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by dvtrn 5y ago
You expect any company to have on payroll corporate counsel 24/7 for emergency requests in like 200 jurisdictions ? To an extent, yes as a matter of fact, or at minimum a Registered Agent. Because in almost all of those 200 Jurisdict
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Tech support staff handling these requests cannot possibly know the thousands of police departments sites to know if the site is legitimate. You know who probably would be in a better position to know? Your corporate counsel. Chances are
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I can't really fault the tech companies for this, it's not a great place to be in and there isn't an obvious solution. For all of the box ticking, theatrical diligence and audit-preparedness work I’ve had assigned to me in
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Conway’s law, holding on line 2.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
We’re here I think. I’ve seen a few hiring threads on other communities where the topic came up and there was a healthy sample of “will never a former Fbook/Meta” prognosticators in the room
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by dvtrn 5y ago
At this point the situation is so comical that carrying around a burner phone next to my laptop is suddenly seeming like a rational totally-normal thing to do. Heh…as soon as I read this I glanced down at the little Nokia dumb phone I hav
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Encarta I clutch my heart, and weep every time I think about this.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
It's because they're expensive to have. I'm not carrying water for it, but as one of my kids like to say: "it is what it is"
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Indeed. As I said in another comment thread about this event, I’ve been watching my leadership team’s response to this as we have deep Okta integration, therefore so do several of our customers using our platform. Said response has been pre
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Funny you say that, the entire reason I even opened my mouth was because I used to be on those contractor teams early in my career. Experienced it first hand. It sucked. I knew how much it sucked. I promised to be a better leader than the o
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Along those lines: this has happened exactly once in my life but man was it something, getting off a red eye at 6am and noticing a piano in the middle of the food court. Place was a ghost town except for the morning shift relieving the even
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Pete would ask to work more hours. He claimed he could use the money. He was a contractor remember Amidst the loss here, this line stood out to me and brings to mind all the terrible ways contractors are taken advantage of, or at least, t
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Fasting as a form of protest is now “hyperbole”, is it?
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Philosophizing on your blog seems to be the new way to tilt at windmills. not the first time I’ve seen such comments or sentiments close to it regarding the content of developer blogs, when one gets shared here. I ask most sincerely: isn’
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Ever tried to keep an incident timeline in a Jira ticket? Once. Thanks for bringing back the nightmares, friend.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
We’ve been monitoring this internally, as customers of an Okta-like service. I’ve also been closely monitoring the responses from our CTO and VP of Security when someone from our DevOps team posted a link to the Verge article in slack this
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by dvtrn 5y ago
If I were the only person using it, yeah probably. As it is, with a household of other users, it’s staying for now but I still really enjoy thoroughly mocking HBO for it whenever the chance allows. At least the emails are no more.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Talked about this on another community, here’s a hilariously sad example of these fake “personal” emails I was once gone from home for two days traveling with family. Two days. HBOMax sent me an email with this exact subject line (edit: I w
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by dvtrn 5y ago
You guys are getting onboarding? I swear I kind of miss onboarding. My last two roles as a Senior were “fill out these HR forms, here’s the payroll portal, just sign up. Trust me bro . It’ll work. Ok here’s your laptop. Here’s some ticket
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by dvtrn 5y ago
If they can't tell if you are working or not without physically watching you come into an office and sit at the desk for 40 hours every week, then WTF is your actual job? More like wtf is their actual job
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by dvtrn 5y ago
See my other comment, but I suspect so too. Just listening to the rhetoric of my parent company about our clients (commercial real estate developers), a lot of companies are vocally fretting about what to do with their (expensive) office sp
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Which leaves the question of what is motivating it? As someone who works in a software shop that sells directly to this sector, I have a guess (and it’s just a guess but a quasi-informed one): Office/Building leases.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Testify.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I thought it was "Zennial", but then again for the longest time I also thought the "millennials" were "Gen-Y" and that Billy Joel actually started the fire, so wtf do I even know anymore about what generations
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by dvtrn 5y ago
What's been everyone's experiences/takes/opinions, specifically with not doing Hackathons? My org is moving them to quarterly-we used to have one yearly-I skipped the last one, probably going to skip the next one but I
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Mate I’m sure I already have. Been battling a migraine since 10am. (Joking, it’s really just a plain old sinus headache)
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by dvtrn 5y ago
While many organisations pay lip service to uptime and reliability I had a very terse conversation about this, and directly included the words “lip service” to my superiors today about the very topic of on-call and overnight work this mor
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by dvtrn 5y ago
They did, yes. I’m not qualified to know whether or not this counts as some kind of fraud, but it was the final straw for me to stop using these delivery services once and for all after other unrelated negative experiences with them.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
"I shouldn't have to carefully scrutinize every link ON Google and then double check I'm actually ending up where Google said it was sending me." I've noticed it only a handful of times, but phone numbers for listin
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by dvtrn 5y ago
What convenience is that In my particular case, as someone who listens to a lot of international music: licensing. I've come across, and subsequently lost track of so many amazing international groups whose music suddenly comes off o

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