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Moonday Mornings: Microsoft helped Louis Vuitton put overpriced rags on the blockchain

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by on May 27, 2019 at 8:27 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


You know what time it is: we’re back for Moonday Mornings, Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain stories. Here are some of the hottest stories you might’ve missed over the weekend. 1. Louis Vuitton, the favorite luxury fashion brand of people without any sense of style, is launching a blockchain pilot designed to help customers verify they’re not blowing their pockets empty on counterfeit clothing. ConsenSys and Microsoft are helping the company get the platform off the ground. 2. Privacy-oriented messenger Telegramwill reportedly be introducing its own blockchain programming language specifically built for its upcoming cryptocurrency platform, Cointelegraph…

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Apple’s privacy reputation at risk with new iTunes class-action lawsuit

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by on May 27, 2019 at 8:23 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Apple has marketed itself as a company that puts customers’ privacy first, but a new class-action lawsuit claims to the contrary. Leigh Wheaton, Jill Paul, and Trevor Paul — three iTunes users from Rhode Island and Michigan — filed a federal lawsuit against the Cupertino-based tech giant alleging that the company unlawfully collects and sells their iTunes listening information to third parties without informed consent. The claims, if true, are bound to puncture a hole in Apple’s pro-privacy stance, which it touted earlier this year with the ad slogan: “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.” Apple never shows…

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7 steps to building a stellar engineering competency matrix

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by on May 27, 2019 at 7:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Podium


As a manager, I view it as my responsibility to provide every engineer with a realistic and achievable growth plan they can execute against. In that responsibility, I try to be fair and objective, ensuring each individual is being held to the same set of standards at each level of engineering growth. This objectivity is important in removing any potential bias from both promotion and compensation conversations. And because the growth of an engineer is a complex thing, I like to have a tool to utilize in that pursuit. I call that tool a “competency matrix.” At the beginning of…

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