The Apple status pages (both of them) are some of the worst of the big league offenders, perhaps second only to Microsoft.
Full disclosure, I operate a product that compares official outage acknowledgment to actual outage impact times. (Which I won't mention to avoid self-promotion.)
For this specific incident, I saw the alert come across my Slack at 19:02 UTC. We received over 100 reports of this outage before the official acknowledgement was posted by Apple on their status page at 21:37 UTC.
Shortly after their acknowledgment, the reports fizzled out and then Apple marked the incident as resolved about 20 minute later.
The whole outage lasted about 4 hours from first report to last and wasn't acknowledged by Apple until 3.5 hours into it.
My favorite is the first one, "The best engineers are obsessed with solving user problems." and what I hate about it is that it is super hard to judge someone's skills about it without really working with him/her for a very long time. It is super easier said than done. And it is super hard to prove and sell when everybody is looking for easily assessable skills.
This is why (flawed though the process may be in other ways), a company like Amazon asks "customer obsession" questions in engineering interviews. To gather data about whether the candidate appreciates this point about needing to understand user problems, and also what steps the candidate takes to try and learn the users' POV or walk a mile in their shoes so to speak.
Of course interview processes can be gamed, and signal to noise ratio deserves skepticism, so nothing is perfect, but the core principle of WHY that exists as part of the interview process (at Amazon and many many other companies too) is exactly for the same reason you say it's your "favorite".
Also IIRC, there was some internal research done in the late 2010s or so, that out of the hiring assessment data gathered across thousands of interviews, the single best predictor of positive on-the-job performance for software engineers, was NOT how well candidates did on coding rounds or system design but rather how well they did at the Customer Obsession round.
Oh I see. I guess it depends on how big one chunk is then. I'd still vote for paid training if you get big chunks. If only smaller chunks are available, hmmm, it's difficult to say. Maybe prepare for a certificate?
The camera will be in the bedroom so I don't want to watched by an hacker who has an access to the servers of the service provider or the communication channel between the camera and the servers.
We and our neighbour Syria woke up a massive quake yesterday. In 10 cities of Türkiye a lot of buildings collapsed. In the middle of the day another massive quake happened in the same area.
Türkiye has declared a fourth level alert state. The "level 4" alarm condition includes an international call for help.
It is a terrible time in Turkey and Syria. Those living in the UK can donate to the Ahbap charity free with the ParamUK app. All we can do remotely is donate and pray.
I am suffering from the same problem. I thought that may be an area in which I can create some contents and make money. Then I started yet another but simpler newsletter. Here is the launch letter.
