clive boulton

Software company advisor. Engineering trained in AI from get-go. Interests in ERP. Be excellent to each other #certacito

[Steven Sinofsky @stevesi]

This is truly getting tiresome. The effort to paint the very difficult immediate situation as without precedent and not “normal” ignores the waves of the security issues of the past.

I’m not downplaying this and just as tired of “no, this time is different.”

There’s just no escaping that every step function change in automated tools to find (security) holes/bugs that arose out of point experiences being generalized immediately created the type of “all hands” situation we face now.

Everything from floppy disk scanning to buffer over runs to uninitialized variables to off by one loops to automation hooks to script kiddies to xss to frames to social engineering saw incidents leading to generalized tools that scanned environments to find countless latent bugs that needed to be fixed urgently.

One day a product was ready to ship and then a tool ran and suddenly there were 10,000 new bugs for 500 engineers to investigate and fix and then test for what broke because well who knows what happens when you suddenly initialize a variable that wasn’t previously.

This sucks in a ton of ways. No one wants to stop what they are doing at what seems like the biggest opportunity and/or disruptive risk to business in a generation. No one wants to touch old code. No one likes to have work generated for them by automated tools finding issues that are obscure by definition.

But this is all good. These bugs were all there. Instead of cursing just realize how lucky your team is to find them now and not after the breach. Whenever we surfaced from these moments in the past we felt our code reached a new and better “steady state” and that will happen.

[clive boulton @iC]

@gbellseattle Any signs he might share RB snaps with Robert Henry Jr...

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@amanpour "Russia's invasion of Ukraine, America's invasion of Iran" --> Genuine CNN propaganda.

[clive boulton @iC]

@ronaldmannak As a hiring manager, although you can't employ visitors, you can buy them lunch, pay their expenses directly. This is what I did in SV after I twisted HR's arm a bit.

[clive boulton @iC]

@ronaldmannak If you can’t patch flawed websites, then take them offline now, CERT-EU urges. https://t.co/YcbVOrvDjd

[clive boulton @iC]

@gbellseattle Felt like K9 had DK reasons to move onto another team.

[clive boulton @iC]

@bkheywood WA Gov Bob Ferguson and BC Premier David Eby are alter egos at pushing the "Trojan horse tax trap" on the middle class per WSJ. https://t.co/ABoNDRUbzu

[clive boulton @iC]

Foursquare did struggle as we made the transition from a consumer business to an enterprise business… but we did it! In 2019, 2020 and 2021 we publicly boasted about our $100M+ revenue years. So what happened?

[Dennis Crowley 🇺🇸 (mostly on Threads, @dens) @dens]

Foursquare was acquired last month. The outcome was disappointing. It's taken me a while to write this, but I think I'm finally done grieving it. Here are some thoughts on our final years, an effort to honor the team who helped build & maintain FSQ's legacy, and my attempt to finally get some closure. https://t.co/HgcgI9DWvy

[clive boulton @iC]

@stevesi @geekwire Meanwhile ...
https://t.co/VK0Ylr6jnY

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Elon Musk says SpaceX, $SPCX, and Tesla, $TSLA, have formed special committees to discuss a potential merger between the two companies.

"I do think there’s a lot of merit to combining the companies as we are pretty much in the superintelligence singularity, and there’s a lot to be gained from cooperating," Musk said.

"Do I think it would be a good idea? Yes, but at the end of the day, the shareholders have to be supportive of this," Musk said.

[Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon @bkheywood]

Ballot Finally Came

Probably the most important vote on this ballot is the following:

[Ari K @arikuschnir]

🌙 MoonX (sequel to MarsX)

[clive boulton @iC]

@stevesi @PortofSeattle @SeaTacAirport The golf cart is almost always at the opposite end.

[clive boulton @iC]

@hawkblogger Holani was almost frogmarched playing the Bronco's; makes sense to clear him a lane with a full-back.

[Gregg Bell @gbellseattle]

#Seahawks were off this weekend. AJ Barner wasn't.

The TE AJ Barner spent his Saturday night at the House That Love Built gala that raised $1.5M for the Ronald McDonald House of Western Washington.

Barner, Jim Zorn, Steve Raible auctioned an autographed Barner jersey, a football signed by Barner, Raible, Zorn and Barner’s Ronald McDonald House “My Cause, My Cleats."

from @KIRO7Seattle: https://t.co/SsvhMaV2gm

[clive boulton @iC]

@gbellseattle @933KJR Good to see Charbs some capacity...
NFL coaches frequently ease players back into game action with a designated "snap count" or "touch limit" after a stint on Injured Reserve (IR).

[clive boulton @iC]

@ronaldmannak Looks like the goal is double edged. It can be used to ensure the automotive supply chain is 90 pct from green steel which will limit Chinese BEVs. The EU knows how to regulate for outcomes.

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@gbellseattle Fox-eyes McVay fired his kicker last week, who gets fired tomorrow.

[Ryan Dao @ryandao47]

WA voting system is so rigged man. Why is this ok to put opinions to mislead voters on the ballot itself? The tax is not in place yet, so there's no "decrease" in funding if this passes.