mike22 · HackerTrans

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But it happens to be that product managers know (or at least about) and keep tabs on the relavent regulatory environment. I think it’s not scalable if every SWE in the team is going to legal to understand things. Like why we actully do need to hard delete data when customers click the Delete button.

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The value prop of Plaid, Yodlee, et al is that they can do this with one(-ish) API surface for tens of thousands of financial institutions. In their efforts to ensure Bob down the street won’t be sold any data, they do treat each customer (of the API, not the end users they pull data on behalf of) as an isolated tenant.

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Great in concept, especially if you know what you’re doing. In my non-North American locale, I ordered a fiber hookup, and specifically asked to use my own router.

Supposedly they will give you an ONT in SFP module for free, and then rent you a media converter ~3 USD/month, and then the rest is up to you (assuming it supports PPPoE). Some friends have done this a while ago successfully.

Reality on install day: technician grabbed the white-label ONT/router combo from the truck and refused anything else :( And unrelated, he found a “defect” in the existing fiber drop (clear as day with the visible-light tester), so I had to pay for pulling a new drop from the street :(

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Where I live, CS is all chat bots that are simply text representations of the phone tree. You can Whatsapp the company! And get the nicely formatted menus.

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Anecdotes from my experience, in a large US bank (millions of customers), specifically in a product with active investment:

Yes, processes for getting things done are dull and frustrating. Team leads often urged minimizing time spent on them by using political clout with the gatekeepers to expedite them.

Tech was not too exciting, all the open source stuff used were mature, vetted by security folks/scans, and possibly had in-house layers built on top of it.

Did get to see where my projects fit in end to end, including contributing to data shown in a widget high up on their mobile app’s dashbord, and also to several thousand internal users who are movers and shakers.

Standing up a new REST API and exposing it to the internet required much upfront design and lots of approvals. But at the end of the day it’s to ensure minimal risk while making maximum impact on the tremendous customer base.

Pay was not approaching the FAANG stratosphere. Had two WFH days per week. Office had a section of a floor reserved for the group, and hotdesking with “soft” reservations based on history of actual desks used.

Overall did learn a lot about tech, business, and leadership, but the cog feeling was still definitely an undertone.

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Also at a very big BigCo using Citrix Workspaces; experience is decent. Got an 8 core/64 GB RAM VM and it’s pretty snappy for most dev work. The portability is nice compared to lugging a work laptop, and connection doesn’t need a janky VPN client. Using Zoom for VDI with the VDI plugin on my home machine is even smoother than same thing on the thin client in the office.

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In Java, Lombok @Slf4j on a class is very convenient. Adds a static field for the logger.

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How do you get the $1 price for kids in 2023? Currently the rule is “Up to three children under 44 inches tall ride for free when they’re with a fare-paying adult.” https://new.mta.info/fares

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It’s great to write carefree SQL, with the DB platform totally abstracted, until there’s a massive spike in query latency. Then hash joins vs nested loops and full table scans is useful knowledge which is a) mostly vendor specific b) requires a good prod-sized dataset to test on.

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Then there’s the times people update the bug-tracker-table-in-a-Confluence-page, and Confluence sends an email alert about the edit to those “watching the page (which is everyone who ever edited it). In Outlook the scroll bar literally shrinks before my eyes as it renders the email from top to bottom.

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In the US, Verizon offers (sometimes includes for free) a battery backup unit for their ONT for FiOS service, in the name of providing only the phone services during a power outage. In general there’s nothing stopping any customer from using an off the shelf UPS.

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Anecdotally, CBTC is a greeat improvement in many scenarios. On long and straight stretches between express stops, trains now fly along (probably at least 40mph; never got to see inside the TO’s cab). And upon approaching an occupied station, they slow down to a crawl but keep moving until about 25-50 feet before the station, instead of being stuck several fixed blocks back before the station. Thus there is much greater track capacity = more (potential) trains per hour, and generally more reliable trips.

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We can argue about exact implementation, but SRE demanding all apps (assuming non-interactive ones run on servers) log to the same channel (with enough tagging info to ID the app/server) is a good thing. In my case we are automagically configured with a Splunk appender for Logback (and the platform also sends the stdout/stderr to Splunk under a different sourceType).

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The US has the social security program, to which both employer and employee make mandatory payroll contributions, but it pays very modestly in retirement. Many employees now contribute to their own self-managed retirement savings/investments. Employer sponsored pensions are disappearing.

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