twunde

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by twunde 4y ago
Thanks for adding that detail. I wasn't sure how much France and the US varied. On a sidenote, I'm constantly amazed by how well my C+ high school french has held up. I can read and understand 90% of this.
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by twunde 4y ago
Legally the biggest issues are non-competes and IP/trade secret laws. These vary jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but at least within the US are usually part of any severance agreements. Pretty much every member of the team who tried to r
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by twunde 4y ago
My god. I literally had the argument from https://qntm.org/abolish during standup.
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13 Months: The Kodak Calendar Experiment(theinternetsaysitstrue.com)
90 points by twunde 4y ago|67 comments
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by twunde 4y ago
So this is primarily a problem with small companies, although you'll sometimes see it on teams when several people leave around the same time. The typical example is a non-VC backed small business, where a senior individual is hiring a
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by twunde 4y ago
I've worked on a fargate + lambda migration to Nomad. At this point I definitely would have preferred to have gone with k8s. Nomad is still relatively complex, to the point where K8s is only somewhat more complex but made up with a big
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by twunde 4y ago
You don't need to have gone to Stamford. If you have worked for a VC-funded startup, you likely have a path to a VC intro. If you haven't met a VC investor directly, you can ask one an exec to intro you. Its also worth checking to
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by twunde 4y ago
I know you're being sarcastic, but this reminded me of Tanya Reilly's _great_ talk "The history of fire escapes: How to fail". There's a recording up at https://www.infoq.com/presentations/histo
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by twunde 4y ago
One thing that can be particularly helpful is if you know someone at a VC firm, talk to them about startups. And of course, use your network and chat with ex-coworkers, etc.
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by twunde 4y ago
Assuming that you're not hardcoding anything region-specific, a copy is likely going to be the preferred method since this way you know that the AMIs are the same (ie there's no way that a dependency updated). However there are tw
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by twunde 4y ago
Actually, AWS does now support building AMIs and sharing it across an AWS Organization or OU: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/share-am... . If you're using Packer you want ami_org_arns
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RetBleed(comsec.ethz.ch)
15 points by twunde 4y ago|2 comments
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by twunde 4y ago
Don't forget the cases where the companies are deliberately lying to customers. I worked at a company that pretty much lied to its customer's security teams about what they did. Not borderline, but claimed things they didn't
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by twunde 4y ago
I feel sympathetic but anyone that hasn't started prepping for layoffs is simply not reading the writing on the wall, _especially_ at Twitter. Elon Musk has basically said that he wants people working 40+ hours/week in the office
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by twunde 4y ago
Well this sent me down a tangent since I had never heard of this. Per https://www.cga.ct.gov/2001/rpt/2001-R-0858.htm (circa 2001) the only states that require a fingerprint are California, Colorado, Georgia, Texa
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by twunde 4y ago
In general APM/observability tools are expensive. The good news is that there are a lot of choices including open source tooling like opentelemetry, sentry, vector. You can reduce the cost somewhat by sampling traces, and by only shipp
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by twunde 4y ago
The issue with browser extensions is that the main way to monetize them is to steal data or inject adware/malware[1]. The extensions themselves request a lot of permissions, there's minimal security scanning (the only one I know o
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by twunde 4y ago
This is normal. Senior engineers are productive fairly quickly and can work independently without much or any oversight. Contrast that with junior engineers. They take longer to become productive and even worse require a lot of oversight an
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by twunde 4y ago
At a previous company we hired a fair number of bootcamp graduates for our size and we were happy with them. There are a few things that will definitely help improve the experience if you want to hire them. 1. Like all junior engineers they
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by twunde 4y ago
Their self-hosted version works well with the caveat that the upgrade process can be a pain and can be buggy. I used their docker-compose open source version which involved downtime to spin down the stack, then spin up the new stack. Consid
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by twunde 4y ago
Let's talk about the COBOL job market since I think what you're really asking is whether you can have a stable career writing COBOL. Contrary to the annual articles we see decrying the lack of COBOL programmers and suggesting that
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by twunde 4y ago
Many colleges/universities have career offices that offer services for alumni switching careers. It's at least worth reaching out and seeing if they can help set up informational interviews if nothing else. If your wife went to gr
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by twunde 5y ago
It's still relatively common to have to swipe cards at gas stations in the US when you're buying gas. And a fair amount of the parking meters may still be on swipe (NYC meters outside of Manhattan come to mind). The places that h
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by twunde 5y ago
Strictly speaking, having passwords in plaintext is legal but not secure since the HIPAA Security Rule is about protecting PHI. It's also possible that the passwords in their system aren't in plaintext, but customer service has to
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by twunde 5y ago
It wasn't clear from the context whether you wanted to mitigate throttled delivery or off-hours delivery. If its the former I responded below to ShrigmaMale. If its the latter, consult your legal team but you'll likely need to ens
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by twunde 5y ago
For time-sensitive SMS, one solution is to have basically a fast queue and a normal speed queue. Essentially have a phone number (or numbers) that are reserved for the fast SMS and only use it for time-sensitive requests like OTP. Everythin
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by twunde 5y ago
Yes, you'll still encounter throttling even with 10DLC trust, it will just be less. If I remember correctly 10DLC is supposed to have a send rate of 15 text message segments per a second, although you can get that bumped up after vetti
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by twunde 5y ago
The reason this doesn't work is because of the pressure phone carriers have gotten about reducing the amount of spam phone calls and SMS (from Congress, state governments and regulatory bodies like the FCC). These arbitrary filters on
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by twunde 5y ago
From someone who's done a fair amount of SMS sending here are some things to think about. - You'll need TCPA compliant opt-ins for US sending. There's a cottage industry of people who look for vendors that aren't complia
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by twunde 5y ago
As others have mentioned design docs/BRDs, etc generally fell by the wayside with the rise of agile, especially in smaller companies and startups (colleagues from those environments may never have seen a real design document and poss

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