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I just got off a short pre-interview conversation with a manager at Instagram and he had to dial in with POTS. I got the impression that things are very broken
by rootusrootus 5y ago
I just got off a short pre-interview conversation with a manager at Instagram and he had to dial in with POTS. I got the impression that things are very broken internally.
- otikthecessna 5y agoI read that as POTUS at first and paused for a minute
- dividedbyzero 5y agoWhat is POTS?
- woofcat 5y agoPlain old telephone system. Aka a phone.
- tacker2000 5y agoPlain Old Telephone System
- terramex 5y agoPlain old telephone service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service
- wolverine876 5y agoThis person has a POTS line in their current location, and a modem, and the software stack to use it, and Instagram has POTS lines and modems and software that connect to their networks? Wow. How well do Instagram and their internal applications work over 56K?
- rescbr 5y agoThey could have dialed in by their own cell phone though
- rootusrootus 5y agoHe called on his mobile phone. As a result it was a voice-only conversation, no video.
- askvictor 5y agoHow much of modern POTS is reliant on VOIP? In Australia at least, POTS has been decommissioned entirely, but even where it's still running, I'm wondering where IP takes over?
- rootusrootus 5y agoI am guessing that most POTS is VOIP now, except for the few places with existing copper infrastructure that has not been decommissioned yet.