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What’s up with all of the multi-platform outages lately? Seems abnormal looking at historical data. Are there issues affecting the internet backbone or something? Or just a coincidence?
Elevated risk of cyberattacks due to foreign meddling. https://www.cisa.gov/shields-up
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From within AWS, it just feels like we push people too hard. Service teams are too small relative to their goals, sales teams have unrealistic growth targets and also double as support for needy/incompetent customers, and professional services have billable hour requirements which are as high as any major consultancy and with additional pre-sales support expectations. Strict adherence to the "hiring bar" means we fai…
> From within AWS, it just feels like we push people too hard. Sounds like regular skeleton-crew enterprise IT.
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Elevated risk of cyberattacks due to foreign meddling. https://www.cisa.gov/shields-up
This is a pretty big claim to make. Do you have any sources that back it up?
It is public information within America that we are to be at “Shields Up” readiness.
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>"Strict adherence to the "hiring bar" means we fail to bring in good people who aren't desperate enough to act out the cultish LP dance during their interview." What is the "cultish LP dance" here that is weeding good people out? >"My team is hiring for 2-3 people and we are being buried alive without that growth happening sooner - but I can't in good conscience recommend this place to anyone I respect or like." I a…
> What is the "cultish LP dance" here that is weeding good people out? The "culture fit" interview process focuses on leadership principles, so lots of questions like " tell me about a time when you went above and beyond for a customer". Being yourself will get you nowhere, you need to research the questions and the script that is expected of you. > What service does your team work on? I'm a partner-focused SA, so no…
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Just like the tech priests in Warhammer 40k, keeping occult old engineering, thatno one could build anymore, running
If we want to normalize letting long term support people call themselves tech priests I'd very much appreciate it. "What were your duties at your last position?" "Performing the daily ministrations and singing the praise of the machine god."
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> The Great Dying (due to COVID-19) Repeating this wise comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23769427 The COVID death counts are hopelessly over-counted. This is why there's a cottage industry of people pointing out things like "COVID deaths" which mysteriously also suffered from being murdered, or drug overdoses, or undiagnosed leukaemia. Then you get into the problem of care homes being authorised to repor…
It's shocking to see such a statement so far into the pandemic. This is solved and known already, and while complicated, we've figured it out for some time. We can easily see the massive amount of deaths when we look at excess death numbers. Covid deaths are, if anything, undercounted. To believe anything else at this point is to bury your head in the sand and avoid all scientific evidence and medical consensus. http…
Can you in good conscience say that the typical rate of death remained steady while the following happened:
* a majority of given populations remained at home (lock downs - meaning no travelling to work in multi-tonne death traps)
* practised increased hygiene protocols (masks, more frequent hand washing)
* did not visit elderly homes (at least, less than usual)
* many people were reluctant to get timely health care (due to fear of catching COVID from medical facilities)
* ate worse and excersied less
* infected elderly patients were sent back to their nursing homes (to typically infect the entire facility)
There are so many confounding factors that on the face of it, should result in a radically different death profile... and almost every country faced the above to different extents.
Anyone claiming to be able to work out the actual number of people who died from COVID-19 from excess deaths is being disingenous at best.
I can't help but wonder, with the increases in attrition across the industry, are we hitting some kind of tipping point where the institutional knowledge in these massive tech corporations is disappearing? Mistakes happen all the time but when all the people who intimately know how these systems work leave for other opportunities, disasters are bound to happen more and more.
You're right, but that's been true since the beginning of the tech boom (but isn't exclusive to tech) when no one works for a place for several decades. Companies weather this in different ways but attrition has always been around. What's causing people to believe that the latest round of attrition is any different?
If your company is hostile to people sticking around for decades, then it makes it that much less likely that you end up stuck with an machine that relies heavily on poorly documented tribal knowledge that's likely to start falling apart as your core people start cashing out.
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You're right, but that's been true since the beginning of the tech boom (but isn't exclusive to tech) when no one works for a place for several decades. Companies weather this in different ways but attrition has always been around. What's causing people to believe that the latest round of attrition is any different?
Promoting high employee turnover could actually be a very effective strategy for a company's long term sustainability. If your company is hostile to people sticking around for decades, then it makes it that much less likely that you end up stuck with an machine that relies heavily on poorly documented tribal knowledge that's likely to start falling apart as your core people start cashing out.
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> The Great Dying (due to COVID-19) Repeating this wise comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23769427 The COVID death counts are hopelessly over-counted. This is why there's a cottage industry of people pointing out things like "COVID deaths" which mysteriously also suffered from being murdered, or drug overdoses, or undiagnosed leukaemia. Then you get into the problem of care homes being authorised to repor…
How about undercounting? There’s very likely to be severe undercounting of COVID-19 due to the same reasons that crimes of victimization are underreported: shame. Not to mention the swaths of homeless and disabled people that probably didn’t get counted.