A student reached out to me to ask if they should have their profile picture on LinkedIn. Yes, they work in security.
As I was writing the response about how it's mostly for people to know if you're a "legit person", it occurred to me that it's probably a huge discrimination vector.
A glance will reveal to employers all sorts of things they can make snap judgements on, including visibly transitioning, being non-white, or having a face they dislike. All without a paper trail!
Thanks, LinkedIn!
Great news everyone! I saw code so terrible yesterday that I quit my job on the spot, for realsies. Enjoy what should be the last post about me gazing directly into corporate-hell:
I just looked at code so bad that I decided to resign today instead of December.
I feel like Satan just reached through my eyeballs and punched me in my frontal cortex.
) published this on corporate norms around "Who is allowed to know things" at companies. Tech debt isn't real unless someone in power affirms it in a PowerPoint.
I love it and have made the same point. On Hackernews, it was accused of being "extreme left wing content" and the author is trying to "seed violent ideas into the minds of mentally unstable people".
Read it, and if you liked it, please send Iris some positive vibes.
Good news everyone! My magnum opus on Scrum just dropped, clocking in at almost 9K words! Prepare a drink, strap yourselves in, and enter the Torment Nexus.
Great news everyone! I'm announcing that I'm leaving the job that has given us so many horrific stories to focus entirely on my own business! I'm going to stealth kill every Deloitte salesperson in Melbourne.
Telling executives that they can earn infinite money by rolling out your AI solution is just a prompt injection attack aimed at humans that don't run any input sanitation.
