When I was at LinkedIn we definitely cared about this. It probably wouldn't be enough to knock you down a peg during your review if you had none during a particular half/quarter, but if you never did anything in this bucket it would be a red flag during promotion consideration.
This isn't that hard. There are various employee groups around identities (Women in Tech, Asian Pacific, Black, LGBTQ, etc). Membership is not exclusive to those groups but also open to allies. As an example, I used to participate in the Women in Tech one at both Mozilla and at LinkedIn. Often I just listened, but I also helped organize a few events with them, contributed ideas for those events, and when they started a structured mentoring program I was one of the mentors.
There are also optional and non-optional hiring trainings that address these kinds of topics which you can do. I was a hiring manager for a while so I also spent some time doing some of these optional things to improve my chances of building a diverse team. This mostly included helping with sourcing candidates and a few times meant speaking up when I could see that identity biases were being used in evaluations.
But often just simple things are all you need. For example, when picking a group dinner destination making sure various culinary requirements are accounted for (either cultural or dietary) or finding team building activities that are inclusive.
I never once had an issue finding some of this to put on these perf reviews. Most of this is just under the category of being a good human who respects and values others.
Many blogs are completely dynamic and grab content out of a database on every request. The static site generation style fell out of early fashion when wordpress took over from moveable type, and didn't really return much until jekyll. Even today I think most blogs you see are mostly dynamic with the platforms using caching to avoid hitting the database every time.
Most people don't do performance tuning of their blogs because the average traffic is miniscule. This means that any configuration issues rear their heads when load happens. For example, having your max connections to the web server be far more than the database can support. Perhaps the machine could handle the load if properly configured, but no one did so because there was no need.
Don’t forget - at the time, even if you were pulling a static file, you were pulling it from disk. And disk was much slower… IDE was still common. If you had a good server, it could have been SCSI, but a white label Linux box could be quite slow. So, unless you had a good caching setup, you could still have issues sending even static data.
Also, when slashdotting was common, networks weren’t always the most robust. It wasn’t uncommon in the late 90’s for companies to have a single a T1 line for access to the internet. So, unless you had a good, well peered network provider, that was another potential bottleneck.
We worked with what we had. Thankfully, everything is more robust now.
This is very true. A lot of corpsites of SaaS and similar companies run wordpress - i think because it's easy to find a "web developer" who can build very impressive custom themes that you wouldn't even know are blogs. My last company was paying about $500 a month to various "Professional Wordpress Hosting" companies to host their .com -- and they all had spotty downtime records because they were serving everything dynamically. My strategy to fix these has always been to install a "static site generation" plugin, stick the wordpress instance itself on a cheap host behind an IP restriction, and have the site generator plugin publish the site (on every change, which is never even that often) to some static hosting (S3, etc). Saves 99% of the cost and makes the site 50x faster and able to handle infinite traffic. But most companies don't seem to do this, and individual blogs are even less likely to.
The money tends to be on one side of these things, and money amplifies the message substantially.
You can argue that the election was fair all you want, but who is going to pay to run all the ads to impress that message on everyone?
It's already the case that clickbait headlines and lies are naturally more engaging, so amplifying them with money seems to drown out any rational counter dialogue.
This is probably because of Apple's App Tracking Transparency (ATT) rules, which prevent personal data from leaving the device for ads without consent. This means YouTube on AppleTV can't target you at an individual level, and thus the ad inventory is less valuable. Maybe now they have more demand side budgets and are finding ways to spend it even on Apple devices. Or maybe their privatization technology is finally mature enough to make that inventory valuable enough to sell.
This isn't even the first time this has happened. Remember when they renamed Libra? I think they just assume it doesn't matter, and if it does, the settlement will be a blip. It doesn't always work out that way for them.
The company was founded on it. It was "thefacebook.com" for years as it fought to get the domain name without "the". (Also, there were lots of face books at the time. Claiming "The" was a wild hair that also seemed to win PR for them.)
I'm just more surprised they didn't just buy out the company outright. That used to be Microsoft's thing...why bother, if I can just "embrace and extinguish" them?
> I think they just assume it doesn't matter, and if it does, the settlement will be a blip. It doesn't always work out that way for them.
Yeah, they keep forgetting they still have to follow the law, because society hasn't yet collapsed into a cyberpunk dystopia where big corporations are totally above it.
You can’t control who buys your mortgage from whatever bank you originally got a mortgage with. Even if you refinance to another bank, they can just resell it again. I assume this is true of other kinds of debt. Not all their customers are people who don’t know any better.
Also, I think people probably have some systemic trust that really bad actors will be eventually removed, but unfortunately that seems not to ever happen to Wells Fargo despite what is at this point hundreds of years of bad behavior.
While I'm happy to hear you are leaving Reddit, please consider reinstalling Apollo until Christian is able to shut down the app. He is planning to ask folks to forgo the refund much like Twitterific and Tweetbot did[1]. He will give refunds to anyone who takes no action I believe, but if you'd like to support him you'll need to opt-in once he asks, after which you can delete the app.
