Brendon McLean
@brendon9x
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CTO@Zappi
Cape Town
Joined April 2008
So it seems there’s criminal syndicate operating inside of @Vodacom now. One of my friends sim swapped today. Three people at gym last week. Always the same story: it happens with zero intervention. Even if you phone them to report fraud, it still goes through
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The takeaway: If you have a @Vodacom account, then it seems anyone can just steal your number. Either that, or there's inside help. Call center seems helpless to stop it.
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SIM-swapped on @Vodacom ! 1. I get SMS that SIM swap in progress and phone help centre if I suspect fraud 2. Phoned help center: "Can't see anything." 3. I insist they do something – they put a "Security Flag" on my account to prevent swaps 3 hours later SIM swap happens anyway
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Real leaders don’t think they deserve better treatment than ordinary people. Real leaders fight for better treatment for everyone.
Songezo from Rise Mzansi stood on the queue for 3 hours like us ordinary citizens, I was actually impressed
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As a technical person, I've recommended @webafrica to friends and family since they started. The drop in customer support is eye-watering. Given a choice, I'd rather renew my passport than deal with WebAfrica.
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Things are going well at Twitter. Objective: better ad targeting. Result: German language Learn to speak English ads being shown to English speakers in South Africa.
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My Twitter ads are in German now. And offering help in learning English. Not sure I’d advertise on Twitter right now.
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Some important news! 12 years of work and very proud to announce a new funding round for Zappi.
techcrunch.com
AI is making big waves in the non-tech world among companies that want to tap into it to speed up how they work.
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Data Indexing with RGB ✅ thank you @rubyconf for giving me the opportunity to share this fun project with the rest of the community. hope that those who attended enjoyed it ❤️
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Unpopular opinion: this book is almost 30 years old and in all honesty didn't age very well. If you own a copy do yourself a favor: bury it deeply in your bookshelf and forget about it forever.
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Excellent career advice (and company culture advice if you’re a founder)
I wrote a long and rambling post on why the hierarchy is bullshit (and bad for business). Includes digressions on * the big lie of hierarchy (higher is always better) * why hierarchy endures as a data structure * why it sucks (we imbue it with dominance) https://t.co/wsR3kXW1Jn
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Silicon Valley’s greatest innovation has been in innovation itself. And innovation is a people problem, not a technical one. A problem of maximising creativity at scale and over time. Companies that don’t get this can’t compete.
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I haven’t used Dropbox in ages. Just used it again and it seems like a lesson in business models. As a file-sync service, it’s at least 10x faster than Google Drive and maybe 1000x faster than iCloud. But it just doesn’t matter – for most people it’s a feature not a product
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One gets the feeling the game is rigged. Best Summit! (Non Sherpas only please)
British mountaineer Kenton Cool summits Mount Everest for a 16th time, a record for non-Sherpas
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