.com/tiktok-job-hiri... · Posted by u/elsewhen
Assuming it’s to build lookalike audiences [1] (find me people that act like the paying customers).
[1] https://www.facebook.com/business/help/164749007013531?id=40...
Thanks for the link, I didn't know that was a thing.
Having said that, this sounds like "Hey guess what? We are gonna snoop on you, and profile the hell out of you and leak all of your sensitive data all over the place (filenames can be) all because you are a paying customer"
That's about the worst way to disrespect a paying customer. Is there a way to easily identify companies that does this, I can avoid them?
Wow. That's a big deal and the person in marketing/sales who requested the Facebook Ad pixel did not realize that's a big deal.
It's scary to think that a company that seem to have a decent policy on privacy / data collection practices at one moment is just one step away from some marketing manager or MBA changing that. It's really hard to gain customer trust once you loose it, and in BackBlaze's case it seem to be for marginal if any monetary benefit.
I think part of the reason is that most of these companies don't value customer trust.
> Most enrollees will finish in six months or less
I am not convinced that you can learn the skills and knowledge necessary to be an effective software engineer in six months. However I think it will be an awesome avenue to improve your skills if you already have some background.
CuriousNinja commented on Is Being Salaried a Scam? askamanager.org/2021/03/i... · Posted by u/jasonhansel
This is because the US labor laws are messed up. In other countries, you get paid overtime even if you are salaried.
CuriousNinja commented on Zapier reached a $5B valuation with $1.3M of funding forbes.com/sites/alexkonr... · Posted by u/gmays
How fair is this valuation?
If I invest $1300 to buy 0.026% of your house, does that mean it's worth $5 million now?
CuriousNinja commented on Staying Out of TTL Hell calpaterson.com/ttl-hell.... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
One of the examples on invalidating cache on write has the following code, which is buggy. If the DB call fails, then cache cache would have data that was never actually committed. Cache coherency is hard.
def update_something_slow(thing_id, new_thing):
my_cache.set_by_str(thing_id, new_thing)
set_thing_in_a_database_layer(new_thing)Are there any guidelines on how to prevent such incidents in the future where management overrules engineers /subject matter experts because of deadlines / profit etc ?
Can we learn from other professions such as doctors on how to handle these better? I believe it's very rare for a hospital administrator to over rule a doctors decision when it comes to patients health.
CuriousNinja commented on FairEmail: Open-source, privacy friendly email app for Android email.faircode.eu/... · Posted by u/mpsq
Does IMAP clients handle Gmail labels well? Last time I tried to use an IMAP client it treated all the labels as separate folders.
My point is that it is definitely an engineering problem as well as a product problem.
a) It's going to be super technically difficult to build (especially in a way where it's responsive at a granular basis to handle huge blow-up bursts)
b) It's not even clear what you're supposed to be building
None of what people are proposing is well defined or easy to build.
The way you usually solve this is by having sane defaults, and giving users different mechanisms for configuration based on how complex their configuration needs are. This can take a tiered approach.
As an example, simpler and straight forward things (such as disable egress traffic from S3 if the bill exceeds X) can be in the UI itself. Then, for customers who need more control, an option to configure via json or yaml similar to cloud formation. For anyone who needs even more giving an option to call a customer defined lambda function would give them the ability to at any metrics and take appropriate action.