I was confused as to why Apple would buy beats as a brand when they were clearly planning around AirPods and Apple Music. I'm sure that combo would have beaten Beats with enough time.
It was more about Jimmy Iovine and Dre and less about headphones. They had a star team, Ian Rogers, Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre and Trent Reznor as creative director... and somehow we ended up with Apple Music. sigh
The negative opinions on Beats often seem snobbish and dare I say bigoted. But I will admit it was a strange get for Apple as a brand.
Although I remember some gossip about them buying it mainly for the music licensing deals that Beats had, and probably the recording industry clout of Dr. Dre.
Anything the cache doesn’t have, causes a cache miss, which passes it through.
So when you request the large file, the CDN (cache) doesn’t have it, so it immediately passes through to the original source. The details of how this is implemented don’t really matter in the sense that they are not going to host the large file(s) in the CDN, so they will always fall through.
Apple is in FAANG. For some reason (likely related to 2015-17 era SWE compensation) FANG just includes Netflix (with amazon facebook and google) and not Apple.
I mean the actual companies that go into these acronyms are generally arbitrary but AFAIK it was Facebook-Apple-Netflix-Google as companies with rapid growth/decent profitability during that period.
I've worked in a similar communications behemoth that was very closely related to the company in question. I have first hand experience with toxic, entitled, self-dealing management culture, poor-me devs, steady stream of clueless interns, oblivious contractors.. Vapid VP's, diddling directors, the works! Definitely suspected there were spies of all colors amongst us, but hey! the coffee was great.
People who think bad behavior is okay tend to cluster together. The people who objected likely were selected out over time, either by leaving for more ethical companies or being pushed out for non-compliance.
Over time, the bad actors would become surrounded by other bad actors. It becomes a bubble, or an echo chamber.
Yeah that is seems to happen informally too. Often I don't think it even requires people being pushed out or even knowing what everyone's views on things are, it just happens.
I worked with a guy who had some interesting views, I suspected he was a casual sort of racist (turned out to be way more than that) but obviously I wasn't going to probe this guy's opinions and I avoided him beyond work related topics and such. He never said anything overtly racist and I really didn't think much of it other than not wanting to be around him.
Then over time as his team was built ... similar folks with similar views. It wasn't some planned cabal or anything, I don't think they were in a conference room talking about recruiting racists ... it's just that people who were less comfortable tended to want to work elsewhere and those who liked him worked with him and like gravity things sort of just worked out that way.
Then finally he did something monumentally stupid (some text in code ... in a customer environment).
There's some further investigation and yeah some emails are found involving this guy's team and suddenly they're all gone.
In my example it wasn't even that anyone was pushed out for differing views or etc .... they just chose to be elsewhere before they even knew what that guy really thought, and folks with similar views / ok with that guy got closer.
And it might have also been less a racism vibe that people picked up on as much as 'this guy seems like he'd do something unpredictable / is not trustworthy'.
I gotta be honest and say that I'm not at all sure what you're saying. Clearly there is a very general common theme here about bigotry... but beyond that I'm not sure how your comment is connected to mine.
For the record I'm not in Virginia ... I'm not sure what that or "East Asian companies" has to do with it.
this is true. I used to work for a closeted racist who argued he wasn't a racist because he voted for Obama. But would hire guys he thought he could add to his inner circle. He loved to point out examples that "proved" his theory that stereotypes were truthful, and he only did this when he thought he had the "right" audience. Real manipulative fscker.
Many customers think the « fraud squad » at big companies are there to protect the consumer. They’re not. Just like HR, the team exists to protect the company.
