Posts by bob salmon

Engineer who blew lid on Uber's toxic sexist culture now menaced by creepy 'smear campaign'

Microservices?

This whole thing about standardising Microservices. It is just good Engineering Practice. A lot of us have been doing this for years and just haven't bothered making a book and telling everyone we are an expert.

I would be pretty annoyed about the way that HR has handled all of this though. I am sure there is blatant sexism there but I am not so sure this young lady doesn't have a over inflated ego.

Mathletics promises security upgrades after parents' security gripes

Re: As someone who is affected by this..

Add another one to that.

And I have a really good understanding of K/12 elearning and how awful it can be.

A Jobsian legacy

As other posters have indicated there is no real data stored about the child, the tests and exercises are very low stakes.

The problem with the whole flash thing is that all of the best quality learning animations and tests are flash based. The money ran out when developers, pushed by Jobs anti flash policy tried other techniques.

The large K/12 publishing organisations have made it worse by publishing "cutting edge" elearning materials based on PDF (basically a text book).

So all these people that bemoan this are way of the mark. I saw this years ago and decided to ignore it as the content was better than the ridiculous perceived security risk.

Re: Obligatory?

Exactly how many computer do you know that have been blown open due to flash?