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From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
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Re: From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everyone’s super concerned about security and control, but the best places I worked in were more concerned with freedom. Yes, be savvy about security, protect key assets, but “permissions oversight” about claiming an alias seems excessive. You’ll have 1,000x more headaches and burned operational cash getting everyone to approve everyone else’s every step than handling one security incident in a decade. And even with…
One of the biggest time sinks and "velocity" killers in BigTech, and sometimes also in MediumTech, is the need to get approval (sometimes multiple people's approvals) for absolutely everything. Often, approvers are among the most senior, busy people in the company, and "approving a dozen things" is not even top 100 on their list of things to do today. There are people who spend >75% of their time just "chasing" appro…
For sure. It kills projects and companies large and small.
Re: From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
#83i love this. A startup I was at during early COVID times got acquired into Hewlett Packard Enterprise, so we all became HPE employees with HPE addresses. There was a similar form there to request "ryancnelson"@hpe, etc... One of my co-workers got cute and asked for "root@hpe.com" .... And boy, there's a lot of cron jobs running at HP.
I’m confused why cron jobs would be sending emails to root@hpe.com?
(not an unix sysadmin, just guessing what happened from my shaky knowledge)
cron jobs reports activity by email to the user (UID) they are running, historically UNIX boxes have the ability to handle mail locally (people would leave messages to each other by connecting to the same server via terminal), so that the root cron activity would land into the root (/root) account mbox file.
When email got interconnected more across servers, generally the service that would dispatch mail to the users account on their home folder on the server started to be able to forward to to others servers, if a domain name was provided. Add to it the ability to fallback to a _default_ domain name for sending email into the organization, and voilà, the root email account for the default domain name receives the entirety of the cron jobs running under root of all the servers running with the default configuration and domain fallback.
Re: From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
#84Whilst working in corporate I tried to get matt@apple.com which was showing as free, but in fact somebody in retail had claimed it. Good for them!
Re: From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have Jobs ever been a compter geek hero? Wozniak is the one people raise to the skys.
Steve is the hero of salesmen, consultants and CEO-s, should not be a hero for geeks and actual developers.
I mean, the salesman-CEO/founder is way better at selling themselves as a hero of tech & innovation than the engineer-CTO/founder.
Re: From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have Jobs ever been a compter geek hero? Wozniak is the one people raise to the skys.
Steve is the hero of salesmen, consultants and CEO-s, should not be a hero for geeks and actual developers.
Steve Jobs knew how to ship products people want. I have no respect for developers in a corporate settings who don’t ship.
Re: From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
#87This post is particularly funny to me as well as I also had a very common name@apple.com email and I would often get sensitive emails, including travel info, sent to me - despite the fact that I had worked there longer than most peers.
I eventually grew so annoyed with it that I ended up surrendering the email to said person as it was a losing battle.
Re: From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
#88This post is particularly funny to me as well as I also had a very common name@apple.com email and I would often get sensitive emails, including travel info, sent to me - despite the fact that I had worked there longer than most peers. I eventually grew so annoyed with it that I ended up surrendering the email to said person as it was a losing battle.
A colleague had an email when they started that was very similar to an SVP. When they highlighted the confusion, it got fixed promptly.
Re: From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
#89This is how I find out next.com returns a 301 to apple.com. Fascinating!
For a while a few years ago they had it misconfigured and you could browse apple.com at next.com -- so pages like next.com/ipad worked.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130301092249/http://www.next.c...
Re: From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
#90I have absolutely no respect for Tim Cook anymore. I understood that Cook was the operations guy and not a product guy like Jobs.
I even have to begrudgingly admit that he has to navigate the political waters in both China and the US doing things I don’t like.
But he consistently makes Apple’s products worse in the name of money - advertising on the phone, malicious compliance in the EU, what came out in the recent court case where he ignored Phil Schiller (head of App Store and long time a Apple employee) who suggested they do the right thing as far as the courts ruling, and how the experience is worse not being able to buy third party content (kindle) and subscriptions within apps. Well you can now. The Kindle app has been updated.
Of course I don’t care if they skim 30% from games, loot boxes and coins where 90% of their revenue comes from.
I wouldn’t consider it an honor to get an email from Cook. The enshittification of iOS is completely on him.