My goodness. I honestly believed I was experiencing a decline in finger dexterity due to age, given the sudden increase in typing mistakes on my iPhone (I have been an iPhone user since the OG iPhone).
Tim Apple really needs to let go the clowns who managed to regress the keyboard input functionality.
The cynic in me thinks Apple is diverting/prioritizing M4 Mac with 512GB yields for their own internal use first, building out their Apple AI Private Cloud Compute servers
Ahh, the infamous Asian Poverty Porn sought by Western Tourists is a phenomenon that manifests as a kind of voyeuristic tourism where Western visitors seek out places of visible hardship like slums, rural poverty, or “authentic” deprivation, under the guise of cultural exploration, humanitarian awareness, or “off-the-beaten-path” adventure.
What they mean is that they prefer to live in the suburbs. Not only do they hate slums but they also hate the sight of old worn-down buildings which are pretty common in Asia.
The org suffers from several systemic issues: entrenched tenured employees coasting on accumulated RSUs who resist change, middle management engaged in territorial conflicts/fiefdom turf wars that prioritize their own self-preservation over company goals, numerous underperforming hires made to meet diversity targets rather than capability needs, and leaders whose primary competencies lie in mastering the silly cliched "Amazon speak" (Amazon LP this and LP that, quoting Bezos as opening lines, day ones, etc) and the usual de rigueur rituals such as churning out obligatory, meaningless six-pagers, instead of driving genuine innovation or results.
AWS is fast becoming a parody of itself and needs a reset. The recent outage is a harbinger of things to come, if things continue as is.
Jassy is going about this the wrong way. In practice, reducing the number of line managers meant that engineers are having to do the managerial work themselves.
So they're writing even more six-pagers to satisfy the other managers which they're no longer shielded from having to interact with directly.
On the contrary, I feel the opposite. Layoffs are a cheap way to goose your stock price, not much unlike buybacks. I exit positions in companies in either case, as it shows they have no immediate plans for growth.
I don't disagree with the rest. But you can effect a lot of change without mass layoffs...
you must have a pretty short list of companies you can continue to hold. something like 90% of S&P500 does stock buybacks. if you also include layoffs that's going to reach close to every single company.
No, as it's not permanent. Going from no buybacks to buybacks for example can be a bad sign to me. Companies who have been doing them for years perhaps less so. Same with layoffs. It's not like a boycott list, it's more of a near term indicator for me.
And the way we will break through this problem is to fire a shitload of people such that everybody is frightened for their continued employment such that they focus on looking the part and fight for the most valuable turf so that they aren't likely to be on the chopping block next time.
But I also have subscriptions to 2 Usenet services, a paid Plex account, couple of Nzbget instances running full-time attached to a Qnap NAS and an instances of Sonnar.
Just so that I can get unfettered access to 4K content and consume it anyway I want it (Stream using Infuse on Apple TV box or AVP, or download them to my MacBook Pro for watching it while travelling, etc).
But suprisingly I am watching more content on a paid YouTube subscription. The Youtube Apple TV app sucks somewhat, but there is always YT-DLP.
I bought an MPP1000C 300 Baud rate modem for my Atari 800 which connects via joystick port, as a teen, after saving up for months. Some amazing BBSing memories were had.
Brings back memories. As a teen working at a computer store in the early 80s, sold lots of Apple ][ machines with the customers buying it solely for use with VisiCalc (nobody bought the software due to rampant piracy in Asia).
And also surprisingly Osborne-1s with SuperCalc (mostly to Texan oilmen working in Indonesia who were in Singapore for R&R, and who needed number crunching out in the field)
When organizations begin to prioritize personal-brand builders and performative hires over the core technologists and long-tenured institutional experts who actually understand how things work, the culture inevitably shifts.
When that imbalance grows, as it has at AWS (ex-AWS here), and the volume of relentless self-promoting “LinkedIn personalities” and box-ticking DEI appointments starts to outnumber the true builders and stewards of institutional memory, the execution quality, accountability, and technical excellence begin to erode.
It is becoming increasingly clear that Andy Jassy’s leadership is no longer effective, and it is only a matter of time before Wall Street begins calling for his departure.
I appreciate how you, with absolutely no evidence, blamed this outage on DEI, especially given Amazons complete backpedaling of DEI the first moment it became political convenient
The legendary Andy Hertzfeld played a role in shaping the design of Google Plus.
https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/28/google-plus-design-andy-he...
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