Engineers isolated from customers
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Engineers isolated from customers

For the techie folks out there: Reading an article regarding Amazon’s success implementing a distributed micro-services architecture and I came across this success factor bullet. “Developers should spend some time with customer service every two years. Their they’ll actually listen to customer service calls, answer customer service e-mails, and really understand the impact of the […]

Self-driving?!
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Self-driving?!

This is what’s scary about the new self-drive technology. It’s brought to you by the same folks that can’t even keep an entertainment system running. If not already, I’m sure Robin Cook is in the process of drafting a novel about self-drive technology failure. https://jalopnik.com/fiat-chrysler-pushed-a-uconnect-update-that-causes-cons-1822939437

Up with the times
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Up with the times

Checking one of our Federal Government’s web sites… found this with regard to download of a file I’m interested in: “Download Speed in Minutes (56Kbps Dial Up),” – ROFL!!! I haven’t used a 56Kbps dial up modem since we moved from BBS systems back in the 90’s. I’m going to poke around some more. I’m […]

Security FAIL
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Security FAIL

3rd time in less than a month I’ve gone to log into a company’s site and found out they deleted my account because I hadn’t used it in the last several months… one was my bank. I’m all for security, but good god that is an idiotic policy! When I contacted my bank they said […]

BitConnect
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BitConnect

If you want an example of the risks of cryptocurrency, yesterday BitConnect (BCC) ceased operations due to law suits (and other factors). In a single day, nearly $3B, yes billion with a B, of investors cash went POOF! Sorry folks, much better odds at the craps tables.