segmondy

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1. 1831.▲
   by segmondy 8y ago

   it's no different than today, tons of jobs, money flowing, watching most people get far richer than me.
2. 1832.▲
   by segmondy 8y ago

   Learn to manage your time, your energy & your emotions.
3. 1833.▲
   by segmondy 8y ago

   I won't.
4. 1834.▲
   by segmondy 8y ago

   Hey, folks thought Echelon was a joke in the 90's until Snowden showed that Echelon is child's play. The Big Hack might be true or not, but it's not far fetched. There might be more at play here. Watch this https:/
5. 1835.▲
   by segmondy 8y ago

   Right, that's what you think. Are you buying a house that's $1 million dollars? Are you paying $80,000 in taxes? Are you paying $2400 a month for daycare bills? Are you paying thousands for health care insurance? Are yo
6. 1836.▲
   by segmondy 8y ago

   Doesn't matter if it's lower-level engineers or a janitor, So long as they worked at Amazon and Amazon finally agreed. Amazon deserves credit.
7. 1837.▲
   by segmondy 8y ago

   Let's assume this is true... The CTO wants someone that will mentor but is unwilling to mentor his team. :-). Seriously, set expectations for your team and see if they rise to it. Folks don't read minds. CTO is probably scream
8. 1838.▲
   by segmondy 8y ago

   It's already figured out, USA has the first mover's disadvantage, maintaining compatibility with an older system when you have many users.
9. 1839.▲
   by segmondy 8y ago

   I don't think they're stonewalling the issue. They need to figure out what happened, they need to figure out who got affected, they need to figure out how to refund their money, with ACH it's slow. Friday is the worst day,
10. 1840.▲
    by segmondy 8y ago

    USA NACHA system is old. It's fixed width files transmitted via SFTP or web portals and manually uploaded to other banks.
11. 1841.▲
    by segmondy 8y ago

    Once I have your bank account number and I tell the bank that I have permission, I can pull out any amount of money I want. Only protection you can offer yourself as a business owner is having a separate account, keeping the absolute minimu
12. 1842.▲
    by segmondy 8y ago

    Other things outside of your career can teach you much and help you get better in your career. My growth today in IT has very little to do with IT, I'm taking much lessons from other industries. Want to learn to build reliable systems
13. 1843.▲
    by segmondy 8y ago

    Tools have an upfront cost, but they pay for themselves down the line. The first time you start fixing things it might take longer, but as time goes on you get better. You can learn so much by reading repair manuals & books, watching
14. 1844.▲
    by segmondy 8y ago

    Nope, "your messages" once they have been received by someone now belongs to that person too. If you say something crazy to me, you shouldn't get to deny it by deleting your messages. If I levy an accusation, I should be ab
15. 1845.▲
    by segmondy 8y ago

    I hope they do, I hope they make it very large, 10x, 20x! Increase it so much that folks run back to cash, checks and alternate digital payments. Let greed do them in!
16. 1846.▲
    by segmondy 8y ago

    Very true. :-) It's all greed.
17. 1847.▲
    by segmondy 8y ago

    Call it any thing you want it's greed. I can understand a developer with $100k worth of stocks trading in desperation because they want to pay off their student loan or buy a house. But this guy had around $10 million. What desperatio
18. 1848.▲
    by segmondy 8y ago

    I just read the book not too long ago myself. Thoroughly enjoyed it. The book that got me going was Hackers by Steven Levy which I've ready easily 20x. This book is just as good. I also think reading this much later in life gave
19. 1849.▲
    by segmondy 8y ago

    That's the wrong way to look at it. Anything you're not good at it is going to slow you down. The question is that even tho you might be slow, if you put in the effort, learn it then get good, will the savings and speed up make u
20. 1850.▲
    by segmondy 8y ago

    Flipping between these 3 Designing Data Intensive Applications Control Theory for Engineers Enterprise Architecture & Integration
21. 1851.▲
    by segmondy 8y ago

    I had an issue this morning where I wanted to download some youtube videos for offline viewing and they were already deleted. I used google to try to find other copies and it found nothing. I used bing and was able to find all copies.
22. 1852.▲
    by segmondy 8y ago

    Same creators realized immediately after building that they can build better and are given the opportunity to rewrite.
23. 1853.▲
    by segmondy 8y ago

    Why will you have fear of learning something new or hard?
24. 1854.▲
    by segmondy 8y ago

    Don't swim against the river. If you're the only older person and not the leader or person being looked up to for direction. Don't buck the trend and go against the river, you will only make yourself visible.
25. 1855.▲
    by segmondy 8y ago

    Read this book, hope it helps. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812992555/?coliid=I1001ZM95A7AZQ&...
26. 1856.▲
    by segmondy 8y ago

    I bet that the people doing this, don't work in Tech nor live in SF. I'm not in SF, don't even like the place, but it's the World's best tech city.
27. 1857.▲
    by segmondy 8y ago

    Movies get almost everything wrong. It's story telling, if you're pretty well informed and you focus on the details, you won't enjoy it. chess, computers, health care, murder, law, driving, explosion, romance, communication
28. 1858.▲
    by segmondy 8y ago

    Lol at mobile AI chatbot... That ruined the entire article for me, might have as well said machine learning on the blockchain ...
29. 1859.▲
    by segmondy 8y ago

    Feature tests > Unit tests. They are both important, but I rather 100% feature tests and 0 unit tests, than 100% unit tests and no feature tests. If you have passing feature tests, the software sort of works. If you have 100% passing un
30. 1860.▲
    by segmondy 8y ago

    Game theory. Calling your bluff, most people won't leave if the boss says no.