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by fatnoah 3y ago
It's totally forbidden by PCI rules as well as common sense. Wayyyy back in 2002, I worked at a startup making a billing product. A customer asked for a screen to be able to see CC numbers for their own customers, and our response wa
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I've been part of four or five breaches. My favorite part is the complete lack of value in the mitigations for me. I was part of the OPM data breach, and the data included was literally everything, since it was everything collected a
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> It was generally a competition between QA & L2 support as to who actually understood the app best. So true!
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by fatnoah 3y ago
In making the case for building up a QA org at my current startup, I repeat the mantra that QA is both a skillset and a mindset. Automated tests can tell us a lot, but skilled QA testers are amazing at edge cases to break things and provid
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by fatnoah 3y ago
While I understand what you're saying and agree that people processes are a place where the AI value will be captured, the particular cases you've cited are in fields where there are very real legal and/or liability issues re
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Wow on that Goodwill impairment. If I'm reading correctly, it's from their previous acquisitions of depop and elo7. They paid about $1.9B for both of those, so the "impairment" means they effectively overpaid by $1B.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
My son had an Android phone. I don't think anyone considered him to be a loser, but he did get very sick of everyone why he had a green bubble.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> The mathematical logic, proof, rigor, and how to create a model is what is needed and that is missing. This is interesting to me. My experience was the opposite. So much time in my honors math in high school was focused on proofs and
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Pre-Covid, I was a VP Eng at a startup (total eng team of ~40), I had so many "discussions" with the CEO about who was in the office at what time. The team was people from all stages of life and backgrounds. My QA lead got to the
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by fatnoah 3y ago
It's worth clarifying that by "Meeting or Exceeding" or "better than Exceeding", I wasn't referring to the actual rating names, but indicating what buckets of ratings. i.e. Better than Exceeding means a rating
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> It is probably a way to give workers fake kudos without actually giving them anything. It's actually the opposite. The ratings themselves are associated with multipliers for your annual bonus and stock grants. IIRC, the full spect
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> One underlying problem with these PIP type programs at FAANG seems to be that they have very high barriers to entry in the interview process, and then act like 30% of the company is underperforming and subject to an annual 6% cull. FWI
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by fatnoah 3y ago
>In a recent interview, Auster described the American obsession with “closure” as being “the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard of. I'm having a hard time with the logic that follows this statement. Losing a loved one is indeed tremend
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by fatnoah 3y ago
People don't realize that you have to communicate with animals at their level. They don't speak English. I watched a relative's dog for a week. It was a small breeed that barked at everyone walking by the house. The owner
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by fatnoah 3y ago
The schematic of that intersection makes me feel much better about some of the complicated junctions I've created in city builder games.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I've struggled since that age as well. I have good periods and bad periods, but I still can't really get to sleep unless I've had an hour of "quiet house" time. I did the same thing, BTW. I'd stay up and rea
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> The BS is minimized by the simple fact that you can easily and literally just walk to the competition next door. I've only purchased two new cars in my life, but both times I managed to minimize the time involved by doing the test
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by fatnoah 3y ago
In general, the goal was to manage as little state as possible, so anything that was a one-off change, such as changing a single field, changing a node parent, etc. resulted in an async server round trip. This was done to reduce JS complex
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I've done numerous trips with both experiences, and this aligns with my experience as well.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
For me, it feels far more subtle. As a kid, I remember roaming my town, playing in the woods, spontaneous trips to a beach, etc. Now, random kids roaming isn't possible without risking calls to police or child services, accessing nat
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I draw the line at "mega-processed" foods.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
I feel like this article is best summed up as "Owning a car no longer adds up for people who don't really drive anywhere." I'd even go so far as to say that's always been true.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> However discussing a function and talking about splitting in into small (infinitesimal) strips of delta quantities and a list of equations / proofs made it completely dry and uninteresting. This was exactly my experience as well.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
One of the highlights of my long career was a new member of the team commenting to me that my code was "the most beautiful" that she'd ever seen. This was in reference to its clarity and actual physical layout. On the latter
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> The MyQ was the first connected garage door controller on the market. It launched in 2011 to solve problems like being halfway to the airport to start a two-week holiday and having to turn around because you can’t remember if you shut
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by fatnoah 3y ago
As someone in tech looking for a role, I agree, though there is some utility for big tech companies where compensation data is available elsewhere. By looking at the upper bound of the salary, I can reasonably infer the level of the role.
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by fatnoah 3y ago
What's old is new again. My first front-end role was building web applications wayyyyy back in 1999. Everything was done with "Vanilla" JS, including fancy stuff like drag and drop in a treeview, click to edit, building wha
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by fatnoah 3y ago
> As a software engineer I always kinda enjoyed debugging. It allowed me to use a different skill and mind set than creating designs and implementing them. Same here. I always enjoyed the challenge of it, especially in complicated syste
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by fatnoah 3y ago
Same. My net is the -$200 I spent exercising options in my first startup. I'm currently on my fourth because it's good experience and I needed a job after being laid off from a larger company. I'm a exec and have a decent
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by fatnoah 3y ago
This was my experience after my startup was acquired. My boss, and my skip level were both former QA folks who'd never done any SWE work. I had more YOE as a SWE AND as a manager than both combined.

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