The reason Facebook was once a nice place to hang out and talk with your friends and isn’t anymore is that Mark Zuckerberg is no longer disciplined by competitors like Instagram (which he bought) nor by regulators (whom he captured), nor by interoperable tech like ad-blockers and alternative clients (which he uses IP law to destroy) nor by his own workforce (who have become disposable thanks to workforce supply catching up with demand).
Category: Annoyances
💬 Interview Coder: An AI Assistant for Technical Interviews
This is a brilliant response to irrelevant coding tasks used during interviews and hiring practices.
Source: Interview Coder – An AI Assistant for Technical Interviews
TimBL’s Article About Eliminating Paywalls is Behind a Paywall
(TimBL, inventor of the web, is on the left. Vint Cerf, inventor of TCP/IP with Robert Kahn, is on the right).
Tim Berners-Lee’s article calling for the elimination of paywalls was ironically behind a paywall (not likely his choice).
You can read the article for free here (thanks to the Internet Archive).
