I worked for a company once where IT Desktop Support had to install all software, even for teams who worked in Technology. I was tasked with starting a whole new program and needed a bunch of new tools installed, and…
I interviewed with Wikipedia a year or so ago, and right from the start the recruiter said “since we’re a donation based organization, we have to pay below market” and it was definitely below market. I politely turned…
One of my favorite resources on 1:1s, I was just sharing this in a management class I had to take. I highly recommend his book “Managing Humans” to anyone who’s looking to be in Engineering Management.
This and the glee of executives over systems that increase the potential for overdrafts or charge backs is why I’m glad to not be in banking anymore. One of my most memorable conversations was with a rep from one of the…
I noticed the same thing - Nissan and Infiniti models that are basically the same chassis but with fancier features going for the same price. Infiniti was lower than MSRP but Nissan was above.
I always dreaded talking to support - AKS would routinely break in weird and ways, and it was always super frustrating waiting for support to fix things that shouldn’t have happened. We once had an error with Azure…
What I don’t understand about this is they were most likely an at-will employee. So the company could have just said “new policy, sign it”. I had an employer do this - I was working there a few years, owner came in and…
My biggest mistake was not accounting for the ethics of what the company was doing. I was young, and super excited to have a job in software while still in school, building things. Only much later did I realize that…
This reminds me a lot of work I used to do in the controls world. We had a large amount of equipment all with proprietary networking to embedded systems that were basically Intel 386 systems running DOS. The big issue…
This is pretty much exactly how I got my first job programming. The only student job I could get at college was working for the HVAC department: organizing filters in warehouses around campus, taking out the trash, etc.…
I think the big reason for this is most dealers know there's little maintenance cost on EVs, which is where they make their money. With our Nissan Leaf, it's a struggle finding a dealer that even has an EV mechanic, and…
Qventus | Senior Full-stack Engineer | Full Time | REMOTE Qventus is a real-time decision making platform for hospital operations. Our mission is to simplify how healthcare operates, so that hospitals and caregivers can…
Keep the Apidistra Flying is one of my favorite books. I first read it in High School and I remember distinctly relating with the scene when he's counting how much money he has left in his pocket during the date.
We tried this on a b2b SaaS product I worked on where we had a lot of "third party" users (volunteers for a customer) who were only going to use the application once a year at most. One of the biggest hurdles we had was…
When I bought my router table, I remember reading a lot of articles about lifts not being worth it due to lack of repeatability / slop in most of the DIY and cheap mechanisms unless you bought the $500> lifts. I'd be…
The VA sort-of does this, at least when I worked for them. The issue they had when I was there was depending on where you went, you may or may not have access to the record, because the VA didn't use a central system,…
Maybe instead of an image, both parties could use an ODB reader that signs the mileage cryptographically, and pushes it to the blockchain? This way both parties could verify the transaction was completed as contracted…
I'm fairly astonished how few duplicate applications are here. I work for a company the same size, and we have many more applications than this, with lots of overlapping and competing products. Kudos to management at…
SARs are required to be reported for all daily cash deposits greater than $10K by the Bank Secrecy Act.[1] Cash heavy businesses could easily hit this level, as well as large transactions that are perfectly legal, so…
I agree with you, in most cases, but unfortunately in some regulated industries, more and more auditors are putting WAFs as a requirement for secure architectures. No amount of explaining why it doesn't make sense…
This cannot be stated enough. The company I worked for purchased "the leading gartner SAST testing solution" before they even started a project and had a framework chosen. It turned out the SAST solution didn't support…
I can second this - our mainframes average response time is 2-5 seconds based on the call, with 99 percentile responses in the minutes per transaction. This is after a fortune was spent moving us to a "faster" platform.…
I ran into a great "where's the code" on a "lightweight API" ruby project once. Opened up the codebase to fix an issue, and there were no .rb files at all. After opening every file in the repo, it turned out the…
Waterfall is certainly a thing - although it's taken most of my career to run into it. Where I work currently (banking) some of the projects are waterfall, some are agile. The waterfall group has requirements gathered…
I was really surprised docker or kubernetes wasn't one of the items on here. While I use both, they definitely both could use cold showers to make sure they provide value.
I worked for a company once where IT Desktop Support had to install all software, even for teams who worked in Technology. I was tasked with starting a whole new program and needed a bunch of new tools installed, and…
I interviewed with Wikipedia a year or so ago, and right from the start the recruiter said “since we’re a donation based organization, we have to pay below market” and it was definitely below market. I politely turned…
One of my favorite resources on 1:1s, I was just sharing this in a management class I had to take. I highly recommend his book “Managing Humans” to anyone who’s looking to be in Engineering Management.
This and the glee of executives over systems that increase the potential for overdrafts or charge backs is why I’m glad to not be in banking anymore. One of my most memorable conversations was with a rep from one of the…
I noticed the same thing - Nissan and Infiniti models that are basically the same chassis but with fancier features going for the same price. Infiniti was lower than MSRP but Nissan was above.
I always dreaded talking to support - AKS would routinely break in weird and ways, and it was always super frustrating waiting for support to fix things that shouldn’t have happened. We once had an error with Azure…
What I don’t understand about this is they were most likely an at-will employee. So the company could have just said “new policy, sign it”. I had an employer do this - I was working there a few years, owner came in and…
My biggest mistake was not accounting for the ethics of what the company was doing. I was young, and super excited to have a job in software while still in school, building things. Only much later did I realize that…
This reminds me a lot of work I used to do in the controls world. We had a large amount of equipment all with proprietary networking to embedded systems that were basically Intel 386 systems running DOS. The big issue…
This is pretty much exactly how I got my first job programming. The only student job I could get at college was working for the HVAC department: organizing filters in warehouses around campus, taking out the trash, etc.…
I think the big reason for this is most dealers know there's little maintenance cost on EVs, which is where they make their money. With our Nissan Leaf, it's a struggle finding a dealer that even has an EV mechanic, and…
Qventus | Senior Full-stack Engineer | Full Time | REMOTE Qventus is a real-time decision making platform for hospital operations. Our mission is to simplify how healthcare operates, so that hospitals and caregivers can…
Keep the Apidistra Flying is one of my favorite books. I first read it in High School and I remember distinctly relating with the scene when he's counting how much money he has left in his pocket during the date.
We tried this on a b2b SaaS product I worked on where we had a lot of "third party" users (volunteers for a customer) who were only going to use the application once a year at most. One of the biggest hurdles we had was…
When I bought my router table, I remember reading a lot of articles about lifts not being worth it due to lack of repeatability / slop in most of the DIY and cheap mechanisms unless you bought the $500> lifts. I'd be…
The VA sort-of does this, at least when I worked for them. The issue they had when I was there was depending on where you went, you may or may not have access to the record, because the VA didn't use a central system,…
Maybe instead of an image, both parties could use an ODB reader that signs the mileage cryptographically, and pushes it to the blockchain? This way both parties could verify the transaction was completed as contracted…
I'm fairly astonished how few duplicate applications are here. I work for a company the same size, and we have many more applications than this, with lots of overlapping and competing products. Kudos to management at…
SARs are required to be reported for all daily cash deposits greater than $10K by the Bank Secrecy Act.[1] Cash heavy businesses could easily hit this level, as well as large transactions that are perfectly legal, so…
I agree with you, in most cases, but unfortunately in some regulated industries, more and more auditors are putting WAFs as a requirement for secure architectures. No amount of explaining why it doesn't make sense…
This cannot be stated enough. The company I worked for purchased "the leading gartner SAST testing solution" before they even started a project and had a framework chosen. It turned out the SAST solution didn't support…
I can second this - our mainframes average response time is 2-5 seconds based on the call, with 99 percentile responses in the minutes per transaction. This is after a fortune was spent moving us to a "faster" platform.…
I ran into a great "where's the code" on a "lightweight API" ruby project once. Opened up the codebase to fix an issue, and there were no .rb files at all. After opening every file in the repo, it turned out the…
Waterfall is certainly a thing - although it's taken most of my career to run into it. Where I work currently (banking) some of the projects are waterfall, some are agile. The waterfall group has requirements gathered…
I was really surprised docker or kubernetes wasn't one of the items on here. While I use both, they definitely both could use cold showers to make sure they provide value.