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by fatnoah 6y ago
I have a very solid understanding of how SMS works under the covers, and the Krebs article is actually much better than the original, since it adds more of the specific details of how changing SMS routing is different than number portabilit
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by fatnoah 6y ago
Agree. For all but the smallest of teams, this just means being both a poor manager and a poor engineer. Trying to balance this was one of my first mistakes as a manager. I was a roadblock to shipping things because of my limited coding b
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by fatnoah 6y ago
>The real issue is that a lot of people who are pushed or drawn into management roles don’t actually like managing or leading. Some are pushed into management because they’re the most competent IC on the team I think this is spot-on. Pe
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by fatnoah 6y ago
Sakari just was dumb, and deserves the bad press. I've built similar products and we launched with the "phone call to verify" feature to specifically prevent this type of abuse.
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by fatnoah 6y ago
SMS routing and number porting are different things, as the voice and SMS operate independently. I headed Engineering for a company that allowed you to SMS enable your landline or toll-free number, and our automated flow for non-toll-free l
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by fatnoah 6y ago
I also place the blame on Sakari. I headed Engineering for a company that allowed you to bring your own landline number for business, and our automated flow for non-toll-free landline required receiving a code via telephone call (to avoid
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by fatnoah 6y ago
I agree that we need a better way to evaluate people that meets the purported goals of being fair and eliminating the chance for bias. I joined a FAANG at 44 and had to do the Leetcode evaluation. TBH, it wasn't so much a grind as a b
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by fatnoah 6y ago
Just adding that landline numbers, not just toll-free numbers, are probably vulnerable to this.
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by fatnoah 6y ago
These were basic principles I put in place at a previous company that had a number of API-only customers. Request/Response messages. Point releases could only contain additive changes. Any changes to existing behaviors, removal of f
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by fatnoah 6y ago
I will add that no video game, until Beat Saber and similar, have had my kid red-faced and out of breath after playing it and still wanting more. It's been a lifesaver with sports and everything else canceled due to COVID.
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by fatnoah 6y ago
A fun fact is that no business likes additional regulatory overhead and risk, but larger companies are much more able to take on the costs associated with compliance.
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by fatnoah 6y ago
>People with family or basically any commitments outside of work don't have anywhere near as much time to practice for this sort of thing and why should they need to practice for an interview? I've done this rodeo in my thirtie
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by fatnoah 6y ago
This advice is spot-on and generally how I approach things when I'm looking for a job. For the "regular" parts, it's very important to be specific. Don't say you "worked on" something, say exactly what y
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by fatnoah 6y ago
>If one user can't have a negative impact on other users, then you don't care if some users are slow to upgrade; they're only hurting themselves. This quote looks like it was written by someone who has never had to support
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by fatnoah 6y ago
>You won't be able to work at a FAANG unless you are have such innate talent that you are basically god's gift to programming. EDIT: I misread your comment, and realized you were referring to the newly-minted programmer in the
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by fatnoah 6y ago
As an Engineering Manager vs. team lead or Principal Engineer, the main difference is your #7 (growth and performance). That's the thing I list as #1 in terms of what an Engineering Manager does. You'll play a big role in all of
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by fatnoah 6y ago
>gouraud shading The fact that I think you're a philistine going with Gourad over Phong shading is something totally incomprehensible to that person that came five years after you. I feel like my relationship to computers vs. newer
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by fatnoah 6y ago
The electric ones also move significantly less air. I say this as the owner of a top of the line electric blower that will never in a million years own a gas one. The gas ones are far superior for actually blowing large amounts of leaves
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by fatnoah 6y ago
I'm pretty sure I've seen similar logic in my life.
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by fatnoah 6y ago
>* We do not have a trade school system in the US... That may be a regional/state thing, then. My high school was adjacent to the vocational school for the region, where high school kids on a trade track would learn trades like car
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by fatnoah 6y ago
>Not having an gifted program is like having wrestling matches without weight classes. It's no fun and no good (for anyone). Agree. My company had a Diversity and Inclusion series, and the one thing that resonated most with me was t
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by fatnoah 6y ago
>I tell people that my cars HUD is one of the best safety features ever made for this reason Interesting, I have the opposite take. I feel like the HUD in my car offers me a constant flow of information, but it's always in my field
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by fatnoah 6y ago
I'm especially interested to see how this would affect funding for startups. What types of exits would be possible? Would investors be willing to fund in this environment. The net effect might (I say might, because I really don&#x27
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by fatnoah 6y ago
>So I do what I can. I don't even ask what time format something belongs in. I just write ISO8601 by default. If someone complains then I point them to the international standard and ask whether we want to be an internationally stan
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by fatnoah 6y ago
That is definitely a big miss. Looking only at cash, my rate of compensation increase was about 7.5% per year (in reality, it was typically a couple years at 1-2% with some big jumps). When stock is factored into the equation, the average
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by fatnoah 6y ago
My story is similar to this, but with a slightly better result. VP Eng at a startup, ~1.5% equity, etc. It was during that time that a startup I'd left many years before finally sold, and net value of those options was also $0. When
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by fatnoah 6y ago
I didn't even think of that. I guess stuff can literally fall off the truck!
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by fatnoah 6y ago
>There isn't a solution really. Drivers are paid too little to care and have to deliver too many packages - leading to mistreatment of a package and lack of time to knock and wait for the owner. The ultimate highlight of this was a
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by fatnoah 6y ago
I've carried an iPhone and an Android (some variety of Pixel) for the past several years. I use them both heavily for work and I feel like the main difference between the two is that the Android phone fails in more obvious ways, such
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by fatnoah 6y ago
Hah, I was definitely a 1-time victim to a trapped chest in the middle of a forest. My ghost got to watch my corpse get looted. I also remember going all-in on fencing because the super-fast attacks, while not super effective, would give s

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