Showing posts with label engineer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label engineer. Show all posts
2023-07-20

Observations on boiling frogs

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I've had the recent opportunity to observe a post-COVID concerted attempt by tech leadership to reduce its company's costs, and...
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2022-12-26

The Twitter Whistleblower report - how bad was Twitter, really?

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Prompted by a post by everyone's favourite Portugal-based squirrel-torturing blogger, Tim Worstall, I thought I'd dive into ...
2021-06-12

"Chaos Monkeys" and how it got Antonio Martinez fired from Apple

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Dedicated readers of this blog (all 1 of them) may recall last month's post about author Antonio Garcia Martinez being fired ...
2020-05-12

Testing for determinism

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Apropos of nothing [1] , here's a view on testing a complicated system for deterministic behaviour. The late, great John Conway propos...
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2019-04-22

Taking advice from Greta Thunberg

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Suppose we were looking to build a bridge, say across Avon Gorge, to give us substantially more traffic capacity than the existing Clifton...
2018-08-25

Blacklist your master, and whitelist your slaves - Silicon Valley word police

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Working in Silicon Valley ("putting the crazy into California!") is always an education; there seems to be a Shepard tone of neu...
2018-01-21

Prospects for unionizing in Silicon Valley

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A topic I've heard increasing buzz about at parties [1] is the idea that Silicon Valley tech workers should be unionizing. The New Yo...
2017-08-16

Since we can't challenge diversity policy, how to prevent mistakes?

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The James Damore affair at Google has made it very clear that discussion of companies' diversity policy is completely off the table. ...
2017-08-06

"PC considered harmful" - hand grenade thrown into Valley tech

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Wow. I've not seen this amount of heat, light, sound and fury directed towards a minority group since a fat man broke wind loudly over ...
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2016-12-27

Scentrics finds that security is hard

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Two years ago I wrote about Scentrics and their "Key Man" security proposal. I wondered idly what had happened there so did some...
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Don't blame the tech industry for its "lack of diversity"

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Tekla S. Perry, who's experienced enough in the technology world to know better, wrote a provocative piece in IEEE Spectrum this week ...
2016-12-18

neveragain.tech virtue signalling

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In the past couple of days I've seen all manner of prompts to add my name to the petition at neveragain.tech, solemnly swearing to: ...
2016-11-24

Expensive integer overflows, part N+1

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Now the European Space Agency has published its preliminary report into what happened with the Schiaparelli lander, it confirms what many ...
2016-11-14

Silicon Valley in the Time of Trump

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The past few days have given me a great view into how the famously liberal population of the Bay Area has taken the election of Donald Trum...
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2016-02-20

Analysing the blue-red hat problem in the face of user error

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Everyone knows computers are getting smarter - unless they're being programmed by a major corporation for a government contract - but t...
2014-07-30

Bringing the diversity of car manufacturers to Silicon Valley

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I should start this blog by warning the reader of my prejudice towards Jesse Jackson. I think he's a fairly despicable human being; a r...